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Space & Spaceflight

New Rocket Engine to Get Us to Mars with 20% Greater Efficiency

That’s a picture of XCOR Aerospace’s new liquid methane and liquid oxygen powered engine, a prototype of what...

Physics & Chemistry

A Quantum Bubble Could End Reality as We Know It. Here’s Why It (Probably) Won’t

The strange rules of quantum mechanics could spell the end of our universe. But they might also spare...

Physics & Chemistry

Nvidia Helping Modders Port PhysX Engine to ATI Radeon

Remember those modders from NGOHQ who were swolling out ATI’s Radeon graphics cards with Nvidia’s PhysX physics engine?...

AI

The next hurdle for AI agents: getting websites to let them in | TechCrunch

Personal AI agents, like Meta’s Muse, Instinct, ChatGPT’s Dots, and others, are kicking off a new wave of...

Space & Spaceflight

China Space Attack: Unstoppable

Though it sounds like something out of a sci-fi flick, Defense Tech is reporting that China has successfully...

Hark's panels
AI

Hark releases an AI personal assistant with a focus on privacy | TechCrunch

From Muse to Instinct to Dots, tech firms are hunting for the user experience that will make an...

Space & Spaceflight

Japan’s Asteroid Probe Lost Its Last Working Engine. Engineers Have a Clever Fix

Hayabusa2 is on an extended mission to collect another batch of samples from a tiny asteroid.

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Media & Entertainment

India’s JioHotstar takes partnership route for Middle East expansion | TechCrunch

JioHotstar, the streaming platform with more than 500 million monthly active users backed by Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries,...

launch of Furientis missile interceptor
Space

Furientis lands $25M from Benchmark to mass-produce low-cost missile interceptors | TechCrunch

Until recently, venture capitalists largely steered clear of defense startups. Investments in the sector were viewed as morally...

AI

Mirror Particle is building a ‘world model’ of human behavior | TechCrunch

Startups that promise to predict how humans will behave are having a moment. Over the past year, Simile...