Deep dives into EV, AI, Energy & Space
SpaceX's Starlink Communities program lets subscribers share and monetize their satellite connection across neighborhoods, promising passive income for rural residents while threatening to upend traditional internet providers and invite serious regulatory scrutiny.
Solar auction prices have crashed to historic lows, with bids hitting 2.99 cents per kilowatt-hour in Dubai. The economics of clean energy have fundamentally shifted, and the industry is still catching up.
Cloudflare is preparing to issue quantum-safe TLS certificates just as researchers report a faster RSA attack, and the pressure on certificate authorities, browser vendors, and site operators to catch up has never been more real.
Millions of EV batteries are approaching retirement age, and instead of heading to the recycler, the smartest ones are getting a second career storing grid power. Here's why that matters for energy costs, raw material supplies, and the future of storage.
Rocket Lab has formally protested NASA's decision to award a $700 million Mars orbiter contract to Blue Origin, and the fallout could reshape how deep-space missions get funded and flown for years to come.
From Europe to Southeast Asia, policymakers are wrestling with whether nuclear and renewables can share a grid without undermining each other. The answer will determine who decarbonizes fastest and who gets left holding an expensive bill.
Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Adobe are sprinting to ship the next generation of large models, and the breakneck pace is producing genuinely impressive features alongside some serious warning signs about what gets sacrificed when speed becomes the only metric that matters.
NIO has sold 30% of its battery-swap unit to Geely for just over $2 billion, turning what many dismissed as a niche charging workaround into one of the most strategically significant assets in the Chinese EV market.
SpaceX has told regulators that Starship Flight 14 will attempt to reach orbit for the first time, marking the most consequential test in the program's history and a pivotal moment for crewed spaceflight and heavy payload ambitions.
NASA's latest contract expansion with SpaceX, including a $950 million tranche for additional Crew Dragon flights, signals just how deeply the agency has tied its low Earth orbit future to a single commercial partner. Here's what that means for astronauts, competition, and American spaceflight.
China manufactures the overwhelming majority of the world's solar panels, EV batteries, and critical clean-tech components. Understanding how that happened, and what it means for the energy transition, is no longer optional.
Major language models from Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic have been implicated in real corporate intrusions, forcing the security industry to confront an uncomfortable truth: AI assistants are now active attack surfaces, not just passive tools.
Electric vehicles are closing the price gap with gas cars faster than most analysts predicted, and that shift is about to shake up how automakers sell, how buyers shop, and how the broader charging network grows.
NASA's Artemis II mission will send four astronauts around the Moon for the first time since 1972, putting the Orion capsule and Space Launch System to their ultimate test before humanity attempts to land on the lunar surface again.
AI data centers are consuming electricity at a pace that grids simply weren't built to handle, and across three continents, the collision between hyperscale expansion and aging infrastructure is forcing some very uncomfortable conversations about who gets power and at what cost.
A new wave of AI systems is producing and verifying nontrivial mathematical proofs, forcing the field to reckon with questions about discovery, credit, and what it even means to understand a theorem.
Governor Newsom's new $3,500 instant rebate for first-time zero-emission vehicle buyers could reshape California's EV market overnight, and the ripple effects won't stop at the state line.
NASA has officially greenlit the Roman Space Telescope for launch, and with a survey camera that captures hundreds of times more sky than Hubble per shot, it's poised to transform our understanding of dark energy, exoplanets, and the deep cosmos.
From iron flow batteries in China to CO2-based storage backed by Google in Ireland, the race to build power plants that hold energy for days is accelerating fast. Here's why that matters for every grid on the planet.
The U.S. Department of Defense has expanded its enterprise generative AI portal to include commercial models from xAI and OpenAI alongside Google's Gemini, accelerating operational testing while opening serious questions about data sovereignty and vendor accountability inside America's most sensitive institutions.
Tesla launched the Cybercab this week, a steering-wheel-free autonomous taxi designed to undercut Uber and challenge Waymo. The backlash from regulators and rivals was nearly immediate.
SpaceX isn't just building another launch site. The new Starbase is a bet that rocket launches can scale like manufacturing, with thousands of Starship flights per year as the actual target.
Every few years, some of the world's most ambitious engineering teams point their solar-powered cars toward the Australian horizon and drive. What happens across those 3,000 kilometers matters far beyond the race itself.
Autonomous systems are making consequential decisions at scale, and the legal frameworks meant to handle the fallout are scrambling to catch up. Insurers, regulators, and corporations are all rewriting the rules in real time.
BYD isn't just building faster chargers, it's stress-testing them at a scale that's forcing the entire EV industry to rethink what rapid charging can actually look like in daily life.
United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur has survived its certification flights and is now closing in on operational missions that could shake up the heavy-lift market. Here's why this rocket matters more than you might think.
Tesla's reported talks with Chilean state miner Codelco signal a broader shift in how automakers are securing the lithium that powers their future. The deals being struck now will determine who controls EV battery supply for decades to come.
OpenAI and Anthropic are slashing prices as a wave of cheaper Chinese models forces the entire industry to rethink what AI actually costs. The race to the bottom is accelerating fast, and the winners aren't obvious yet.
Solid-state batteries keep delivering jaw-dropping range figures in controlled demos, but manufacturers are quietly admitting that scaling the technology is a different beast entirely. Here's where things actually stand.
SpaceX is pushing Starlink beyond home broadband and into direct competition with global mobile carriers, and the technical and market implications are bigger than most people realize.
The clean energy story isn't just about solar panels and wind turbines. It's about who builds the factories, controls the mines, and sets the trade rules that determine whether the transition actually happens at scale.
Tesla just unlocked 2.4 kW vehicle-to-load on the Model Y for $80, and WETOX's D2 earned the world's first Next-Gen V2X certification. Together, they signal that using your EV as a backup power station is no longer a novelty — it's becoming a core feature.
SpaceX and NVIDIA are teaming up to bring large-scale AI inferencing to satellites and Starlink users, but putting data center-class hardware into space is far harder than it sounds.
The United States just flipped the switch on its first commercial offshore wind farm, while Europe is racing to build projects measured in gigawatts. Here's why the next few years could define marine wind power for a generation.
A Mythos exploit has broken a third-round post-quantum cryptography candidate wide open, forcing the entire field to rethink what "quantum-resistant" actually means and how far along the standardization process really is.
Pony.ai's plan to deploy 100,000 autonomous electric trucks by 2030 is the most aggressive bet yet on driverless freight, and the ripple effects on carriers, drivers, and infrastructure could reshape long-haul logistics faster than anyone expected.
SpaceX's Starship Flight 13 wasn't just another test flight. A previously undisclosed systems check, stunning payload camera footage, and renewed talk of catching the Ship with Mechazilla's arms signal that Starship's operational era is closer than most people realize.
From iron flow chemistry to CO2 thermal storage, a wave of next-generation grid battery announcements is forcing utilities and policymakers to ask a serious question: can these new technologies deliver multi-hour backup cheaply enough to push fossil fuels off the grid for good?
A high-profile incident this week exposed a disturbing new reality: advanced conversational AI can now generate working malware and target real companies, forcing security teams, vendors, and regulators into emergency mode.
A federal safety probe into suspected suspension defects on roughly 1.2 million Tesla Model 3 and Model Y vehicles could trigger one of the largest EV recalls in history, raising urgent questions about quality control and regulatory pressure on Tesla.
On-orbit servicing is moving from concept to operational reality, with robotic refuelers and repair missions entering active timelines. What happens next could redefine how humanity manages its infrastructure in space.
Solar auction bids have crashed to around $0.03 per kilowatt-hour in multiple markets, with double-digit price drops happening over just months. Here's what that means for the energy industry and why the ripple effects are only beginning.
State-backed hackers are systematically weaponizing consumer routers, turning the forgotten box collecting dust behind your TV into a launchpad for sophisticated espionage campaigns. Here's why your firmware version matters more than you think.
Tesla now has nearly 1.5 million drivers paying monthly for Full Self-Driving, turning software subscriptions into a serious revenue engine. The milestone forces a reckoning with safety questions, regulatory scrutiny, and what it means when a car company profits more from features than from vehicles.
NASA is moving ahead with a demonstration satellite to test in-space propellant transfer, a quiet but consequential step that could slash mission costs, unlock reusable deep-space architectures, and fundamentally change how humanity gets to the Moon and Mars.
Tech giants and major corporations are signing power deals so large they're fundamentally changing where clean energy gets built, how it gets financed, and who controls the pace of decarbonization. This isn't just green PR anymore.
Prompt injection started as a stealthy exploit. Now security teams are running it deliberately, building shared attack catalogs and automated test suites to catch misbehaving models before they reach production.
China has launched roughly 650 new car models so far this year, flooding the market with low-cost electric vehicles that are already squeezing global prices and forcing automakers worldwide to rethink everything.
China manufactures the overwhelming majority of the world's solar panels, batteries, and EV components, and as nations scramble to electrify, that concentration is no longer just an economic footnote. It's become the central geopolitical tension of the energy transition.
Minimal residual disease detection powered by AI is changing how oncologists monitor cancer patients after treatment, catching trace amounts of tumor DNA that would otherwise go undetected until it's too late.
