6/18/26
NASA chose Eric Schmidt’s rocket company for a Mars mission, while AI tools, biometrics, and biotech made headlines.
- NASA picks Eric Schmidt’s rocket company for Mars mission
Relativity Space-a rocket maker acquired by former Google executive chair Eric Schmidt last year after stumbling on the path to orbit-might just beat SpaceX to Mars.
- Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body
Midjourney CEO David Holz just showed off the company’s first hardware product and plans to build a San Francisco spa, which he admitted is a bit different from the "cat.
- Second carcass-eating fly species cleared by FDA for maggot
Maggot therapy lacks robust data, but it has fans and a fail-safe "bacon therapy.
- The UK Will Scan Asylum-Seekers’ Faces for Age
Internal Home Office tests of age-verification technology show the risks of life-altering errors.
- The Siren Song of ariaNotify()
There’s a brand new ariaNotify() method - defined by the WAI-ARIA 1.3 Specification - that provides a means of programmatically triggering narration in a screen reader.
- How to turn off AI in your Google Docs
Here’s what you need to do to get those pesky “write with Gemini” pop-ups to go away.
