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Subscribe to the Sci-Fi feedRocket Lab says it launched a mystery Earth-observation satellite for a 'confidential customer' on September 10, 2026—and the guessing game is already heating up.
MDA Space says its new defence-grade satellite variant resists jamming and GPS spoofing, but so far the only voice hollering that from the rooftop is MDA Space itself.
Hello Games says its free Cosmos update finally overhauls the space layer that sat mostly untouched since 2016, adding station ownership, orbital bases, and asteroid belts.
The Trump administration announced an ambitious space launch target, but independent experts say the money to build the infrastructure needed hasn't shown up yet.
Isar Aerospace says its Spectrum rocket reached orbit from Arctic Norway on September 5 — reportedly the first private orbital launch from Western European soil.
Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket reportedly reached orbit from Norwegian soil on September 5, 2026 — but full mission details are still trickling in.
A government press release describes a classified mobile-facility push, but no independent outlet has confirmed it yet.
Medtronic says it's paying roughly $700 million for global distribution rights to Cornerstone Robotics' Sentire system — but the deal terms come straight from the companies themselves.
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is reportedly headed to L2 orbit, according to NASA, after Congress kept saving it from the budget chopping block.
Roman lifted off Sunday after surviving cancellation attempts; science results are years away and commissioning risks remain.
Trump signed an executive order August 28 to start planning a U.S. Space Academy — but the White House says a commission, not a campus, is what exists right now.
President Trump signed an order on August 28, 2026 creating a commission to design a U.S. Space Academy — but Congress, a location, and a budget are all still missing from the blueprint.
M5Stack says its new PaperMono bundles e-ink display, NFC, and LoRa into one maker board. Could this little gadget be a quiet blueprint for post-smartphone computing?
NSF says it's launching three new Science and Technology Centers, with one aiming to build robots that learn from and adapt to humans — straight out of a sci-fi paperback.
Apple announced a Mac Studio packing up to 512 GB of unified memory — and analysts are buzzing that it might just run giant open-weight AI models without a data center.
Three big space stories are hollering at once, and the gap between announced ambition and actual rockets-in-orbit is wider than a Alabama summer afternoon.
The White House signed a space transportation directive aiming for 1,000 annual launches by 2030, but critics say the memo is all hat and no cattle.
The White House says a new presidential memorandum will multiply American launches sixfold by 2030, but the FAA's own best-case forecast tops out well short of that barn.
The White House signed a sweeping commercial-space memo, but whether the sky can handle that kind of traffic is another matter entirely.
The Air & Space Forces Association says it crowned three national STEM teacher winners, but every word of that story comes straight from AFA itself.
Word is SpaceX may have shattered its own back-to-back launch record, firing two Falcon 9s from opposite US coasts just 38 minutes apart on August 15, 2026.
NASA announced a two-day public aerospace expo and airshow at the Shuttle Landing Facility for November — and the buzz around Brevard County is already louder than a rocket on launch day.
The Department of War launched a digital hub to rope in tech firms for Golden Dome, but the program's price tag and core technology remain fiercely disputed.
Chatter about a fresh $1 billion repurchase program is circulating, but the only source hollering that number is Carpenter Technology's own press release.
The Vatican announced a 2027 peace theme targeting AI in warfare, and Nobel laureates followed with a treaty call — but how far this goes is anybody's guess.
A food donation center just opened at Vandenberg Space Force Base — because, the base says, some military families simply cannot afford groceries.
Fifty years ago a Soviet probe quietly hauled Moon dirt home and maybe — just maybe — sniffed out water, a claim that still ain't been proven.
SpaceX filed for a million-satellite AI constellation, the company says. Astronomers and regulators are not exactly hollering 'yee-haw' about it.
The toaster-chip folks say they're now an AI backbone supplier. Microchip Technology claims data-center sales jumped nearly 98% — but only management is counting.
Chatter and early data suggest Marvell is muscling into hyperscaler silicon, but key deals are still talks, not contracts.
Rep. Byron Donalds' campaign claims a bill could move NASA headquarters to Brevard County, but NASA itself is reportedly eyeing a smaller D.C. office.
SoftBank Robotics says it launched a cage-cart attachment for the PUDU T300 robot, but all the juicy feature claims come straight from the company's own press materials.
Google DeepMind says its new model family steers legs, torso, arms, and fingers together — but the demos were lab-only and speed still needs work.
K2 Space says it just hauled in $500M at a $6.8B valuation — nearly double last year's price — after its big-power GRAVITAS satellite rode a Falcon 9 rideshare to orbit.
The agency published a proposed rule on July 28, 2026, but no environmental groups or independent experts have yet weighed in publicly.
Multiple 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.