Science & Technology — September 25, 2026
Meta debuts keychain AI agent device. Meta unveiled the Muse Charm, a keychain-sized AI agent device shipping in December, beating OpenAI to consumer AI hardware and riding Gen Z’s retro-gadget-as-fashion trend.
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U.S. faces worst measles outbreak since 1991. Four unvaccinated people died in Pennsylvania in recent weeks, state officials said. The U.S. is enduring its worst outbreak of the highly contagious disease since 1991.
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Google sends AI chips to orbit. Project Suncatcher’s first orbital data-center test launches October 1, sending four of Google’s TPU AI chips to space to gauge how compute hardware fares in orbit.
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Largest new impact crater found on moon. Astronomers identified the largest newly formed impact crater ever documented in the solar system — spanning more than two football fields — on the lunar surface.
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