AI & RoboticsNews

Meta’s Muse is outpacing ChatGPT’s early mobile launch

September 22, 2026
Meta’s latest AI app, Muse, could be the social giant’s next major hit, new data suggests. According to just- released estimates from market intelligence provider Apptopia, Muse’s app on mobile devices has been downloaded more times during its first 12 days on the market than ChatGPT was in the 12 days after its debut. (This data compares the U.S. and Canada markets only.) Muse…
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NewsPhotography

Taking a single photograph used to take several minutes or even hours… By accident, this Englishman discovered a solution that created a photograph in a minute or less

September 22, 2026
Modern cameras may take photographs in times measured in fractions of a second, but early photographs once took anywhere from 15 minutes to several hours to take a single photograph. Then, in 1840, an English chemist and pioneering photographer made a discovery that shortened the time required to take a photograph to a minute or less. William Henry Fox Talbot was one of photography’s early…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Musk pitches 200-mph Austin-San Antonio ‘Hyperloop’ tunnel, again

September 22, 2026
Elon Musk says the Boring Company is working on a 200-mph “Hyperloop” tunnel between Austin and San Antonio that would cut the drive to under 30 minutes. He posted the claim on X this weekend with no route, no timeline, and no cost. It’s a version of a promise Musk has been making for more than a decade. So far, he hasn’t built any of them. “Boring Company is working on a simple…
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DefenseNews

US watching Chinese marine presence off Alaska, Arctic Coast Guard chief says

September 22, 2026
The United States is watching China’s presence in its Arctic zone “very closely” amid concerns regarding the security of the U.S. homeland, a senior U.S. Arctic military official said. So far in 2026, four Chinese research vessels have conducted work offshore in the U.S. Arctic, compared to a total of five in 2025, Rear Adm. Bob Little, commander of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Arctic District…
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