SpaceX’s Next-Gen Starlink Satellites Have Started Falling From Space
HEO Robotics captured this view of a Starlink V2 Mini satellite in orbit shortly after it launched. Image: HEO Robotics It’s been a little over a month since SpaceX launched…
Bill Gates Doesn’t Think You Can Pause AI, Even If You Want To
Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates spoke out against recent calls to pause Artificial Intelligence developments out of fear of the risk to society. Gates is now advocating for finding…
Humiliation Machine: 10 Broken Promises From Elon Musk
Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP) When Elon Musk turned Twitter verification into a paid service, he promised to remove blue checks from “legacy verified” Twitter accounts that had earned their status…
China’s Space Pioneer Becomes First Private Company to Reach Orbit During Debut Launch
Chinese company Space Pioneer established a pair of milestones this past Sunday, becoming the first startup to successfully reach orbit on its first attempt, and the first Chinese company to…
Musk’s Twitter Downranks Any Post Regarding the ‘Ukraine Crisis’
“Free speech absolutist” Elon Musk’s Twitter algorithm has been heavily suppressing any topic regarding the ongoing war in Ukraine, downranking it with the same vehemence as toxic, violent, or hate…
18 Things ChatGPT Can and Can’t Do
Photo: Bryan Pollard (Shutterstock) In December, a Furman University professor, Darren Hick, caught a student using ChatGPT to write a final paper on a philosophical paradox. Hick failed the student…
Twitter’s Recommendation Algorithm Is Now Open Source
Today is the day: In an effort to boost transparency between the public and the social media platform, CEO Elon Musk has made Twitter’s recommendation algorithm open source…for some reason.…
What’s the Difference Between SpaceX’s Starlink and OneWeb?
Satellite swarms built and operated by SpaceX and OneWeb are poised to fundamentally alter the way in which we access the internet and where we connect to the grid. On…
Court Orders GitHub to Reveal Who Leaked Twitter’s Source Code
Twitter announced earlier this month that the code it uses to recommend tweets to users will be open source on March 31.Image: Noam Galai (Getty Images), Gil C (Shutterstock) After…
Elon Musk Says ‘For You’ Section Will Soon Be Entirely Users Who Paid for Twitter [Updated]
Update 3/28/2023, 4:00 p.m. ET: Elon Musk has amended his original announcement. Now, he says the plan was always that the “For You” section would continue to include “accounts you follow…