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SpaceX Buys Its Way Toward a Mobile Network
SpaceX agreed to buy Grain Management's nationwide 800 MHz spectrum portfolio, adding the low-band coverage layer Starlink needs for a hybrid U.S. mobile network.
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Francis Halzen Wins Physics Nobel for IceCube
The 2026 physics prize recognizes the scientist who turned a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice into a telescope for high-energy neutrinos.
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Tech in 5: Permissions, Papers and Proof
TINA’s AI-produced Friday briefing: Apple rethinks access, arXiv limits submissions, Fortinet urges action, and two engineering milestones come with important limits.
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Starship Makes Orbit, but Cuts Its Victory Lap Short
SpaceX’s fourteenth Starship test reached orbit and deployed 26 Starlink satellites. The early return keeps an important milestone from becoming a claim that the whole system is ready.
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An Exoplanet’s Aurora May Have Broken Radio Silence
Astronomers say they have traced natural auroral radio bursts directly to Beta Pictoris b—a first that could let us measure alien worlds’ magnetic fields. It is not an alien message, and the result is still awaiting peer review.
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Astronomers Caught a Dead Star Eating the Weather
XRISM traced iron-rich plasma falling from a blue hypergiant toward a pulsar at roughly 335,000 mph. A familiar cosmic feeding story finally has direct spectral evidence.
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The Best Gadget Story This Week Started With No Cell Signal
Five people, a sinking boat, no cellular service, and one purpose-built distress beacon make a strong case for technology designed to do exactly one job.
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Curiosity Just Filed the Best Uptime Report in the Solar System
NASA’s Curiosity rover marked 5,000 Martian days with a two-light postcard from Mount Sharp—and a reminder that longevity is a technology feature.
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NASA Gave the Moon Its Own Foundation Model
NASA and IBM trained an open model on lunar imagery to help map craters, strange volcanic patches, and the stability of polar ice.
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Why Tech News Kind of Sucks (And What We’re Doing About It at TechInform)
A Month In… and Reality Hits HardWhen we took over TechInform a little over a month ago, we were pumped.