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Pope Leo XIV rides the Marian procession across Lake Albano
Pope Leo XIV became the first pope to ride the Marian procession across Lake Albano. Castel Gandolfo has waited four centuries for that boat.Trump orders a commission to design a US Space Academy
President Trump signed an order at Johnson Space Center on 28 August setting up a commission to design a NASA-led US Space Academy.Artemis II crew gets the Congressional Space Medal of Honor
President Trump has given the Artemis II crew the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. They were the first people to fly to the Moon since 1972.Arm sells AGI, a finished 136-core server CPU
Hot Chips, 24 August. Two TSMC N3P chiplets, up to 136 Neoverse V3 cores, 300 W. Arm will sell you the socket, not just the recipe.OpenAI's Jalapeño inference chip is 700 watts
OpenAI’s first inference ASIC, co-developed with Broadcom, put 700-watt Hot Chips numbers against Nvidia’s 1,400-watt flagship.Apple puts M5 Max on the MacBook Pro
Apple's M5 Max MacBook Pro has an 18-core CPU, a 40-core GPU and up to 128 GB of memory. The 35.6 cm Max starts at US$3,599.Musk put a ship catch months out, and a reflight by early 2027
Elon Musk said on 20 August that a Starship upper stage should first fly again by the end of 2026 or early 2027. SpaceX first caught a booster in 2024.Giga Texas has Cybercab in Production
Tesla's Q2 2026 update lists Cybercab as in production at Gigafactory Texas, at more than 125,000 a year. The first car came off the line in February.Starlink hit 12 million subscribers at the end of Q2
Starlink ended June with 12.0 million subscribers, SpaceX's Q2 2026 results show. It added 1.7 million in the quarter, and SpaceX took in $7.8 billion.Nvidia's Spark keeps 128 GB of model in a 150 mm box
Nvidia's DGX Spark has a GB10 Grace Blackwell chip, 1 petaflop of FP4 and 273 GB/s of memory bandwidth. It launched at US$3,999 and is now US$4,699.Wild Ice hit Steam on 19 August, after Lost in Tandem on 22 July
Journey Bound Games' zombie-hockey co-op Wild Ice hit Steam on 19 August for $16.99, after Tempete Studio's Lost in Tandem on 22 July.YouGov had One Nation on 28 percent in mid-June
A Sky News YouGov poll in mid-June put One Nation on 28 percent of the primary vote, with Labor on 26 and the Coalition on 21.2026 Economic Report pushes faster nuclear and more LNG
The White House's 2026 Economic Report backs faster nuclear and more LNG. It says reactor approvals already take a year, down from over a decade.Lang’s Metropolis is 99 years old and still a working drawing
Watch Fritz Lang's 1927 Metropolis in 2026 and the shock isn't nitrate. It's how much downtown is still trying to become that set.Dune: Part Three, shot on IMAX 70 mm, gets a 3-week IMAX window
Villeneuve's Dune: Part Three was shot in IMAX 70 mm and has a three-week US IMAX exclusive window over Avengers: Doomsday.Alien's Nostromo is still the most convincing workplace in space
Ridley Scott's Alien opened on 25 May 1979. Its crew eat, sweat and have a shift tomorrow, and that working ship is why Giger's creature is believable.Dune: Part Three dropped new footage as IMAX tickets went on sale
Dune: Part Three IMAX 70 mm tickets went on sale on 18 August, with new footage attached. The film opens 18 December 2026.Blade Runner 2049 still treats light as a building material
Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049, shot by Roger Deakins, opened on 6 October 2017. It doesn't replace the 1982 film. It adds a wing.Dune: Part Three holds December IMAX as horror waits
Dune: Part Three opens on 18 December, with a three-week North American IMAX run, trade reports say. Late-2026 horror has to work around it.Dune: Part Two opened 1 March 2024 and made the sand couture
Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Part Two opened in the U.S. on 1 March 2024, with Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson and Austin Butler.
