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Ukraine's access to the Starshield military satellite network remains a story of confusion and contradiction. President Trump declared Thursday that service had been restored, but a European official said restrictions were still in place on the ground. Administration officials and their allies have been pointing fingers at each other, leaving Kyiv caught in the middle of a diplomatic and technological dispute with real battlefield consequences.
Shifting from orbit to the lab, a San Francisco start-up called Marathon Fusion is making a remarkable claim — that it has successfully transmuted mercury into stable gold at ten times the rate ever recorded by CERN. If the science holds up, it raises a question the diamond industry knows all too well: what happens to the value of a precious material when it can be manufactured? Mined gold has never faced that threat seriously, until now.
And on the quieter end of the tech spectrum, a project called Neurogrid is pitching an idea worth watching — turning ordinary consumer hardware into distributed artificial intelligence infrastructure. The concept of democratizing AI compute by repurposing everyday devices is not new, but the approach here is drawing early attention from the developer community, even if the details remain thin.
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