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title: "The Download: a new hunt for dark matter and Kenya’s case for going solar"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-download-a-new-hunt-for-dark-matter-and-kenya-s-case-for-going-solar-hornvd4hy
source_url: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/18/1139261/the-download-dark-matter-hunt-kenya-solar-power
type: article
source: "MIT Technology Review"
published: 2026-06-18T12:21:59.715Z
updated: 2026-06-18T12:23:37.591Z
tags: ["ai", "deepseek", "grok"]
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# The Download: a new hunt for dark matter and Kenya’s case for going solar

**[MIT Technology Review](https://daily.dev/sources/technologyreview)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

MIT Technology Review's daily newsletter covers: physicists expanding dark matter searches beyond WIMPs to quantum sensors and liquid-helium detectors after hitting the 'neutrino fog' barrier; Kenyan entrepreneurs adopting off-grid solar power for grain milling; geoengineering's unsolved engineering challenges; the Pentagon's claim it used xAI's Grok in strikes on Iran; Apple raising prices due to memory chip shortages; American developers switching to cheaper Chinese AI like DeepSeek; two-thirds of Americans believing AI is advancing too fast; and a potential SpaceX-Tesla megamerger.

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