Ex-Guerillascope leadership trio launch media agency
Piqniq will aim to deliver ‘a human approach’ and champion female leadership…
SpaceX Unmanned Starships to Mars 2026 and Manned 2029 or 2031
Elon Musk says SpaceX Starship will departs for Mars at the end of next year, carrying Optimus. If those landings go well, then human landings may start as soon as 2029, although 2031 is more likely. There will likely be hundreds to thousands of Optimus Teslabots on the unmanned missions…
Faster and Safer Version of Zubrins Nuclear Salt Water Rocket- Practical Interstellar Travel for Humans
AI gives a thumbs up to Brett Bellmore innovative modifications to Robert Zubrin’s Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR). Switching from water to polyethene and storing in sausage strings could enhance its performance and safety, particularly focusing on avoiding criticality during storage, minimizing parasitic mass, and addressing practical challenges like micrometeorite protection and fuel...
Air taxis: the latest on the flying electric cars bringing the Jetsons dream to life
There’s a future where we don’t need roads and regular folks like you and me can jump into a boat-sized electric pod and just fly anywhere on a whim. While we’ve been perfecting the miracle of human flight for more than a century, instant air transportation has long been relegated to science fiction…
Artificial photosynthesis: Researchers mimic plants
With artificial photosynthesis, humankind could utilize solar energy to bind carbon dioxide and produce hydrogen. Chemists have taken this one step further: They have synthesized a stack of dyes that comes very close to the photosynthetic apparatus of plants. It absorbs light energy, uses it to separate charge carriers and transfers them quickly and efficiently…
Democrats running for New Jersey governor navigate the delicate politics of immigration
Along an industrial stretch of roadway in New Jersey’s biggest city, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka appeared with immigrants rights activists last week to protest the Trump administration’s deal with a private company to open the first new immigration detention center of the president’s second term…
Photo calorie app Cal AI, downloaded over a million times, was built by two teenagers
Cal AI has generated over 5 million downloads in 8 months, it says. Founders Zach Yadegari and Henry Langmack are just 18. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only…
Were companies ever serious about DEI?
The buzzwords “diversity, equity, and inclusion” are everywhere right now, but you can’t be blamed if you don’t quite have a handle on what they mean. The origins of DEI date back to the civil rights era — but recently “DEI” has been thrown around with regard to everything from plane crashes to Super Bowl…