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Subscribe to the Sci-Fi feedMultiple confirmed programs suggest NIST is positioning itself as the government's chief referee for trustworthy AI — though one headline program name remains unverified.
The physics of where to light the candle on a rocket is less obvious than it looks, and the answer involves spinning dirt, salty water, and some brutal math.
The freshly rebranded Department of War has published its FY2025 Section 1286 list, naming 130 institutions in China, Russia, and Iran as tech-transfer threats.
The Texas district announced what it calls a responsible AI guide for classrooms, but whether it'll hold up once school bells ring is still anybody's guess.
Falcon 9 is racking up launches like a redneck collects truck parts, but Starship Flight 13 keeps misfiring—and the second attempt isn't settled yet.
From tiny Catholic colleges to Big Ten flagships, universities are rolling out AI minors fast — but whether employers will give a hoot remains anybody's guess.
Multiple Chinese robotics firms say they're ready to ship humanoid robots at scale — but the proof is mostly their own press releases talking.
The company says six satellites are now in orbit, kicking off what it claims will be a massive space-based AI computing network—but independent verification is nowhere to be found.
The company claims this is China's first orbital edge-computing constellation — but a rival outfit already beat it to orbit back in 2025.
Chatter says Roman and Crew-13 could make this NASA's busiest launch stretch in years — but Florida weather and integration gremlins could still rain on the parade.
The numbers are confirmed, but what they mean for the Space Force's long-term shape is still anybody's guess.
Zhibao Technology briefly fell off Nasdaq's good list over a late filing, then came back swinging with bold AI-agent claims the market seems to be side-eyeing hard.
NASA confirms Anil Menon — SpaceX's first-ever flight surgeon, per NASA — launched on Soyuz MS-29 for his own first spaceflight, headed to eight months on the ISS.
Mayor Mamdani's office says agile tech squads will overhaul city digital services in months. Whether that's gospel or wishful thinking remains to be seen.
GlobalFoundries says its SLATE wafer-to-wafer platform is production-ready, targeting a nearly 45% die-size cut — but that whopper comes straight from the company's own press release.
Micron says it's pouring $250 billion into US chip-making through 2035, but a fresh antitrust lawsuit suggests the shortage may not be purely accidental.
Micron says it's dropping half a billion dollars on GlobalWafers' Sherman, Texas operation — reportedly America's lone source of advanced 300mm silicon wafers.
The vendor says its Momentum ecosystem is powering Arizona Lottery statewide, but every capability claim flows straight from the company's own press release.
Mistral says its new 8-billion-parameter Robostral Navigate lets robots find their way with only one camera. Whether those benchmarks hold up outside a simulation is another question entirely.
BOEM filed a public comment notice asking whether offshore platforms could host space launches — but no permits, leases, or legal framework exist yet.
The LINK craft launched July 3, 2026, the company says—but the hard part, actually grabbing Swift, hasn't happened yet.
The LINK spacecraft lifted off July 3, but the unprecedented robotic grab of the Swift Observatory hasn't happened yet, and multiple sources warn plenty can still go wrong.
LINK launched July 3, but the hardest parts — grabbing a satellite never built to be grabbed — haven't happened yet.
The subsea robotics merger is confirmed closed, but Kraken's own announcements are doing all the heavy lifting on the juicy financial and AI claims.
A scrappy Arizona startup claims it can autonomously lasso a 22-year-old space telescope before it burns up — and nobody's ever tried anything like this before.
NASA says it handed out roughly $590 million in fresh lunar contracts on June 30 — but timelines, budgets, and a blown-up rocket leave plenty of room for doubt.
A refrigerator-sized robot called LINK is set to launch June 30 on the last-ever Pegasus XL to attempt what NASA says is a first-of-its-kind American satellite rescue.
Starlink's constellation reportedly crossed 10,000 active birds, and one specialist outlet says California is now SpaceX's hardest-working launchpad.
Vendors claim grief-therapy VR and face-scanning longevity mirrors are now retail products. Skeptics say some of this rodeo is more hat than cattle.
The for-profit school says it's rolled out another batch of AI credential products—but all the evidence of their worth comes straight from the school's own mouth.
IBM says its new 0.7 nm 'nanostack' lab prototype nearly doubles transistor density, but outside experts warn the road from research barn to factory floor is full of potholes.
From EEG headphones to a $900 health mirror, CES 2026 reportedly rolled out gadgets that multiple independent observers compared to Black Mirror come to life.
SpaceX launched its secretive Starfall reentry capsule on June 23, 2026, the company says, wading into a market it already dominates as a launch provider.
NVIDIA says Halos for Robotics bundles car-safety engineering into a hardware-and-software system for humanoids — but 'industry's first' is the company's own word.
SpaceX says it hit 10,000 simultaneous active satellites in March 2026. Astronomers and safety experts say that milestone is as alarming as it is impressive.
Canada's MDA Space has signed a deal to buy Colorado smallsat maker Blue Canyon Technologies from RTX for $620 million — but Uncle Sam's foreign-investment referees haven't weighed in yet.
Chatter says Oracle engineer Lois Foltan confirmed JEP 401 targets JDK 28 — but this Java engineering story got routed to the wrong editorial desk.
The company says approvals are in hand and a July 2 close is coming, but that word comes straight from Kraken's own press release.
Instinct Space says hitching a dishwasher-sized lander to cheap LEO rides could crack open lunar delivery — but the company hasn't flown a lick of hardware yet.