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Polymarket is reportedly seeking approval from the CFTC to reopen its prediction markets to American traders. If granted, the move would put the platform on more equal footing with rival Kalshi, and bring a growing slice of event-trading activity under formal regulatory oversight — a notable shift for a space that has long operated in legal gray zones.
On the medical frontier, Apple Vision Pro has been used in what's being described as a world-first cataract surgery. Surgeons leveraged the headset's spatial computing capabilities to guide the procedure, suggesting that mixed reality tools may be finding genuinely serious clinical applications beyond the demos and concept videos we've grown accustomed to seeing.
And NASA has successfully tested a lithium-fed magnetoplasmadynamic thruster at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The prototype is designed as part of a nuclear electric propulsion system that could one day carry crewed missions to Mars. It's early-stage work, but the kind of foundational engineering that quietly determines whether deep space ambitions ever leave the drawing board.
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