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Meta announces its first data center in Canada, a 1GW facility in Alberta that will cost the company about $9B and take two to three years to construct (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/08/meta-is-building-its-first-big…

Meta is building its first big Canadian data center as AI expansion crosses the border
Meta is building its first big Canadian data center as AI expansion crosses the border.

"Key tree species boost Amazon forest restoration, new study shows"
#Amazon #Trees #Environment

Key tree species boost Amazon forest restoration, new study shows
Regrowing Amazon forests face a quiet collapse if fast pioneer trees die without stronger successors.

So sad.
There are Nazis in Israel, Germany and England's south coast. All surging, all hateful, all enabled by the mass media and pusillanimous politicians.
Eight-year-old Gaza girl killed by Israel on first day of school | Israel-Palestine conflict | Al Jazeera

Eight-year-old Gaza girl killed by Israel on first day of school
An eight-year-old girl and her father were killed when an Israeli strike hit their vehicle on her first day of school.

Here's an unexpected bit of news... https://linuxiac.com/windows-drops-under-60-in-global-desktop-os-share-for-the-first-time-in-years/ (Windows has fallen below 60% desktop market share, with Linux on the rise)!

Parallel Systems, which builds autonomous freight trains, raised a $100M Series C led by AVP, taking its total funding to $200M (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/07/spacex-alumni-nab-100m-to-rethink-shipping…

SpaceX alumni nab $100M to rethink shipping with autonomous freight trains | TechCrunch
Parallel Systems raised $100M to scale production of its autonomous electric rail vehicle, which can shuttle thousands of pounds of freight up to 500 miles.

Analysis: South Korea and Taiwan each surpassed Japan in total exports for the first time in H1 2026, as AI demand drove explosive growth in chip exports (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/semiconductors/…

South Korea, Taiwan top Japan in exports for first time on AI boom
Both economies benefit more from surging demand for semiconductors in 2026 first half

Manus' parent Butterfly Effect says it raised $500M , led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital, in its first funding since Meta was forced to unwind its Manus buyout (Anniek Bao/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/08/manus-fund-raise-meta-muse-tencent.html

AI startup Manus raises $500 million in first funding round since Meta breakup
The deal is handing the AI agent developer fresh capital after Beijing forced Meta to unwind its roughly $2 billion acquisition.

Poseidon Aerospace, which plans the first test flight of its pilotless cargo plane by year-end, raised a $60M Series A led by TQ Ventures, after an $11M seed (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/poseidon-aerospace…

Exclusive: Poseidon Aerospace lands $60 million ahead of first pilotless test flight | TechCrunch
The startup is trying to rethink the economics of cargo aircraft by removing pilots from the equation entirely.

Google debuts Google AI Edge Foresight, a local macOS note-taking app for meetings that uses its 740M-parameter EmbeddingGemma 2 model and Gemma 4 assistant (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/08/google-releases-a-new-local-first-gra…

Google releases a new local-first Granola competitor | TechCrunch
Google’s new AI Edge Foresight app takes on Granola with an offline meeting note-taker that can transcribe conversations, generate notes, and answer questions using on-device AI.

Huawei unveils the Mate XT2, a trifold phone powered by the Kirin 9050 Pro, an in-house designed chipset that it says is entirely free from US restrictions (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/electronics/huawei-unveils-fi…

Huawei unveils first triple-fold phone with 'US-free' core chips
Mate XT2 launch comes as Apple set to soon release its first foldable iPhone