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NASA's Curiosity rover gets its drill stuck, recordings from the Arctic seafloor and more science stories

Sat, 09 May 2026 16:30:13 +0000

Originally published by Engadget

What a week. Beloved nature communicator David Attenboroughturned 100on Friday, and scientists named a newly discovered species ofwasp in his honor. The wasp from Chile, calledAttenboroughnculus tau,isn’t the first to be named after Attenborough — it joins a list of over 50 organisms bearing his name in some way, which seems about right. Also this week, NASA shared an update about its Curiosity rover, which encountered some issues during a sampling attempt on Mars, and the agency released a new batch of photos from the Artemis II mission.

Manufacturing qubits that can move

Fri, 08 May 2026 23:13:57 +0000

Originally published by Ars Technica

To get quantum computing to work, we will ultimately need lots of high-quality qubits, which we can tie together into groups of error-corrected logical qubits. Companies are taking distinct approaches to get there, but you can think of them as falling into two broad categories. Some companies are focused on hosting the qubits in electronics that we can manufacture, guaranteeing that we can get lots of devices. Others are using atoms or photons as qubits, which give more consistent behavior but require lots of complicated hardware to manage.

All the latest updates on AI data centers

Fri, 08 May 2026 18:45:08 +0000

Originally published by The Verge Social

Massive new data centers are the physical foundation for tech companies’ hopes and dreams for AI. But the rush to expand warehouses full of energy-hungry servers has also kicked up fights across the world over their impact on power grids, utility bills, nearby communities, and the environment.

From audacious plans tolaunch data centers into spaceto the latestlegal battlesover pollution,The Vergehas the biggest news and reporting surrounding data centers.