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The Download: next-gen nuclear, and the data center backlash
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. How next-generation nuclear reactors break out of the 20th-century blueprint The popularity of commercial nuclear reactors has surged in recent years as worries about climate change and energy independence drowned out concerns about…
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The 16 top logistics, manufacturing, materials startups from Disrupt Startup Battlefield
Here is the full list of the logistics, manufacturing, and materials Startup Battlefield 200 selectees, along with a note on what made us select them for the competition.
Pebble reboots its thinnest smartwatch with the Pebble Round 2
Pebble launches a $199 smartwatch with rounded screen that can last up to 2 weeks on one charge.
In 2026, AI will move from hype to pragmatism
In 2026, here’s what you can expect from the AI industry: new architectures, smaller models, world models, reliable agents, physical AI, and products designed for real-world use.
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Clicks debuts its own take on the BlackBerry smartphone, plus a $79 snap-on mobile keyboard
The company behind the add-on mobile keyboards with physical buttons is now doing its own phone.
3 things Will Douglas Heaven is into right now
The most amazing drummer on the internet My daughter introduced me to El Estepario Siberiano’s YouTube channel a few months back, and I have been obsessed ever since. The Spanish drummer (real name: Jorge Garrido) posts videos of himself playing supercharged cover versions of popular tracks, hitting his drums with such jaw-dropping speed and technique…
Job titles of the future: Head-transplant surgeon
The Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero has been preparing for a surgery that might never happen. His idea? Swap a sick person’s head—or perhaps just the brain—onto a younger, healthier body. Canavero caused a stir in 2017 when he announced that a team he advised in China had exchanged heads between two corpses. But he never…
Even as global crop prices fall, India’s Arya.ag is attracting investors — and staying profitable
Arya.ag, an Indian agritech company offering storage facilities near farms and offering lending services to hundreds of thousands of farmers, has drawn investor interest and remained profitable even as global crop prices continue to fall in a volatile commodities market. The investor interest has taken shape in the latest all-equity Series D round from GEF […]
A beginner’s guide to Mastodon, the open source Twitter alternative
Unless if you’re really in the know about nascent platforms, you probably didn’t know what Mastodon was until Elon Musk bought Twitter and renamed it X. In the initial aftermath of the acquisition, as users fretted over what direction Twitter would take, millions of users hopped over to Mastodon, a fellow microblogging site. As time […]