Vol. 1, No. 61
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Science & Technology covers research, engineering, and the technology industry — from university labs and federal research agencies through product launches to the regulatory and antitrust fights that follow. The questions we try to keep in mind are the ones a careful reader actually wants answered: What did the study find, and how strong is the evidence? What is the company actually shipping, and what is still pre-release marketing? Which claims are settled science and which are provisional?
Our beats include the major U.S. tech firms, the federal science agencies (NIH, NSF, NASA, NOAA, USGS, FDA, NIST), the national labs (Argonne, Lawrence Berkeley, Oak Ridge, Los Alamos), the leading research universities, and the standards bodies and regulators that touch the sector. We cover artificial intelligence with particular care because it intersects with so much else we report on — labor markets, copyright, publishing, defense procurement, healthcare, education.
Where a tech story is really a regulatory story, we route to politics; where it's really a markets story, we route to business and economy; where it's really a clinical or public-health story, we route to health.
Articles in this section link out to primary sources: peer-reviewed papers in the major journals, agency press releases, official corporate disclosures and earnings calls, patent and standards documents, and government research reports.
Accenture is the world's biggest seller of AI transformation. Its own guidance cut, and the selloff it set off in India, suggest the technology it's pitching is hollowing out the work it sells.
Adobe reported record quarterly revenue and tripled its AI sales, then watched its stock fall. A CFO exit and an open CEO search left investors fixated on the wrong kind of question.
Washington ordered the Census to drop the statistical 'noise' that shields your data, calling it honest. In practice it does the opposite — blurring local detail and making real people easier to unmask.
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket destroyed its only launch pad in a Thursday night explosion, putting NASA moon base plans and Amazon Kuiper at risk.
Flight 12 proved Starship V3's upper stage can fly and land. The booster didn't make it back. SpaceX's $75 billion IPO is three weeks away on June 12.
Nvidia's best-ever quarter — $81.6 billion revenue, 85 percent growth — set another record. Its stock fell for the fourth straight post-earnings session anyway.
A USU physicist did the math: Utah's new 9-gigawatt AI campus will release as much heat as 23 atom bombs a day. Three commissioners approved it.
SpaceX's S-1 prospectus is expected this week — setting the clock for a June NASDAQ debut that would shatter the global IPO record with a $75 billion raise.
The Department of War released 162 declassified UAP files under a new program called PURSUE, the government's most substantial UFO disclosure in history.
Five publishers and Scott Turow sued Meta, alleging Zuckerberg personally authorized torrenting 81.7 TB of pirated books to train its Llama AI models.
TSMC posted a record quarter on AI demand. DRAM is up nearly 50%. And the 92 gigawatts of new data-center power every 2028 projection assumes doesn't yet exist on the grid.
