Did you ever see an Iridium flare? For two decades until 2019, these communication satellites would become dazzlingly bright for a second or so in the night sky. I used to see them by accident before discovering that some websites and apps could forecast precisely when and where they would occur. I got so obsessed with Iridium flares that I would build my stargazing sessions around them.
SpaceX goes public with a mind-bogglingly historic IPO. The space industry may never be the same.
June 15, 2026
With the launch of SpaceX into the IPO frontier today, the space industry has its newest publicly traded juggernaut.
SpaceX’s initial public offering, or IPO, went live for trading on the Nasdaq today (June 12), riding on what you could call the “Elon…
Meta Announces Football Features in Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Threads Amid FIFA World Cup 2026
June 15, 2026
Meta has announced the launch of new Football features in Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Threads as the FIFA World Cup 2026 kicks off in North America. The new features include athlete content, match content, and in-product activations. Here’s everything to know…
SpaceX has captured the attention of media, investors, and the public for years now – interest propelled by the company’s reusable rocket launches, the rise of its Starlink satellite network, and of course, for its founder and CEO Elon Musk.
But in its 24-year history, nothing quite compares to this initial public offering. Everyone seems to be interested, and perhaps it’s…
Anyone who works at Meta or knows anyone who works at Meta will tell you the same thing: It is not a happy place, particularly given the seemingly endless layoffs the company has executed over the last few years – cuts that have only accelerated as the company funnels…
Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to scam ‘hundreds of thousands of victims’ sued by Google
June 15, 2026
Google is suing to dismantle the infrastructure behind an alleged massive AI-powered cybercrime operation.
On Friday, the tech giant announced a lawsuit against an alleged Chinese cybercrime network called Outsider Enterprise, which Google says uses AI in its campaigns to…
Duane Michals, who died on June 09 in New York aged 94, was the kind of photographer who makes people uneasy. He wrote directly on his prints. He blurred things deliberately. He arranged images like comic strips and called them art.
When the street photographer Garry Winogrand saw Michals’ first sequence show in the 1960s, he reportedly said: “What is this? This isn’t…
These are the most heartbreaking wildlife photographs of 2026 – and they're going on an international tour
June 15, 2026
A sea turtle with a human handprint. A koala hit by a car. The 2026 Environmental Photography Award recognized some of the most heartbreaking wildlife images of the year – and now those images are going on an international tour.
The Environmental Photography Awards…
RIP David Hockney: the famous artist who also pushed forward photography, with a little help from Picasso
June 15, 2026
Throughout my lifetime, I’ve seen David Hockney described as the “world’s greatest living painter”. Sadly, that no longer applies: the artist born in Bradford, England in 1937 died yesterday, one month short of his 89th birthday. Most tributes will…
New Jersey’s controversial new e-bike law was pitched as a way to improve safety, but with its July 19 implementation date rapidly approaching, a growing number of riders, advocates, and even lawmakers are arguing that the state may have gone too far.
A rally at the New Jersey Statehouse last week drew a large crowd of supporters calling for the law to be amended or replaced. At the center of…
