Vandenberg Space Force Base in California is set to become SpaceX’s busiest launch site—for now. It is far too soon to mention retirement, but astute observers of the space industry have noticed SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket is not launching as often as it used to. The decline is…
TSMC backs renewables during record demand for energy-hungry chip manufacturing. Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC is raking in record profits during the AI boom—but it is also racing to help Taiwan develop wind power and other energy alternatives to fossil fuels amid a global energy crisis. The chipmaker has signed a…
Move comes as CCP Games spends $120M to go independent, rebrands as Fenris Creations. Google’s AI-focused DeepMind division has taken a minority stake in the developer of popular sci-fi simulation EVE Online, saying it will use the game to study “intelligence in complex, dynamic, player-driven systems.” The research partnership…
NASA is serious about taking more shots on goal, but some of them need to start landing. NASA’s goal of reaching the Moon’s surface as many as 21 times over the next two and a half years will require an overhaul of the agency’s approach to buying lunar landers…
A celebration of the tweaks and customizations that make life easier at the CLI. I spend more time today than ever before interacting with terminal windows, which is something I don’t think Past Me would have believed in the early ’90s. Back then, poor MS-DOS was the staid whipping…
Without giving much away, CEO RJ Scaringe teased the idea of an R2 pickup and an R2X. We don’t have too much longer to wait for Rivian’s hotly anticipated R2 electric SUV. After cutting its teeth with the ground-breaking R1T electric pickup truck, plus the three-row SUV version (the…
Daemon Tools users: It’s time to check your machines for stealthy infections, stat. Daemon Tools, a widely used app for mounting disk images, has been backdoored in a monthlong compromise that has pushed malicious updates from the servers of its developer, researchers said Tuesday. Kaspersky, the security firm reporting…
Google’s smart home ecosystem is getting its biggest update since the AI-fueled 2025 revamp. Google launched its big AI-fueled redesign of Google Home late last year, and it has been adding features here and there ever since. Today, the company announced a bigger update that might take care of…
We tour Ford’s top-secret Electric Vehicle Development Center in California. LONG BEACH, Calif.—2026 is a strange time for electric vehicles in the US. The current administration has no desire to push for their adoption and has rescinded the federal tax credit on which EV sales have depended for years.…
The Dutch road authority will ask other EU regulators to approve the driver assist. Following last year’s Tesla shareholder vote, CEO Elon Musk’s near-incomprehensible wealth is now inextricably linked in part to the number of active “FSD” subscriptions his electric car company can sign up. And last month, the…
