SpaceX calls out ‘superfluous’ regulatory delays holding up Starship flights
SpaceX has launched its most public and aggressive offensive against regulators to date, with a blog post published Tuesday urging more expeditious launch licensing — lest the country lose its place as the leader in the global space race. Orbital launch is a tightly regulated industry governed chiefly by the
Read moreFrench embedded insurance startup Neat secures $55 million
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Read moreEV warranty startup Amber launches a remote diagnostic service for Teslas
EV warranty startup Amber is expanding nationwide, bringing on new vehicles and offering a new remote diagnostic scan — all signs that the one-year-old company is putting its recent $3.18 million seed round to good use. The startup launched an aftermarket warranty product for Tesla vehicles called AmberCare — which
Read moreTechCrunch Minute: Everything announced at Apple’s Glowtime event
Yesterday was Apple’s Glowtime event, and you know what that means – lots of new hardware for us to geek out on. As we anticipated based on the WWDC event in June, Apple is embedding a lot of new AI features into its devices. From the iPhone 16, to the
Read moreSpaceX launches Polaris Dawn, where astronauts will venture further than any humans in more than 50 years
A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off in the early hours of Tuesday morning carrying a crew that will attempt the first commercial spacewalk and travel higher than any crewed mission in fifty years. The Polaris Dawn mission lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 5:23 AM EST after several
Read moreAmazon trials last-mile deliveries by tram in Frankfurt
Amazon has announced a new pilot package delivery service in Frankfurt, Germany, that meshes electric road and rail transport. The e-commerce giant will use vans from its delivery depot to the first tram stop on the outskirts of Frankfurt, with the city’s new Gütertram service transporting the goods to awaiting
Read moreSeparable functions in different contexts
I was skimming through the book Mathematical Reflections [1] recently. He was discussing a set of generalizations [2] of the Star of David theorem from combinatorics. The theorem is so named because if you draw a Star of David by connecting points in Pascal’s triangle then each side corresponds to
Read moreTCS & Google Cloud Unveil New AI-Driven Cybersecurity Solutions
Tata Consultancy Services has expanded its partnership with Google Cloud, launching two new cybersecurity products. This increased collaboration between TCS and Google Cloud aims to boost enterprise cyber resilience and provide innovative, domain-specific technology. The TCS Managed Detection and Response (MDR) solution is one of the new products, powered by Google
Read moreStackGen raises $12.3M for its infrastructure-from-code service
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Read moreInversion Space accelerates orbital reentry vehicle tech with $71M Space Force contract
Goods are shipped around the world via roads, rail and air. Why not space, too? That’s the question posed by Inversion Space, a Los Angeles-based startup that’s developing a reentry capsule that it says will be capable of autonomously landing anywhere on Earth to a football field-sized degree of accuracy.
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