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A Commercial Space Race Prompts a Thorny Question: Who Owns the Sky?
The starry night sky has always anchored humanity’s sense of place in a vast universe. It’s a map guiding travelers, a calendar for migrations and harvests, a wellspring of stories. But a surge of commercial satellite launches into the upper fringes of Earth’s atmosphere threatens the relationship between people and the celestial commons by crowding
5 Commercial Cities in Africa With the Worst Traffic in 206
Traffic in Africa is not just a daily inconvenience. It is an economic problem. Every hour lost in gridlock costs businesses money, reduces worker productivity, and raises the cost of doing business. Africa is urbanising faster than almost any other region in the world, but road infrastructure has not kept pace with population growth. The
Commercial real estate activity expected to rise in 2026 amid return-to-office trends
Real Estate By The Canadian Press Opens in new window Published: February 26, 2026 at 5:42AM EST Office towers are photographed in Toronto on Wednesday, June 27, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tijana Martin A ‘perfect storm’ in the ER: Why one Toronto hospital is sounding the alarm Fire at public works building in Caledon under investigation Texting
NOAA sees new applications for commercial weather data
Tomorrow-S1 and Tomorrow-S2, Tomorrow.io's microwave sounder satellites, were launched in August 2024 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Credit: Tomorrow.io NEW ORLEANS – In addition to purchasing global datasets, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) plans to pay a premium for observations of oil spills or other events. For oil spills, the spot-market approach
In Navy experiment, commercial satellites serve as key weapons against drug traffickers
In an experiment last fall near Virginia's coast, a team of engineers used commercial hardware, software and satellite data to show the U.S. Navy how it could quickly turn information from satellites into useful intelligence. The post In Navy experiment, commercial satellites serve as key weapons against drug traffickers appeared first on SpaceNews...
Amid commercial boom, U.S. military lacks timely access to satellite imagery
The way in which commercial imagery is procured by the government does not necessarily support military commanders’ needs for timely intelligence, officials said at the Planet Explore 2023 conference. The post Amid commercial boom, U.S. military lacks timely access to satellite imagery appeared first on SpaceNews...
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Flock CEO apologizes, outlines changes amid claims its data was misused by police in some cases
Flock CEO Garrett Langley apologized in an interview with CBS News amid claims the surveillance company's license plate readers have been misused by some police officers. Langley also addressed new safety measures that were recently announced. Anna Schecter reports.
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Lindsay Clancy’s journal entries read in court after emotional moments in murder trial
Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts woman in court for the alleged murder of her three children, heard parts of her journal being read out as part of the proceedings. This comes after an emotional week that included autopsy images of her children. Abby Patkin, a Boston.com reporter, joins CBS News with more details.
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“American Doctor”: New Film Follows U.S. Doctors to Gaza as Israel Bombs Hospitals, Kills Staff, Patients
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman. We end today’s show looking at the new documentary American Doctor. It tells the story of three U.S. doctors who volunteered in the besieged hospitals of Gaza along with local medical staff
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REP TED LIEU: AI is already too powerful. We need a kill switch before disaster strikes
AI learns your SECRETS: 'Blackmail the human' Google Cloud Advisory Board Chair Betsy Atkins warns Maria Bartiromo about the dangerous risks of rogue AI models during cybersecurity testing. Atkins reveals how major artificial intelligence agents from Google, Meta and OpenAI breached unauthorized systems to gather sensitive emails and blackmail humans. John Lonski reacts to the
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AquaChain Advances Its Web3 Vision for Verifiable AI Infrastructure Ahead of AQUA’s Upcoming Listing
The emerging Web3 infrastructure initiative outlines an incentive-driven model connecting verified cooling performance with Efficiency Credits and the future utility envisioned for AQUA. Cayman Islands, 14th August 2026, AquaChain is advancing its vision for an incentive-driven Web3 ecosystem designed to connect verifiable liquid-cooling performance with digital participation across AI data centers and semiconductor facilities, as $AQUA