The brilliant “train” in the night sky that is SpaceX’s first 60 Starlink satellites has wowed some skywatchers, but it also sparked concern among some astronomers wondering what so many visible satellites could mean for scientific observing. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, it seems, is listening. Musk wrote on Twitter today (May 27) that he’s already […]
Did you know that in every U.S. state a portion of population doesn’t have access to broadband internet, and that some have no internet connection at all? According to the Federal Communications Commission, that is more than 24 million Americans, or about 8% of the population. Globally, things are much worse. As of April 2019, […]
The big news this week was actually the fallout from Trump’s decision to add Huawei to the known entity list last week. The dominoes started falling when Google revoked Huawei’s access to Android on Sunday. Since then, Qualcomm, Intel, Arm, the SD Association, the Wi-Fi Alliance, and others have cut ties with the Chinese company […]
A very big asteroid with its own little moon is going to zip past Earth tonight. This moon-and-asteroid system, called 1999 KW4, is made up of two rocks. The big one is about 0.8 miles (1.3 kilometers) wide, according to NASA, and shaped like a spinning top. The smaller one is more elongated and stretches […]
Cooling, or air conditioning, is more complicated than heating. According to the US Department of Energy, heating and cooling systems emit over a half billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year. Also, most of our buildings made of the concrete, whose production is a major source of carbon emissions. And once it’s […]
Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China. This familiar line on the back of iPhones has summed up the world order for the past two decades: American innovation married with low-cost Chinese manufacturing to deliver cheap, quality products for the world. But as China pursues its own tech ambitions, a threatened US is moving […]
A beloved Georgia mailman received the surprise of his life after he recently retired. Floyd Martin became a viral sensation this week when an article and Twitter thread about his last day on the job as a mail carrier caught national attention. He had worked the same route in downtown Marietta for two decades. One […]
Fiat Chrysler hasn’t been on the cutting edge of automotive change as of late. Unless you count concepts like the Centoventi, the company hasn’t done much with EVs — and its support for autonomy mostly involves supplying minivans to Waymo. The automaker might make a huge deal that could prepare it for the future, though. […]
Humans have yet to even step foot on Mars, but architects are already designing homes people can live in on the distant planet for NASA. AI SpaceFactory, a “multi-planetary architectural and technology design agency” in New York City, designed a habitat called “Marsha,” which can be 3D-printed using materials available on the Red Planet. The […]
The fallout from President Donald Trump’s Huawei crackdown may fall hardest on his rural base, already suffering from his earlier aggressive trade moves. The Commerce Department’s decision last week to put the Chinese telecom giant on a trade blacklist is causing panic among small wireless providers, many of them in Trump-friendly parts of the country, […]
SpaceX has raised over $1 billion in new capital this year as it embarks on the deployment of its Starlink broadband constellation, according to regulatory filings published Friday. The launch provider turned satellite operator raised $486.2 million in one round, and $535.7 million in another, the company said in May 24 filings to the U.S. […]
The Web site for Fortune 500 real estate title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. [NYSE:FAF] leaked hundreds of millions of documents related to mortgage deals going back to 2003, until notified this week by KrebsOnSecurity. The digitized records — including bank account numbers and statements, mortgage and tax records, Social Security numbers, wire transaction […]
