The Oxford University Press word of the year for 2025 was "rage bait," explained as "online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative, or offensive, typically posted in order to increase traffic to or engagement with a particular web page or social media content.”To get in on this action, we will make our bold predictions for 2026 - with our own more measured take.

Happy New Year! 2025 was a dynamic year for the high-tech sector, including AI, space, quantum, and PNT, the areas where Xairos play. Here's our perspective:

The foundational need to know our location and time is at the heart of position, navigation, and timing (PNT) infrastructure. For the last half century, PNT and GPS (the US Global Positioning System) have been interchangeable; there are 8 billion GPS receivers in the world – one for every person on Earth - and GPS pervades all aspects of our lives: our location on digital maps and ridesharing apps, commercial and airline navigation, the timestamp on ATM, credit card and stock

The Space Race - It has been 80 years since mankind first slipped the surly bonds of Earth at the tail end of World War II, 68 years and 64 years since the first satellite and human in space, respectively, and 56 years since “one small step for man” on the moon. This breakneck pace of achievement had its own Manhattan Project, spurred by a World War and a Cold War.In those early years, space was the domain of governments. The early space race was between enemies that didn’t w

Our relationship to time has always advanced in lockstep with technology. Our ancestors cared about seasons, so created calendars tied to...

Drones have been around for decades, military conflicts have accelerated their capabilities but, they have an Achilles heel

Of all the talk about the benefits of AI, there is an ugly downside it has an insatiable appetite for data, manpower, energy, and water.

GPS is the gold standard for many reasons but independance from GPS is coming, and no declaration is required.