Anduril Industries has been awarded a contract valued at up to $2.9 billion to support submarine manufacturing for the U.S. Navy. The company plans to develop a new 2 million-square-foot shipyard at Sparrows Point, Maryland, starting operations in 2030, which will produce components for Virginia-class submarines. This announcement follows Palmer Luckey's recent appointment to a Pentagon weapons development task force, highlighting the company's growing role in national defense projects.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-06
A father recounts how his four-year-old son, Guy, insisted on a trip to a hardware store to buy something called 'wood tape,' later producing a hand-cut shopping list and a drawing of a table he wanted built. The father let the boy navigate the Home Depot on his own, including asking an employee in an orange apron for help finding the item.
gamesbyemail.com
· 2026-10-06
Symphony Space, founded by Merry Walker and Nicolas Maubert, has announced Project Rhapsody, a service that sends products into orbit to be filmed and photographed without astronauts aboard. The studio will operate on Adagio-Mini, an autonomous space station planned to launch in the second half of 2028 and capable of holding up to 12 works at once.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-05
The Xbox Series X, released in 2020, continues to run current and upcoming major titles like GTA VI despite rising component costs pushing up Xbox hardware prices. Microsoft's new disc-to-digital conversion feature and rumored next-gen console, codenamed Project Helix, raise questions about the console's remaining lifespan and an eventual shift to all-digital gaming.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-05
Capcom announced plans to overhaul its proprietary RE Engine through a project called REX, aiming to make it a 'game engine of the AI generation.' Programmer Satoshi Ishida said the AI would be used to streamline development workflows as game assets grow larger and development times lengthen, rather than to generate in-game content itself.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-03
Google is testing a prototype data center positioned in space to explore running AI workloads beyond Earth's surface. The initiative examines whether solar power and the vacuum of space can support computing infrastructure typically housed in terrestrial facilities.
science.slashdot.org
· 2026-10-03
Research firm Aterio says Oracle's Project Lighthouse datacenter in Port Washington, Wisconsin, developed with Vantage, may miss its planned second-half 2027 opening because American Transmission Company still needs Public Service Commission approval to build the site's grid connection. Aterio also noted Oracle recently sent a force majeure notice to a Blue Owl Capital subsidiary over its Project Jupiter campus in New Mexico, seeking to defer payments if that site isn't ready on time, though Oracle maintains Jupiter remains on schedule.
theregister.com
· 2026-10-02
Marine biologist David Gruber founded Project CETI, the Cetacean Translation Initiative, which applies artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze and interpret sperm whale vocalizations. Gruber's path to the project ran through earlier academic work in microbiology, oceanography, and marine biology before he turned to studying animal communication.
blue-continuum.com
· 2026-10-02
Google has launched a prototype satellite for its Project Suncatcher initiative, built with partner Planet, aboard SpaceX's Transporter-18 rideshare mission. The company confirmed contact with the satellite and says it is functioning normally. A peer-reviewed paper detailing the underlying research has been published in the journal Joule.
blog.google
· 2026-10-02
Google sent a prototype orbital compute satellite, built by Planet Labs, aboard a SpaceX rocket from California, marking the first time one of its Tensor Processing Units has flown in space. The test will check whether the chip can sustain a kilowatt of continuous power, manage heat, and run AI models in short bursts without failure. Google's Travis Beals, who leads the effort called Project Suncatcher, said a more advanced two-satellite demo with laser communication links is planned for next year.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-01
Pandora emailed subscribers in September 2026 announcing a price increase of at least one dollar per month, effective October. The SiriusXM-owned company said the change would help fund improvements to recommendations, reliability, and content access, adding 'we haven't made this decision lightly.'
engadget.com
· 2026-10-01
Google has disclosed Project Suncatcher, an effort to launch AI computing hardware into space, according to the report. Researchers involved acknowledge significant technical challenges but argue the long-term economics could eventually justify orbital data centers.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-01
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