The Product Desk
Enterprise software and the craft of shipping it: launches, pricing, and what users actually do.
A National University of Singapore team grinds fibre and cured epoxy together, binds it with cellulose and freeze-dries the result. The scale-up problem is now drying, not chemistry.
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A 2027 Colorado field test will try to show that quantum gravity gradiometry can rank targets before the rigs arrive. The site, the date and the success bar are all still unnamed.
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Wired's interview with Slate design head Tisha Johnson makes the operator's case: budget hardware only converts when the cheapest thing about it is not the way it looks.
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Firefly will fly Zeno Power's americium-241 heater unit to the Moon no earlier than 2028. The hard part of surface operations is shifting from arriving to staying warm.
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A once-through steam generator developed with TotalEnergies, Equinor and SINTEF passed vibration and fatigue testing at Stord. Commercial launch is targeted for end-2026, and the data analysis is unfinished.
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NCSIST and US startup Vatn Systems will explore fielding the modular Skelmir S12 in Taiwan, plus local supply chain and sustainment. The load-bearing clause is the maintenance network, not the vehicle.
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3ME Technology will prototype its EdgeVOLT pack for the US Defense Innovation Unit in two builds. The cold-weather one, using South 8's liquefied-gas cells, is the actual news.
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The chipmaker is discounting with dilution rather than price: nearly 1.4 million shares vest in year one, the rest in tranches tied to every $500 million of chips Google orders.
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A denial of a Bloomberg report on SpaceX buying Cognition leaves the compute relationship unaddressed, and leaves buyers choosing coding tools from a shrinking independent field.
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Battery Ventures led a $30 million Series B into a company selling POS, CRM, ledger and e-commerce under one agent to 500-plus independent supply stores.
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Veeda AI raised $90 million three months after being founded, co-led by Khosla Ventures and Radical Ventures. The pitch: simulated reality is the infrastructure layer robotics is missing.
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Eight videos briefly posted to the ARM Steam client confirm a battery in the headstrap, a manual IPD wheel and a swappable light blocker. Valve still has not said what any of it costs.
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Two years of payments on a $1,100 iPhone 17 Pro come to $768. Keeping the phone costs up to $332 more, which is roughly where the apparent saving went.
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A devops.com argument for handing off the telemetry pipeline is vendor-adjacent and mostly correct: instrumentation is the cheap part, and the recurring work never appears in a headcount plan.
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Calman measurements across seven flagship sets put the LG C6 on top for SDR color and the Hisense U8 for HDR. Brand tier did not predict the result.
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An argument published on devops.com: an AI-proposed locator is untrusted code, and a passing rerun only proves the automation found something clickable.
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Anywhere Cloud promises governed agent access to data in public cloud, on-prem, sovereign and edge environments. The supporting evidence is Cloudera's own survey, and no pricing or customers are disclosed.
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Apparent Grand Theft Auto VI clips arrived branded as an anti-monetization protest and a Solana token pitch. Nobody, Rockstar included, has publicly established who leaked them or how.
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The Rivian spinout's Series D takes it to $455 million and past a $1 billion valuation. The only product shipping is a $4,500 e-bike that arrived months late.
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Engineers at AVIC Chengdu warn that language models invent radar ranges, payload figures and fatigue limits with full confidence, and that fabricated threat data lands upstream of design decisions.
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Adam Aron apologized on X after the Dune: Part Three onsale broke AMC's site and promised $2 million in fixes. The number that explains the failure is 30: the count of 70mm IMAX venues.
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WIRED took a counterfeit Oyster Perpetual into the Old Bond Street flagship for a bracelet adjustment. Staff sized it, praised it, and bagged the spare links.
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NSWC Crane and the Indiana National Guard opened a Mach 1 sled track at Camp Atterbury on August 12, projected to take about $1.7 million a year out of flight-test spend.
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Energy Fuels says a major Japanese magnet manufacturer has approved its White Mesa terbium oxide with no further qualification needed. The customer is unnamed, and the mine-to-magnet chain is still unbuilt.
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Hardware is flat and the base model trades RAM for a higher price. Two of the three headline features arrive incomplete or conditional, with no published schedule for fixing them.
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Enveda's ENV-308, a mimic of the exercise hormone Lac-Phe, was safe and well tolerated in its first human trial. The muscle-sparing weight-maintenance pitch is still a hypothesis.
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The free year of AI Pro bundles Gemini, Spark, Workspace, 5TB of storage and Health Premium. The number that matters is what happens on day 366.
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The AI accounting startup raised $100mn led by ICONIQ and names Oracle, SAP, Workday, Microsoft and NetSuite as pre-AI relics. Its proof point is a finance team of three.
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macOS 27 Golden Gate ships a dedicated Siri app with synced conversation history, retention controls and on-screen awareness, per 9to5Mac. That moves Siri from a shortcut to a destination.
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WIRED says it pulled 69 prewritten police prompts and 45 tool definitions off Flock's own website. The procurement lesson: a vendor's "cannot" describes this build, not the next one.
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