Indrajitsingh

Building OS layer for planetary weather intelligence. Multi-sensor EO fusion, data assimilation, neural mesoscale forecasting, climate risk infrastructure. 🇪🇺

[Indrajitsingh @indrajit1]

https://t.co/rSPoVVJopL

[Copernicus EMS @CopernicusEMS]

🔴Update on #VenezuelaEarthquake #EMSR884🇻🇪

Since its activation, our #MappingTeam has supported disaster relief efforts by delivering a total of 25 maps to assess the damage

🔗https://t.co/8WJY7Pbm2v

🔽Detail from the #Caraballeda Area of Interest, North of #Caracas

[Axios @axios]

Remembering Om Malik https://t.co/mGFIfvMVnH

[nature @Nature]

A Chinese supercomputer has topped the list of the world’s fastest computers

https://t.co/asQQu5nu2x

[Yohan @yohaniddawela]

There's now a free website that lets you watch any city on Earth sprawl outward twice a year for a decade, and then shows you exactly where it grew into danger.

Picture a family moving to the edge of a fast-growing city. The land is cheap because it floods, or because the ground beneath it is slowly sinking, or because it bakes in summer heat the city centre never sees. Nobody planned for them to be there. The city simply spread outward faster than anyone was watching, and by the time the danger is obvious the houses are already full of people who can't easily leave.

That gap between how fast a city grows and how slowly we measure it is the problem a new free tool sets out to close. The German Aerospace Center, MindEarth, the European Space Agency and the World Bank built it together and launched it at World Bank headquarters in Washington. ESA's Fabio Cian described it as space agencies, industry and development partners designing the answer side by side. The result is the World Settlement Footprint Tracker, and what it does is simple to say and pretty difficult to pull off.

It watches cities grow from orbit. Every six months, continuously from 2016 to 2026, it maps where human settlement exists and where it has just spread, at a resolution of ten metres. That's roughly one pixel per small building plot. So instead of one static snapshot of a city today and maybe a blurry one from years back, you get a decade of the city breathing outward, frame by frame, twice a year.

Then it lays that growth over danger. Five hazards, to be exact: flooding, sinking ground, earthquakes, extreme heat and cyclones. And the overlaps are stark. In Hanoi, a huge share of the past decade's expansion pushed straight into suburban flood zones, and not the shallow kind, the areas where water tends to sit deepest. In Xi'an, fresh development sprawls across ground that's projected to subside, meaning the buildings going up now sit on land that is forecast to drop out from under them. The same lens covers Bangkok, New Cairo, Goma, Pucallpa, Chengdu, Warsaw, Cologne and more, and anyone can open it, zoom in and download the numbers for free.

Why this matters comes down to timing. Roughly two in three people will live in cities by 2050, which means the buildings that will house that surge are being sited right now, this decade, often in places where growth and hazard are colliding before anyone has drawn the comparison on a map.

Steering a new neighbourhood away from a floodplain is cheap. Moving one after it's built, or rebuilding it after a disaster, is ruinously expensive, and that bill usually lands on the people who could least afford to be there.

More info here: https://t.co/mS3ihfepLi

[Mark Litwintschik @marklit82]

Umbra have blanketed Caracas, Puerto Cabello & Lacero in SAR satellite imagery coverage. Latest images are a few hours old.

SAR can see at night, through clouds and through camouflage.

I wrote a post on using their S3 bucket back in 2024: https://t.co/JZE3e4HeU5

[New Scientist @newscientist]

Jessica Atkin knows more than anyone else about what it would take to supply food for a moon base. She reveals how to build a lunar farm and what astronauts can expect to dine on https://t.co/P7EnmqrK9t

[Morgan Brennan @MorganLBrennan]

Investing in space

[World Meteorological Organization @WMO]

A widespread, intense late-June heatwave in Europe has shattered numerous temperature records across the region and has major impacts on human health, ecosystems, agriculture, infrastructure and labour productivity.

Find out more: https://t.co/nOF2G7E31U

[OCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data @humdata]

⚠️NEW AI-powered damage assessment data from the AI for Good Lab at @MSFTResearch now available on HDX!

The assessments use satellite imagery from 26 June 2026 to map earthquake-affected buildings in Caraballeda, La Guaira & East Catia La Mar, Venezuela:
https://t.co/N8xXka9ehk

[Albert Gu @_albertgu]

Transformers are better at copying, while RNNs are better at modeling "meaning-bearing words—the nouns, verbs, & adjectives that say what a sentence is about"

[VentureBeat @VentureBeat]

Claude Code turned every engineer into three. Now companies need more product thinkers
https://t.co/SdB1FedibP

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Billionaire entrepreneur Baiju Bhatt shares why he dishes out $100,00 checks to his friends when they ask him to fund their business ventures.

Watch more: https://t.co/qraavcW4Da

[New Scientist @newscientist]

Jessica Atkin knows more than anyone else about what it would take to supply food for a moon base. She reveals how to build a lunar farm and what astronauts can expect to dine on https://t.co/2Ds5whUwG7

[Mark Litwintschik @marklit82]

Umbra dropped a bunch of SAR imagery of Caracas and elsewhere in Venezuela onto their open S3 bucket. I wrote a post on using that bucket back in 2024: https://t.co/JZE3e4HeU5

[Unión Europea en Venezuela 🇪🇺🇻🇪 @UEenVenezuela]

Tras el terremoto en Venezuela, el Servicio de Gestión de Emergencias @CopernicusEMS permite evaluar los daños vía satélite 🛰️ y localizar las zonas más afectadas, facilitando priorizar los recursos y el despliegue de equipos en estos momentos críticos.

https://t.co/SRkp8SrRdO

[Space Capital @SpaceCapital]

This morning, Space Capital Founder & CEO @chadsonofchad joined @CNBC's @MorganLBrennan to discuss the 2026 Space Capital Summit and what #SpaceX's historic IPO means for the future of the space economy: https://t.co/sAGX75XvTc

[Payload 🚀 @payloadspace]

.@SpaceX's impact on the space industry is much broader than the company’s own achievements. As an organization, SpaceX has acted as both a breeding ground for high-level talent, and as a launch pad for new ideas.

https://t.co/Vn1eeIpeL8

[a16z @a16z]

AI native startups run lean

Charts of the Week: https://t.co/qmjdkZzisp

[Synspective @synspective]

Our 10th StriX satellite, “Ten Owl of Ten,” successfully reached its target orbit and spread its wings🦉
Thank you, @RocketLab 🚀

Press Release: https://t.co/IDVPVJk89u

#strix #launch #success #mission #satellite

[Spire @SpireGlobal]

Some of the new heat records set:

🌡️ France reached 44.3°C (111.7°F)
🌡️ Paris recorded its hottest June temperature on record (40.9°C/105.6°F)
🌡️ El Granado, Spain, climbed to 46°C (114.8°F), setting a new June benchmark
🌡️ The U.K. broke its June temperature record with a reading of 36.9°C (98.4°F) -- shattering records on three consecutive days

Overnight temperatures stayed unusually high, limiting relief.