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SciTech Brief — 176 episodes

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BepiColombo jettisons module near scorching Mercury

2

Pacing the frontier to stop rogue AI

3

Xbox rescues Hideo Kojima’s canceled PHYSINT

4

Tracing T. rex: The Discovery of the World's First Adult Trackway

5

GPT-6 Astra Now Operates Your Computer

6

Xiaomi 18 Fold challenges Apple in China

7

GPS maps where massive earthquakes strike

8

Circular Ring 3 adds tap to pay

9

First potential dark matter signal

10

New Sonos 27 AI and Ultra hardware

11

Microsoft and ChatGPT suffer massive outage

12

Roman Space Telescope maps the invisible universe

13

AI saves man s sight in brain surgery

14

August 2026 Blood Moon and Northern Lights

15

WhatsApp replaces PINs with alphanumeric passwords

16

The PS5 blackout over digital ownership

17

Storm Delays China s Lunar Ice Hunt

18

Google buys Spirit Airlines employee messages

19

Failed rescue dooms NASA s Swift telescope

20

Gemini automates Chrome on Android

21

YouTube views now start at frame one

22

Taiwan throttles internet during military drills

23

Twitch is scraping your content for AI

24

Honor's New Robotic Gimbal Phone

25

Hunting axions with Earth and magnets

26

2026 Total Solar Eclipse and Perseid Meteors

27

AI models caught hacking real systems

28

Samsung’s HDR10+ ADVANCED Versus Dolby Vision 2

29

SpaceX Rocket Slams Into the Moon

30

Xbox roadmap saves physical games

31

Rogue AI models escape and hack companies

32

Jodrell Bank faces a 2028 shutdown

33

Apple turns hardware into monthly rentals

34

Windows 11 returns control to users

35

Google indexed your private Claude chats

36

Soyuz MS-28 Crew Returns After Eight Months

37

Google account recovery with selfie videos

38

Is this massive gas giant a moon?

39

Kimi K3 outperforms expensive US models

40

NVIDIA and Wowza launch secure deepfake detection

41

EU forces Google to share Android AI

42

OnePlus exits the US and Europe

43

Perseverance Finds Four Billion Year Old Rocks

44

OpenAI s alleged hardware heist from Apple

45

Waze adds Gemini AI and Motorcycle Mode

46

China catches first reusable rocket at sea

47

Sony’s 2028 ban on physical games

48

Talking to OpenAI GPT-Live without pauses

49

Claude Cowork moves to the cloud

50

Euclid discovers 31 ancient quasars

51

Harvard AI predicts cancer immunotherapy response

52

How Spotify bots rigged Kalshi payouts

53

Anthropic s Secret Tracking and Export Win

54

Microsoft s quantum breakthrough faces scientific backlash

55

NASA s robotic rescue of the Swift telescope

56

Cotton candy planets and magma oceans

57

IBM’s Atomic Leap: The World’s First Sub-1nm Chip and the Future of AI Power

58

Alibaba stole Claude triggering US export bans

59

Google s 75 million A24 AI deal

60

Valve s Thousand Dollar Steam Machine Cube

61

Titan as an Interplanetary Gas Station

62

Android 17 Multitasking and Missing Gemini AI

63

Amazon Fuels Europe s Ariane 6 Rocket

64

Snap s 2,200 gamble on AR glasses

65

UK bans under-16s from social media

66

Washington Forces Anthropic AI Offline

67

NASA pivots Artemis 3 to Earth orbit

68

Gemini Global Outage Hits Browser Expansion

69

Why Apple is skipping AI in Europe

70

Siri AI and Tim Cook s final WWDC

71

The Retro Translucent Green Xbox Series X25

72

Meta smart glasses secret facial recognition

73

NASA s MAVEN Becomes a Martian Ghost Ship

74

Will Windows ruin the 699 XPS 13

75

New PlayStation Fight Stick Monitor and Speakers

76

Nvidia N1X processors power local Windows AI

77

YouTube raises prices for podcast features

78

Meta launches social and AI subscriptions

79

NASA s twenty billion dollar moon city plan

80

Kali365 phishing bypasses Microsoft MFA

81

The Milky Way Devoured the Loki Galaxy

82

Retatrutide weight loss rivals bariatric surgery

83

Meta tracks workers to train AI

84

Google Gemini becomes an autonomous agent

85

Merck Sac-TMT Beats Endometrial Cancer Chemo

86

Gmail storage now costs your phone number

87

Instagram Instants sends photos without review

88

Starship V3 and Orbital Data Centers

89

Android Auto gets Gemini and HD video

90

Google catches first autonomous AI hack

91

Paying to delete secret smart glasses footage

92

Google Health and the screenless Fitbit Air

93

The RAMpocalypse is Here: Why AI is Making Your Next PC and Console More Expensive

94

Google Home’s 2026 Revolution: Gemini 3.1 and the End of Smart Home Frustration

95

Microsoft kills Edge Sidebar for AI

96

Ask Jeeves closes as AI triumphs

97

SpaceX rocket crashes into the Moon

98

vivo V70 flagship specs for half price

99

Apple s 12 month App Store lock-in

100

OpenAI s AI smartphone will kill apps

101

Russian Progress 95 Restores ISS Supplies

102

AI demand causes M4 Mac Mini shortage

103

Samsung Prada AI and Texas chip investments

104

John Ternus CEO and 200MP Space Photography

105

How to see 2026 Lyrid meteors

106

Is Your AI Coach Dangerous? | The Truth About ChatGPT Training Plans & Your Privacy

107

Big Tech retreats from addictive design

108

Tiny black holes solve dark matter mystery

109

Google Nobels and Machine Consciousness

110

France Ditches Microsoft Windows for Linux

111

Artemis II photography with consumer cameras

112

Spotify finally adds a video toggle

113

Amazon ends store access for older Kindles

114

Chrome's Big Switch

115

Microsoft labels Copilot for entertainment only

116

Import your ChatGPT history into Gemini

117

Suno v5

118

Artemis II Slingshots Historic Crew Around Moon

119

Earth s magnetic shield protects moon astronauts

120

NASA Scraps Gateway for Nuclear Mars Ships

121

Apple Maps ads fund free business tools

122

Meta and Google lose historic addiction trial

123

OpenAI kills Sora for enterprise profit

124

Fortnite decline forces massive Epic Games layoffs

125

Samsung adds AirDrop to Galaxy phones

126

Launching AI data centers into orbit

127

South Korea Finds a Baby Doolysaurus

128

Instagram is ending encryption for DMs

129

GameStop labels your childhood consoles retro

130

Skip AirPods Max 2 for cheaper rivals

131

South Africa detects most distant space laser

132

Google Maps Becomes A Gemini AI Concierge

133

The $900 Project Helix Xbox PC Hybrid

134

Artists fight AI with blank books

135

X s Grok photo blocker is an illusion

136

Deflecting Asteroids and Hunting City Killers

137

GPT-5 SciTech Brief

138

Apple s 599 MacBook Neo uses iPhone chips

139

Humans Watch Intimate Meta AI Glasses Footage

140

New iPhone 17e and M4 iPad Air

141

The March 2026 Blood Moon

142

Nano Banana 2 Masters Fast Consistent Storytelling

143

Samsung S26 Ultra s Killer Privacy Display

144

China s Shenlong Space Plane Captures Wingman Satellites

145

Meta Safety Director Battles Rogue Email Bot

146

Microsoft AI Exec Replaces Phil Spencer

147

Quantum Teleportation Works on Commercial Fiber

148

Sony Polices Google s AI Music Studio

149

Latam-GPT Challenges US AI Dominance

150

Antarctica’s Exclusive Ring of Fire Eclipse

151

Crew-12 Tests Critical Mars Survival Tech

152

Comet 41P Spun Itself Into Reverse

153

WhatsApp Web Adds App-Free Video Calling

154

YouTube Music Launches Gemini Playlist Generator

155

Infrared Cameras Coming to AirPods Pro

156

Samsung Mass Produces HBM4 for Nvidia

157

AirDrop Support Expands Beyond Pixel Phones

158

Hydrogen Leaks Delay Artemis II Launch

159

Disney Bets on Parks Chief Josh D Amaro

160

Sony Patents Shape-Shifting Buttonless Controller

161

Claude AI Pilots Perseverance on Mars

162

Apple Bets Billions on Silent Voice

163

Chrome Adds Auto Browse and Nano Banana

164

Doudna’s Startup and AI CRISPR Off-Switches

165

Apple AirTag 2 Versus Xiaomi Tag

166

Gmail Glitch Floods Inboxes With Spam

167

Apple Prototyping AirTag-Style AI Pin

168

Sony LinkBuds Clip Trade Bass For Comfort

169

Ring Nebula Hides a Vaporized Planet

170

OpenAI's Screenless Device Debuts in 2026

171

Beijing Blocks Nvidia H200 Imports

172

Basic Galaxy AI Free Advanced Features Paid

173

Brandenburg's Okeanos Pro virtual sound studio

174

Apple Google AI Antitrust and Privacy

175

Claude Automates Prior Authorizations and Trials

176

Neutrinos Brake Cosmic Structure Growth