Elon Musk's space company, SpaceX, has deployed the first 60 satellites in what will eventually become a vast network providing high-speed broadband services around the globe.
The dead may outnumber the living on Facebook within 50 years, a trend that will have grave implications for how we treat our digital heritage in the future.
The Argonne National Laboratory has revealed plans for "Aurora", the first exascale supercomputer in the U.S. It will be capable of one quintillion floating point operations per second.