SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy Carries a Spy Satellite for the First Time
Late on the night of October 1, the most powerful rocket in SpaceX’s operating fleet cleared the tower at Kennedy Space Center’s Pad 39A and carried a classified national-security payload…
Intel’s Nova Lake Chips Clear USB4 and PCIe 5.0 Certification
Intel’s next generation of processors, code-named Nova Lake, has passed compliance and interoperability testing for two standards that desktop and laptop buyers will notice, according to certification records that hardware…
IBM’s Quantum Processor Finishes a Sampling Task in 19 Seconds
A commercially available quantum processor has completed a computation that its collaborators estimate would take a classical supercomputer about 110 years. IBM’s Nighthawk r2 processor generated one million samples of…
Netlist Asks Trade Panel to Ban Micron Chips Used in AI Servers
Netlist Inc. is small by the standards of the semiconductor industry, but for years it has turned a portfolio of memory patents into a weapon against the largest names in…
Apple’s New Chief Moves to Speed the Product Cycle
John Ternus has run Apple for less than a month, and he is already testing how much of the company’s machinery he can move. The changes, reported by Bloomberg’s Mark…
Apple Pay Lands in India With One Bank and No UPI
Apple Pay went live in India this week with a launch narrow enough to fit in a single sentence: one bank, two card networks, and nothing else. The first partner…
Tesla Delays the Roadster Reveal Again, This Time on Weather
The Tesla Roadster has been delayed by engineering, by supply chains, and by a company that keeps finding more pressing things to build. This week, the culprit was simpler: the…
Oura Delays Its IPO, a Week After Seeking Up to $2.2 Billion
A week ago, Oura was a company on a schedule. The Finnish smart-ring maker had filed to sell 50 million shares at $40 to $44 apiece, a deal that would…
Instinct Raises a $1 Billion Series C From Sequoia, Benchmark and Coatue
Instinct, a startup building a personal AI agent that answers the phone and runs errands on a user’s behalf, said on September 28 that it has raised a $1 billion…
Starship Makes Its Orbital Debut, Deploying 26 Starlink Satellites
The rocket cleared the pad at Starbase on the Texas coast on the morning of September 28 and kept climbing until, for the first time in the program’s history, it…
