Google to build data centers in space in 2027

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The Rundown: Google CEO Sundar Pichai laid out the company’s audacious plan to launch solar-powered data center satellites into space by early 2027 under Project Suncatcher, telling Fox News the moonshot could reshape how AI infrastructure is built.

The details:

Google will launch two prototype satellites in 2027 under Project Suncatcher, partnering with satellite imagery firm Planet to test AI hardware in space.The satellites will carry Google’s Trillium-generation TPU chips, which survived radiation testing that simulated low-Earth orbit conditions without damage. Solar panels in space can generate up to 8x more energy than on Earth with near-continuous sunlight and minimal downtime. For the project to be cost-competitive, launch costs would need to drop to around $200 per kg by 2035 — a target Google believes SpaceX could hit.

Why it matters: Pichai said that in a decade, extraterrestrial data centers could become normal, tapping into solar energy that’s “100 trillion times more” than Earth’s total electricity production. Google faces brutal engineering challenges, but if it works, the tech giant could ease pressure on power grids here on Earth.

Sky News (@SkyNews) posted at 7:39 am on Mon, Dec 01, 2025:

A man whose son attacked his family with a knife while suffering from undiagnosed schizophrenia has said he mistook his son’s mental health symptoms for a spiritual struggle.

Joshua Obinim has spoken to Sky’s @ShingiMararike about the tragedy. 

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(https://x.com/SkyNews/status/1995397315016659332?t=WyGT-rqRPCLD4L-she6UVQ&s=03) 

Body and Mind

3D-printed cornea restores sight in a legally blind patient for the first time

By Abhimanyu Ghoshal

December 02, 2025

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Damage to the cornea from infections, injury, or genetic disorders can lead to blindness – and often requires a transplant

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In a major breakthrough in human tissue replication, for the first time ever a 3D-printed cornea has been transplanted onto a legally blind patient’s eye, successfully restoring their sight.

That’s from Rambam Eye Institute in Haifa, Israel, which worked with a company called Precise Bio that specializes in regenerative tech and bio-fabricated tissues. This procedure, completed towards the end of October, involved a corneal implant grown entirely from cultured, living human corneal cells, rather than donor tissue.

This is a big deal because it could help millions of people around the world at risk of sight loss owing to corneal blindness. The cornea can be damaged from injury, infections, or genetic disorders. Corneal transplant surgeries have a high success rate (around 97%) and donor tissue is easily available in some developed countries like the US where you typically only need to wait a few days for a procedure – but it can take years in other countries that don’t have eye banks and centralized infrastructure to make tissue available on demand. https://www.youtube.com/embed/MQKCJB4j0TU?enablejsapi=1

World First: A Biologically Printed Cornea – Implanted in a Woman Suffering From Blindness

What’s interesting about the 3D-printing approach used here is that a single cornea from a healthy, deceased donor was cultured in the lab to create some 300 corneal implants – which means it can be deployed to tackle donor tissue shortages at scale in countries around the world.

It’s worth noting that the 3D-printed cornea was originally developed all the way back in 2018, at Newcastle University in the UK. Precise Bio, for its part, says it developed its 3D printing system in collaboration with clinicians over the last decade. That gives us a sense of how long it takes to go from breakthrough to application.

The company noted its technology could also be used to print cardiac tissue, and liver and kidney cells. Naturally, that’ll need to be validated and trialed extensively before it can be commercialized, but this could spell relief for so many patients who need organ transplants where supply is constrained, in the coming years.

Source: Rambam Health Care Campus

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AI Overview

In November 1922, Judge Charles O’Connor denied an appeal for 

habeas corpus brought by Erskine Childers, who was facing execution. O’Connor, a judge for the Provisional Government, refused the application, citing the civil war as a state of war that invalidated the need for the order, which would have challenged the military’s jurisdiction. Childers was executed three days later, before a further appeal could be heard. 

• The Appeal: Childers’s legal counsel sought a habeas corpus order to challenge the validity of the military court that had sentenced him to death.
• The Judge: Judge Charles O’Connor heard the appeal.
• The Ruling: O’Connor refused the application, stating that the civil war meant a state of war existed, and martial law could not be restrained.
• The Outcome: Childers was executed on November 24, 1922, three days after the appeal was denied. His legal team had been arguing that he was a political prisoner rather than a criminal.
• The Context: The legal proceedings took place during the Irish Civil War. Childers had been convicted by a military court for possessing a pistol, which was seen as a violation of emergency powers. He had been a prominent anti-treaty politician.
• The Controversy: Some critics argue that O’Connor’s judgment was inconsistent with other rulings, and that he should have challenged the irregular nature of the military jurisdiction more directly.
• The Aftermath: Childers’s son, the future president Erskine Hamilton Childers, was tasked with shaking the hands of the men who signed his father’s death warrant as a tribute to his father’s memory. 

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ROBOTS FOR GOOD

Robots rebuild Pompeii’s shattered frescoes

Image source: RePAIR

The Rundown: Robots are piecing together Pompeii’s shattered frescoes — one fragment at a time. The RePAIR project deploys machine vision and pattern-matching algorithms to reassemble thousands of broken artifacts gathering dust in storerooms.

The details:

The system scans and digitizes fragments, then uses AI to detect subtle patterns that human eyes miss across thousands of pieces. Robotic arms handle the delicate reassembly work that once took conservators years to complete manually. Installed at Pompeii’s Casina Rustica, the robot has already restored frescoes from the House of the Painters at Work and the gladiators’ training hall. The system is designed to augment, not replace, human experts — handling the puzzle work so archaeologists can focus on higher-level interpretation.

Why it matters: RePAIR represents a rare leap from digital to physical. While major museums use AI for restoration, few systems actually reassemble physical fragments robotically. If RePAIR proves scalable beyond Pompeii’s frescoes to mosaics, pottery, and statues, it could unlock millions of artifacts gathering dust in museum storerooms