Google has enlisted NASA to help it prove quantum supremacy within months
Google wants NASA to help it prove quantum supremacy within a matter of months, according to a Space Act Agreement obtained by MIT Technology Review.Quantum supremacy is the idea, so far...
View ArticleFord wants to launch a fleet of thousands of self-driving cars in 2021
Anyone summoning a Ford self-driving taxi after the company’s service launches in 2021 could be offered detours to sponsoring stores or wind up riding alongside packages out for delivery.At an event on...
View ArticleWhy satellite mega-constellations are a threat to the future of space
When India shot down one of its own satellites with a missile this week, NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine was not impressed. “Creating debris fields intentionally is wrong … If we wreck space, we’re...
View ArticleWho gets to send radio waves in space?
It’s getting crowded up there. Flocks of cubesats, fleets of orbiting cameras, and the first broadband internet mega-constellations from the likes of SpaceX, Amazon, and OneWeb are quickly filling...
View ArticleHow the world’s biggest gun helped solve a long-standing space mystery
On a sweltering day in August, in a windowless strip mall office in north-central Florida, Rafael Carrasquilla and a dozen other students wore surgical gloves as they picked through piles of dust with...
View ArticleGhost ships, crop circles, and soft gold: A GPS mystery in Shanghai
On a sultry summer night in July 2019, the MV Manukai was arriving at the port of Shanghai, near the mouth of the Huangpu River. This busy tributary of the Yangtze winds through the city and includes...
View ArticleSpaceX’s Starlink satellites could make US Army navigation hard to jam
SpaceX has already launched more than 700 Starlink satellites, with thousands more due to come online in the years ahead. Their prime mission is to provide high-speed internet virtually worldwide,...
View ArticleInside the fierce, messy fight over “healthy” sugar tech
In a former insurance office building on the outskirts of Charlottesville, Virginia, a new kind of sugar factory is taking shape. The 48,000-square-foot facility is being developed by a startup called...
View ArticleStarlink signals can be reverse-engineered to work like GPS—whether SpaceX...
Todd Humphreys’s offer to SpaceX was simple. With a few software tweaks, its rapidly growing Starlink constellation could also offer precise position, navigation, and timing. The US Army, which funds...
View ArticleThese exclusive satellite images show that Saudi Arabia’s sci-fi megacity is...
In early 2021, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia announced The Line: a “civilizational revolution” that would house up to 9 million people in a zero-carbon megacity, 170 kilometers long...
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