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President Trump gives Artemis II moon astronauts the Congressional Space Medal of Honor

August 31, 2026
Four astronauts just received the United States’ highest space honor. President Donald Trump gave the astronauts of NASA’s Artemis II moon mission the Congressional Space Medal of Honor today (Aug. 28) during a ceremony at Johnson Space Center in Houston. “This is a very rare thing. It’s for courageous people, brilliant people, bestowed on astronauts who have distinguished…
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Nvidia’s AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU

August 31, 2026
Before this week, the dominant story about Nvidia went something like this: For the first few years of the AI boom, Nvidia was the only source for state-of-the-art GPUs, which became immensely profitable as the industry scaled out. In the last few years, hyperscalers like…
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Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition targets

August 31, 2026
Everyone’s waiting for Nvidia to confirm this week’s most interesting tech deal: A reported $13 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, a platform for sharing open-weight AI models and benchmarks. Now best known as the target for a team of reward-hacking OpenAI agents, Hugging Face is at the center of the ecosystem of developers building and deploying LLMs that aren’t owned by…
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Behind Peter Marlow's serene cathedral photographs lay months of calls to vergers, scrawled exposure notes & a stack of drying Polaroids on the dashboard

August 31, 2026
One of the tricks a great photographer can pull off is to make their job look easy. Taken between 2010 and 2012, Peter Marlow’s large-format cathedral photographs fit firmly in that category. To the untrained eye, these hushed, glowing interiors, empty of people, might look like they were easy to set up and shoot. They were anything but. An exhibition running at Southwark Cathedral titled…
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1 in 7 US students now goes to a solar-powered school

August 31, 2026
Solar power now powers more than 10,800 US K-12 schools – that means 1 in 7 students goes to a school powered by the sun – but battery storage hasn’t quite caught on yet. That’s more than 7 million students, according to the sixth edition of Generation180’s Brighter Future report, which tracks solar and battery storage at US schools. The data is current through April 2026. The number of…
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