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The Future of Drone Tech: Israel’s Iron Dome

The Future of Drone Tech: Israel’s Iron Dome By Peter Zeihan Fiber-optic-controlled first-person drones are the star of the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. As Hezbollah deploys more of these drones, holes in Israel’s Iron Dome defense network are beginning to appear. Read more here >    

The Future of Drone Tech: Israel’s Iron Dome

The Future of Drone Tech: Israel’s Iron Dome By Peter Zeihan Fiber-optic-controlled first-person drones are the star of the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. As Hezbollah...

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The Future of Drone Tech: Israel’s Iron Dome

The Future of Drone Tech: Israel’s Iron Dome By Peter Zeihan Fiber-optic-controlled first-person drones are the star of the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. As Hezbollah...

Our Stock Market Is Broken

Our Stock Market Is Broken By Aaron Zamost, NY Times  Mr. Zamost is a tech communications consultant and a former executive at Square. Steven Spielberg has an alien...

Scott Pelley Details Weiss ‘Push to Air ‘State Propaganda’ on CBS News

Scott Pelley Details Weiss ‘Push to Air ‘State Propaganda’ on CBS News “She was putting a thumb on the scale on behalf of the administration....

Art of the Sellout

Art of the Sellout China’s soft invasion of Taiwan Courtesy of Scott Galloway, No Mercy/No Malice (originally published on May 22)   In Davos, Canadian Prime Minister Mark...

This Is What Corruption Looks Like

This Is What Corruption Looks Like A series of recent investigations from Public Citizen, TechRadar, People Magazine, The Washington Post, the Associated Press, and ProPublica...

America, the Inessential Nation

America, the Inessential Nation It turns out that Trump doesn’t have the cards By Paul Krugman   On Feb. 28, 2025 Donald Trump berated Volodymyr Zelenskyy, president of Ukraine,...

Elon Musk Is Dropping a Boulder in a Kiddie Pool

Elon Musk Is Dropping a Boulder in a Kiddie Pool He is about to take SpaceX public—pushing other AI companies to do the same. By Matteo Wong,...

From oversight to coercion: How authoritarian governments are twisting AI safety to get tech companies to fall in line

From oversight to coercion: How authoritarian governments are twisting AI safety to get tech companies to fall in line By Michael Gregory, Clemson University   When researchers...

US mortgage rates are staying high – and the Fed can do very little about it

US mortgage rates are staying high – and the Fed can do very little about it By Michael J. Highfield, Mississippi College; Mississippi State University U.S....

SpaceX Sets Price for the World’s Largest I.P.O.

SpaceX Sets Price for the World’s Largest I.P.O. The $135 share price means Elon Musk’s rocket maker is poised to exceed the 2019 initial public...

Emerging Houthi–Al‑Shabaab co‑operation and the growing threat to Red Sea shipping

Emerging Houthi–Al‑Shabaab co‑operation and the growing threat to Red Sea shipping By Brendon Novel, Université de Montréal   In a region crucial to global trade, ideological rivals may...

How and where the world’s 2 billion barrels of strategic oil reserves are stockpiled

How and where the world’s 2 billion barrels of strategic oil reserves are stockpiled By Gemma Ware, The Conversation Drive on Interstate 10 along the Gulf...

Revolution Medicines, Daraxonrasib, and the New Race to Drug KRAS Cancer

Revolution Medicines, Daraxonrasib, and the New Race to Drug KRAS Cancer For decades, one of the most important cancer targets was also one of the...

Breakthrough drug nearly doubles survival with advanced pancreatic cancer – an oncologist explains how daraxonrasib overcame an ‘undruggable’ disease

Breakthrough drug nearly doubles survival with advanced pancreatic cancer – an oncologist explains how daraxonrasib overcame an ‘undruggable’ disease By Christopher Lieu, University of Colorado...

Lord of the Roths: How Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Turned a Retirement Account for the Middle Class Into a $5 Billion Tax-Free Piggy Bank

Lord of the Roths: How Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Turned a Retirement Account for the Middle Class Into a $5 Billion Tax-Free Piggy Bank Roth...

Watch out, Apple – Nvidia just unveiled its RTX Spark Arm ‘superchip’ to take on the M5 at Computex 2026

Watch out, Apple - Nvidia just unveiled its RTX Spark Arm 'superchip' to take on the M5 at Computex 2026 By Matt Hanson, Tech Radar  Nvidia has just...

This Just-Released Economic Indicator Spells Doom for President Trump’s Economy

The stock market may be flirting with record highs, unemployment remains relatively low, and economic growth has avoided the recession many …

The War Trump Can’t End

The War Trump Can’t End Washington needs a deal, but Tehran needs an enemy. By Karim Sadjadpour, The Atlantic  For nearly five decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran...

When ICE ramped up enforcement, US‑born workers didn’t see any economic gains

When ICE ramped up enforcement, US‑born workers didn’t see any economic gains By Chloe N. East, University of Colorado Boulder and Elizabeth Cox, University of...

Trump Takes His Cut

Trump Takes His Cut Federal stakes in public companies may enrich the government, but they are bad for America. By James Surowiecki, The Atlantic  When it comes to...

Blue Origin rocket exploded on launchpad, throwing the future of NASA’s Artemis program into question

Blue Origin rocket exploded on launchpad, throwing the future of NASA’s Artemis program into question By Wendy Whitman Cobb, Air University   During an evening test fire...

Dell Gets a $9.7 Billion Defense Contract. Trump’s Portfolio Stands to Benefit.

Dell Gets a $9.7 Billion Defense Contract. Trump’s Portfolio Stands to Benefit. The president’s family says his stock purchases are automatically timed, but recent acquisitions...

The White House Intervened to Get a $620 Million Deal for a Company Tied to Donald Trump Jr.

The White House Intervened to Get a $620 Million Deal for a Company Tied to Donald Trump Jr. About three months before the Pentagon announced...

It’s not just high gas prices – inflation is now spreading through the US economy

It’s not just high gas prices – inflation is now spreading through the US economy By D. Brian Blank, Mississippi State University and Brandy Hadley,...

What ProPublica Found in the Genetic Code of America’s Measles Outbreaks

What ProPublica Found in the Genetic Code of America’s Measles Outbreaks By Nat Lash and Patricia Callahan, ProPublica  For the DNA graphics, go to ProPublica's article here > The U.S....

Ebola Outbreak and Delayed Detection by the U.S.

Ebola Outbreak and Delayed Detection by the U.S. By Peter Zeihan, originally published on May 25 At least 50 are dead due to a new Ebola outbreak...

How and where the world’s 2 billion barrels of strategic oil reserves are stockpiled

How and where the world’s 2 billion barrels of strategic oil reserves are stockpiled By Gemma Ware, The Conversation Drive on Interstate 10 along the Gulf...

Revolution Medicines, Daraxonrasib, and the New Race to Drug KRAS Cancer

Revolution Medicines, Daraxonrasib, and the New Race to Drug KRAS Cancer For decades, one of the most important cancer targets was also one of the...

Breakthrough drug nearly doubles survival with advanced pancreatic cancer – an oncologist explains how daraxonrasib overcame an ‘undruggable’ disease

Breakthrough drug nearly doubles survival with advanced pancreatic cancer – an oncologist explains how daraxonrasib overcame an ‘undruggable’ disease By Christopher Lieu, University of Colorado...

Blue Origin rocket exploded on launchpad, throwing the future of NASA’s Artemis program into question

Blue Origin rocket exploded on launchpad, throwing the future of NASA’s Artemis program into question By Wendy Whitman Cobb, Air University   During an evening test fire...

Falling space debris poses an escalating risk as spacecraft get stronger and more heat resistant

Falling space debris poses an escalating risk as spacecraft get stronger and more heat resistant By Matthew Ray, University of Wisconsin-Stout and Reese Hufnagel, University...

SpaceX is poised to go public and test the latest version of its massive Starship rocket amidst criticism about its environmental impact

SpaceX is poised to go public and test the latest version of its massive Starship rocket amidst criticism about its environmental impact By Scott Solomon,...