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The big picture: The NBA is the third major U.S. sports league, following Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League, to sign commercial partnerships with Kalshi and Polymarket, calling them its “Preferred Prediction Market Exchanges.” MLS also has an exclusive partnership with Polymarket through its commercial arm Soccer United Marketing. The NBA said the … Read more

Researchers in the US have developed a modeling approach that could allow nuclear power plants to adjust electricity production to changing grid demand without repeatedly reducing reactor output. The system combines molten salt reactors with thermal energy storage, allowing excess heat to be stored when power needs are low and used to generate additional energy … Read more

So much internet p0rn: The demand for data processing is increasing rapidly and traditional communication standards are no longer up to the task. Thanks to a novel engineering approach, a Chinese team is developing fiber optic technology that could potentially solve the data speed problem for a while and more. A joint initiative by Chinese … Read more

Researchers have developed a low-cost catalyst for the production of green hydrogen that operates within 50 millivolts of a ruthenium-based benchmark during oxygen evolution, providing a potential alternative to catalysts made from rare and expensive precious metals. ​The team developed catalysts using nickel and iron oxides anchored to carbon nanofibers grown on a conductive two-dimensional … Read more

Short: DoorDash is reportedly in late-stage talks with Instacart to acquire the popular grocery delivery service in a deal worth around $17 billion. An announcement could come as early as midweek, sources said, who also warned that nothing had been finalized and the deal could still fall apart. Instacart was also recently linked to rumors … Read more

Innovation is often described as a breakthrough. In practice it is slower, messier and far less predictable. This category examines how new ideas actually go from concept to implementation and why many don’t make it very far. Interesting Engineering’s coverage includes new technologies, novel manufacturing methods, and unconventional approaches to long-standing problems. But the focus … Read more

Short: Apple’s slow decline in new product releases continues Tuesday with the launch of an updated MacBook Pro with the company’s new M6 processor. The chip consists of a 12-core CPU, a 12-core GPU with neural accelerators in each core, a dual 16-core Neural Engine for AI workloads, and unified memory for faster overall performance. … Read more