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Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin canceled the second launch of its New Glenn megarocket scheduled for Sunday afternoon, citing weather concerns, some minor problems with launch pad equipment and at least one cruise ship coming too close to the flight path. It was not immediately clear when the company would try again to launch a second New Glenn mission. Late last week, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced restrictions on space launches in response to the government shutdown. On Nov. 7, Blue Origin posted on X that it was working with the FAA to ensure Sunday’s launch. After Sunday’s…
CEO Elon Musk appears to be celebrating a normal weekend on social media platform X after Tesla shareholders approved a new compensation package worth $1 trillion. In an early Saturday morning post with an admittedly coincidental timestamp of 4:20 a.m. ET, Musk posted a video generated by his company xAI’s new photo and video tool, Grok Imagine. As Musk explained, the video was generated by a prompt from Musk: “She smiles and says, ‘I’ll always love you.'” And indeed, the video shows a vivid woman saying those words in an apparently synthetic voice on a rainy street. 24 minutes later,…
Welcome to TechCrunch Mobility, the hub for the future of transportation. To receive this in your inbox, sign up for free here. Just click on TechCrunch Mobility. Did you hear that? Elon Musk received a $1 trillion compensation package. Of course I did. Because articles about this highly anticipated vote are being reported everywhere, including here on TechCrunch. But what does this actually mean? Yes, it’s about money, but it’s more about power and control. You may remember that Mr. Musk has repeatedly talked about the need to control Tesla and presented various scenarios to make that point, including an…
Archaeologists excavating near the ancient Israeli city of Armageddon have unearthed a 3,300-year-old Canaanite “tea set,” a temple the size of a dollhouse, and one of the world’s oldest known wine presses.The tea set includes a ram-shaped teapot and several small bowls that were buried together in the Late Bronze Age. The ram’s head, molded into the spout, was tilted forward, likely allowing liquid to spill from its mouth.”The vessels appear to be intended for pouring precious liquids such as milk, oil, wine or other beverages, which can be drunk directly from the spout or poured into smaller vessels for…
Scientists have reported the first discovery of a promising new class of antibiotics. This discovery was unexpected because they were not aiming to discover new drugs.This new antibiotic compound has shown promising activity against drug-resistant infections such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Enterococcus faecium, which are notorious for causing resistant infections in hospitalized patients.The discovery of the new molecule, called premethylenenomycin C lactone, was reported in the Oct. 27 issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society and “may be the first of a new class of antibiotics,” chemists Rona Alkharaf and Greg Challis, the study’s lead authors,…
NASA and Lockheed Martin’s experimental aircraft, the X-59, takes to the skies for the first time, making history as the first supersonic aircraft designed to emit a soft thud rather than a thunderous sonic boom.The X-59’s flight marks a major step toward commercial supersonic travel, which has been banned in the United States since 1973.The test flight, scheduled to last about an hour, took off from Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California, and landed at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, on October 28. The plane reached a top speed of about 240 miles per hour…
simple factsWhat is it: Southern hemisphere view of the Milky Way galaxyWhere is it: around usShare date: October 29, 2025Because we are located within the Milky Way galaxy, we cannot see or image the entire Milky Way galaxy. Only a portion of the galaxy can be observed from Earth, but when you look up into the dark, clear night sky from a location free of light pollution, the Milky Way appears as a complex, crowded band of stars and dust. This is a side-on view of the dense galactic plane of our galaxy. And that’s exactly the perspective of visible…
Creatures such as starfish, jellyfish, sea urchins, and sea anemones do not have brains, but they can capture prey, sense danger, and react to their surroundings.Does this mean that animals without brains can think?”No brain doesn’t necessarily mean no neurons,” Simon Sprecher, a neurobiology professor at the University of Friborg in Switzerland, told Live Science via email. All animals have neurons, he said, except for sponges and tuberous placozoans. you may like Creatures like jellyfish, sea anemones, and hydras have diffuse neuropils, networks of interconnected neurons distributed across their bodies and tentacles, said Tamar Lotan, director of the Cnidarian Developmental…
A tough week for tech stocks may reflect a lack of investor confidence in artificial intelligence. The Nasdaq Composite Index fell 3%, the Wall Street Journal reported, its worst week since President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariff plans in April. Tech companies that have otherwise performed well this year have been hit the hardest, with Palantir’s stock falling 11% this week, Oracle dropping 9% and Nvidia dropping 7%. These declines also occurred after Meta and Microsoft reported earnings that indicated plans to continue investing heavily in AI (both companies down about 4%). “The valuation is overextended,” Cresset Capital’s Jack Ablin…
If you’ve watched the new Apple TV show “Pluribus” all the way through, you may have noticed an unusual disclaimer in the credits: “This show was created by humans.” That succinct message, placed just below a note that says “Animal catchers were on set to ensure the animals’ safety,” could serve as a model for other filmmakers looking to emphasize that their work was made without the use of generative AI. And in case the disclaimer wasn’t clear enough, creator Vince Gilligan (best known for “Breaking Bad”) doubled down on it in a Variety feature on the show, flatly declaring,…