TakeMe2Space, CLoud Space, Robo Dogs & More!
Normally a satellite gathers huge amounts of imagery and sensor data and then tries to send it all back to Earth for processing.
An Indian startup called TakeMe2Space is testing a different idea:
Do the computing in space.
Its MOI-1A satellite launched aboard SpaceX's Transporter-18 mission and carries Nvidia edge-computing hardware designed to run AI models directly in orbit. Instead of downloading a gigantic satellite image and then analysing it on Earth, customers can potentially tell the spacecraft what they're looking for — crop problems, mining features, geographic changes, let AI analyse the information overhead, and transmit only the useful result.
The satellite already has customers spanning agriculture, mining, education, GIS and insurance, and the company ultimately wants to build larger networks of orbital computers. They're even exploring data storage in space as an additional backup for critical information. We're obviously nowhere near replacing terrestrial data centres with satellites, but the direction is fascinating: cloud computing may eventually become quite literally cloud computing.
This is the sort of robotics I find far more interesting than another humanoid making coffee.
In Singapore, public-safety teams have been testing four-legged autonomous robots in simulated chemical-spill emergencies. The important part is that the environment wasn't carefully mapped beforehand. Software from Field AI allowed the robots to enter an unfamiliar 3D space, navigate around it themselves and search for the source of the spill and potential casualties.
That's where autonomous robots start becoming genuinely useful. Imagine a chemical leak, collapsed building, burning industrial plant or contaminated tunnel: rather than sending a firefighter or police officer in first simply to discover what is happening, you send something with four metal legs and a camera. Other trials in the same programme have included humanoid robots navigating corridors and operating lifts. We're slowly moving from robots that perform impressive demos in laboratories to machines designed specifically to enter places we'd rather humans didn't have to.
Smart Glasses Are Starting to Hit a Very Real Problem: Everyone Else
Smart glasses are finally becoming good enough that people might actually wear them and that is creating an awkward question:
What happens when the person wearing the camera isn't you?
One of the Netherlands' biggest eyewear chains, Hans Anders, has now suspended sales of Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses in the Netherlands and Belgium, citing the growing privacy debate around camera-equipped glasses. The controversy isn't limited to Europe either. In Britain, Wetherspoon has restricted their use over covert-recording concerns, while privacy groups are questioning how people nearby can meaningfully consent to being filmed.
Meta points out that the glasses have a visible recording light which cannot simply be switched off, and the camera is disabled if someone tampers with it. But this feels like one of those moments where the technology is moving faster than our social rules. We figured out what was acceptable with smartphones because you can normally see someone holding a phone towards you. When the camera looks exactly like a pair of Ray-Bans, the line becomes a lot blurrier.
The AI Boom Could Become a $30 Trillion Infrastructure Experiment
Forget billion-dollar startups for a second.
The physical infrastructure being built underneath AI could become one of the largest technological investment programmes in history.
A fresh Reuters analysis cites a PwC projection suggesting cumulative global spending on data centres alone could exceed $30 trillion by 2050, a scale that, adjusted for inflation, dwarfs the infrastructure spending of the railway and dot-com booms. In the United States alone, some estimates put AI investment between 2025 and 2032 at as much as $9 trillion.
And here's where it gets interesting: somebody eventually needs to make all that money back. Bain estimates that hyperscalers and others involved in the buildout may need to generate more than $4.2 trillion of new revenue within five years to help fund it. So the AI revolution isn't only a story about clever software anymore. It's becoming a gigantic physical construction project involving power stations, chips, cooling systems, fibre networks and enormous buildings filled with computers, possibly the biggest infrastructure gamble of our lifetime.
Which country is the only one in the world entirely above 1,000 metres elevation?
A) Switzerland
B) Nepal
C) Lesotho
D) Bhutan
Answer: C — Lesotho
Lesotho is completely surrounded by South Africa and is sometimes called the “Kingdom in the Sky.”
Its lowest point is still roughly 1,400 metres above sea level, meaning there is literally nowhere in the entire country below 1,000 metres.
So even Lesotho’s lowest ground is higher than many mountains elsewhere.
Which living bird has the largest wingspan?
A) Bald eagle
B) Wandering albatross
C) Andean condor
D) Golden eagle
Answer: B — Wandering albatross
A wandering albatross can have a wingspan of around 3.5 metres, more than twice the height of an average person.
Those enormous wings allow it to glide huge distances over the Southern Ocean while barely flapping.
Some individuals can travel thousands of kilometres in a single journey, essentially surfing the wind across the ocean.
Which country shares the longest international border in the world?
A) Russia and China
B) Argentina and Chile
C) United States and Canada
D) India and Bangladesh
Answer: C — United States and Canada
The border between the United States and Canada stretches for roughly 8,900 kilometres, including the boundary between Canada and Alaska.
That makes it the longest international land border on Earth.
To put that into perspective, it’s longer than travelling from London to New York and then continuing for another couple of thousand kilometres.