In 2023, a third of the planet’s population (~2.6B people!) still had no internet access. Some days that seems enviable, but the internet has its benefits — like allowing us to easily source medical and educational info or to read this very sentence. But many rural places simply lack the infrastructure to actually get hooked…
In a historic feat of aerospace engineering, SpaceX successfully caught its Starship’s booster using metal “chopsticks” at its Texas launch pad on Sunday. The booster’s return is a milestone for the company and the US’ broader space aspirations, which aims to use a reusable Starship to send people to the moon and Mars. “Science fiction without the…
If the only things holding you back from venturing into low orbit were the lack of wood paneling and fluffy duvet covers, it’s time to start picking out your spacesuit. Vast, the California space startup founded by crypto billionaire Jed McCaleb, is working on a space concept worthy of five stars, per Wired. Haven-1, the world’s first…
With the freshly-appointed captain of the world’s second-largest planemaker struggling to pull the company out of a nosedive, a US labor official flew to Seattle yesterday to try and help put out one of Boeing’s many fires: a massive factory strike. Gridlocked: On Sunday, 33,000 unionized workers marked one month of picketing for better pay, a…