SpaceX’s Texas town, Starbase, isn’t even a year old, but it already has its own volunteer fire department and is working to create a police department. Now he wants his own yard too. Starbase’s city administrator presented a draft ordinance to the city commission at Wednesday’s meeting that would create a city court with a … Read more
Tech investors haven’t given up on the dream of making physical products with the same speed and ease as coding software. Executives from Freeform, a startup developing a new 3D printing system for metal parts, told TechCrunch that the company has raised a $67 million Series B to expand its manufacturing platform. Investors include Apandion, … Read more
In a sense, this whole thing was inevitable. Elon Musk and his coterie have been talking about artificial intelligence in space for years — mainly in the context of Iain Banks’ sci-fi series about a far-future universe where sentient spaceships roam and rule the galaxy. Now Musk sees an opportunity to realize a version of … Read more
A year and nearly 2,000 pages of documents later, a group suing to reveal what the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was doing at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) says the agency withheld relevant documents “in bad faith” and is asking a court to allow discovery and depositions to obtain the information. “To date, Defendant … Read more
Elon Musk has merged SpaceX and xAI to create what could be a blueprint for Silicon Valley’s new power structure. With his $800 billion net worth already rivaling the highest market capitalization of historic conglomerate GE, and Musk vocal about his view that “technical victory is determined by the speed of innovation,” the question is … Read more
Get ready for selfies that are out of this world. NASA astronauts will be able to take their smartphones into space for the first time, starting with the Crew-12 and Artemis II missions. Crew-12 is expected to head to the International Space Station next week, while the much-anticipated Artemis II mission, which will bring humans … Read more
Starbase, the corporate city that Elon Musk’s SpaceX created in South Texas, is creating its own police force. The City Commission approved an ordinance during a special meeting Tuesday that would create a city police department subject to approval by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE). The department will be led by a police … Read more