360 Capital raises €85M for deeptech fund backed by European defence prime
The Paris-Milan VC’s new vehicle is the latest sign that European investors are hardwiring defence into their deeptech strategy. There is a version of this
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A unique NASA satellite is falling out of orbit—this team is trying to rescue it
BROOMFIELD, Colorado—One of NASA’s oldest astronomy missions, the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, has been out of action for more than a month as scientists await
Major SteamOS update adds support for Steam Machine, even more third-party hardware
Valve’s Steam Machine desktop is currently in a state of involuntary limbo, driven by historically awful pricing and availability for memory and storage chips. AI
‘Real Housewives’ Has Been a Meme Gold Mine for 20 Years
The Bravo TV empire, which turns 20 this month, has also been a gold mine for the internet.
NASA wants to know how the launch industry’s chic new rocket fuel explodes
For more than 60 years, nearly every large rocket used some combination of the same liquid and solid propellants. Refined kerosene was favored for its
Amazon is reportedly developing an AI-centric smartphone
Amazon is developing a new smartphone over a decade after discontinuing the Fire Phone, Reuters reported today, citing four anonymous “people familiar with the matter.”
What Are Btrfs Subvolumes? And Why They’re Better Than Traditional Linux Partitions
For many Linux users, partitioning is the most nerve-wracking part of installation. It’s that moment where you double-check everything, hoping you don’t wipe the wrong
AI Companies Put $12.5M Into Open Source Security to Fix a Problem Their Tools Helped Create
The Linux Foundation has announced $12.5 million in grants to strengthen open source software security. The funding will be managed by Alpha-Omega and the Open
There can (still) be only one: Highlander is 40
The 1980s brought us so many terrific films, including director Russell Mulcahy’s sword-and-sorcery fantasy action film Highlander , starring Christopher Lambert as an immortal Scotsman
Perseverance’s radar revealed ancient subsurface river delta on Mars
When NASA’s Perseverance rover landed in Jezero Crater in 2021, its primary mission was to scour the remnants of a dried-up Martian lakebed for signs
Recap: Europe’s top funding rounds this week (16 -22 March)
A quieter week by headline standards, but one that reveals a great deal about where European venture capital is quietly concentrating: AI agents for physical
Mining the deep ocean
More than 13,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, a more-than-70-ton machine trundled like a tank on its caterpillar tracks for a tenth
RFK may replace entire panel of CDC vaccine advisors again, ally lets slip
A member of an influential federal vaccine advisory panel made a dramatic claim Thursday afternoon that the panel had been disbanded following a temporary block
Writer denies it, but publisher pulls horror novel after multiple allegations of AI use
Shy Girl, a horror novel by Mia Ballard, was one of those buzzy books that leapt from self-published prominence into full-on trade publication. Until yesterday