Weekly roundup — human innovation beyond the daily AI beat. Big science, transport, space, energy, viral tech stories. Populist, "Huge If True" register.
Frontier Week 5 (Nov 9–13) — Huang resigns at NVIDIA, Starship attempts the first-ever full double catch tonight, a 12-hour Microsoft 365 outage grounds corporate Earth, plus Long Mott's industrial-reactor permit, DUNE starts assembling steel, Rust turns 1.100, and metamaterials learn network science.
Frontier Week 4 — Alice & Bob shrink RSA-breaking to 22,593 cat qubits while Weizmann proves the physics underneath, IBM treats error correction as an HPC problem, LHCb opens the zeptoverse, Waymo adds 250 square miles, and fusion gets a 12-tonne box of heat.
Frontier Week 3 — Intel's $2.3B Classiq buy makes quantum a product line, CAR-T cells learn to stay quiet until they reach the brain, solar finds a loophole in a 160-year-old trade-off, and batteries, neutrinos and one record-breaking heist fill in the rest.
"Frontier Week #2: AI out-diagnoses doctors in Science, a 31-year-old maths conjecture falls to human-directed agents, dark energy hints at change, humanoids sign a factory contract, and a superconducting chip reads fusion plasma live."
