Cheaper launch has moved the spacecraft bottleneck. Mass is out, surface area is in.
In the beginning, mass constrained spaceflight.We live at the bottom of a gravity well, and the rocket equation punishes every kilogram we try to lift out of it.…
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Spire and PlanetiQ win NOAA radio-occultation contracts
SAN FRANCISCO – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded contracts to Spire Global and PlanetiQ to provide radio occultation data for terrestrial and space weather forecasts.…
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STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about a lawsuit over lab tests for meds, a Bristol myeloma drug, and more
And so, another working week will soon come to a close.Not a moment too soon, yes?This is, you may recall, our treasured signal to daydream about weekend plans.…
Our agenda is still taking shape, but we plan on promenading with the …
We also hope to have time for our weekly listening party, where the ro…
Today, we’re looking at a new multiple myeloma approval for Bristol Myers Squibb, PBMs embracing TrumpRx price comparisons, and Novartis winning a key U.…
patent fight over Entresto.
My son built a structurally sound bridge yesterday out of latticed twi…
Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal stalking charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO
NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty on Friday to federal stalking charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, admitting matter-of-factly that he trailed the executive to an investor conference in 2024 and gunned him down on a New York City street.…
Mangione, 28, said he even used a ruse to glean information about the …
XPENG Debuts L03 AI SUV Coupe in Indonesia As Vehicle Heads for the Phillippines
TANGERANG, Indonesia — XPENG Indonesia launched the regional debut of the XPENG L03 at the 2026 Gaikindo Indonesia International Auto Show, marking the first public appearance of the AI-powered SUV coupe in Southeast Asia following its global unveil in Munich.…
Operating through its authorized local distributor, Erajaya Active Lif…
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Trump’s Gift To Coal Miners: Less Coal Jobs, More Black Lung Disease
With cases of black lung disease skyrocketing and cutbacks on mine safety enforcement, coal jobs are more hazardous now than at any time in the past 50 years.…
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TANGERANG, Indonesia — Wuling Motors secured 3,290 vehicle purchase orders during the 2026 Gaikindo Indonesia International Auto Show, led by demand for its new Aira EV micro car.…
The small electric vehicle generated 2,238 purchase orders, representi…
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This DIY heat pump plugs into a wall outlet and has no outdoor unit
Hickory, Kentucky-headquartered MRCOOL has launched an all-in-one heat pump that plugs into a standard 115-volt outlet and doesn’t have a bulky outdoor condenser.
What’s new todayGPT‑5.6 is generally available in Microsoft Foundry, alongside the Asia-Pacific Data Zone, and hosted agents in Foundry Agent Service.…
AI only creates value when it shows up in real systems—systems that ar…
More than 100,000 organizations are already building on Microsoft Foun…
At Microsoft Build, we laid out a simple promise for the agentic era: …
AT&T and Microsoft scale trillion-token workloads with Microsoft Foundry and AMD
First-of-its-kind telecom AI deployment Telecommunications organizations are increasingly looking to AI to help teams navigate highly specialized domains, but generic models often lack the industry-specific knowledge needed to understand telecom networks, standards, and operations.…
To address that gap, AT&T created their Open Telco (OTel) models, the …
Building OTel2.
0 required more than training a large language model, it reflected a b…
Microsoft Azure Databricks delivers the first-party advantage of Databricks on Microsoft—and for customers, that advantage shows up as real, measurable value.…
It is the same Databricks platform your teams already know, co-enginee…
Discover Azure Databricks The advantage is built-in, not bolted on.
Microsoft and Databricks co-engineer the service, share one integratio…
What customers value most in Microsoft Databases—from reliability to AI readiness
In this article What customers consistently value Turning customer feedback into innovation Thank you to our customers and community Every day, customers trust Microsoft Databases to power their most critical applications, business processes, and AI-powered experiences.…
Continuous customer feedback provides valuable insights into how these…
I’m honored to share that Microsoft Databases have received multiple 2…
This year, PeerSpot recognized: SQL Server as a Tech Leader in Databas…
AWS Weekly Roundup: Local Zone in Athens, Claude Opus 5 on AWS, Lambda durable execution for .NET, and more (July 27, 2026)
Last week I had the privilege of spending three days in São Paulo with technical builders from across Latin America, brought together for a regional tech event full of deep-dive sessions, hands-on workshops, and conversations with customers and partners.…
What struck me most wasn’t any single session, it was the energy of a …
People traded architecture ideas over coffee, sketched out solutions o…
It’s a good reminder that, for all the tooling we build, the community…