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Military

China’s PLA now fields up to 600 hypersonic missiles aimed at US carriers and destroyers, weapons that maneuver mid-flight at five times the speed of sound

The People’s Liberation Army has assembled a growing arsenal of hypersonic missiles designed to strike U.S. Navy carriers and destroyers at speeds exceeding Mach 5, with the weapons able to change course mid-flight in ways that current shipboard defenses struggle to track. U.S. government reports tie this buildup to the DF-17 missile system and its […]

By Kade Winslow

Space Systems

SpaceX has back-to-back Falcon 9 flights set for June 10 and June 14, hauling Starlink batches from Florida and California

By Cassian Holt

Biology

Scientists figured out why some DNA-doubled cells refuse to die, finding the ones born from failed cell division are far more stable and likely to survive

By BeckhamLangford

Meta unveiled Muse Spark, an AI model it says matches rivals on a fraction of the compute, as it pours up to $135 billion into AI this year

By Dorian Maddox

France’s WEST tokamak held a fusion plasma for 1,337 seconds at 50 million degrees Celsius, the longest confinement on record

By BeckhamLangford

The carrier USS Nimitz is circling South America on its final voyage before decommissioning, a farewell lap under exercise Southern Seas 2026

By Kade Winslow

Nuro just won a California permit to run driverless Lucid Gravity SUVs with no safety driver, clearing the way for Uber robotaxis in Waymo’s home city this year

By Rowan Calder

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Biology

Scientists figured out why some DNA-doubled cells refuse to die, finding the ones born from failed cell division are far more stable and likely to survive

By BeckhamLangford

Science

France’s WEST tokamak held a fusion plasma for 1,337 seconds at 50 million degrees Celsius, the longest confinement on record

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

NASA’s Webb made the first direct detection of methane streaming off interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, chemistry unlike anything formed inside our solar system

By BeckhamLangford

Biology

A new AI method revealed most of the DNA spools inside our cells sit partly unwound, not locked away, sorting into 14 distinct states tied to gene activity

By BeckhamLangford

Space Systems

SpaceX has back-to-back Falcon 9 flights set for June 10 and June 14, hauling Starlink batches from Florida and California

By Cassian Holt

Cybersecurity

Microsoft is racing patches for two Defender zero-days attackers used to escalate privileges, the irony being the flaws sit inside Windows’ own antivirus

By Cassian Holt

Telecom and Connectivity

The FCC cleared AST SpaceMobile to sell direct-to-device satellite service in the US, with partners covering nearly 3 billion mobile subscribers

By Cassian Holt

Military

China’s PLA now fields up to 600 hypersonic missiles aimed at US carriers and destroyers, weapons that maneuver mid-flight at five times the speed of sound

By Kade Winslow

Naval

The carrier USS Nimitz is circling South America on its final voyage before decommissioning, a farewell lap under exercise Southern Seas 2026

By Kade Winslow

Aviation

The Pentagon says its reusable Talon-A drone hit Mach 5 on two separate flights, launched over the Pacific from a carrier aircraft

By Kade Winslow

AI

Meta unveiled Muse Spark, an AI model it says matches rivals on a fraction of the compute, as it pours up to $135 billion into AI this year

By Dorian Maddox

AI

Meta is budgeting $115 to $135 billion for AI in 2026 alone, a spend bigger than the annual revenue of most Fortune 100 companies

By Dorian Maddox

AI

Meta says Muse Spark beats rivals on perception, reasoning and health tasks while using a fraction of the compute, its first flagship model since the AI superlab reshuffle

By Dorian Maddox

AI

Amazon’s warehouse robot fleet just crossed 1 million machines as its new Sequoia system sped storage and identification by 75%

By Dorian Maddox

SUV’s

Nuro just won a California permit to run driverless Lucid Gravity SUVs with no safety driver, clearing the way for Uber robotaxis in Waymo’s home city this year

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Tesla logged five fresh robotaxi collisions across December and January, pushing its driverless Austin fleet to 14 incidents since the service launched

By Rowan Calder

Trucks

Aurora Innovation validated a 1,000-mile driverless lane from Fort Worth to Phoenix, a haul longer than a single human trucker can legally drive in a day

By Rowan Calder

Watercraft

Louisiana boatbuilder Metal Shark debuted Frenzy, a low-cost amphibious robotic boat that hauls payloads on its own with no crew

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Electric cars are getting major range jumps for 2026, with the Lucid Gravity hitting 450 miles and the Rivian R1S reaching 410 on a charge

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Tesla’s driverless robotaxis have now logged 14 crashes since launch, even as Uber bets up to $1.25 billion on putting 50,000 Rivian R2s on the road

By Rowan Calder

Transportation

Uber plans to roll out Lucid-Nuro robotaxis in San Francisco later this year, taking aim at Waymo right in its home market

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Tesla built 408,000 vehicles this quarter but only delivered 358,023 — a roughly 50,000-unit inventory swing for a build-to-order company

By Rowan Calder

SUV’s

Rivian starts sending final R2 SUV order invitations on June 9, with first deliveries expected two to six weeks later

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Rivian’s R2 may have just matched the Tesla Model Y dead-on for energy efficiency, ending Tesla’s years-long lead in that metric

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

The 2026 Hummer EV Pickup 3X starts at $105,300 with a tri-motor 830-horsepower setup and up to 363 miles of range

By Rowan Calder

SUV’s

Rivian projects a 53% jump in 2026 deliveries on the back of the lower-priced R2 SUV rollout

By Rowan Calder

Aircraft

Boeing’s MQ-28 collaborative combat aircraft just validated a new capability on June 1, edging the program closer to fielding

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

GM’s combined truck and EV total of 204,425 deliveries put it ahead of Ford in Q1, even with Silverado at 127,412

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Rivian opens R2 SUV deliveries this quarter at roughly $45,000, putting it head-to-head with the Tesla Model Y

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

The IIHS named the Rivian R1S a 2026 TOP SAFETY PICK+ award winner, the institute’s highest crashworthiness rating

By Rowan Calder

Extreme Weather

Forecasters say the Eastern Pacific keeps churning out storms off Mexico, with another low expected to spin up into a tropical depression later this week

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

China’s Linglong One is set to start commercial operation in the first half of 2026, becoming the world’s first onshore small modular reactor to go live

By Everett Sloane

Energy & Climate

Greenland’s ice sheet now raises global sea level by about 0.69 millimeters a year, more than all of Antarctica combined

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Canadian wildfire smoke that already fouled the Upper Midwest has drifted as far south as Florida, with Minnesota’s air hitting “very unhealthy” this week

By Everett Sloane