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Cambridge Aerospace was just valued at $3.4 billion, less than two years after it was founded — and the two numbers that would let anyone test that valuation, the price of one Skyhammer and the size of its UK contract, have never been published as figures
Investors marked the British interceptor maker up 2.6 times in four months. The Ministry of Defence has described the deal three times, once as an intention and twice as a signed contract, without ever attaching a figure to it, and the company has never said what one costs, only that it costs tens of thousands of dollars.
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The Coldcard holders drained on 30 July had multiple safes, a safety deposit box and a device that never touched the internet, which is four defences against the same threat and none against the one that emptied them, a shape engineers call common cause failure
The bootlace worm found washed up on Scottish beaches can stretch to more than 55 metres when uncoiled, making it longer than a blue whale, and its mucus contains a peptide that paralysed crabs and killed or permanently paralysed juvenile cockroaches in laboratory tests
When ByteDance moved to end its fortnightly six-day rota in 2021, a large share of its own staff objected rather than celebrated, because as much as a fifth of their pay was classed as overtime
Ireland's data centres used 5 per cent of the country's metered electricity in 2015, but by 2025 they were using 23 per cent — more than every urban household in the country put together
If you can't keep your Bitcoin on an exchange that might freeze withdrawals, or in a hot wallet on a laptop that might get hacked, cold storage was the last answer anyone had left — and on 30 July roughly 1,082 coins drained out of devices that had never once been connected to the internet
Microsoft Japan gave roughly 2,300 employees five consecutive Fridays off in August 2019 without cutting their pay — and sales per employee came in 39.9% higher than the same month a year earlier. The experiment also forced a rethink of wasted work: 30-minute meetings became 46% more common, while employees increasingly replaced meetings with online collaboration.
In 1926, Henry Ford cut his factory workers from six days a week to five and discovered something industry considered deeply counterintuitive: Ford's own experiments showed they could produce at least as much in 40 hours as they had in 48 — an idea manufacturers across America would eventually adopt.
AI's hidden water footprint may have reached 765 billion litres in 2025 — consumed in data-centre cooling and the power plants supplying them. That's more than twice the volume of bottled water the entire world buys in a year.
Epoch AI estimates that frontier models could fully use up the available stock of useful public human-written text sometime between 2026 and 2032. After that, developers may increasingly turn to private datasets and enormous quantities of AI-generated synthetic data — raising a strange possibility: a growing share of what future AI learns may ultimately have been written not by humans, but by earlier AI systems.
European space-tech funding reached €2.9 billion in H1 2026, up 622%, but debt and a handful of sovereign-infrastructure bets explain most of the apparent explosion
