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Bentley’s Supersports strips out hybrid tech, all-wheel drive, and rear seats from the Continental GT platform. Ars tested it in Monterey alongside the new Torcal EV.

A journalist filed 100+ CCPA data requests and got a 515-page report from McDonald’s predicting their behavior. Some companies deleted data instead of sharing it.

Anthropic’s Model Hardware Standard lets AI agents control physical devices via a unified driver layer, cutting experimental setup from weeks to hours.

SpaceX is cutting Florida launch frequency for 2026 as Starship prep begins. California’s Vandenberg now leads. 165 Falcon 9 flights ran in 2025.

China delayed the Chang’e 7 Moon mission to 2027, citing need for “absolute success.” The mission includes a lander, rover, orbiter, and a mini-hopper probe.

Trump signed a space transportation policy targeting 1,000 launches yearly by 2030, replacing a 2013 Obama directive. New spaceports on federal land are central to the plan.

NASA and Katalyst Space Technologies have abandoned their robotic mission to rescue the Swift gamma-ray observatory after attitude control failures grounded the Link satellite.

Tomb 209 in Thebes, built for a Nubian official in 754 BCE, tracked 700 years of Egyptian burial shifts using layered skeletal and stratigraphic data.

Marvel’s VisionQuest trailer led D23 in Anaheim, closing a WandaVision trilogy. Disney also revealed Ahsoka S2, Doomsday footage, and X-Men casting.

Czinger’s 21C Spyder debuts topology-optimized brake assemblies built via direct-metal laser sintering — hardware that looks organic and performs under extreme stress.