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The Federal Communications Commission yesterday approved EchoStar’s sales of spectrum licenses to AT&T and Starlink operator SpaceX. The deals are worth $40 billion in total. The orders, issued by the agency’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and Space Bureau, aren’t surprising

Humanity’s ancestry has grown far clearer thanks to our ability to obtain ancient DNA. We now know that, as humans left Africa, they interbred with the groups they met there, Neanderthals and Denisovans. Evidence from the Denisovan genome also suggests that this was nothing new;

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Four Australian men have given new meaning to the term “bricked printers.” According to a press release from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Border Force (ABF) today, three men have been sentenced for trying to use five printers to smuggle 22.4 kg (49.4 pounds)

Elon Musk’s xAI is running nearly 50 natural gas turbines at its Mississippi data center, power plants that the state is currently not regulating thanks to a loophole. The power plants are considered “mobile” by the state of Mississippi because they are sitting on flatbed trailer

Pity poor Princeton. The ultra-elite university has a mere $38 billion in endowment money. Many of its dorms lack air conditioning. And it’s in New Jersey. I kid about New Jersey, of course. Despite not being allowed to pump one’s own gas there, the “Garden State” grew on me duri

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With the tech industry singularly focused on AI models, Anthropic is having an exceptionally good year. The company may soon pull ahead of its main competitor, as it looks to raise tens of billions of dollars in a funding round that would put its valuation at some $950 billion (O

Kioxia has a new high-end client SSD family. The Kioxia XG10 Series moves the M.2-based XG line to PCIe Gen5. This generation has capacities up to 4TB, and sequential performance figures of up to 14GB/s sequential reads and 12GB/s sequential writes, making for a big generational

The DapuStor R6060 is a PCIe Gen5 enterprise QLC SSD built around the company’s DP800 controller and 3D QLC NAND. The series spans U.2, E3.L, and E1.L form factors, with capacities of 15.36TB, 30.72TB, 61.44TB, and 122.88TB, plus a 245TB SKU at the top of the stack. The interface

Olympic weightlifting consists of three basic movements performed on a barbell: the snatch, the clean, and the jerk (with the latter two executed in combination). At such an elite level, athletes seek to exploit every possible advantage, including how a barbell bends and recoils

NASA announced Wednesday that it will fly the Artemis III mission in low-Earth orbit and that it continues to target 2027 for this stepping-stone flight that will help land humans on the Moon. The space agency chose the orbit close to Earth—as opposed to a higher orbit—because it