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…
"Key tree species boost Amazon forest restoration, new study shows"
#Amazon #Trees #Environment
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)!
At around five o’clock on a winter evening in 2013, then college student Sam Forstag was driving through a snowstorm toward his third job of the day, making sandwiches at the Subway inside a Walmart.
“I was always late,” Forstag recalled with a laugh more than a decade later.
Halfway there, the gray sedan in front of him lost traction. It spun across the icy road and slid nose-first into a ditch.
Forstag’s first instinct was to pull over.
Growing up in a tight-knit c…
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/…
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…
US autonomous military vehicle startup Forterra says it deployed 100 Lancer UGVs, based on Polaris ATVs, in Ukraine since 2025, completing 1,100 missions (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/07/the-first-american-…
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…