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NTIA's $21 Billion BEAD True-Up Rewrites America's Broadband Building Plans

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced on September 3, 2026 that states may redirect an estimated $21 billion in BEAD program savings toward locations still unserved after the first funding round (announced, NTIA). The mechanism, a location "true-up,"…

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IFA 2026 Gave Its Top Awards to Hearing Aids, Cameras, and Laundry

IFA Berlin's 2026 Innovation Awards, announced September 4, 2026, crowned the Anker RIC Hearing Aids Pro as Best of IFA, Insta360's Luna Ultra as Best of Tech, and LG as Best of Brand, from more than 530 entries (announced by IFA Management GmbH). For the first time, winners were honored live on…

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What NASA's Roman Telescope Launch Says About the New Aerospace Economics

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched August 30, 2026, at 7:26 a.m. EDT on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Kennedy Space Center, separated from the rocket at 7:57 a.m., and began its journey to the Sun-Earth L2 point — a flagship science mission on a commercial rocket whose side boosters…

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Ford's $30,000 Fathom Electric Truck Targets 100,000 First-Year Sales

Ford's Fathom, a midsize electric pickup starting around $30,000 and due next year, carries a reported internal goal of more than 100,000 first-year sales — unconfirmed, per a Wall Street Journal report Ford has not announced. What is documented: camouflaged prototypes were photographed…

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Supercell's Metacore Acquisition Nears Close as Merge Mansion Changes Hands

Supercell signed its acquisition of Metacore, the Helsinki studio behind Merge Mansion, with the transaction expected to close at the end of September 2026, PocketGamer.biz reported on September 1. The terms will not be disclosed, and the Merge Mansion team becomes Supercell staff once the deal…

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Microsoft Patches 421 CVEs as One Zero-Day Is Exploited in the Wild

Microsoft's August 2026 Patch Tuesday closed 421 vulnerabilities, including one flaw already exploited in the wild. According to SecurityWeek's August 11, 2026 report , the exploited bug, CVE-2026-68820, is a use-after-free in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock that lets a local…