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Nyx Capsule Aims for ISS After Parachute Setback
Overview Last month, The Exploration Company’s prototype reentry capsule Mission Possible achieved a controlled ...

Rocket Report: Europe Boosts Launch Autonomy, SpaceX Changes Plans
All the news that's fit to lift — Edition 8.03, updated with recent developments ...

Amazon’s Project Kuiper: Insights on SpaceX Falcon 9 Collaboration
Updated Jul 16, 2025 — Enhanced coverage including propulsion systems, launch strategy, and regulatory ...

GOP Crypto Bills May Spark Financial Crisis
Updated: August 2025 – With Congress racing to pass the GENIUS and CLARITY Acts, ...

Grok 4’s Behavior: xAI’s Chatbot and Elon Musk’s Controversial Views
Updated August 2025: After widespread scrutiny, xAI has begun rolling out patches to Grok ...

DIY Entrepreneurs Create Prime-One: A Comcast Challenger
Background: Frustration with Cable Broadband Samuel Herman and Alexander Baciu, brothers-in-law and co-founders of ...

Rocket Report: SpaceX Plans, China’s Launch Pad, Global Updates
Next week marks the 50th anniversary of NASA’s Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, the first joint ...

xAI Launches Grok 4 Amid Antisemitic Output Controversy
Overview of the Release On July 10, 2025, Elon Musk and his AI startup ...

Ars Live Recap: Climate Science in a Changing World
Updated with deeper technical detail, recent observations, and expanded context. Introduction and Background In ...

Varda’s W-Series Spacecraft for In-Space Manufacturing
After four successful orbital flights in 2024–2025, California’s Varda Space Industries has secured a ...

AI Hallucinations Drive Innovation: Soundslice’s ASCII Tab Importer
On Monday, sheet music platform Soundslice announced the launch of an ASCII tab importer—a ...

Yaccarino Leaves X After Grok AI Backlash: Analysis
"Opportunity of a lifetime" – After two turbulent years leading X Corp., former NBCUniversal ...

Northwood Space Launches Next-Gen Satellite Gateway
Introduction In a milestone test this July, Northwood Space successfully demonstrated its second-generation Portal ...

Europe’s Launcher Challenge: Analysis of Five Startups
The European Space Agency (ESA) has taken a decisive step toward revitalizing Europe’s launch ...

Reinforcement Learning and the LLM Capability Explosion
In the spring of 2023, projects like BabyAGI and AutoGPT captivated developers by attempting ...

Foom & Doom 1: Brain-in-a-Box Revisited
This article is the first installment in a two-part series on AI “foom” (this ...

Rocket Report: Japan’s H2A Exits; SpaceX Tokens; Europe’s Themis Reusability
Welcome to Edition 8.01 of the Rocket Report—expanded with deeper technical analysis, expert commentary, ...

Meta’s AI Superintelligence Mirrors Metaverse Misstep
Introduction In a recent all-hands memo, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled an ambitious roadmap ...

Rice in Next-Gen Non-Alcoholic Beers: A Technical Overview
Introduction As global demand for low- and non-alcoholic beers surges—projected to exceed $30 billion ...

Nothing Phone 3 Launches July 15 with Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
Carl Pei’s Nothing is back in the flagship arena with the Nothing Phone 3, ...

Blue Origin’s New Glenn 2 to Launch NASA’s Mars Mission
Blue Origin is accelerating preparations for the second flight of its New Glenn rocket, ...

Neural Prosthesis Enables Instant Thought-to-Speech Conversion
Introduction Recent advances in brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are edging us closer to a fully ...

Octopus-Inspired Robots Achieve Adaptive Grip
Introduction Nature continues to inspire breakthroughs in robotics and materials science. Octopuses, with their ...

Rocket Report: SpaceX Starship Clash and Industry Review
Flying High: Midyear Reflection As we pass the halfway mark of 2025, the launch ...

Moderna’s mRNA-1010 Flu Vaccine Outperforms Standard Vaccine
By Tech Reporter, Jul 1, 2025 Overview of Phase 3 Trial Results Moderna’s investigational ...

Apophis Flyby: Will NASA Miss This Opportunity?
Missing Out on a Once-in-Millennia Experiment In April 2029, the 370-meter asteroid Apophis will ...

Senate Defeats Cruz’s AI Preemption Plan 99-1
In a rare display of near-unanimity, the US Senate voted 99 to 1 on ...

Inside Anthropic’s Book-Scanning Operation for AI Training
Follow the Paper Trail New court filings reveal that Anthropic, the AI startup behind ...

European Spacecraft Reentry Test Loses Contact
The Exploration Company’s inaugural Mission Possible capsule successfully powered its payloads in orbit and ...

Evaluating Amazon’s Launch Providers for Project Kuiper
Project Kuiper's Ongoing Launch Campaigns For the second time in two months, United Launch ...