SpaceX Eyes Direct-to-Consumer Starlink Mobile Service, Posing Challenge to US Telecom Giants
Featured image: Starlink Direct-to-Cell satellite illustration; credit: SpaceX SpaceX has signaled its intention to launch a direct-to-consumer Starlink mobile service in the United States, a move that would upend the country’s multibillion-dollar telecommunications market and potentially reshape how Americans connect to cellular networks. Company President and COO Gwynne Shotwell disclosed the plan to investors during […]
Gravitational Wave ‘Direct Waves’ May Finally Reveal What Happens at a Black Hole’s Edge
Featured image: Simulation of two black holes merging, showing gravitational wave emission near the event horizon; credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss For the first time, astronomers have detected a new type of gravitational wave signal that carries direct imprints of a black hole’s event horizon, potentially opening a window onto the most extreme physics in the universe. The […]
Digital sovereignty at the UN: Inside the global push to replace US cloud giants with open-source tech
Digital sovereignty has moved from policy slogan to operational agenda. At this year’s UN Open Source Week, a coalition of nations, technologists, and institutions laid out concrete roadmaps for replacing dependence on US cloud giants with open-source alternatives — and the conversation was notably more urgent than in years past. Tanzania: from consumers to creators. […]
China Plans to Double Tiangong Space Station to Six Modules as ISS Era Winds Down
Featured image: Illustration of the expanded Tiangong space station in cross configuration; credit: CMSA China has formally announced plans to double the size of its Tiangong space station, expanding from three to six modules and adding a co-orbiting Hubble-class telescope, positioning the facility to become the world’s largest permanent outpost in low-Earth orbit as the […]
Ukraine unleashes 660 drones across 12 Russian regions in one of the heaviest bombardments of the war
Ukraine unleashes 660 drones across 12 Russian regions in one of the heaviest bombardments of the war KYIV. Ukraine launched 660 drones across a dozen Russian regions and occupied Crimea overnight on June 25-26 in what appears to be the largest aerial attack of the four-year war, hitting naval targets in Kerch and industrial facilities […]
Three powerful earthquakes in 7 hours: why seismologists say it’s just coincidence
On June 24 and 25, three powerful earthquakes struck different parts of the world within a span of roughly seven hours, a California tremor that shook Mendocino County, a devastating doublet in northern Venezuela that killed at least 164 people, and a strong subduction-zone quake off the coast of northeastern Japan. The clustering naturally raised […]