Understandingthe Future
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Renato
RenatinhoBuilding an underwater robot, one step at a time.
Follow the decisions, tests, failures and improvements of the project Renatinho is building — with real photos, measurements and an honest Failure Log.
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AI fever: South Korea exports $60 billion in chips in a single month
South Korea's semiconductor exports more than tripled in September, driven by memory demand for artificial intelligence. Here is what lies behind the number and why memory markets tend to be volatile.
Fusion: CFS orders 10,000 km of superconducting tape before proving its reactor works
Commonwealth Fusion Systems signed the largest superconducting tape order ever announced with Japan's Fujikura, aimed at its first commercial plant. But the machine that must prove net energy gain has not been switched on yet.
Quantum internet: Europe starts building a prototype linking quantum computers over hundreds of kilometres
The University of Innsbruck in Austria received €5.4 million to help link ion-based quantum computers over optical fibre, as part of Europe's Quantum Internet Alliance. It is a 3.5-year project — the promise is big, but the result is still to come.
Crew-13 reaches the Space Station on the fastest US trip ever
Four astronauts from the US, Canada and Russia reached the ISS in under 8 hours aboard Crew Dragon, after a leak delayed the mission in September.