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A University of Vienna research team activated a photonic quantum processor aboard a small satellite, successfully measuring two-photon interference and unitary transformations in orbit. Despite losing half its detectors and suffering laser degradation, the experiment demonstrated the resilience of photonic quantum operations in the space environment.
SpaceX's Starship reached Earth orbit for the first time and deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites. Here is how the flight differed from the last one, and how an engine shutdown cut the long-duration test short.
An international research team including Duke University used 13 trapped ions to observe the spatiotemporal evolution of string breaking in a 1D gauge theory on a quantum simulator. Unlike the Schwinger mechanism, in which particle-antiparticle pairs form throughout the vacuum, the team found a new breaking pathway in which pairs are induced starting from the string's endpoints.
Elon Musk says Colossus 2 currently runs 550,000 GPUs and could reach 1.21 million by the end of 2026 if three more 220,000-GPU additions go to plan. We compare his figures with SpaceX's filing, power capacity, and the earlier H100-equivalent number.
Google will launch the first satellite for its Project Suncatcher space-based AI data center initiative aboard SpaceX next week, testing in orbit whether TPUs can withstand radiation, radiate heat in a vacuum, and support ultra-close formation flying.
Reports say Tesla has begun mass-production audits of Optimus Gen 3 in China. This piece checks the reported roughly 50,000-unit and $20,000 targets against Tesla's official filings, and explains why the audits focus on yield and repeatable manufacturing.
The BASE experiment's Nature paper reports moving 92 antiprotons 7.5 km with no loss and storing them for 33 days. It explains how particles are counted without destroying them, how vacuum quality is inferred from the absence of annihilation, and what is measured, estimated, and planned.
Tesla, SpaceX and SpaceXAI have sued for a declaration that the Terafab name does not infringe TERA-print's trademark. We compare the filings in the complaint and look at TERA-print's technology and USPTO guidance to see why scale alone won't settle the dispute.
An independent project ports DLSS 5-derived neural inference to Intel's Arc 140V GPU. Here's what the 10.5fps benchmark actually means, how it differs from NVIDIA's official implementation, and how the AI-generated code was verified.
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.
