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Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. In this week’s round-up ofContinue Reading

Lisuan Extreme LX 7G106

Lisuan Technology is a Chinese company that was founded just 5 years ago in Shanghai by three former employees from the pioneering S3 Graphics GPU maker popular in the 1990s. With heavy investments from Chinese private and state companies, Lisuan Tech started developing GPUs that could provide alternative solutions to Nvidia and AMD for theContinue Reading

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Researchers at Saarland University say they have developed iron-rich amorphous alloys for electric motor components that can reduce remagnetization losses by eliminating the crystalline microstructure that causes internal friction and heat buildup in conventional soft-magnetic materials. The project focuses on replacing coarse-grained crystalline iron alloys used in stators and rotorsContinue Reading

Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket reaches orbit on 1st launch since explosive accidents last year (video)

Texas-based Firefly Aerospace is celebrating today (March 11) after successfully launching its Alpha rocket for the first time in nearly a year. Article continues below Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket launches on the “Stairway to Seven” mission on March 11, 2026. (Image credit: Firefly Aerospace) The test-stand explosion was eventually traced to “a process error duringContinue Reading