An artificial ‘Saturn’s ring’ of satellites could soon fill the sky, astronomers warn
An artificial ‘Saturn’s ring’ of satellites could soon fill the sky, astronomers warn

A bright Saturn’s ring of satellites will encircle Earth if plans to launch a million orbiting data centers and tens of thousands of space mirrors will come to pass.

Samsung’s new laptop OLED hits 1,600 nits and lasts twice as long as the panel it replaces
Samsung’s new laptop OLED hits 1,600 nits and lasts twice as long as the panel it replaces

Samsung Display has begun shipping tandem OLED panels for laptops that reach 1,600 nits peak brightness, more than 40% above the 1,100-nit ceiling of conventional single-layer OLED. The panels meet VESA’s new DisplayHDR True Black 1400 certification, a…

Everyone is now an AI company. But here’s the real challenge

Saying your fintech uses AI now means as much as saying you have a website.

Zalando joins Sereact’s $116M Series B to accelerate AI-powered warehouse automation

Sereact, a provider of physical AI for warehouse robotics, today announced that Zalando, Europe’s leading technology platform for fashion and lifestyle, has joined its ongoing Series B round as a stra…

SpaceX pushes Starship Flight 13 to Thursday after aborted countdown
SpaceX pushes Starship Flight 13 to Thursday after aborted countdown

SpaceX has moved the next launch attempt of its Starship rocket to Thursday, 23 July, the latest delay for a flight that has now been scrubbed once and rescheduled twice. The company had been targeting Monday evening from its Starbase site at Boca Chic…

Blackstone invests in South Korea’s Futronic to ride the robotics boom
Blackstone invests in South Korea’s Futronic to ride the robotics boom

Blackstone is buying into Futronic, a South Korean maker of the high-precision actuators that let machines move, in a wager that the least visible hardware in a robot is where the next returns will sit. The firm did not disclose the size of the investm…

New X phishing scam copies real login alerts down to the pixel to hijack accounts
New X phishing scam copies real login alerts down to the pixel to hijack accounts

Scammers are sending phishing emails that are near-exact replicas of X’s legitimate login notifications, warning recipients of a login “from a new device” in a location they have never been. The emails include X’s logo, correct formatting, proper gramm…

An AirPods-sized mini lab could help catch disease markers in minutes

The AirPods-case-sized VPodDuo connects to a smartphone and reads molecular tests for viruses, bacteria, and cancer-associated biomarkers in around 10 minutes.

Apps Marketed to US Troops Are Shipping Chinese and Russian Code

A first-of-its-kind analysis found more than one in eight apps built for US service members carried foreign code—some from firms in nations the Pentagon designates as adversaries.

Data centre backlash goes national as protests hit 42 US states
Data centre backlash goes national as protests hit 42 US states

On Saturday, American opposition to data centres stopped being a scatter of zoning-board arguments and started behaving like a movement. More than 140 rallies across 42 states unfolded under a single banner, in what organisers billed as the first natio…