Abu Dhabi has built one of the world’s clearest paths for crypto and blockchain companies to set up shop, and sovereign money is following close behind.
Key Takeaways
Citadel Mining holds about 6,996 BTC built through Abu Dhabi mining operations since 2022.
Mubadala raised its Blackrock IBIT stake 16% to 14.7 million shares in Q1 2026.
The FSRA’s stablecoin framework and farm-mining rules…
Astronomers witness the strange final moments of a massive star's supernova death (video)
August 6, 2026
Astronomers have captured the death of a massive star from its first faint flash of X-rays, revealing an unusual explosion that may bridge the gap between ordinary supernovas and more extreme, gamma-ray-burst-producing stellar explosions
The event began in March 2026, when…
On Aug. 5, 2011, NASA launched the Juno spacecraft on a mission to study Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system.
The robotic spacecraft lifted off on an Atlas V rocket from what is now Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and spent the next five years…
Planting boots on Mars is hard enough. But getting “breathing room” on the Red Planet without inhaling toxic dust is yet another issue.
Given NASA’s plans to eventually put astronauts on the Red Planet, the agency assembled a Martian Dust Limit Working Group earlier this year to review what’s known and unknown about the toxicological hazard to human crews from exposure to…
Leaked: Google Pixel Watch 5 Specifications, Pixel 11’s Thinner Camera Bar, Pixel Glow To be Called HiLight
August 6, 2026
A new set of leaks have emerged online, leaving little to the imagination about what’s to come from Google at its August 12 event. The new leaks reveal the detailed Google Pixel Watch 5 specifications, a new look at the Pixel 11’s thinner camera bar, along with…
Jeff Dean, one of the longest-serving and most influential executives at Google, is stepping down from the search giant to launch his own AI startup.
Coming with him as co-founders are several other top researchers at the company, including Sanjay Ghemawat, a top engineer…
E-commerce software maker Shopify seems to be benefiting handily from people using AI to search.
On the company’s second-quarter earnings call, Shopify President Harley Finkelstein said AI has become a “complement to search, rather than a substitute for it,” and had particularly benefited the long tail of e-commerce, including the smaller merchants that make up the majority of…
The new deep learning techniques behind LLMs have also given us weather simulations that can run on laptops instead of supercomputers, changing meteorology. But the bigger task for AI may be making it easier for people and organizations to put those forecasts to…
"We're returning control to the photographer" – Capture One CEO on bringing Hasselblad workflows to professionals
August 6, 2026
A high-resolution Hasselblad file is only the beginning of the creative process. For professional photographers, the software that interprets those images can be just as important as the camera itself.
Now, Capture One is expanding its professional workflow with support for…
The TourBox controller models have been around for a while now, since 2018, and these compact devices are aimed at photographers, videographers and digital artists. There is a range of different models available, with some coming in at entry-level prices, while others, such as the top-of-the-range TourBox Elite Plus, are much more expensive.
The TourBox Elite Plus is identical to the TourBox Elite…
