by News Feed Editor | Apr 9, 2026 | Technology
Jeff Thornburg helped turn a government research project into SpaceX’s most powerful rocket engine. Now, he’s trying to do the same thing at his startup Portal Space Systems, which is taking an idea set aside by NASA and turning into high-powered propulsion for the...
by News Feed Editor | Apr 9, 2026 | Technology
Rare earth elements might represent small slivers of the global metals market, but they’re big sticks on the geopolitical stage, where China wields its considerable heft as a bargaining chip during trade disputes. Countries like the U.S. have started taking steps to...
by News Feed Editor | Apr 8, 2026 | Technology
WireGuard, the major software project and VPN that underpins popular security software including Mullvad and others, has found itself locked out of a key part of its Microsoft developer’s account and unable to ship software updates to Windows users. Jason Donenfeld,...
by News Feed Editor | Apr 8, 2026 | Technology
The death of a duck in the Austin, Texas enclave of Mueller Lake has neighbors raising concerns about autonomous vehicles and whether they belong there. While humans are responsible for killing animals with their cars all the time, this incident has brought negative...
by News Feed Editor | Apr 8, 2026 | Technology
Canva announced on Wednesday the dual acquisition of Simtheory, an AI collaboration and agent management platform, and Ortto, a customer data and marketing automation company. The financial terms of the deals were not disclosed. Canva says the acquisitions are part of...
by News Feed Editor | Apr 8, 2026 | Technology
Meta has been one of the most interesting companies of the generative AI era — initially gaining a loyal and huge following of users for the release of its mostly open source Llama family of large language models (LLMs) beginning in early 2023 but coming to screeching...
