Billions for Everyone From Self-Replicating Factories
Humanity needs to simplify the technology and products for our civilization but make them fully scalable and self-replicating. The technologies that we pick to scale need to be ones that…
Solar Sail Sun Satellites Could Intercept All Future Interstellar Objects
Earth orbiting satellites have the speed to counter the Earth’s gravity. The mean orbital velocity needed to maintain a stable low Earth orbit is about 7.8 km/s (4.8 mi/s), which…
Vizio agrees to pay $3 million for alleged ‘false’ refresh rate claims
A lawsuit alleged that Vizio’s claims about refresh rates can be misleading. | Image: Vizio If you bought a Vizio TV in California after April 30th, 2014, Vizio may owe…
These Were Our Favorite Tech Stories From Around the Web in 2023
Every Saturday we post a selection of articles from the week. With 2023 nearing its end, we dug through all those posts again to surface 25 stories worth revisiting. Here…
2023’s great games were overshadowed by a dark cloud of layoffs
The Verge / Photos via Getty Images Layoffs are an unfortunate reality of any industry, but the scope and scale of video game layoffs in 2023 are far beyond a…
A cat video highlighted a big year for lasers in space
Enlarge / Taters, the orange tabby cat of a Jet Propulsion Laboratory employee, stars in a video beamed from deep space by NASA’s Psyche spacecraft. The graphics illustrate several features…
SpaceX Starship Production Needs to Be 300 Per Year
The super heavy booster can be used more frequently than the ship, as it returns in about ~6 minutes and can theoretically be ready for reflght in an hour. The…
AI, Robotics, Space and Other Anticipated Technology for 2024
1. AGI could be achieved or we will get even closer. There will OpenAI releasing GPT5 and updates of Google LLM like improved Gemini. Definition’s for AI AGI = artificial…
SpaceX launches two rockets—three hours apart—to close out a record year
Enlarge / SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket lifted off Thursday night from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (credit: SpaceX) It seems like SpaceX did everything this year but launch 100…
Microsoft’s Copilot app is now available on iOS
Image: Microsoft Just days after introducing a Copilot app on Android, Microsoft has rolled out an app for its AI chatbot on iOS and iPadOS. Both versions of the app…