Industrialists and researchers are plotting a new future for these critical materials

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Tales of a broadband space race, a 6G signal trace, and a Wi-Fi data chase

Joppe Bos designs encryption that even quantum computers can’t crack

A new Atlas, Figure's bonkers funding round, and the last voyage of a helicopter on Mars

Electronic warfare is taking a perilous turn into civilian airspace

Trillion-transistor GPUs, steel-slicing laser chips, particle accelerators, and more

China’s demo reactor could breed nuclear fuel from rare earth waste

It is aligned with industry efforts to detect author misconduct

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The first step in the Deep Sentinel program, one of the most ambitious ocean-engineering projects in decades, will be completed this year. This initial step, called Vanguard, will shelter three aquanaut-scientists at depths of 100 meters. Eventually, the…

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DeepComputing PCs aim to elbow out Arm and x86 architectures

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