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A US startup is pushing the boundaries of what infrastructure even means, with a demonstration aimed at reflecting sunlight from space down to Earth at night. Using satellite-mounted mirrors, the California-based company wants to extend daylight hours for ground-level use — a concept that raises immediate questions about who controls the sky, and at what ecological cost.
Closer to the ground but no less contested, a report out of Kotaku reveals that developers working on Mass Effect Universe quietly removed diversity elements from demos to avoid triggering negative feedback from EA leadership. The studio, BioWare, was later shut down after EA was acquired by a consortium that included the Saudi Arabian government — a detail that adds considerable weight to what might otherwise seem like an internal creative dispute.
And in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian farmers are describing life under near-constant aerial surveillance, with Israeli settlers and military forces deploying drones to monitor construction and daily movement. The Israeli government allocated fifty million shekels toward this effort in two thousand twenty six, and researchers say the practice is reshaping how control operates in disputed territory.
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