On a Tuesday in the middle of Mobile World Congress 2026, three industry experts gathered for a panel to chat about smart glasses and extended reality tech. But a fourth member of the panel, who was based in Dubai, never made it to the conference. Two days before, the US and Israel launched airborne attacks on Iran, and flights had been grounded throughout the Middle East.
Even thousands of miles away in Barcelona, on the western edge of the Mediterranean Sea, MWC was affected by the conflict. While events and meetings at the world’s largest mobile tech conference proceeded as planned, albeit under the anxious awareness of larger geopolitical events, there were notable absences.
Some booths stood empty, and some meetings scheduled between absent attendees weren’t held. Exhibitors walked the halls and saw a diminished presence from Middle Eastern companies.
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While the conflict was just beginning as MWC took place, it had already affected attendees and changed the experience. While distant from the fighting in the Middle East, the war’s impact was just as seriously felt in the middle of a conference about bringing humans together.
Xpanceo’s booth in Hall 6 at MWC 2026. The prototypes that were supposed to be flown in from Dubai didn’t arrive.
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The financial, emotional and mental cost of war on a tech conference
The fourth panelist on Tuesday’s panel was supposed to be Roman Axelrod, cofounder of Xpanceo, who would have likely discussed the smart contact lenses the company intended to show off in prototype form at MWC. But neither Axelrod nor the samples ever left Dubai, where the company is based. Conference attendees who walked by Xpanceo’s booth were greeted by employees who had flown in from elsewhere and apologized that they had only hastily made video demonstrations of the technology samples that were supposed to be on display.
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I had already planned to chat with Valentyn S. Volkov, co-founder and CTO of Xpanceo, who likewise didn’t make it to MWC. While the company was intentionally headquartered in Dubai as a reliable and predictable jurisdiction for business (as well as centrally located, with many business destinations within a 7-hour flight), the country falls within the airspace of the current conflict. As a result, businesses are losing money, especially funds spent on opportunities at MWC.
“We already kind of lost, I would say, a significant amount of resources — physical, mental, scientific resources — simply because we could not get everyone to Barcelona. We could not get our prototypes to Barcelona as planned,” Volkov told me.
Fortunately, Volkov was in good spirits when I chatted with him over Zoom via a laptop in Xpanceo’s booth. He was safe, noting that local authorities in Dubai were providing “logistic safeness.”
Our chat quickly turned to the smart contact lenses that the company is working on, with plans to roll out functioning prototypes by the end of the year. As Volkov described their potential capabilities, they sounded like the next evolution of smart glasses, like the Google Specs that I saw at Google I/O last year, offering heads-up display information relayed from a nearby phone, and even potentially health data like glucose level readings taken from the lens’ contact with the eye’s tears.
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“Those beauties were supposed to be shown for the very first time [at MWC], and we put lots of effort and resources into that. It’s completely bad luck,” Volkov said.
Thanks to modern network technology, Volkov and I were still able to have this virtual conversation — and fortunately, the war had not affected him or the infrastructure where he was. But anyone can tell you the value of having an in-person exchange over one on small screens. What was lost through the wires because Volkov wasn’t there to demonstrate features and concepts of Xpanceo’s products through body language and demonstration?
It’s not hard to imagine scaling that up to all the business conversations and networking opportunities lost to those whose flights were canceled and lives locked down due to the conflict in the Middle East. Some of those meetings could likely be shifted to digital chats like mine, but MWC is a show about making new connections in person, seeing new devices and getting updated on the latest tech trends across the mobile and telecom industries.
But I met some attendees who were suffering the opposite fate, having flown out early from countries now in restricted airspace. They made it to MWC, but it’s too early to tell when they can fly home.
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Some attendees and exhibitors still used the GSMA Doha Pavilion, the social meeting space for Middle Eastern tech companies, to work and meet.
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Stranded at MWC, return unknown
I sat down with Said Saidi, an exhibitor at the show, and chatted in between his calls home. I couldn’t imagine the strain he was under with family back in Dubai and no clear idea of when he’d be able to rejoin them.
A resident of the United Arab Emirates for 19 years, Saidi was comforted to be able to chat with his family on the phone every few hours, who he said were safe. Aside from noise made by the defense system and drones coming from Iran, his reports from home said everyone is living peacefully and has no shortage of supplies, and they have so far had no major stress.
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Saidi explained that this was counter to misinformation being spread on social media that says people have been stuck in the UAE without accommodation. As he said, and reports have echoed, the government and hotels have provided stranded travelers with free stays.
Saidi caught an early flight out to Barcelona the previous Friday, but most other exhibitors from the Middle East usually fly out on Sunday, he said. By then, commercial flights from the area were largely grounded following the initial strikes by the US and Israel on Saturday morning. He said the impact of this region-wide air travel blackout was stark. After walking around the show floor twice, even all the way out to the startup area at the far end of the convention center, the presence of attendees from the Middle East is “near zero,” Saidi said.
While he made it to MWC, many of the meetings Saidi was supposed to have with peers from other Middle Eastern companies had to be canceled or held online. It’s a loss all around.
“Usually, the main purpose of the exhibition is to show that we are present, we are there, and also to meet new leads and new business,” Saidi said. While executives may normally move in their own circles, at MWC, they can be met on the show floor by anyone. “The exhibition is always a good chance to meet people and do that first handshake and build on it,” Saidi said.
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In MWC 2026’s startup section, seven companies had planned to attend MWC 2026 from the Palestinian Information Technology Association of Companies, but only two had representatives find flights to arrive at the show.
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Waiting for the limbo to lift, but the impact remains
In three days of running around the MWC show floor, I tried to gauge the scope of these absences. None was more obvious than in the startup area, 4YFN, which was filled with company representatives from every corner of the Earth — except a strand representing the Palestinian Information Technology Association of Companies. Just two booths were manned out of what was supposed to be seven, with the rest of the startup representatives unable to fly to the show.
The representatives who were there politely declined to comment for this story and weren’t sure when they’d be able to fly back.
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Saidi said the same. While he asserted that his company was taking care of him, and that he felt totally relaxed as long as his family was safe back in Dubai, he had no inkling of when he’d be able to return home.
“I have zero expectations,” Saidi said. “At this point in time, we cannot predict anything.”
From within Dubai, during our conversation, Xpanceo’s Volkov had a more optimistic outlook, with significant hope that the situation would stabilize within a week. But if it is a prolonged issue, he said his company would be prepared for that, too. And work is continuing remotely in the meantime.
The war is likely to have an impact on the mobile industry beyond MWC. Analysts have adjusted their previously dim projection on 2026’s expected phone sales to an even bleaker outlook, expecting a 13% drop over the year. Mostly, they blame the RAM shortage, which is plaguing the tech industry as AI data centers gobble up memory.
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But when I chatted with International Data Corporation’s Jeronimo Francisco, he noted that the regional chaos of the war with Iran contributed to that drop, at least in terms of disrupting supply chains, increasing the cost of oil and forcing companies to find workarounds for wartime bottlenecks.
“If there was no memory crisis, instead of the market dropping 13% it would drop 5 in the worst-case scenario, something like that,” Francisco said.
It was a poignant moment for the mobile industry. Even as the AI industry-caused RAM shortage is poised to increase phone prices in 2026, MWC was awash in company slogans embracing AI agents and other applications of generative AI. Satellite companies heralded the era of increasing connectivity beyond the range of traditional cell networks. Going to the show is an opportunity to catch wind of exciting trends awaiting phone owners in the months to come.
But even when MWC feels like being in a bubble of wonky news and enthusiastic predictions, sometimes the bubble is popped by global events that significantly disrupt lives. At CNET, we have covered a lot of the coolest discoveries we made at the biggest phone show of the year — but even immersed in the deepest phone dives, it’s important to remember the human impact of conflicts that reach thousands of miles to a convention center in a Catalonian beach town.
Amazon has secured a temporary win in its fight with Perplexity over the use of AI shopping bots. Bloomberg reported that a San Francisco federal court has determined that Perplexity must stop using its Comet web browser’s AI agent to make purchases for users on Amazon’s marketplace. The AI company will have a week to appeal the decision, otherwise it has been ordered to stop accessing any password-protected areas of Amazon’s systems and destroy its copies of Amazon’s data while the two companies continue to argue their cases.
“Amazon has provided strong evidence that Perplexity, through its Comet browser, accesses with the Amazon user’s permission but without authorization by Amazon, the user’s password-protected account,” District Judge Maxine Chesney wrote in placing the temporary block.
“The preliminary injunction will prevent Perplexity’s unauthorized access to the Amazon store and is an important step in maintaining a trusted shopping experience for Amazon customers,” an Amazon spokesperson told Bloomberg.
Amazon sent a cease-and-desist letter to Perplexity over the AI company’s shopping bots in November. According to Amazon, use of the Comet agent to make purchases is a violation of its terms of service. “Perplexity will continue to fight for the right of internet users to choose whatever AI they want,” a representative from Perplexity said of this week’s decision.
Dash cams have become one of the most sensible additions you can make to a car, and Botslab has spent the past few years building a range that punches well above its weight on resolution, sensors and software.
Spring Deal Days has brought three of the brand’s strongest models down to their lowest prices yet, covering everything from a compact dual-camera setup to a full four-channel system that watches every angle simultaneously.
BOTSLAB G300H Plus 4K Dual Dash Cam
The G300H Plus is the entry point here, but the STARVIS 2 sensor it runs on is anything but entry-level, delivering double the low-light sensitivity and colour accuracy of the standard STARVIS chip found in most cameras at this price. That means you’ll get better footage from wet nights and unlit roads from most cameras around the £80 mark.
Built-in GPS logs your speed, route, and location into every clip, the 5GHz Wi-Fi transfers footage to the Botslab app in seconds. There’s also voice commands, which let you snap a photo or start recording without lifting your hands from the wheel.
This model steps things up by pairing a 4K front camera with a dedicated 2K rear unit, so you get sharp coverage of what is happening both in front and behind the car, with a six-layer F1.5 aperture lens that pulls in enough light to capture license plates clearly at 15 metres.
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It’s also the only camera in this roundup with a full ADAS suite, adding lane departure warnings, forward collision alerts, close-following reminders, and a two-hour fatigue prompt that nudges you to pull over and rest.
The super capacitor design also means it handles extreme temperatures in both the winter and summer.
The G980H is the most comprehensive of the three dash cams, running four 3k cameras simultaneously to cover 560 degrees.
Its Sentry parking mode goes further than most – triggering the moment someone edges close to the car rather than waiting for an impact. It also pre-records and stores eight seconds of footage before a G-sensor event fires, giving you the full picture of any incident rather than just the aftermath.
And with wa 128GB card included, you can get the camera up and running without any additional costs.
The report shows that women in Ireland, raising funds, have outshined their European peers.
TechIreland, the all-island portal that showcases start-ups and the Irish innovation landscape, has released the Female Founder Funding Review 2026, which tracks investment into women-founded startups throughout 2025.
The report shows that last year, 82 Irish start-ups being led by women raised a total of €131m, which was recorded as the highest number of women-led start-ups funded in any given year. For comparison in 2025 there were 36 organisations that raised between €0.1m and €0.3m but only eight in 2024. 11 companies raised €18.7m.
Despite this positive figure however, the average deal size was shown to have significantly declined. In 2024, the average raise was €3.9m, dropping to €2.3m in 2025, with the report suggesting that this is as a result of an increase in the volume of deals being made.
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The median figure also dropped to just €100k last year, compared to €1.5m in 2024, indicating that the divide between the smaller group of large rounds and the large number of very small rounds is widening. The report does say however, that even in this landscape Irish female founders are outshining their European peers in the raising of early-stage funding.
“While the Dealroom startup ecosystems portal shows a decline in the number of early-stage rounds for women founded start-ups, the trend in Ireland represents a nearly two-fold increase in the number of rounds raised by women founded start-ups last year. Thanks to the heavy lifting by Enterprise Ireland through their focused support for women entrepreneurs.”
TechIreland’s research suggested that angel networks, for example HBAN and AwakenAngels, as well as early-stage accelerator programmes such as Fierce and NextWave, alongside flagship supports such as Enterprise Ireland’s PSSF and HPSU, play a critical role in building a strong platform for women founders.
The report also highlights a key sectoral influence. Funding into the life sciences and healthcare sectors made up almost 70pc of the total funds raised. This was mirrored in wider Europe where health remains a top sector among female founders.
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The enterprise software sector also performed well, growing from €10.7m raised by 10 start-ups in 2024, to €30.7m raised by 22 companies in 2025. Other sectors experiencing growth included the agri/food space, consumer and e-commerce, while cleantech and fintech continue to decline.
Funding was also disproportionate regionally. Similar to previous years, companies in Dublin dominated the overall figures. More than 90pc of all funding into start-ups established by women took place at Dublin locations. The report attributed this to the fact that ProVerum, which accounted for nearly half of all funding raised, is a company based in Dublin.
Commenting on the findings of the report, the chair of TechIreland, Brian Caulfield said, “2025 was an interesting year for female founders from a fundraising perspective. On the face of it, the numbers held up pretty well.
“While it’s encouraging to see so many female founded companies raising capital, it’s a concern that the market has bifurcated, a very small number of companies raising large rounds, and a very large number of companies raising very small rounds, largely led by Enterprise Ireland. The mid-market of seed and Series A raises is being hollowed out.”
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Sarah Walker, who oversees startups and entrepreneurship at Enterprise Ireland said, “The headline TechIreland figure, 82 companies raising in 2025, is almost double last year and the highest level of activity since 2017 which is cause for celebration.
“While the increased number of women led and co-founded companies raising is encouraging, TechIreland reports total funding levels of €131m in 2025, down from €145m in 2024, reflecting a challenging funding environment.”
Lorraine Curham, the founder of Fierce added, “For Ireland, the next challenge is what comes after that first cheque. In more mature ecosystems, founders are supported not just by programmes, but by strong networks, investor relationships and ecosystem layers that help companies move from early traction into follow-on capital and scale. Ireland has the pipeline. What it needs next is the infrastructure layer to scale it.”
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E-readers are an awesome creation allowing you to display digital information in a way that requires little battery life. While there’s plenty of very impressive models to chose from on the commercial market, it’s also possible to build one yourself — which is exactly what [kaos-69] did in his Mimisbrunnur project, creating a truly unique e-reader from scratch.
While looking through old junk at home, [kaos-69] came across a case that held a calculator and pen at one point in the distant past. The pen was gone and the calculator no longer functioned but the case held promise. He removed the calculator and got some parts on order. For the e-paper display he went with a 5.83-inch unit that just fit inside the spring-loaded case. The Mimisbrunnur is powered by a 2000 mAh LiPo battery, with a micro SD card reader for storing what will be displayed. The brains come from an RP2040 microcontroller on an Adafruit Feather breakout board, which worked out great as it already takes care of battery management and the 24-pin interface for the e-paper display.
There are also eight buttons that live below the display for user interface, and even some LEDs to aid in reading in the dark. The depth of the case allowed all this to be connected with the use of a perfboard and some risers to set the screen forward, allowing the battery to live behind it. Using the Mimisbrunnur is pretty straightforward with the eight buttons sitting below icons on the screen giving you clear guidance on how to turn the page, add a bookmark, or browse the SD card for another file to open.
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We’ve seen some impressive DIY e-readers over the years, such as the dual-screen Diptyx and the Open Book. But this project is an excellent reminder that a device doesn’t have to be complex to get the job done.
A new Android malware named BeatBanker can hijack devices and tricks users into installing it by posing as a Starlink app on websites masquerading as the official Google Play Store.
The malware combines banking trojan functions with Monero mining, and can steal credentials, as well as tamper with cryptocurrency transactions.
Kaspersky researchers discovered BeatBanker in campaigns targeting users in Brazil. They also found that the most recent version of the malware deploys the commodity Android remote access trojan called BTMOB RAT, instead of the banking module.
BTMOB RAT provides operators with full device control, keylogging, screen recording, camera access, GPS tracking, and credential-capture capabilities.
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Persistence via MP3
BeatBanker is distributed as an APK file that uses native libraries to decrypt and load hidden DEX code directly into memory, for evasion.
Before launching, it performs environment checks to ensure it’s not being analyzed. If passed, it displays a fake Play Store update screen to trick the victims into granting it permissions to install additional payloads.
The fake update message Source: Kaspersky
To avoid triggering any alarms, BeatBanker delays malicious operations for a period after its installation.
According to Kaspersky, the malware has an unusual method to maintain persistence, which consists of continuously playing a nearly inaudible 5-second recording of Chinese speech from an MP3 file named output8.mp3.
“The KeepAliveServiceMediaPlayback component ensures continuous operation by initiating uninterrupted playback via MediaPlayer,” Kaspersky explains in a report today.
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“It keeps the service active in the foreground using a notification and loads a small, continuous audio file. This constant activity prevents the system from suspending or terminating the process due to inactivity.”
Stealthy cryptocurrency mining
BeatBanker uses a modified XMRig miner version 6.17.0, compiled for ARM devices, to mine Monero on Android devices. XMRig connects to attacker-controlled mining pools using encrypted TLS connections, and falls back to a proxy if the primary address fails.
Miner deployment process Source: Kaspersky
The miner can be dynamically started or stopped based on device conditions, which the operators closely monitor to ensure optimal operation and maintain stealth.
Using Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM), the malware continuously sends the command-and-control (C2) server information about the device’s battery level and temperature, charging status, usage activity, and whether it has overheated.
By stopping mining when the device is in use and by limiting its physical impact, the malware can remain hidden for a longer period, mining for cryptocurrency when conditions allow it.
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While Kaspersky observed all BeatBanker infections in Brazil, the malware could expand to other countries if proven effective, so vigilance and good security practices are recommended.
Android users shouldn’t side-load APKs from outside the official Google Play store unless they trust the publisher/distributor, should review granted permissions for risky ones that aren’t relevant to the app’s functionality, and perform regular Play Protect scans.
Malware is getting smarter. The Red Report 2026 reveals how new threats use math to detect sandboxes and hide in plain sight.
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Workers who excessively use AI agents and tools at work are at increased risk of mental fatigue, according to a recent Harvard Business Review study. In certain industries, more than 25% of hired professionals report increased mental strain due to their role in AI oversight — though these professionals also generally experienced less burnout than peers who aren’t using AI.
This phenomenon — which the researchers refer to as “AI brain fry” — is described as a “‘buzzing’ feeling or a mental fog” that caused study participants to develop headaches and difficulty focusing and making decisions. Individuals pointed to being overwhelmed by large amounts of information and to frequent task switching as the reasons for these feelings.
Studied individuals experienced more brain fry when they utilized AI agents to manage a workload beyond their own cognitive capacity. When participants used AI to replace mundane, repetitive tasks, managing the growing number of tools led to increased mental fatigue.
Crucially, the study found that fewer individuals who used these AI agents reported workplace burnout.
The researchers predict that this is because burnout testing assesses emotional and physical distress. In contrast, they report, acute mental fatigue “is caused by marshalling attention, working memory and executive control beyond the limited capacity of these systems.”
These are the processes that are taxed when study participants use multiple AI tools in their workflow, according to the researchers.
The Harvard study identifies several business costs incurred by workers suffering from AI brain fry. The foremost consequence is that these individuals may end up making lower-quality decisions. “Workers in [the] study who endorsed AI brain fry experience 33% more decision fatigue than those who did not,” the study reports. Workers who report AI brain fry were also more likely to self-report making both minor and major errors at their jobs.
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Another recent Harvard Business Review study similarly found that employees who use AI tools “worked at a faster pace, took on a broader scope of tasks and extended work into more hours of the day,” but warned that “workload creep can in turn lead to cognitive fatigue, burnout and weakened decision-making.”
Chinese smartphone-makers OnePlus and Oppo plan to raise prices on some existing models starting next week, according to a 9to5Google report citing GizmoChina and a notice posted on Oppo’s China online store.
In its notice, Oppo said it would adjust pricing after evaluating rising costs for several key components used in its mobile phones. The changes are expected to take effect around March 16 and will affect some of the company’s more affordable smartphones, as well as some OnePlus models.
Flagship devices — like those in the Find and Reno series — are not expected to be affected for now. The reported adjustments currently appear to be limited to China.
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The move highlights growing pressure across the smartphone supply chain as component costs climb. Analysts say prices for memory and storage chips used in phones have been rising in recent months as demand surges across the tech industry.
As manufacturers shift production toward higher-margin memory used in AI servers, supply for consumer electronics such as smartphones and laptops can tighten.
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If component costs continue to rise, manufacturers may face difficult choices later this year, including raising retail prices or adjusting device specifications to offset higher manufacturing costs.
OnePlus and Oppo didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
The first step to fighting a war in space is knowing what’s happening tens of thousands of miles above the planet. Toward that end, defense tech darling Anduril is buying boutique data firm ExoAnalytic Solutions.
ExoAnalytic operates a network of 400 telescopes around the world, which it uses to track spacecraft in high orbits above the planet. The company’s engineers develop software that converts those observations into situational awareness tools for U.S. national security agencies watching adversary spacecraft and coordinating American assets on orbit.
“This is a company we’ve been working with closely for the last several years on a number of programs, and they are experts in space domain awareness and missile defense,” Anduril VP of engineering Gokul Subramanian told reporters. “We believe the [Department of Defense] deserves the best catalog of everything going on in space.”
The privately-held companies did not disclose the terms of the deal. Anduril is in the process of raising a $4 billion round from investors Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, Reuters reported last week.
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ExoAnalytics will be directly integrated into Anduril, not run as a separate subsidiary, though Subramanian said it would continue to serve existing and future outside customers. Currently, Anduril has 120 employees focused on space defense, a number that will more than double with the addition of 130 ExoAnalytics employees.
The company’s technology could help Anduril win government contracts supporting Golden Dome, the missile defense system that the US Congress has appropriated billions of dollars to build. That system is expected to include thousands of satellites to track and target enemy missiles, and maintaining real-time awareness and coordination among them will be a heavy lift.
Anduril is planning to launch three spacecraft this year as internally-funded R&D projects that will draw on capabilities gained in the acquisition. Subramanian said ExoAnalytic’s experience processing space data would be used in an infrared tracking satellite it plans to launch this year in partnership with Apex Space. The space tracking data will be used to execute two missions in high orbit expected to launch this year in partnerships with Impulse Space and Argo Space, respectively.
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There’s another potential angle to the acquisition — the machine vision algorithms ExoAnalytic has developed to spot satellites in orbit are also useful for interceptors trying to track and engage with incoming threats. Anduril received a contract from the Pentagon in late 2025 to begin developing a space-based missile interceptor.
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ExoAnalytic was founded in 2008 to adapt missile defense sensor technology to track spacecraft in orbit after U.S. military officials called for new and better ways to understand what was happening in space, CEO Doug Hendrix said in a 2024 interview. The company’s early growth was funded by grants and contracts from the federal government, including $26 million in SBIR grants since 2010.
U.S. Space Force officials have expressed deep concern about Chinese and Russian spacecraft that fly closely alongside American and European satellites, where they could potentially intercept communications or damage the satellite with electronic or other weapons.
“Two years ago, an [U.S. commander in the Pacific told] me that the fleet cannot leave the port without the space layer being secured,” Subramanian said. “We’ve been on a mission for the last several years to figure out how to be a part of that solution.”
A recent analysis by TrendForce casts a dark shadow over the future of the most popular machines in the portable PC market. According to the consulting firm, “mainstream” notebooks may soon cost as much as 40% more. Growing challenges in CPU manufacturing are adding yet another layer of uncertainty to… Read Entire Article Source link
Van Allen Probe A, a 1,300-pound (600 kg) NASA satellite launched in 2012 to study Earth’s radiation belts, is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere this week. While most of it is expected to burn up during descent, “some components may survive,” reports the BBC. “The space agency said there is a one in 4,200 chance of being harmed by a piece of the probe, which it characterized as ‘low’ risk.” From the report: The spacecraft is projected to re-enter around 19:45 EST (00:45 GMT) on Tuesday the U.S. Space Force predicted, according to Nasa, though there is a 24-hour margin of “uncertainty” in the timing. […] The spacecraft and its twin, Van Allen Probe B, were on a mission to gather unprecedented data on Earth’s two permanent radiation belts. It was not immediately clear where in Earth’s atmosphere the satellite is projected to re-enter. NASA and the U.S. Space Force has said it will monitor the re-entry and update any predictions. […] Van Allen Probe B is not expected to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere before 2030.
