
Everything Apple Is Expected to Announce in September
The company's annual iPhone event is set for next month, with at least five new devices expected, and a few surprises possible.
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In a mission that drew live viewership exceeding 47 million, Starship successfully transferred 100 metric tons of liquid oxygen between two vehicles in low Earth orbit, validating a technology that is essential for NASA's Artemis lunar base construction and eventual Mars missions.

The company's annual iPhone event is set for next month, with at least five new devices expected, and a few surprises possible.

Lithos Carbon spreads basalt dust across 12,000 hectares of farmland, selling verified removal credits to Microsoft and Stripe.

Fervo Energy and Crusoe commissioned a 50-megawatt Nevada plant routing enhanced geothermal power directly to GPU clusters.

The startup applied to deliver 400 megawatts to the New England grid by 2032, submitting the first fusion project to regional transmission planners.

The system monitors municipal wastewater treatment sites to detect new viral strains and coordinate regional health alerts.

The Helios-3 demonstrator fully unfurls its 150-square-meter polymer sail, registering clear changes in propulsion from solar radiation pressure.

In a mission that drew live viewership exceeding 47 million, Starship successfully transferred 100 metric tons of liquid oxygen between two vehicles in low Earth orbit, validating a technology that is essential for NASA's Artemis lunar base construction and eventual Mars missions.

The annual survey of 524 leading AI researchers reveals that belief in near-term AGI emergence has grown from 47% in 2023 to 68% in 2026, while concern about catastrophic risk from misaligned AI systems has increased by 31 percentage points over the same period.

Neuralink's second-generation implant enables four paralyzed patients to compose text at 90 words per minute with 99.1% character accuracy using only neural signals, a 4.5x improvement over the first-generation device and a significant step toward the company's goal of restoring full communication ability.

The private fusion company has demonstrated a Q-factor of 3.2 in its SPARC demonstration reactor — meaning it produced 3.2 times more energy than was delivered to the plasma — marking the first private fusion reactor to achieve sustained net gain and accelerating the path to commercial fusion power.

Alphabet's Waymo reports that its fully autonomous vehicles completed 10.3 million rider-only miles in April across San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Austin — a 340% increase from the same period last year — with an accident rate of 0.11 per 100,000 miles versus the national average of 1.9.
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