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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Launches Satellite Program as Space Data Centers Pick Up Steam
Bezos’ Blue Origin plans a 5,408-satellite TeraWave network to serve enterprises and data centers as space-based computing gains momentum. Alexander Tamargo/Getty Images for America Business Forum Jeff Bezos’ space company, Blue Origin, is the latest entrant into the booming satellite internet business. This week, it announced TeraWave, a megaconstellation project promising to deliver data speeds…
Read More10 Uplifting Reads to Banish the Winter Blues
‘Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café’ by Fannie Flagg This 1987 classic is a must-read for anyone seeking a lift. The novel follows the burgeoning friendship between Evelyn Couch, a housewife in her 50s, and Ninny Threadgoode, an elderly woman living in a care home. As their bond grows, Ninny begins to recount…
Read MoreThe Winter Olympics Face an Existential Chill From Climate Change
Olympic Rings are seen above the Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium ahead of the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026. Photo by Emmanuele Ciancaglini/Getty Images There are currently 93 cities in the world with the infrastructure needed to host the Winter Olympics and Paralympics. But as the planet continues to warm, that pool of options is…
Read MoreAre Banksy Prints Still Worth It After the Boom and Bust?
Banksy, Love is in the Air, 2003. Screenprint in colors on wove paper, unsigned. 19-3/4 x 27-5/8 in. Ed. 149/500, at Heritage Auctions with a high estimate of $35,000. Image by Heritage Auctions, HA.com Banksy works are as popular as they are because the artist has always understood the machinery of attention better than most…
Read MoreHow ESTE ARTE Founder Laura Bardier Built an Art Market from Scratch
ESTE ARTE hosted its most recent edition at the VIK Pavilion in José Ignacio. Courtesy ESTE ARTE Uruguay is hardly the first place that comes to mind when thinking about South America’s art hubs, but the art world’s perception of the country has been shifting in recent years, thanks to two factors. First, the growing…
Read MoreThe Problem With OpenAI Putting Ads in ChatGPT
As A.I. companies burn billions on computing power, ads are becoming the next frontier—and the next flashpoint. Indranil Aditya/NurPhoto via Getty Images OpenAI’s Jan. 16 announcement that it will introduce ads in some ChatGPT plans surprised even its closest competitors. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis told Axios in Davos this week that while advertising has…
Read MoreThe Penguins That Thrive—and the Ones Left Behind—as Antarctica Warms
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A new decade-long study tracked 37 penguin colonies and found that the birds are breeding earlier. The shift marks one way among many that climate change is transforming life at the bottom of the world Source link
Read MoreOne Fine Show: “Monuments” at MOCA’s Geffen Contemporary and The Brick
Kara Walker, Unmanned Drone, 2023. ©Ruben Diaz 2025 Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum not in New York City, a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. Sometime after 2017, many journalists and some people on social media decided that museum exhibitions…
Read MoreFOG Design + Art Delivers Strong Sales and Institutional Momentum in San Francisco
FOG Design + Art opened its 2026 edition with a highly attended preview gala benefiting SFMOMA. Photo: Natalie Schrik for Drew Altizer Photography Auction houses may have only recently embraced the marketing potential of crossover luxury, experiential staging and lifestyle-inflected storytelling as a way to grow their audience beyond seasoned art-world insiders, but fairs like…
Read MoreGet an Eyeful of These 15 Photos of Incredibly Cool Icicles
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Nature’s wintry accessory, icicles help beautify snowy landscapes Source link
Read MoreWhat Are Vibration Plates, and Do They Really Work?
All over TikTok and other social-media platforms, influencers are hopping on vibration plates. One sits on hers daily to “drain my thyroid.” Another says her “vibe plate” means she no longer needs to work out. It’s a fitness fad that’s easy to roll your eyes at. Whole-body vibration plates don’t look all that different from…
Read MoreThe U.S. Has Pulled Out of the WHO. Here’s What That Means for Public Health
The U.S. was one of the first countries to join the World Health Organization (WHO) when it was created in 1948 as part of the United Nations. But on Jan. 22, 2026, it officially withdrew from the global health group. The U.S. has historically been the largest funder to the WHO, through both its assessed…
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