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While SpaceX Starship’s major milestone of Mechzilla successfully catching a Super Heavy booster garnered most of the attention following the spacecraft’s fifth test flight, the space agency’s nighttime ocean splashdown of its Starship was also an impressive sight to watch.
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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang had high praise to offer for Elon Musk and his team at xAI, calling them "superhuman." In an interview with YouTube channel BG2 Pod, Huang remarked that Elon's specific combination of engineering smarts and project management is "singular", and credited both the X owner and NVIDIA's own...
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SpaceX completed its fifth test flight of its Starship spacecraft and its Super Heavy booster rocket today. Among the objectives for the test flight was the return and catch of the Super Heavy booster by the launch and catch infrastructure at SpaceX Starbase in Texas, known as Mechzilla.
Elon Musk made a bold claim...
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Elon Musk announced Tesla’s future in terms of robotaxis and C3PO-type home robots during a special event last night broadcast on X. One highlight of the event was the robovan, which can seat up to 20 passengers, and can be adapted to commercial or personal use such as a school bus, RV, or cargo van.
Robotaxis are...
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Elon Musk made a bold claim on X that SpaceX plans to launch about five uncrewed Starships to Mars in two years. Musk noted that if all uncrewed missions land safely on the Red Planet, crewed missions are possible in four years’ time. However, according to Musk, that timeline could be threatened by the bureaucratic...
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That's right: the photo above is Neuralink’s second brain chip implant patient showing off his newly acquired Jedi mind tricks while playing a round of Counter-Strike 2. The patient, only known as Alex, has been undergoing a smooth recovery, according to Neuralink, and has been improving his ability to play video...
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Tesla wants to pay humans up to $48 an hour to suit up in a motion capture suit to help train its Optimus humanoid robot. Candidates need to be able to walk 7+ hours a day while carrying up to 30lbs, and need to be within a certain height range in order to work with the motion capture suit.
Humanoid robots have...
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Social media platform X is now beginning to use data generated by its users to train Grok, the company’s AI search assistant. This update to its policy, which isn't the first policy change this year, was shared on the official X Safety account, where it says “all X users have the ability to control whether their...
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NASA has awarded Elon Musk’s SpaceX company with a sizable $843 million contract to develop the deorbit spacecraft that will guide the International Space Station (ISS) in a controlled manner to its demise at the end of its operational life. The deorbit spacecraft is expected to burn up upon reentry into Earth’s...
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A Neuralink brain chip implant has been experiencing issues since it was installed in the brain of a 29-year-old patient. While the brain-computer interface (BCI) has since given the implantee improved quality-of-life, Neuralink has reported that some of the device's "threads" have retracted from the patient's brain...
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Tesla just announced sweeping job cuts to its global workforce taking many employees by surprise. More than ten percent of its employees will be laid off effective immediately in a bid to reduce operational costs and boost productivity. This partly comes from a slew of disappointing market performances—from poor...
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Neuralink’s first patient showed off his Jedi mind tricks on Elon Musk’s X platform via a livestream. During the livestream, 29-year-old Nolan Arbaugh said he has been able to play chess and Civilization VI thanks to the Neuralink brain implant.
Arbaugh was chosen as the first human trial patient to receive a...
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Sources familiar with the project say SpaceX entered into a classified contract with a US intelligence agency to build a network of spy satellites. The new venture is believed to fall under a $1.8 billion contract signed with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), an intelligence agency that oversees the operation...
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Elon Musk inches ever closer to making X/Twitter the everything app he dreamed of, with the addition of audio and video calling directly within the app. Users of X should know as the feature rolls out to non-premium users on Android and iOS, the default is set to allow anyone who follows them to give them a...
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Elon Musk, of SpaceX, brain-computer interface, and Tesla fame, is struggling with a fresh Windows 11 install on a new laptop per recent postings on X, formerly Twitter. Musk is getting swiftly ratio’d by nerds on his social media platform using the community notes feature, however, explaining that he is wrong about...
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Google has had to put the brakes on its Gemini AI text-to-image generation when it comes to humans. The controversy erupted on social media this week, with Google confirming its most powerful AI offering ever was indeed creating images with historical “inaccuracies.”
The launch of Gemini seemed to go well for...
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According to Elon Musk, the first human patient implanted with a brain chip from Neuralink can now control a mouse cursor by simply thinking about it. Musk also added that the patient appears to have fully recovered from the procedure that took place last month.
Neuralink gained permission to begin screening for...
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The Jack Dorsey funded social network Bluesky has finally opened its doors to everyone, but is it too late for it to overcome X/Twitter? Bluesky became available for everyone yesterday, ending the long waitlist and invite-only registrations.
While Bluesky, a decentralized microblogging platform launched by former...
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Neuralink, founded by Elon Musk, has announced that its first human patient has received a brain-computer interface (BCI) implant. The procedure uses a surgical robot to place the BCI implant via a needle that is thinner than a human hair.
The company received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration to...
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Elon Musk's SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 first-stage booster for what would be a record-breaking 19th mission. The launch occurred just after midnight on December 23, 2023, and successfully added 23 Starlink satellites to its network constellation.
Starlink mission 6-32 launched from the Space Launch Complex 40...
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Tesla’s highly anticipated Cybertruck made its retail debut by blowing the doors off a Porsche 911, and doing it while towing a Porsche. Elon Musk shared the video of the race about an hour after the first customer received their very own Cybertruck.
Tesla’s Cybertruck has seen its share of highs and lows...
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As NASA prepares to send humans back to the moon and later onto Mars, researchers say males making the long journey in space may run into a problem. A new study has found that deep space missions where astronauts exposed to high levels of galactic cosmic radiation (GCR) and microgravity might be highly subject to...
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