For someone at the forefront of the British space industry, Steve Bennett’s life couldn’t be further removed from Elon Musk’s. Having just celebrated his 60th birthday, the CEO of Starchaser Industries told the MEN he had been passing the time ‘chilling’ on his narrowboat in Nantwich. Starchaser Industries is an aerospace company based in Hyde, … Read more
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A U.S. congressional committee has released confidential Brazilian court orders suspending accounts on social media platform billionaire owner Elon Musk. The Republican-controlled House Judiciary Committee late Wednesday published a staff report revealing dozens of decisions by Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordering X to suspend or remove about … Read more
Some of the world’s biggest companies and richest people are arguing over a question that will help shape the future of AI: Should companies reveal exactly how their products work? Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, turned the debate on its head in recent days by choosing to release the computer code behind … Read more
The space company will reportedly build hundreds of satellites with Earth imaging capabilities that can operate as a swarm in low orbits – Cheney Orr/Reuters SpaceX is reportedly building a network of hundreds of spy satellites under a secret contract with a U.S. intelligence agency, in a sign of deepening ties between billionaire entrepreneur Elon … Read more
Elon Musk’s company called Neuralink, launched in 2016, aims to implant a piece of technology in people’s brains that will allow them to control a computer or phone by thoughts alone. This is also known as a brain-computer interface. After years of experimenting on animals, Neuralink recently announced the implantation of one of their devices … Read more
Widely considered one of the best science fiction novels of all time, “Dune” continues to influence the way writers, artists and inventors imagine the future. Of course, there are Denis Villeneuve’s visually stunning films, “Dune: Part One” (2021) and “Dune: Part Two” (2024). But Frank Herbert’s masterpiece also helped Afrofuturist novelist Octavia Butler imagine a … Read more
Spaceship launches from SpaceX’s launch pad in South Texas.SpaceX via X SpaceX has successfully launched the world’s tallest and most powerful rocket into space for the first time. But Starship lost communication with SpaceX during its return to the Indian Ocean. NASA wants Starship to land astronauts on the moon. Elon Musk wants it to … Read more
Few people in the world have the power to order Elon Musk. One of them is a soft-spoken, small-town raised, 44-year-old judge from Delaware named Kathaleen McCormick. When the world’s richest person tried to back away from buying Twitter in 2022, it was McCormick who stood in the way, taking a no-nonsense approach to a … Read more