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Futures Slide, Oil Surges As Iran War Returns, Chip Stocks Tumble As Korea, SK Hynix Crash US equity futures are lower on a combination of US/Iran escalation (which is feeding inflationary concerns) and a violent crash in South Korean stocks (which saw SK Hynix plunge by 15% overnight, the most on record, and unironically follows its record ADR launch in the US), which has put Semis and tech under renewed pressure. On the former, this drove oil prices higher overnight, but gains have been cut in half. On the latter, there...

World's First Commercial Nuclear-Powered Satellite Set For Launch Aboard SpaceX Rocket Authored by Mrigakshi Dixit via Interesting Engineering, Miami-based City Labs is all set to launch the world's first commercial nuclear-powered satellite into orbit. NanoTritium battery Citi Labs Solar panels have some challenges. When a satellite slips into the shadow of the Earth, hits a permanently dark lunar crater, or drifts into deep space, its solar arrays become useless. Batteries can step in, but they eventually die. City Labs thinks nuclear energy could solve this persistent problem. On July 7, the company announced that its...

Russia launched a massive missile and drone bombardment on Kyiv on Thursday, which the Russian Foreign Ministry described as the “largest attack” on the Ukrainian capital, and said was a response to Ukrainian drone attacks that have killed civilians inside Russia. According to Ukrainian officials, the Russian bombardment killed at least 21 civilians in Kyiv […]