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Talk Around Town: Cowboy Space Claims Its Reason-1 Satellite Could Beam Power From Orbit
The satellite is up there, confirmed. Whether Cowboy Space can actually zap electricity down to Earth with a laser, the company says, remains to be seen.
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Talk Around Town: What 8,000 Hours of Deliberate OLED Abuse Actually Looks Like
TechSpot's 30-month worst-case QD-OLED torture test shows measurable but slow degradation—cutting through marketing fog about OLED longevity.
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Talk Around Town: Can Zero Trust Actually Reach the Machines Running the Power Grid?
A pile of 2026 federal guidance says zero trust must extend to operational technology, but the hardware running physical infrastructure may not get the memo.
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Talk Around Town: OpenAI Claims 372 Math Breakthroughs, but the Company Says Trust the Pile
OpenAI says it dumped 722 math manuscripts on GitHub in a single day. Mathematicians are split between awe and fury.
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