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Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon disclosed that his company is now working on more than 40 different AI wearable designs — from camera-equipped earbuds to jewelry, pins and watches — and positioned Qualcomm as the default silicon layer beneath whatever device category eventually displaces the smartphone.
In 1969, a fireball broke over the Victorian town of Murchison and scattered carbon-rich stones across the paddocks. Inside them sat grains of silicon carbide that condensed in dying stars roughly 7 billion years ago — older than the Sun, older than the Earth, and the most ancient solid material ever held in a human hand.
For fifteen years, the Post Office told courts that Horizon's branch accounts could only be altered by the subpostmaster at the counter. Fujitsu engineers in Bracknell could rewrite them remotely — and the denial of that capability is the load-bearing beam under more than 700 wrongful prosecutions.
On 29 April 2020, a single lightning bolt crossed Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi end to end — 768 kilometres of continuous discharge in under seven seconds, the longest flash ever recorded. Here is what scientists now know about how such megaflashes start.
Begin with skepticism about the headline number.
Inside Booking.com's Amsterdam engineering floors, a homemade experimentation framework from 2007 quietly runs tens of thousands of parallel A/B tests, turning fractions of a percent into billions in bookings.
Press play and a young man in a beige jacket appears in front of an elephant enclosure, slightly out of focus, mildly uncomfortable, observing that elephants have long trunks.
On a Phnom Penh morning in January 2026, a man who had held three passports, a Cambodian royal title, and a personal fortune large enough to make him one of the country's most visible businessmen woke up as none of those things.
The American laying flock now stands at roughly 374 million birds, most of them housed on about 67 square inches of wire each. A look inside the cage system that still produces over 60% of the world's eggs — and the heat, lawsuits, and broken pledges now reshaping it.
On September 9, 1947, engineers at Harvard's Computation Laboratory pulled a moth from Relay 70 of the Mark II computer and taped it into the logbook. The word 'bug' was already 70 years old — and that's exactly why the joke worked.
On October 14, 2025, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn unsealed an indictment and a civil forfeiture complaint that, taken together, represent what the Department of Justice has described as the largest asset seizure in its history: 127,271 bitcoin, valued at roughly $15 billion at the time of filing.
Norges Bank Investment Management runs the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, holds roughly 1.5% of every listed company on Earth, and processes 9,000 shareholder meetings a year with a corporate governance team you could fit around three dinner tables.
