Friday 23 October 2026

The Archive

The Archive

Video

ESA's Juice films Earth, Africa and the Moon on its flyby

ESA's Juice filmed Earth and the Moon on its 28 September flyby, passing 8,640 km above the Indian Ocean on its way to Jupiter.

Tech

Facebook groups and Meta's Forum app test a top voices role

Meta said on 29 September it's testing a top community voices role in Facebook groups and new AI answers in its Forum app. The role replaces old badges.

Breaking

FDA approves Autus, a heart valve that grows with a child

The FDA approved Edwards' Autus valve on Thursday 1 October. It goes in at about 13 mm and can be widened to 22 mm as a child grows.

Breaking

Fervo's Cape Station starts selling enhanced geothermal power

Fervo Energy's first 33 MW unit at Cape Station in Utah began commercial operation on 30 September, a day early and 23 months after groundbreaking.

Breaking

Florence team entangles a floating glass speck with light

Florence physicists entangled the motion of a 100-nanometre glass sphere with light at room temperature. The paper ran in Science on Thursday 1 October.

Game Reviews

Football Manager 27 launches 10 November on PC, console, Netflix

Sports Interactive's Football Manager 27 launches on 10 November on PC, Xbox, PS5 and Netflix mobile. Cup draws and Deadline Day are back.

EV

IONNA doubles its US fast-charging network to more than 180 sites

IONNA, the charging network owned by eight carmakers, now has more than 180 US sites, double its January count. It also topped J.D. Power's 2026 study.

Christian

Joni's House Serbia opens for families living with disability

Joni and Friends said on 1 October that Joni's House Serbia is open in Opovo, a free disability centre it expects to serve 300 people a year.

EV

Leapmotor delivers a record 310,052 cars in the third quarter

Leapmotor delivered a record 310,052 vehicles in the third quarter of 2026, up 78%. It topped 100,000 in September for the third month running.

Computing

Los Alamos switches on its first NVIDIA Vera CPU server

Los Alamos has its first NVIDIA Vera CPU server running in its Darwin testbed, getting code ready for its Mission, Vision and Veritas supercomputers.

Breaking

Mercosur-EFTA trade deal starts between Brazil and Iceland

The Mercosur-EFTA free trade deal took effect between Brazil and Iceland on Thursday 1 October. Brazil and Norway follow on 1 November.