Brad Temkin “State of Water”

Dealerships say they’re getting busier as the Iran war and the shipping crisis at the Strait of Hormuz drag on.

The Gulf’s water system is built with layers of backup, but it relies on continuous operation to hold.

Even before the headset’s release, the workforce at Apple Stores was under duress. Trying to get customers interested in the Vision Pro made it worse.

As strikes continue on Iran’s nuclear facilities, the real danger isn’t the explosion, but what happens if critical safety systems fail—and how that risk could spread across the Gulf.

“This will be so, so, so, so, so bad,” one analyst says.

Vessels are increasingly being abandoned during the war on Iran, revealing a hidden failure in the global systems that keep goods—and people—moving.

The crew of Artemis II will not descend to the moon, but their capsule will fly over the far side of its surface.

The moon is not just a barren rock orbiting the Earth. The Artemis missions could answer the great unknowns that the satellite holds.

Entire space programs have been canceled after a failure in the reentry phase. In the final test for Artemis II, astronauts will travel at 32 times the speed of sound as they return from the moon.

After weeks of disruption, a ceasefire is easing pressure on the Strait of Hormuz. But backlogs, infrastructure damage, and delayed supply mean the system won’t return to normal overnight.

When Syrian government accounts were hijacked in March, the breach looked chaotic. But it revealed something more troubling: a state struggling with the most basic layer of cybersecurity.

A massive Western heat wave and a potential El Niño event raise concerns about a long stretch of unpredictable and extreme weather.