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The Most Bullish Thing Ever: Morgan Stanley’s Bitcoin ETF Signals Massive Untapped Demand

January 8, 2026
Morgan Stanley’s planned bitcoin ETF is being hailed as a powerful signal that institutional crypto demand, distribution leverage, and brand-driven access are far larger than expected, suggesting the bitcoin ETF trade may still be in its earliest phase. Morgan Stanley’s Bitcoin ETF Sparks Fresh Bullish Conviction Market participants are increasingly calling Morgan Stanley’s planned bitcoin…
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NewsSpace

Winning the Red Planet race: Returning Mars samples before China should be a top US priority, experts say

January 8, 2026
Moon boots and Mars boots: anyway you look at it there are a lot of NASA shoes still to drop. Among the agency’s missions in perpetual déjà vu status is Mars Sample Return (MSR), an attempt to bring samples of the Red Planet back to Earth, an endeavor viewed as a U.S. high priority. However, there’s also been a recurrent whirlwind of fallout about Mars Sample Return in recent years…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Skylight debuts Calendar 2 to keep your family organized

January 8, 2026
Skylight may have started as a digital picture frame, but today, the company is more focused on helping families stay organized with shared calendars, lists, meal planning tools, and more. At CES 2026, the company debuted its latest product: the Skylight Calendar 2, which…
AI & RoboticsNews

Intel spinout Articul8 raises more than half of $70M round at $500M valuation

January 8, 2026
Articul8, an enterprise AI company spun out of Intel in early 2024, has secured more than half of a planned $70 million funding round at a $500 million pre-money valuation, according to its CEO, as it looks to capitalize on growing demand for AI systems in regulated industries. The Series B funding round is structured in two installments, with the first led by Spain’s Adara Ventures…
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NewsPhotography

"This was the first jaguar I'd ever seen, but I wasn't there to photograph one", admits HIPA 2025 category winner Karine Aigner

January 8, 2026
Karine Aigner’s photograph of an elusive jaguar in Ecuador saw her win the General – Color category in the fourteenth season of HIPA (the Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award), themed ‘Power’. With a prize pot of US$1 million [£739,550/AU$1,490,000] HIPA is the world’s richest photography competition so its category winners are able…
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