When the rocket failed in January, pieces of it flew through the sky and fell on parts of Turks and Caicos. SpaceX is going to launch its Starship megarocket on its next test flight on Monday. This will be about six weeks after the last test flight, when the upper stage of the vehicle blew…
The company that makes GPU chips is now one of the most closely watched in the world as a sign of how AI investments are doing and how the stock market is doing in general. Wall Street has rarely been so focused on one company’s earnings report as a “make-or-break” moment for the market as…
NASA this week revised the estimated probability of an impact to just 0.28%, down from 3.1%. The astronomer who invented the scale used to measure such risks explains the dizzying shifts. An asteroid between 130 and 300 feet wide has a slight chance of hitting Earth in 2032 — but the precise odds have been…
People like Elon Musk say that two NASA astronauts were left on the space station because of “political reasons” after their Boeing spacecraft had trouble, but this is not true. Elon Musk and Andreas Mogensen, a European astronaut, hit each other online after Musk said in a recent interview that two NASA workers were left…
The Artificial Analysis Quality Index says that Grok-3 does better than models from Google, Anthropic, and Meta. Elon Musk’s AI company has released its newest model, which makes big claims, such as being able to do better than the best models from the US and China. Musk’s company, xAI, which was formed in March 2023,…
Along with the “deferred resignation” program that the Trump administration has offered to federal workers who agree to quit later this year in return for still being paid for a few more months, a lot of people have been fired. The White House says that as of Wednesday, about 75,000 people had taken the offer….
