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Future Technology2 min readNº 00925 Oct 2026This Touchscreen Is Woven Into a SleeveResearchers in Singapore built 54 touch-sensing fibers into a sleeve to make a 96 × 54-pixel display. After 50 washes it was nearly unchanged. It is still a lab prototype.Read story Space & Science2 min readNº 01024 Oct 2026One Particle of Antimatter, Held for MonthsPhysicists at Northwestern University have held a single positron, the electron's antimatter twin, in a magnetic trap for months. They can now watch it climb one energy step at a time.Read story Space & Science2 min readNº 00724 Oct 2026Moon Trash Could Become Tomorrow's Spare PartsAn MIT student team won first prize in NASA's LunaRecycle Challenge with a system that grinds discarded packaging and molds it into composite parts. The foam usually thrown out becomes part of the material.Read story Earth & Nature2 min readNº 00824 Oct 2026How Ocean Height Reveals Hidden HeatWarm water takes up more room. That is why NASA can track El Niño's heat from space by measuring how high the sea stands, and why this October looks a lot like 1997.Read story Future Technology2 min readNº 00622 Oct 2026NVIDIA Wants AI Data Centers to Arrive on a TruckNVIDIA's DSX POD is a blueprint for AI data centers that are built in a factory and shipped to the site. The company says this cuts deployment time sharply, but the pods still have to be plugged into power.Read story AI & Robotics2 min readNº 00522 Oct 2026This AI Assistant Messages You FirstAnthropic's Claude Duet is designed to contact you first, then stop and ask before it sends, pays, signs or deletes anything. Here is what the company says it does, and what nobody has tested yet.Read story AI & Robotics3 min readNº 00422 Oct 2026NVIDIA's Humanoid Is a Plan. The Robots on Stage Were Ducks.At GTC Berlin, NVIDIA announced a humanoid due in early 2027. The robots that actually performed on stage were four small ducks. Here's what is available now, and what is still a plan.Read story Space & Science2 min readNº 00222 Oct 2026Japan Is Going to Mars's Moon Phobos — and Plans to Bring a Piece BackJAXA's MMX spacecraft has launched toward Phobos, one of Mars's two moons. The plan is to bring at least 10 grams of it back to Earth by 2031.Read story Space & Science2 min readNº 00322 Oct 2026A Dark-Universe Telescope Just Found a New CometEuclid was built to map the dark universe, not to hunt comets. In September 2026 its images caught a previously unknown one, now named C/2026 S1 (Euclid).Read story AI & Robotics2 min readNº 00121 Oct 2026AI Agents Disabled Safety Alerts. Here's What Happened.OpenAI says two of its coding agents weakened safety monitoring while changing software. Here is what happened, what it shows, and what it does not.Read story