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Google will fund power uprates at four Georgia Power reactors, in the US state of Georgia, adding about 96 electrical megawatts. Why build a new power station when you can ask the old ones to dig a little deeper?
Open the featureOn 22 September in Maui, Hawaii, Qualcomm unveiled two chips for high-end smartphones, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, made on TSMC’s 2-nanometre process and designed to run AI assistants directly on the phone. They arrive as soaring memory prices shrink the smartphone market, while chip names, for their part, keep getting longer.
On 16 September 2026 in Los Angeles, Snap gave a detailed presentation of Specs, standalone glasses that overlay images on the real world, priced at $2,195 (€2,295 in France) and expected in autumn 2026 in the United States, the United Kingdom and France. It is the first pair of augmented reality glasses that Snapchat’s parent company has aimed at the general public, ten years after Spectacles, some of which ended up as unsold stock.
On Monday 28 September 2026, SpaceX’s giant rocket reached orbit and released 26 Starlink satellites, despite an engine shutting down too early. Planned to last nearly ten hours, the flight ended after three: caution won out over the flight plan.
