1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (550+ words) If you ask most satellite companies aside from SpaceX, they will tell you the world doesn’t have enough capacity for launching payloads into orbit. This is despite the blistering launch cadence we’ve seen around the world in recent years, led…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (595+ words) Republican victory means stations must offer lowest ad prices to political parties. In a victory for Republican campaign committees, the Supreme Court issued an order on Friday that forces broadcast TV stations to cut the prices of election ads purchased…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (307+ words) Historically, state health departments determine cases and deaths, not the CDC. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is excluding two measles deaths reported by Pennsylvania health officials last week from its latest update of national measles data. The move publicly…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (411+ words) “We could really be facing the great filter.” Philip Johnston is someone who thinks a lot about the Fermi paradox. A mathematician and physicist from the United Kingdom, Johnston has gained some notoriety lately in the space community as one…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (651+ words) Lawsuit: Anthropic’s torrenting totally screwed songwriters as AI songs top charts. Some of the world’s leading music publishers think that Anthropic got off too light in a historic settlement where the Claude maker paid authors $1.5 billion after admitting to pirating…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (473+ words) Interactive mobile “gizmos” are easy to make, hard to share outside Meta’s platform. To start creating with Pocket, all you have to do is type into a large, friendly-looking text box labeled “Describe an idea…” After a few false starts,…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (394+ words) Judges: “Placing sports bets, even when called by another name, is still gambling.” The judges affirmed a district court order that let Nevada enforce state laws against Kalshi’s sports-related event contracts. Nelson wrote that sports event contracts offered on Kalshi…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (408+ words) Solid-state transformers could also benefit EV charging and someday households. Data centers have become the largest driver of surging electricity demand that is straining US power grids. But the AI data center boom has also accelerated investment in a technology…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (415+ words) “The Chang’e 7 mission does not meet the conditions for launch.” China’s “Manned Space” program issued a terse announcement on Sunday regarding its much-anticipated Chang’e 7 lunar exploration mission. The agency stated: “In keeping with the principle of proceeding prudently and reliably,…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (853+ words) Some Americans fear the FTC may be thinking about personalized pricing all wrong. Some Americans worry that the Federal Trade Commission’s rush to limit personalized pricing in the name of consumer protection could end up killing discounts they depend on…...