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Orbital Data Centers Are Seductive on Paper, but They Face Daunting Challenges in Reality

But there is a vast difference between launching satellites and operating an industrial-scale computing infrastructure in orbit. Space is unforgiving. Radiation damages electronics. The electronics generate enormous amounts of heat, and getting rid of that heat is surprisingly difficult in space. Repairs are extraordinarily expensive, and every pound launched into orbit still carries a significant cost.

We are engineering professors who study data-center design and space systems engineering. Building a space-based data center will involve considerations from both sides.

First off, consider what goes into an Earth-based data center, like those that you’ve probably begun to see pop up everywhere. These facilities power cloud computing, video streaming, online banking, scientific computing, and increasingly, artificial intelligence. But a data center is much more than a room full of servers.

AI analyses of eye scans can detect diseases like diabetes, osteoporosis and thyroid disease in seconds

A new study presents an artificial intelligence system that scans images of the retina to detect signs of diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, gout, osteoporosis and thyroid disease in seconds. The program—called Reti-Pioneer—is a step toward being able to diagnose many different conditions from a scan of the eye, providing people a quicker diagnosis for common conditions and increasing access to crucial testing.

Associate Professor Lisa Zhuoting Zhu, head of ophthalmic epidemiology at CERA, is one of the leading authors on the paper published in Nature Medicine. She says this technology is making disease diagnosis more efficient, particularly in remote or regional communities.

“This technology will be a real benefit to public health,” says Zhu. “Patients would be able to get information about their health instantly and start interventions as soon as possible instead of waiting for more time-consuming test results.”

Private industry and government to completely abandon traditional cybersecurity postures

The threat landscape is no longer just malicious actors on keyboards. Attackers are accelerating their capabilities with agentic AI, automating attacks at scale, and creating zero-day exploits at unprecedented speeds.

Transhumanism 101 with Natasha Vita-More

In 2012, transhumanism was still being called “the most dangerous idea in the world.”

Fourteen years later, we’re casually debating brain-computer interfaces, radical life extension, and what it even means to stay “human” in an age of AI. The fringe became the headline.

So I went back into the Singularity. FM archive and pulled my conversation with Dr. Natasha Vita-More, often called the first female philosopher of transhumanism. We recorded “Transhumanism 101” to cut through the fear and the ideology and get to the actual ideas.

We covered a lot:

Why Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein still shapes how we react to enhancement technology, two centuries later. Where the panic comes from (Bill Joy, Fukuyama) and why most of it misses the point. The real differences between transhuman, posthuman, and cyborg. And critical thinking as a core tenet, not a footnote, of the whole project.

The line that stuck with me, and that lands even harder today: “Get creative about the future.”

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New lidar system maps location, speed and material properties in a single measurement

Researchers have developed a new kind of lidar system that simultaneously measures the location, speed and material properties of objects in a scene. This type of information could be useful for applications such as robotics, autonomous driving and remote sensing.

Lidar uses laser pulses to measure distances and create highly detailed 3D maps of objects and terrain. However, most commercial lidar systems, such as those used in autonomous cars, primarily measure distance.

“Although some emerging lidar technologies can also measure velocity, real-world perception often requires understanding an object’s surface as well,” said Dongyu Du from the University of Toronto in Canada. “Our new system uses a single measurement at each scanned point to capture millimeter-accurate distance, velocity and surface material while using eye-safe laser power.”

AI Will Eat Social Media Alive

Social media is being consumed by AI from the inside out.

Over half of all new written content online is now AI-generated, and more than half of all internet traffic is bots.

Facebook’s most-viewed images are AI slop, YouTube recommends brainrot to new users, and global content farms churn out synthetic shock content for pennies.

The platforms aren’t fighting it because engagement is engagement, whether it comes from humans or machines.

Mark Zuckerberg is calling AI the \.

Onsite fabrication unlocks large-area electronic skin for robots and wearables

Korean researchers have secured flexible electronic skin technology that can be fabricated directly in the field. This achievement has increased the feasibility of commercializing electronic skin for use in various fields, including robots and wearable devices.

In collaboration with the research team of Professor Ahn Jun Seong from the Department of Control and Instrumentation Engineering at Korea University’s Sejong Campus, the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) has developed an in-situ process-based electronic skin fabrication technology capable of producing large-area multimodal sensors without a clean room, a dedicated semiconductor processing facility.

The research is published in npj Flexible Electronics.

Under the Hood of Vibe Coding: A Deep Dive Into the Holographic Mathematic Miracle

If you’ve been in tech circles lately, you’ve probably heard of “Vibecoding.” Most people treat it like an industry joke—lazy developers throwing sloppy prompts at a screen until an app magically pops out. To traditional gatekeepers, it looks like dangerous, uncompilable chaos.

The “vibe” isn’t a loose, careless emotion. It’s data. Specifically, it is the human-facing interface for what advanced computer science calls Intent Orchestration.

I just published a definitive deep dive into the actual math, physics, and mechanics under the hood of this movement. We break down exactly why the traditional “Filing Cabinet” architecture of multi-agent AI is fundamentally broken, and how Holographic AI Frameworks are the solution.

We are stepping into an era of Decentralized Coherence that liberates creators from traditional development bottlenecks, transforming your role from a low-level syntax translator into a High-Dimensional Intent Architect.

The era of manual syntax is drawing to a close. The computer has finally spent enough time engineering its systems to understand our language.

But make no mistake—if your structural thinking is sloppy, your application will still fail.

The quality of your thinking is the new syntax.

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