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At SpaceX, AI is burning the cash that Starlink earns

At SpaceX, AI is burning the cash that Starlink earns

Published by Sam Flores

April 24 : Elon Musk is touting SpaceX as humanity’s ticket to Mars. But the company’s pitch to investors for a potentially historic IPO reveals that its main business will be the same as Big Tech: building artificial intelligence. The difference is in how the companies fund the spending. While Alphabet and Microsoft have deep operating cash flows, SpaceX is bankrolling its push with revenue from rockets and satellites, leaving it with a cash-burn profile closer to a late-stage startup than a trillion-dollar incumbent. SpaceX’s satellite broadband business, Starlink, doubled its operating income last year to $4.42 billion, easily covering the loss incurred in its space division, which is spending heavily on a new satellite-carrying rocket, showed excerpts of the company’s IPO registration reviewed by Reuters. That has emboldened Musk to remake SpaceX as an AI-first company, dramatically shifting its spending profile. In 2025, the AI division – home to xAI – accounted for 61 per cent of the consolidated company’s $20.74 billion total capital spending. At the same time, rising costs pushed the unit …

Coffee cake that earns its coffee

Coffee cake that earns its coffee

Published by Sam Flores

When I picture most coffee cakes, they seem to materialize in the same three places, as predictably as a non-player character in an open-world video game: office break rooms, church basements and conference center breakfast buffets. They arrive pre-sliced, pre-dulled, pre-forgiven. Beige. Bland. Dry. They are polite background noise — the culinary equivalent of a cubicle in a Schaumburg office park. Coffee cake, as a category, has a reputation problem. It is expected to be fine. Serviceable. Something you accept with a paper napkin under fluorescent lighting and a murmur of gratitude. It fills space. It does not demand attention. I have a soft spot for the cinnamon coffee cake from Starbucks — or rather, for what I remember it being like when I was 12. There was a year in middle school when I was sick often enough that the doctor’s office felt a bit like a second address. Eventually we learned I had an immune condition; I also had mono, which felt cosmically unfair considering I had not yet been kissed and suspected …

Ateios and Kodak’s battery platform earns PFAS-free verification

Ateios and Kodak’s battery platform earns PFAS-free verification

Published by skeptic

Ateios Systems and Kodak have announced that the Ateios RaiCore™ battery electrode platform has been extended to three of the world’s most widely used cathode chemistries. The battery platform now encompasses lithium cobalt oxide, lithium iron phosphate, and nickel manganese cobalt. Importantly, the platform has also earned third-party verification for eliminating perfluoralkoxy alkane (PFA) forever chemicals. The world’s first PFAS-free battery electrode platform Independent third-party testing confirmed that RaiCore™ composite electrode formulations (LCO, LFP, NMC, and graphite) contain total organic fluorine (TOF) levels below the analytical reporting limit of 20 parts per million, well below the 100-ppm regulatory threshold for PFAS-containing materials. This verification maintains RaiCore’s status as the world’s only PFAS-free battery electrode verified by an independent third party. New and improved formulation based on real-world feedback Alongside the verification, Ateios released its 4th-generation RaiCore™ electrodes with a new, improved formulation based on customer feedback. The new formulation has enabled the highest active material loading to more than 98%, incorporates an optimised conductive additive network, and improves rheology for high-speed gap coating, delivering leading …

Beneath by Ariel Sullivan – The Prequel That Earns Every Scar

Beneath by Ariel Sullivan – The Prequel That Earns Every Scar

Published by Jenni Sidey

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America’s Nuclear Fuel Chain Gains As General Matter Earns .2 Billion Of Support From Ex-Im Bank

America’s Nuclear Fuel Chain Gains As General Matter Earns $4.2 Billion Of Support From Ex-Im Bank

Published by Jenni Sidey

This past weekend saw a major announcement from the Indo-Pacific Energy Security Ministerial in Tokyo, with the U.S. Export-Import Bank issuing letters of interest for $4.2 billion of capital for Japanese and South Korean reactor owners to purchase low-enriched uranium (LEU) from U.S. enrichment company General Matter.  The US Export-Import Bank advanced plans for up to $4.2 billion in financing to support Japanese and South Korean nuclear operators’ purchase of enriched fuel from California-based General Matter https://t.co/DxwnQ1BY8q — Bloomberg (@business) March 15, 2026 The Ex-Im Bank will support up to $2.4 billion for Japanese utilities and $1.8 billion for South Korean utilities looking to purchase enriched uranium from the U.S. as opposed to their long-term supplier, Russia.  This is part of a larger ongoing effort on two different fronts, with the U.S. looking to secure funding to start up the domestic nuclear fuel chain within its borders by securing foreign investments, as well as the U.S. and its allies looking to diversify from eastern suppliers of critical materials, including enriched uranium.  The U.S. finally seems …

Richarlison earns Spurs crucial point with 90th-minute equaliser at Liverpool

Richarlison earns Spurs crucial point with 90th-minute equaliser at Liverpool

Published by Sam Flores

Who would be Tottenham Hotspur boss, eh? Four matches as manager, four losses and 14 goals conceded for Igor Tudor. From the Madrid frying pan and into the Anfield fire: he probably would have wished for an easier test than a trip up north to visit the reigning Premier League champions. Okay, in the current campaign Arne Slot’s side have only occasionally looked like the free-wheeling insouciants who lifted the trophy a little over 12 months ago, but they look closer to their best and have a lot to play for. Victory could move Liverpool within a point of third-placed Manchester United or Aston Villa. While another defeat will bring the short-lived Tudor dynasty into even greater peril, the Croatian still believes he can turn around the club’s fortunes. “You can stay and cry or you can fight. You can be the victim or you can say I can change something,” he said in his pre-match press conference. By the time the match kicks off at 4.30pm GMT, his side may already be in the …

New Pokémon game earns rave reviews to become highest-rated in franchise

New Pokémon game earns rave reviews to become highest-rated in franchise

Published by Daniella Wilson

Upcoming Pokémon spin-off Pokémon Pokopia has certainly gone down well with critics, managing to rack up the highest Metacritic score in Pokémon history. First announced during the September 2025 Nintendo Direct, Pokopia comes from the studio behind fellow RPG spin-off Dragon Quest Builders, Omega Force. It combines the creature collection elements of the Pokémon series with the life simulation elements of the likes of Animal Crossing, seeing players revamp a seemingly deserted island to attract Pokémon and humans back. While players are yet to get their hands on the title, critics – ourselves included – have lauded the game, launching Pokopia to an impressive 88 rating on review aggregator Metacritic. At the time of writing, this places Pokopia neck and neck with Resident Evil Requiem and fantasy CRPG Esoteric Ebb as the joint highest-rated game of 2026. Perhaps more impressively, however, is that this 88 rating also means Pokopia is now the highest-rated Pokémon game of all time on the website, according to critic reviews. Want to see this content? To show this content, we …

Pixar’s new movie earns their best Rotten Tomatoes score in almost a decade

Pixar’s new movie earns their best Rotten Tomatoes score in almost a decade

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter The latest Pixar film, Hoppers, is earning rave reviews from critics. The animated original, which arrives in theaters March 6, follows 19-year-old environmentalist Mabel who “hops” into the mind of a beaver before attempting to help a colony save their habitat in a plot that has drawn comparisons to Avatar. The film, which features a cast of voice actors including Piper Curda, Bobby Moynihan, Dave Franco, Jon Hamm and Meryl Streep, has earned a near-perfect score on review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, currently sitting at 97 percent. Although that score may fluctuate as more reviews come in, it currently represents the best rating for a Pixar film in almost a decade since 2017’s Coco. The first two Toy Story films both have a 100 percent rating on the site, while Toy Story 3, Finding Nemo, Inside Out and Up all scored …

Timber header earns Arsenal crucial win over Chelsea

Timber header earns Arsenal crucial win over Chelsea

Published by Sam Flores

LONDON, March 1 : Arsenal maintained control of the Premier League title race as they chiselled out a nervy 2-1 win over London rivals Chelsea to open up a five-point lead at the top of the table on Sunday. Jurrien Timber’s 66th-minute header from a Declan Rice corner ensured Arsenal took three precious points but it was an afternoon of nerves in north London. It was far from pretty but Mikel Arteta’s side, and the fans who squirmed through the closing minutes, will not care about that as a first title since 2004 edged a little closer. Arsenal moved to 64 points from 29 games with sole chasers Manchester City, who have played a game fewer, on 59. Defender William Saliba had given Arsenal the lead in the 21st minute from a trademark corner routine. But it had looked as though an own goal by Piero Hincapie just before halftime would prove costly for the hosts until Timber came to their rescue, although it needed a superb last-gasp save by David Raya to preserve the …

NASA says this is the least scientifically accurate movie ever (and it earns the title)

NASA says this is the least scientifically accurate movie ever (and it earns the title)

Published by skeptic

In 2011, NASA scientists met at the jet propulsion laboratory in California to do something very important: name the most and least scientifically plausible movies ever made, with the aim of nudging Hollywood towards doing a better job of depicting science. They decided that the most scientifically plausible movie ever made was Gattaca, the 1997 film about a future where gene editing had become commonplace. As for the least plausible, the choice was easy: 2012. Somewhat confusingly, 2012 came out in 2009; Sony really missed a branding opportunity there. It was about, simply, how the world would end in 2012 thanks to a cavalcade of disasters, each less scientifically plausible than the last. The spectacular silliness of 2012 How to get everything about science wrong in one movie Sony gathered a pretty impressive cast for this nonsensical box office success; 2012 grossed $757 million on a budget of $200 million. John Cusack plays a struggling writer, Amanda Peet is his ex-wife, Woody Harrenson is a fringe scientific conspiracy theorist, Danny Glover is the president, Chiwetel …