During Cape Town’s 2018 Water Crisis, a Salvage Expert Proposed Towing a 100-Million-Tonne Antarctic Iceberg 2,700 Km—He Estimated 63% Would Survive

There’s a nice kind of irony buried in this story, one of the most sensitive instruments ever built, capable of measuring distortions smaller than the width of a proton, has been quietly held back by something as mundane as heat. And the fix, it turns out, is not some exotic new sensor, but a thermal…

Technology doesn’t wait for anyone — and in iGaming, it moves with championship urgency. To capture official igaming traffic online in 2026, operators need to understand precisely which innovations are separating contenders from the crowd. The global iGaming platform market has vaulted from $110.8 billion in 2025 to $130.52 billion in 2026 at a CAGR…

The encryption protecting your business today defeats ordinary computers, but a very different machine is now on the horizon. The defense already exists; the challenge is moving to it in time. A 2025 ISACA survey of 2,600 professionals found 62% expect quantum computers to break current encryption, yet only 5% have a response plan. This…

Hi everyone, We're a team of structural engineers and contractors working throughout Southern California. We put together a weekly collection of interesting structural findings we come across during assessments. The Imgur album contains the full photo set along with additional context for each image. https://imgur.com/gallery/things-seen-this-week-during-structural-assessments-oGuWCCD If you have questions about any of the photos shown,…

Starship is about to take to the skies on a bold new test flight of the world’s most powerful rocket. After several days of testing, SpaceX has stacked and readied its massive Starship rocket for its 13th test flight. Liftoff is scheduled to occur today (July 16) during a 90-minute launch window that opens at…

If you’ve not seen the Milky Way this year from the Northern Hemisphere, it’s time to make a plan. August’s dark sky window opens around Aug. 6, when the moon begins to rise late at night as a waning crescent, meaning dark moonless skies for about 10 nights. That’s when to see the Milky Way…