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Starlink moonlights as satellite traffic cop:
SpaceX's Starlink communications satellite constellation is doing double duty as the company announces that it's moonlighting as the Stargaze Space Situational Awareness system that can track and manage traffic in low Earth orbit.
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08 February 2026.
Legendary Cold War Stinger missile nears retirement after 45 years:
One of the most successful infantry weapons of the Cold War, if not of the last century, is beginning its journey to retirement as Raytheon successfully demonstrates the Next Generation Short Range Interceptor (NGSRI), which is set to replace the Stinger missile.
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08 February 2026.
Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt:
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Stephen T.
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08 February 2026.
How I Get Free Traffic from ChatGPT in 2025 (AIO vs SEO):
Three weeks ago, I tested something that completely changed how I think about organic traffic.
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04 December 2025.
11 new researchers become Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellows:
The new cohort will investigate the use of AI to advance exploration in science, technology and engineering.
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06 February 2026.
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01 January 1970.
‘I fell into it’: ex-criminal hackers urge Manchester pupils to use web skills for good:
Initiative aims to identify proficient gamers and coders who can help companies identify flaws in their cybersecurity Cybercriminals, the shadowy online figures often depicted in Hollywood movies as hooded villains capable of wiping millions of pounds off the value of businesses at a keystroke, are not usually known for their candour.
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09 February 2026.
UK ‘could lose generation of scientists’ with cuts to projects and research facilities:
Researchers say best scientists are taking posts overseas because of lack of job stability at homeHundreds of early career researchers have warned the UK will lose a generation of scientists after the announcement of significant cuts to physics projects and research facilities.
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09 February 2026.
You can unlock this secure SSD with the touch of your smartphone:
The Lexar TouchLock Portable SSD uses the magic of NFC to unlock.
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09 February 2026.
UK's £8bn research fund faces 'hard decisions' as it pauses new grants:
UKRI boss Ian Chapman said it had been told by the government to "focus and do fewer things better".
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05 February 2026.
A new social media platform creates buzz – but it's just for AI bots:
A new social media platform launched last week and it's got Silicon Valley buzzing, but it's not for humans.
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07 February 2026.
Google Workers Demand End to Cloud Services for Immigration Agencies:
More than 800 employees delivered a petition to management, condemning the Trump administration’s use of Google technology in immigration enforcement.
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08 February 2026.
Eurozone investor confidence grows in February:
More to come......
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09 February 2026.
War Came to Ukraine and Its Dogs Are Not the Same:
Researchers discovered surprising changes to former pets along the front line of combat with Russia.
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09 February 2026.
Searching for dinosaur secrets in crocodile bones:
Until now, estimating how old a dinosaur was when it died has been a fairly simple process: Count up the growth rings in the fossilized bones.
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05 February 2026.
Warsh Will Soon Realize That Powell Was Never Vy. Powerful:
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09 February 2026.
SpaceX Prioritizes Lunar 'Self-Growing City' Over Mars Project, Musk Says:
"Elon Musk said on Sunday that SpaceX has shifted its focus to building a 'self-growing city' on the moon," reports Reuters, "which could be achieved in less than 10 years.
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09 February 2026.
China’s humanoid robots are gaining ground – but they’re not there yet:
The U.S. and China are racing to build humanoid robots capable of performing many daily tasks – but the complexity of home and business environments makes that challenging.
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29 August 2025.
Paleo-Inuit people braved icy seas to reach remote Greenland islands 4,500 years ago, archaeologists discover:
Archaeological remains on the Kitsissut islands off the coast of Greenland reveal that whole communities regularly journeyed across the dangerous Arctic waters.
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09 February 2026.
Some of the tech in my workday
Best programming language?
The PYPL PopularitY of Programming Language Index is created by analyzing how often language tutorials are searched on Google.
The TIOBE Programming Community index measures popularity based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses, third party vendors and search engine activity.
w3techs analyses page content to determine the technology used, and also uses publicly available information from sources such as Alexa, Google, Microsoft and ipinfo.io.
While Java and Python top the popularity charts, more than 80% of all websites run on PHP.
Longer term weather forecast
