OpenAI has announced its latest AI reasoning models, o3 and o3-mini, which aim to tackle complex problems with greater precision and efficiency. These models represent a significant leap in AI capabilities, building on the foundation set by the o1 series […]
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OpenAI has introduced a new way to access ChatGPT, blending retro charm with modern convenience. With the launch of 1-800-CHATGPT, users can now dial in from a landline or smartphone to interact with the AI assistant, opening up accessibility to […]
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NVIDIA on Tuesday unveiled the Jetson Orin Nano Super, a compact AI and robotics processor that delivers impressive performance in a small package. Dubbed “the world’s most affordable generative AI computer,” the processor has the ability to handle 70 trillion […]
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The first batch of Internet satellites for China's Guowang megaconstellation launched Monday on the country's heavy-lift Long March 5B rocket.
The satellites are the first of up to 13,000 spacecraft a consortium of Chinese companies plans to build and launch over the next decade. The Guowang fleet will beam low-latency high-speed Internet signals in an architecture similar to SpaceX's Starlink network, although Chinese officials haven't laid out any specifics, such as target markets, service specifications, or user terminals.
The Long March 5B rocket took off from Wenchang Space Launch Site on Hainan Island, China's southernmost province, at 5:00 am EST (10:00 UTC) Monday. Ten liquid-fueled engines powered the rocket off the ground with 2.4 million pounds of thrust, steering the Long March 5B on a course south from Wenchang into a polar orbit.
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Email has been a cornerstone of communication for decades, but it’s no secret that using it often feels more frustrating than it should. Whether it’s tangled conversation threads, messy formatting, or bloated features, platforms like Gmail haven’t evolved to match […]
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Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI announced on Saturday that the latest version of its Grok-2 chatbot is now available at no cost to all users of the social media platform X. “Over the past few weeks we have been quietly testing […]
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Grammarly has long been the go-to for grammar and style assistance, with millions relying on it for everything from clarity improvements to plagiarism checks. But on Tuesday, OpenAI officially introduced Canvas, a new collaborative split-screen writing tool, making it available […]
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Google has unveiled Willow, its latest quantum chip, marking a significant leap in quantum computing. This breakthrough chip addresses one of the field’s biggest hurdles: reducing errors as systems scale up. With Willow, Google claims to have solved a 30-year […]
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Ten months after first teasing Sora, OpenAI’s innovative video-generation model, the company has officially launched it. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced the launch of Sora, stating that the platform is now available alongside a new product designed to complement it. In […]
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Russia holds about 8% of the world’s uranium resources, yet it mines only around 5% of the global supply, as of 2021. Despite its smaller production scale, Russia dominates more critical stages of the nuclear fuel cycle. Currently, it stands […]
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Two spacecraft developed by the European Space Agency launched on top of an Indian rocket Thursday, kicking off a mission to test novel formation flying technologies and observe a rarely seen slice of the Sun's ethereal corona.
ESA's Proba-3 mission is purely experimental. The satellites are loaded with sophisticated sensors and ranging instruments to allow the two spacecraft to orbit the Earth in lockstep with one another. Proba-3 will attempt to achieve millimeter-scale precision, several orders of magnitude better than the requirements for a spacecraft closing in for docking at the International Space Station.
"In a nutshell, it’s an experiment in space to demonstrate a new concept, a new technology that is technically challenging," said Damien Galano, Proba-3's project manager.
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Just three months after rolling out a new line of AI models designed to process information more thoughtfully, OpenAI has introduced O1. Described as “the smartest model in the world,” O1 is not only faster but also packed with new […]
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Space startup SpinLaunch is fundraising again, though a source tells TechCrunch that it was exploring raising a significantly more ambitious sum earlier this year. The company has closed an $11.5 million round out of a planned $25 million, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. SpinLaunch confirmed funding to TechCrunch, but […]
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China's new Long March 12 rocket made a successful inaugural flight Saturday, placing two experimental satellites into orbit and testing uprated, higher-thrust engines that will allow a larger Chinese launcher in development to send astronauts to the Moon.
The 203-foot-tall (62-meter) Long March 12 rocket lifted off at 9:25 am EST (14:25 UTC) Saturday from the Wenchang commercial launch site on Hainan Island, China's southernmost province. This was also the first rocket launch from a new commercial spaceport at Wenchang, consisting of two launch sites a short distance from a pair of existing launch pads used by heavier rockets primarily geared for government missions.
The two-stage rocket delivered two technology demonstration satellites into a near-circular 50-degree-inclination orbit with an average altitude of nearly 650 miles (about 1,040 kilometers), according to US military tracking data.
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Welcome to Edition 7.21 of the Rocket Report! We're publishing the Rocket Report a little early this week due to the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States. We don't expect any Thanksgiving rocket launches this year, but still, there's a lot to cover from the last six days. It seems like we've seen the last flight of the year by SpaceX's Starship rocket. A NASA filing with the Federal Aviation Administration requests approval to fly an aircraft near the reentry corridor over the Indian Ocean for the next Starship test flight. The application suggests the target launch date is January 11, 2025.
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Another grim first in Ukraine. For the first time in warfare, Russia launched an Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile against a target in Ukraine, Ars reports. This attack on November 21 followed an announcement from Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier the same week that the country would change its policy for employing nuclear weapons in conflict. The IRBM, named Oreshnik, is the longest-range weapon ever used in combat in Europe and could be refitted to carry nuclear warheads on future strikes.
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Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, is set to launch a game studio aimed at “making games great again.” This move signals an effort to bring advanced AI technology into the gaming industry, potentially reshaping development processes and player experiences. In […]
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When you compare SpaceX to the world's other space enterprises, it's probably easier to list the things SpaceX hasn't done instead of reciting all of the company's achievements.
One of these is the launch of nuclear materials. SpaceX has launched a handful of planetary science missions for NASA, but these spacecraft have all used solar arrays to generate electricity. In this century, NASA's probes relying on nuclear power have all flown on rockets built by United Launch Alliance (ULA), a 50-50 joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin.
This is about to change with a $256.6 million contract NASA awarded to SpaceX on Monday. The contract covers launch services and related costs for SpaceX to launch Dragonfly, a rotorcraft designed to explore the alien environment of Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
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For years, retail investing has been shaped by established names like E*TRADE and Vanguard. Now, a new player, Aries, has entered the fintech scene, launching its brokerage and trading platform on the premium domain Aries.com after starting on TradeAries.com. The […]
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Fhenix, an Israeli startup focused on building a privacy-centric blockchain platform, has announced a major upgrade to its testnet, Nitrogen. The update introduces enhanced decryption capabilities and features designed to improve decentralization, usability, and performance. As an Ethereum Layer 2 […]
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