Apple is moving full steam ahead with plans to release its long-rumored smart glasses by the end of 2026. It’s the company’s latest move to broaden its hardware lineup and build out its AI ecosystem. According to a new report from […]
The Federal Aviation Administration gave the green light Thursday for SpaceX to launch the next test flight of its Starship mega-rocket as soon as next week, following two consecutive failures earlier this year.
The failures set back SpaceX's Starship program by several months. The company aims to get the rocket's development back on track with the upcoming launch, Starship's ninth full-scale test flight since its debut in April 2023. Starship is central to SpaceX's long-held ambition to send humans to Mars and is the vehicle NASA has selected to land astronauts on the Moon under the umbrella of the government's Artemis program.
In a statement Thursday, the FAA said SpaceX is authorized to launch the next Starship test flight, known as Flight 9, after finding the company "meets all of the rigorous safety, environmental and other licensing requirements."
Seven years after selling their online pharmacy startup PillPack to Amazon for around $1 billion, TJ Parker and Elliot Cohen are back with a new idea—this time, they’re going after the broader healthcare experience. The two just launched General Medicine, […]
On May 20, 2025, Google introduced Veo 3 at its I/O event, showcasing a major leap in AI-generated videos. Built to create hyper-realistic footage with synchronized audio, Veo 3 quickly became the talk of the internet, not for its technical […]
Back in late 2023, reports began circulating that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman had teamed up with legendary Apple designer Jony Ive and Laurene Powell Jobs on a stealth AI hardware project. Now, five months later, we’re finally getting a clearer […]
Shopify just made it a lot easier for merchants to set up an online store. The e-commerce giant on Wednesday introduced a new feature called AI Store Builder, which lets users generate a fully designed e-commerce site just by entering a […]
On May 6, OpenAI acquired AI coding startup WindSurf for $3 billion, its biggest deal yet. Less than two weeks later, Microsoft quietly open-sourced AI-native features in Visual Studio Code, making the core AI editor freely accessible and allowing forks […]
The team behind Visual Studio Code shared a major update: VS Code is officially becoming an open-source AI editor. Microsoft is making the GitHub Copilot Chat extension open source and bringing AI features directly into the core editor, all under […]
Huawei has just launched its first laptops running its own HarmonyOS, marking its biggest move yet to break free from Western tech stacks and chip restrictions. The MateBook Pro and foldable MateBook Fold Ultimate Design, revealed Monday in Chengdu, are […]
Nvidia on Monday announced a wave of updates at Computex 2025, headlined by the launch of “NVLink Fusion,” new silicon that opens its AI ecosystem to non-NVIDIA chips. The move signals a strategic shift as the company looks to strengthen […]
Mission patches are a decades-old tradition in spaceflight. They can range from the figurative to the abstract, prompting valuable insights or feeding confusion. Some are just plain weird.
Ars published a story a few months ago on spaceflight patches from NASA, SpaceX, Russia, and the NRO, the US government's spy satellite agency, which is responsible for some of the most head-scratching mission logos.
Until recently, China's entries in the realm of spaceflight patches often lacked the originality found in patches from the West. For example, a series of patches for China's human spaceflight missions used a formulaic design with a circular shape and a mix of red and blue. The patch for China's most recent Shenzhou crew to the country's Tiangong space station last month finally broke the mold with a triangular shape after China's human spaceflight agency put the patch up for a public vote.
It’s 2025, and AI is tearing down barriers, making it simpler than ever for anyone to build software. Forget the days when coding was a fortress only tech wizards could breach. Today, non-technical founders can launch apps in days, not […]
OpenAI just unveiled its latest engineering marvel: Codex, a cloud-based software engineering agent designed to write code, fix bugs, and assist developers by running multiple tasks at once—all in isolated environments tailored to your repo. “Today, we are introducing Codex. […]
Alphabet’s subscription bet is starting to pay off. Google One, the tech giant’s consumer subscription service for cloud storage and AI tools, has crossed 150 million subscribers globally, the company told Reuters. That’s a 50% jump since February 2024, when […]
The payload fairing at the top of Gilmour Space's first Eris rocket was supposed to deploy a few minutes after lifting off from northeastern Australia. Instead, the nose cone fell off the rocket hours before it was supposed to leave the launch pad Thursday.
Gilmour, the Australian startup that developed the Eris rocket, announced the setback in a post to the company's social media accounts Thursday.
"During final launch preparations last night, an electrical fault triggered the system that opens the rocket’s nose cone (the payload fairing)," Gilmour posted on LinkedIn. "This happened before any fuel was loaded into the vehicle. Most importantly, no one was injured, and early checks show no damage to the rocket or the launch pad."
Gilmour Space, a venture-backed startup based in Australia, is about to launch a small rocket from its privately owned spaceport on a remote stretch of the country's northeastern coastline.
It's the first time anyone has attempted to reach orbit with a rocket designed and built in Australia. Gilmour's three-stage rocket, named Eris, could launch at any time during a 10-hour window as soon as Friday, local time. In the United States, the launch window runs from 5:30 pm EDT Thursday until 3:30 am EDT Friday.
This comes after a 24-hour delay due to an "issue in the ground support system" for the launch, Gilmour said Wednesday.
Waterloo-based tech startup Voltra has officially launched out of stealth with a $1.8 million pre-seed round led by Contrary, alongside Hanover Capital and Velocity Fund. The company is launching its first product, Charge—a unified API platform built to simplify control […]
It’s May 13, 2025, and we’re back with your daily snapshot of the biggest funding moves shaping the global startup scene. From next-gen solid rocket motors to AI finance copilots and EV battery intelligence, today’s funding slate showcases the breadth […]
SpaceX fired six Raptor engines on the company's next Starship rocket Monday, clearing a major hurdle on the path to launch later this month on a high-stakes test flight to get the private rocket program back on track.
Starship ignited its Raptor engines Monday morning on a test stand near SpaceX's Starbase launch facility in South Texas. The engine ran for approximately 60 seconds, and SpaceX confirmed the test-firing in a post on X: "Starship completed a long duration six-engine static fire and is undergoing final preparations for the ninth flight test."
SpaceX hasn't officially announced a target launch date, but maritime warnings along Starship's flight path over the Gulf of Mexico suggest the launch might happen as soon as next Wednesday, May 21. The launch window would open at 6:30 pm local time (7:30 pm EDT; 23:30 UTC). If everything goes according to plan, Starship is expected to soar into space and fly halfway around the world, targeting a reentry and controlled splashdown into the Indian Ocean.
Google is doubling down on artificial intelligence with a new initiative to support early-stage startups. The tech giant on Monday unveiled “AI Futures Fund, “an artificial intelligence fund to invest in startups. As part of the new program, Google will […]
