Starship isn’t the only SpaceX rocket flying today.
A Falcon 9 rocket launched from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base today (July 16), carrying 21 satellites for the U.S. military’s advanced new “Tranche 1 Transport Layer” (T1TL) constellation to orbit.
Liftoff took place at 4:32 p.m. EDT (2032 GMT; 1:32 p.m. local California time).
A SpaceX Falcon 9…
SpaceX Starship Flight 13 launch updates: Scrub
July 17, 2026
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Starship’s onboard systems initiated and automated aboard at T-0. (Image credit: SpaceX)
SpaceX’s Starship Flight 13 is scrubbed for the day.
At T-0, the rocket’s automated flight computer initiated a hold and abort…
Official: OnePlus Exits Europe, North America; India Operations Unaffected; ColorOS to Power OnePlus Phones Globally
July 17, 2026
After a long week of rumours, OnePlus has made it official that it will no longer be launching new products in North America and Europe. The company reiterated its commitment towards the Indian market and confirmed its operations in the region remain unaffected.
OnePlus…
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, Z Fold 8, Z Flip 8 Specifications Leaked Days Before Launch
July 17, 2026
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, Galaxy Z Fold 8, and the Galaxy Z Flip 8 specifications have been leaked online days before the launch of the devices. The leak suggests that the Fold 8 series will have a Snapdragon Chipset but the Flip 8 will come with an Exynos one. Here’s everything to know about the foldables.
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra: Specifications (Leaked)
The leak from WinFuture…
Google is giving up its fight against Epic Games which will allow third-party app stores on Android aside from Google’s Play Store. Epic Games’ lawsuit demanded that Google should not only allow third-party app stores on the Android operating system but should…
How a former DeepMind researcher raised at a $300M pre-seed valuation before launching a product
July 17, 2026
Andrew Dai left Google DeepMind knowing visual AI was the frontier he wanted to stake his claim in. He pulled off a whirlwind fundraise that resulted in a more aggressive valuation-to-capital ratio than Thinking Machines, which raised one of the largest rounds in U.S.
While the rest of the AI industry races to label its work as “AGI” or “superintelligence,” Alexandre LeBrun, the CEO of Yann LeCun’s world model startup, AMI Labs, avoids the terms altogether. Lebrun said in an interview with TechCrunch that the company doesn’t use terms like “AGI” or “superintelligence” at all.
“We never used the…
Applied Computing, a London-based startup that’s building a foundation AI model for the oil, gas, and petrochemical industry, has raised a $20 million Series A led by engineering giant KBR, with Databricks Ventures participating.
Founded in 2023, the startup targets…
At first glance, this could almost be two lions rearing against the night sky, their manes rendered in molten gold. Look closer, though, and what Chinese photographer Ziqiang Luo has actually captured is something rooted deep in folk tradition: a fire-based performance art…
You Never Did Anything Wrong opens at the Hayward Gallery on November 24 this year, running until March 7 2027. It’s Goldin’s first UK institutional show since 2002, and as we previously reported, sees her turning her lens on classical art and sculpture. That in itself is an expected pivot for an artist best known for her human studies. But as we’ve just learned, that’s…
