The AI boom’s least glamorous winner just filed for a $5bn listing, and it wires Google and Amazon’s data centres

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While attention fixes on Nvidia and the AI models, the companies quietly wiring the data centres together are booming. Eoptolink, a Chinese maker of high-speed optical transceivers, has filed for a Hong Kong listing that could raise up to $5bn, Bloomberg reports. The plan is a secondary listing on top of its existing Shenzhen shares…Continue Reading

NASA Study Finds Near-Earth Asteroid Is Actually Comet

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New research led by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California has revealed the identity of a puzzling near-Earth object by precisely tracking its motion through space and using powerful observatories that image faint celestial objects. This object has a dual personality: Past images hadn’t revealed obvious cometlike activity…Continue Reading

Best Fast-Shipping Air Purifiers for Wildfire Smoke, Dust & Allergens

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Wildfires have engulfed the boreal forests in Canada this week, causing the harmful smoke to spread across the northeastern and upper midwest states of the United States. Experts from the Home of the US Air Quality Index have recommended that people stay indoors when the air has reached unhealthy levels, turn on air conditioners, andContinue Reading

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More than a century ago, Czech writer Karel Čapek invented the word “robot” for his play R.U.R., Rossum’s Universal Robots, about a factory that churned out humanoid machines whose mission was to liberate real people from work. Instead, the robots fomented a rebellion and killed off the human race.  SomeContinue Reading

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At the Airbus 2026 Global Market Forecast briefing in London, industry analysts and executives mapped out a multi-decade shift in how passengers move across the globe. Rather than maintaining future capacity entirely within established mega-city corridors, the long-term evolution of air travel will be dictated by the rapid emergence ofContinue Reading