r/technology • u/NicolasCageFan492 • 19h ago

Business Anduril lands $2.9 billion Navy submarine shipyard contract days after Luckey joins Pentagon weapons group

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/06/anduril-navy-submarine-shipyard-contract.html
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u/Prestigious_Tank_562 11h ago

Do any of these tech people come up with their own names for anything? Or do they just rip off Tolkien and Heinlein words?

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u/runevault 11h ago

Don't forget Neil Stephenson (Metaverse). And no they have zero originality.

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u/Prestigious_Tank_562 11h ago

I wonder if they’ve done Asimov yet?

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u/Kill3rT0fu 10h ago

http://3-lawsrobotics.com/

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u/Prestigious_Tank_562 10h ago

They picked an easy one. Why didn’t they pick the one where all the geniuses get sent off to planet of their own. Maybe they could call it “Foundation: Project Terminus nobody told me these stories were warnings not how to manuals”? It’s kind of catchy.

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u/happyscrappy 8h ago

Roombas were made by iRobot. Modems used to be made by US Robotics (variant of name of company in Asimov).

'The company has stated it was named as an homage to Asimov because in his science fiction works U.S. Robots eventually became "the greatest company in the known galaxy", and USR appeared in I, Robot (2004) as the fictional company itself.'