In this episode, Ray Cochrane digs into Claude Science, Anthropic's new AI workbench for researchers, and explains why its auditable, reproducible outputs matter more than the AI itself. He also covers Google's June AI recap, the Pulpie web-cleaning model, the PamStealer Mac malware, a synthetic cell that divides on its own, and the first-ever treatment trial for the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola. Finally, he looks skyward with NASA's year-long Mars simulation and a can't-miss July skywatching night.
In this episode, Ray Cochrane breaks down a reversible conductive glue from Newcastle University that could replace solder and finally make electronics recycling work. Additional stories cover China widening its clean energy lead, DeepMind's AlphaEvolve scoring wins from genomics to Google's database, Anthropic's $200 million partnership with the Gates Foundation, Intel teaming up with McLaren Racing, and end-to-end encrypted RCS rolling out in beta.
In this episode, Chris Cochrane dives into Apple's $599 MacBook Neo - the cheapest Mac laptop ever made - and whether it spells trouble for Chromebook makers. He also covers Samsung's CEO blaming AI for rising phone prices, Framework raising RAM prices for the third time in three months, Meta unveiling four custom AI chips, NVIDIA's GTC 2026 conference preview, a billion-dollar bet against large language models, Microsoft's game-changing Project Helix Xbox with native Steam support, Windows 11's new Xbox Mode, and SpaceX gearing up for a critical Starship Flight 12 test.
Swatch has launched a five-watch space collection inspired by NASA and the exploration of space. On sale today in Swatch stores and from 8 June on-line, the watches feature the famous "worm" NASA logo. These are going to be hot. The collection consists of two different model sets. The first set of three watches are Big Bold watches with Bioceramic
For the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the moon, the BBC World Service produced an excellent podcast called 13 Minutes to the Moon, based on interviews and recordings from the people who were there including Michael Collins, Jim Lovell and Poppy Northcutt who was the first woman to work as an engineer in an operational support role in NASA’s Mission Control.
It's been 50 years since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed in the Sea of Tranquillity and there are many commemorative events coming up to the anniversary on 21st July. As expected, NASA is celebrating and there's a whole raft of information and historical footage on a special Apollo 50th section of its website. I particularly like the mission audio
We’re inviting social media users to apply to see a rocket launch! ? The launch will kickoff a mission to measure the height of our home planet, with a focus on tracking changes to the ice sheets, glaciers and sea ice of Earth’s polar regions. Details: https://t.co/DkBnxxDF1X pic.twitter.com/zYQGtVMhvv