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SpaceX’s ‘orbital data centre’ idea: what the 1m-satellite filing really means

Admin — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:13:42 +0000

Summary: SpaceX has filed an application with the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deploy up to one million additional satellites in low‑Earth orbit. The pitch is unusual: satellites as part of an “orbital data centre” concept designed to support the growing compute requirements of artificial intelligence. What SpaceX is asking for Permission to operate […]

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Apple’s record iPhone quarter: strong sales, softer Macs, and the AI question

Admin — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:19:30 +0000

Summary: Apple reported its best-ever iPhone sales for the quarter, pushing revenue up 16% to $144bn. The headline is strong, but the details show a company still mid-transition: Macs and wearables softened, and Wall Street is watching whether Apple can turn its new Google Gemini partnership into a genuinely useful next generation of Siri and […]

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Waymo’s London robotaxi push: what has to go right for driverless taxis to work

Admin — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:23:06 +0000

Summary: Waymo (Alphabet’s self-driving subsidiary) says it hopes to launch a paid robotaxi service in London as early as September, with a pilot programme planned for April. The UK government says it intends to update regulations in the second half of 2026 to enable driverless taxis, setting up London as a high-profile test of whether […]

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Tesla ends Model S/X as it pivots to robots and AI — what’s real vs hype

Admin — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:23:09 +0000

Summary: Tesla says its annual revenue fell in 2025 for the first time, and profits dropped sharply in the final quarter — and it’s responding by tightening its vehicle lineup while doubling down on a very different bet: AI, robotics (Optimus), and robotaxis. The eye-catching headline is that Tesla plans to end production of the […]

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Meta’s $135bn AI spending plan: what it’s really buying (and the bubble risk)

Admin — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:23:29 +0000

Summary: Meta says it could spend up to $135bn this year—nearly double last year’s AI-related spend—mostly on infrastructure that powers artificial intelligence. This is not just a “bigger budget” story. It’s a strategic land grab for compute, talent, and distribution at a moment when leaders across tech and finance are openly debating whether the AI […]

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UK’s free AI training push: why ‘prompting’ is the easy part

Admin — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:23:32 +0000

Summary: The UK government has launched a package of free (and subsidised) AI training courses aimed at helping adults use AI at work, with an ambition to reach 10 million workers by 2030. On paper it sounds straightforward: teach people how to use chatbots and AI tools. In practice, the most important part is what […]

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Amazon’s 16,000 job cuts: what ‘remove bureaucracy’ really means

Admin — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:23:34 +0000

Summary: Amazon has confirmed 16,000 job cuts, after an internal message about redundancies was reportedly distributed early by mistake and then cancelled. Management describes the move as part of a multi‑quarter effort to “remove bureaucracy,” reduce layers, and move faster—especially inside Amazon Web Services (AWS), where costs and organisational complexity have grown alongside the business. […]

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TikTok US: when outages look like censorship (and why trust breaks fast)

Admin — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:23:37 +0000

Summary: After TikTok’s US business was split from ByteDance, thousands of users reported strange behaviour—new posts stuck at “zero views,” missing search results, and messaging quirks. In that environment, people quickly concluded the platform was censoring political content. TikTok’s US operation says many problems were technical (a recovery process after infrastructure disruption) rather than policy-driven […]

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Cisco CEO on the AI ‘bubble’: why the crash can still leave winners

Admin — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:23:40 +0000

Summary: Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins says AI could be bigger than the internet, but he expects a painful shakeout first—“winners will emerge, and there’ll be carnage along the way.” That’s not a throwaway quote. Robbins lived through the dot‑com boom as Cisco became the most valuable company in the world in 2000, then lost roughly […]

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Iran’s internet returns in fragments: how ‘rationed connectivity’ actually works

Admin — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:23:42 +0000

Summary: After nearly three weeks of one of Iran’s most extreme internet shutdowns, some connectivity appears to be returning—but not as a normal “switch back on.” Monitoring groups and analysts describe something closer to controlled, intermittent, and selective access: some services work at some times, for some people, often only briefly. This is a technology […]

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