When Space Stops Being Empty
One of the strangest things about the Space Age is that we’ve spent decades thinking of space as empty. It isn’t. At least not anymore. Thousands of active satellites now […]
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July 2026
Another Nail in the Coffin of Dark Matter?
I’ve never been a fan of dark matter. That probably sounds odd coming from someone who writes science fiction, but my objection has never been to speculative ideas. It’s been
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The Mistake Everyone Made About Google+
I was flipping through an old issue of Wired magazine recently—October 2011—and one article immediately caught my eye: Inside Google+ After waves of failure and false starts, the search giant
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NeXT—The Company That Made Apple Worth Trillions
As Apple celebrates its 50th anniversary, I’ve been thinking less about Apple itself and more about another company. NeXT. That’s probably not where most people would expect an Apple anniversary
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NASA’s Moon Plan Has a Dependency Problem
When most people think about NASA’s plans to return astronauts to the Moon, they think about rockets. That’s understandable. Rockets are dramatic. When they fail, everyone notices. A launch explosion
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