For many years now, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been adamant that self-driving cars don’t need radar or the laser-based imaging tech known as LIDAR, arguing that they can instead get by exclusively with a camera-based system. He’s called LIDAR…
The tech industry has largely failed to win over the public when it comes to AI. Data centers have become a hot-button topic, with the vast majority of Americans — in a still-growing bipartisan cohort — now openly opposing them.…
Canada’s largest Canadian energy project now is the Churchill Falls–Gull Island package in Labrador. It is nearly $70 billion and the largest clean-energy investment in North American history. This will be about 14,000 MW of clean power across the package.…
Cybercriminals who appear to be Chinese hackers pretended to be Anthropic researchers and former government officials in a scheme to obtain information about American AI development, according to a report from the Silicon Valley cybersecurity firm Proofpoint. Per the report,…
SpaceX Falcon 9 is roughly 15–18 t to LEO in reusable mode and ~23 t expendable, with boosters routinely flying 20+ times and the fleet doing dozens of launches per year. Falcon 9 has had 160-170 launches per year in…
The next time you find yourself paying way more than what’s warranted for McDonald’s decidedly mid-tier burgers, you may have more to blame than just faceless executives. According an investigation by Reuters, the fast food chain is using AI models…
There are not many rockets or similar rockets in a family of rockets that get to over 20 launches in a year. It is over more rare to get to over 50 launches in a year from any number of…
Trying to divine why certain people gravitate toward a particular political orientation can be a fool’s errand, with so many factors influencing ideology that it can make your head spin. However, one sociology researcher wanted to understand why Christian nationalists…
There’s no AI company in the world more obsessed with the idea that their models may be conscious than Anthropic. According to new reporting from the New York Times, the company has for months been wining and dining religious scholars…
October 1st, 2026 Google in partnership with planet labs launched a prototype satellite carrying four TPUs into orbit on SpaceX’s Transporter-18 rideshare mission. This launch is the first step of Project Suncatcher. Google is working long-term to one day host…