56 results for “space”
The US has officially acknowledged for the first time that it possesses space-control weapons in orbit. By cross-referencing public doctrine, interceptor programs, and the Outer Space Treaty, we examine what's confirmed and what remains undisclosed.
As hopes rise around the Moon's estimated 1 billion tons of polar water ice, a new study pours cold water on visions of lunar megacities. Even with a 98% water recycling rate matching the ISS, a population of 1 million would exhaust that water supply in just about 100 years—revealing a hard limit on space colonization.
Intel has retracted its notice ending the Intel One Mono monospace font project. Based on the official change history, we look at the low-vision-focused design, the license terms for use and modification, and the manual tuning behind on-screen rendering, to see what the font's survival means for users.
Antares says it has been selected for a $161 million Strategic Breakthrough award to demonstrate a space reactor. This explainer separates Mark-0 criticality, the 2027 Mark-1 power test and R1-S flight qualification, and covers heat rejection and government targets.
U.S.-based Muon Space achieved the first-ever in-orbit ignition of a solid-zinc Hall-effect thruster aboard its dedicated demonstration satellite, SERT-III. By completely eliminating high-pressure gas tanks in favor of a cheap, non-toxic solid metal propellant stable at room temperature, the company aims to dramatically streamline small-satellite manufacturing costs and launch-site operations.
Panmnesia and Meta have unveiled a next-generation AI infrastructure design that uses CXL to tightly couple an entire data center as if it were a single chip. The architecture cuts cross-rack communication latency to a few hundred nanoseconds and forms a shared memory space spanning up to 960 accelerators.
Google, the superconducting-qubit leader, moved into neutral atoms in March 2026. Two months later, the U.S. Commerce Department signed $2.013 billion in preliminary term sheets with nine quantum companies spanning six different modalities. This piece connects the dots—from a space-versus-time map of all six approaches, to a modality-by-modality recount of the CHIPS Act allocations, to Japan's ¥100.4 billion quantum plan.
World Labs' Atlas directly conditions on camera pose and depth to generate video and explicit 3D simultaneously. Its strength lies not in general physics simulation but in unifying the reconstruction and re-capture of filmed spaces within a single foundation model.
A research team born from a NASA space food competition has presented technology that reconstructs PET plastic and agricultural residue into cookies using high-pressure hydrothermal decomposition and genetically modified yeast. While promising as a recycling system for extreme environments, taste testing, regulatory approval, and manufacturing costs remain significant hurdles.
Google Pics is now generally available, bringing Nano Banana-powered object editing, version history, and collaboration to Workspace. Here's a breakdown of the September phased rollout, undisclosed generation limits, and the boundaries of AI provenance data.
