February 2026

A little more than two months ago, a Rocket Lab employee called the Stennis Space Center Fire Department from the nearby A3 test stand. There was a grass fire where Archimedes engines undergo testing. Could they please send personnel over? According to the fire station’s November 30 dispatcher log, the employee said, “The fire started during a test when an anomaly caused an electrical box to catch fire.” Satellite imagery from before and after the anomaly appears to […]

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The pre-Inca Chincha Kingdom (circa 1000-1400 CE), along Peru’s southern coast, was one of the most wealthy and influential of its time before falling to the Inca and Spanish empires. Scientists have long puzzled over the foundation for that prosperity, and it seems one critical factor was bird poop, according to a new paper published in the journal PLoS ONE. “Seabird guano may seem trivial, yet our study suggests this potent resource could have significantly contributed to sociopolitical […]

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The National Labor Relations Board abandoned a Biden-era complaint against SpaceX after a finding that the agency does not have jurisdiction over Elon Musk’s space company. The US labor board said SpaceX should instead be regulated under the Railway Labor Act, which governs labor relations at railroad and airline companies. The Railway Labor Act is enforced by a separate agency, the National Mediation Board, and has different rules than the National Labor Relations Act enforced by the NLRB. […]

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Author(s): Wahidur Rahman Originally published on Towards AI. Is Generative AI Becoming a Big Tech Oligopoly? An In-Depth 2024–2026 Analysis The promise of artificial intelligence was supposed to democratize innovation. Instead, we’re witnessing the construction of the most capital-intensive moat in tech history — and most people aren’t even aware it’s happening. Source: The author generated this image using an AI tool to visually illustrate the concept.While the generative AI industry appears to have many players, a closer […]

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Apple has just released the latest major updates for iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26 Tahoe, and all the other operating systems it released back in September of 2025. The 26.3 updates for these operating systems are fairly mild, focusing mostly on bug fixes and security patches, but Apple is adding a handful of iPhone features designed to make it easier to use third-party devices in Apple’s ecosystem. The first is a “transfer to Android” feature that will […]

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Today we’re excited to announce that the NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B model with  3B active parameters is now generally available in the Amazon SageMaker JumpStart model catalog. You can accelerate innovation and deliver tangible business value with Nemotron 3 Nano on Amazon Web Services (AWS) without having to manage model deployment complexities. You can power your generative AI applications with Nemotron capabilities using the managed deployment capabilities offered by SageMaker JumpStart. Nemotron 3 Nano is a small […]

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China’s space program, striving to land astronauts on the Moon by 2030, carried out a test flight of a new reusable booster and crew capsule late Tuesday (US time), and the results were spectacular. The demonstration “marks a significant breakthrough in the development of [China’s] manned lunar exploration program,” the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said in a statement. China and the United States are racing to accomplish the next human landing on the Moon in a competition […]

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