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On 16 March 2026, a single sprawling mid-latitude storm simultaneously buried the Upper Midwest under record-challenging snow and put 60 million people from Alabama to Maryland under high-risk tornado and 80 mph wind warnings, paralyzing travel and knocking out power across seven states.
At GTC 2026 in San Jose, CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the next-gen “Feynman” AI accelerator, open-sourced the Dynamo inference stack, launched the Nemotron model coalition, and boldly told investors Nvidia’s AI revenue could top $1 trillion by 2027—sparking a brief 5% stock pop that faded by the close.
Following a two-day Flight Readiness Review on 12-13 Mar 2026, NASA cleared the repaired SLS-Orion stack for rollout on 19 Mar and set a first launch opportunity of 1 Apr 2026 for the Artemis II crew fly-by.
Meta quietly updated Instagram’s support page to say end-to-end encrypted DMs will cease after 8 May 2026, instructing the small share of users who enabled the feature to export their chats and pivot to WhatsApp for secure messaging.
Instagram’s limited, opt-in encrypted chat option will be switched off for every user on 8 May 2026, reversing Meta’s 2023 privacy rollout amid regulatory and usage concerns.
On 13 Mar 2026, China’s National Medical Products Administration cleared Neuracle/Borui Kang’s invasive brain-computer interface for commercial sale to restore hand function in paralyzed adults— the first such regulatory approval worldwide.
After a unanimous Flight Readiness Review on 11-12 March 2026, NASA cleared Artemis II for liftoff as early as 1 April 2026, the first crewed lunar voyage since 1972.
Washington rushed a 10,000-strong fleet of Ukraine-proven Merops interceptor drones to U.S. Central Command within five days of launching joint U.S.–Israeli attacks on Iran, replacing multimillion-dollar missiles with $4-14k AI ‘drone-hunters.’
A Vienna–Zurich team reports that from 2000-2020 Earth’s rotation slowed fast enough to add 1.33 ms per century—an acceleration of day-lengthening unmatched in at least 3.6 million years.
After a unanimous Flight Readiness Review on 13 March 2026, NASA set April 1 as the first launch opportunity for Artemis II, the agency’s first crewed mission beyond low-Earth orbit since 1972.
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