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The Download: moon city problems and drone traffic controllers

October 12, 2026
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Mars may be a hellhole, but the moon is not far behind The US and China are racing to build bases on the moon, with NASA hoping to establish a small…

Mars may be a hellhole, but the moon is not far behind

October 12, 2026
Welcome to the second space race. You can be forgiven for experiencing déjà vu. Last time, it was the Soviet Union and the United States vying to be the first to plant some flags. Now it’s a sprint to the lunar surface between America and China—alongside a host of varyingly friendly and rival nations—plus a…

The ecologist revealing the invisible networks that revive rainforests

October 12, 2026
In a research station in central Panama, you can walk through a century of forest time, watching scrubby plots of adolescent trees give way to cathedral-­like canopies of mature growth. Forest ecologist Daisy Dent, a senior scientist at ETH Zurich, oversees this sequence of plots across the Barro Colorado Nature Monument, some of which date…

Will the HomeView be Apple’s first smart home success?

October 11, 2026
Apple will announce a new smart home hub on Tuesday called the HomeView, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen There have been multiple reports that Apple was working on a new smart home product, but now it seems the product has a name and a launch date. Gurman […]