Real construction is visibly underway on America's first true high-speed rail line, from Las Vegas to Southern California. A stalled federal loan just pushed its finish line to late 2029.
A year ago, the frontier belonged to a handful of closed labs. In 2026, openly licensed models are matching them on benchmarks and winning on cost.
Instead of teaching robots with robot data, one new model trained on 100,000 hours of humans using a handheld camera-and-gripper rig.
After a productive extension, Run 3 at the LHC concluded in early July 2026. The machine now enters Long Shutdown 3 for a major upgrade.
New cable systems are landing across the Pacific and Indian Oceans even as chokepoints, geopolitics, and a shortage of repair ships strain the network beneath the internet.
Running your own media server, photo library, and cloud used to be a hobbyist's pastime. In 2026 it's starting to look like basic privacy hygiene.
Data center construction has become one of the largest drivers of civil engineering spending, and the power grid is the bottleneck everyone is now building around.
Ham radio is one of the oldest hobbies in electronics, and it's finding new relevance as digital modes make it more capable during real emergencies.
Emulators like Charon-PDP now let enterprises run RSX-11, RSTS, and RT-11 workloads from decommissioned PDP-11 hardware on modern cloud infrastructure.
The ATLAS Collaboration has observed a new excited meson, bringing the tally of hadrons discovered at the LHC to 84.
Volunteers at the Rhode Island Computer Museum are restoring a PDP-11/40, coaxing decades-old software back to life one boot medium at a time.