Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking, along with hundreds of artificial intelligence researchers and experts, are calling for a worldwide ban on so-called autonomous weapons, warning that they coul... Read more
There is no shortage of angst about the relentless advance of digital technology and what it means for the work force, if not humanity. Dire warnings have come from no less than Elon Musk, S... Read more
The PowerWall will store excess solar energy, take power from the grid when it’s cheapest, and provide back-up power in emergencies. Elon Musk has a vision of a world powered entirely... Read more
When you’re preparing to launch a computing platform for self-driving cars, it helps to bring one of the leading voices in automotive innovation along for the ride. That’s just what NVIDIA C... Read more
In rocketry, what goes up usually comes down in pieces. The cost of getting to orbit is exorbitant, because the rocket, with its multimillion-dollar engines, ends up as trash in the ocean af... Read more
Prof Stephen Hawking, one of Britain’s pre-eminent scientists, has said that efforts to create thinking machines pose a threat to our very existence. He told the BBC:”The develop... Read more
Berkeley Lab Scientists Believe Biomanufacturing a Key to Long-term Manned Space Missions Does synthetic biology hold the key to manned space exploration of the Moon and Mars? Berkeley Lab r... Read more
IT TAKES chutzpah to tweet “rockets are tricky” shortly after one you have just launched has deliberately blown itself up. But Elon Musk, founder and boss of SpaceX, is not a man who lacks s... Read more
EVERYTHING about space flight is superlative. Even relatively modest rockets are hundreds of feet high. The biggest (the Saturn V, which launched astronauts to the Moon) remains the most pow... Read more
Well, Elon Musk can relax now. Having previously announced his intention to at least build a demonstrator of his Hyperloop transporter for high-speed, high-capacity inter-city transport, he... Read more
Elon Musk, electric-car entrepreneur and proponent of private colonies on Mars, now plans to redesign the railway HALF a century after they were pioneered in France and Japan, could high-spe... Read more
If anything, this latest announcement is proof that nothing is too far-fetched to come into existence. Elon Musk recently tweeted that he’d “figured out how to design rocket parts just w[ith... Read more
“It’s a cross between a Concorde, a rail gun, and an air hockey table.” Now that the media kerfuffle surrounding Elon Musk‘s Hyperloop transit system proposal has set... Read more
Never let it be said that Elon Musk, a serial entrepreneur who was a co-founder of PayPal and the electric car company Tesla Motors, is afraid to think big. Mr. Musk on Monday harked back to... Read more
Better Place may have given up on its electric vehicle battery swap technology, but Tesla is moving full-speed ahead. Here’s what the company’s ultra-fast swap stations look like. A few week... Read more
