Peter Nowak

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🚀 ☄️ AstroForge is on a mission to build a space mining operation rivaling RDA’s unobtanium-gathering enterprise in Avatar.

🇯🇵 The Japanese government has relaunched its “Cool Japan” campaign, which seeks to reestablish the creative industry as one of its leading exports and boost the country’s soft power globally.

☕️ Starbucks, the siren logo’d coffee chain, will be reducing the size of its workforce, the company announced yesterday – a siren singing a swan song, if you will.

🔥 It’s Tuesday, February 25th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🪸 A growing number of startups are seeking to cash in on the burgeoning global seaweed market and turn farms full of kelp and algae into food, skincare products, and environmentally-friendly cattle feed.

🏛️ The Trump administration’s new Department of Government Efficiency has been investigating a wide range of federal agencies to reduce wasteful spending. But are the numbers it reports adding up?

🪙 Hackers stole ~400,000 ether worth ~$1.4 billion from Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, the exchange revealed Friday.

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📺 Longtime producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson have relinquished creative control of the James Bond franchise to Amazon MGM.

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🏭🏛️ Lead pollution during the Roman Empire grew to a high enough level that it dropped the population's collective IQ, potentially aiding in the empire’s fall, according to a recent peer-reviewed study.

✍️ On Tuesday, President Trump signed an executive order seeking to give the White House greater control of independent federal agencies, raising questions about the limits of the presidential authority.

🤖🎨 Auction giant Christie’s is launching a first-of-its-kind auction dedicated entirely to pieces created with the help of AI.

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🤖 Humane AI is going b-AI b-AI. The once-buzzy hardware startup announced its wearable Pins will stop working for good on February 28, and the rest of the company’s assets will be sold to HP for $116 million.

🚀 Maybe the real treasure of space travel was the products we made along the way. NASA last week released its annual Spinoff publication, which highlights the agency’s technologies that successfully transfer over to the commercial sector.

🔥 It’s Thursday, February 20th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🤝 Nike and Kim Kardashian’s Skims are partnering to launch a new brand called NikeSKIMS, in a move the checkmark company’s execs say is poised to crown their Michael Jordan of activewear.

🌍 America’s relationship with Europe has come under focus in recent days, following a series of statements and actions by the Trump administration.