Jan 17, 2025
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13 min read
Plus: DJI lifts US drone restrictions near airports, Blue Origin launches new rocket to orbit, creating ammonia from wind, military contract for pilot brain monitoring, TSMC begins producing 4-nm chips in Arizona, and more.
Jan 12, 2025
14 min read
DOD blacklists CATL, AI accelerates drug development, ChatGPT sentry gun shut down by OpenAI, a carbon capture project captures almost no carbon, drone punches hole into firefighting plane, and more.
Jan 3, 2025
9 min read
Plus: Largest ever federal nuclear deal, rise of the killer drones, Blue Origin prepares for first orbital space shot, China is catching up to US in quantum technology, doctors are embracing hypnosis and more.
Dec 27, 2024
10 min read
DARPA demos autonomous ship refueling, startups are geoengineering the ocean, the war on wildfires is going high tech, the case for solar geoengineering, and more.
Dec 20, 2024
Plus: 1-800-CHATGPT, digital twins of human organs, Waymo still safer than humans, China's answer to Starlink, lithium-ion battery pack cost hits record low, quantum teleportation over busy internet cables, and more.
Dec 13, 2024
18 min read
Plus: Sodium-ion batteries make their big debut, muscle implants enable mind-controlled prosthetics, nanosheet transistors, a self-eating rocket, 3D-printed weapons, and more.
Dec 6, 2024
15 min read
Plus: NASA delays moon mission, U.S. cracks down on China's AI chip plans, China bans rare-earth exports after U.S. ban, massive 'glow' batteries to replace coal, turning human waste into medicine, and more.
Dec 1, 2024
11 min read
Plus: Japanese rocket explodes during test, Meta plots globe-spanning subsea cable, China has world's most powerful x-ray light source, a nanorobot hand made of DNA, and more.
Nov 22, 2024
16 min read
Plus: China takes lead in robot density, first CRISPR treatment making its way to patients, battery-free bioelectronic implants, nanorobots nearing first human clinical trials, and more.
Nov 15, 2024
Plus: Air Force orders more robot wingmen, DeepMind releases protein prediction code, detecting cancer in urine, DNA-trained AI that creates genomes from scratch, and more.
Nov 8, 2024
8 min read
Plus: Pentagon's first LLM defense contract, SpaceX plans Starship space refueling test, surgery-free neurotech memory booster, AI for nuclear fusion, and more.
Nov 1, 2024
Plus: US Army fast-tracks weapons tech, Airdog unveils precision drone, OpenAI plans custom chip, plasma towers turning CO2 to fuel, Iceland's volcanic energy moonshot, and more.