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WASHINGTON — The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) awarded a contract Feb. 7 to Spire Global, partnered with OroraTech, to develop a constellation of cubesats to monitor wildfires.CSA and other Canadian government officials announced that Spire’s Canadian subsidiary, Spire Global Canada, won a contract worth $72 million Canadian ($50.4 million) to develop 10 satellites for the WildFireSat constellation for launch in 2029.The spacecraft will operate in dusk-dawn sun-synchronous orbits at an altitude of 475 kilometers. Equipped with sensors provided by OroraTech, a German company that operates its own fleet of wildfire-detection satellites, the spacecraft will track wildfires. The satellites, the CSA…
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San Francisco: A patient with a degenerative disease was able to command Amazon’s Alexa digital assistant with his mind, the company behind the technological innovation announced Monday, letting him stream shows and control devices with only his thoughts.An implant in a blood vessel on the surface of the 64-year-old man’s brain let him mentally “tap” icons on an Amazon Fire tablet, brain-computer interface company Synchron said. The patient, who is living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), was able to make video calls, play music, stream shows, control smart home devices such as lights, shop online, and read books by using his…
Administrators at Texas A&M University are considering a potential Boring Company loop to help with foot traffic on campus, coming as the latest community to mull over the Elon Musk-led tunneling solution. The Boring Company’s proposal for the “Aggie Loop” is being considered by administrators at Texas A&M, as reported by the campus newspaper The Battalion last week. Like the company’s other loops, it would feature underground tunnels leading to multiple stations spread across the Texas A&M campus, which would be built strategically at high-traffic locations and bus stops. “The Boring Company proposal provides a mobility solution that improves campus-wide…
Meet Samuel Edyme, Nickname – HIM-buktu. A web3 content writer, journalist, and aspiring trader, Edyme is as versatile as they come. With a knack for words and a nose for trends, he has penned pieces for numerous industry player, including AMBCrypto, Blockchain.News, and Blockchain Reporter, among others. Edyme’s foray into the crypto universe is nothing short of cinematic. His journey began not with a triumphant investment, but with a scam. Yes, a Ponzi scheme that used crypto as payment roped him in. Rather than retreating, he emerged wiser and more determined, channeling his experience into over three years of insightful…
Elon Musk appeared at last night’s Breakthrough Prize ceremony, held in Los Angeles, briefly discussing artificial intelligence (AI) during his red carpet walk. The 10th annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony, often called the “Oscars of Science,” was held Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles on Saturday night, including Musk and a number of other celebrities from the sciences and Hollywood. During his appearance on the red carpet, Musk was asked by one YouTuber what the greatest breakthrough he hoped for during our lifetime would be. Unsurprisingly, Musk noted that making life multiplanetary was one, while the continued development of…
Meteor collision shakes Mars recorded by InSight by Erica Marchand Paris, France (SPX) Feb 04, 2025 A space rock crashed into the martian surface in February 2021, generating seismic waves that extended 1640 km to reach NASA’s InSight lander. The collision carved out a crater about 21 m wide and disturbed roughly 1400 m. ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), through its Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS), captured the explosive moment. Marsquakes, the martian counterparts of earthquakes, commonly coincide with meteor strikes on our neighboring planet. Over the past two decades, scientists have meticulously analyzed…
The Boring Company has secured a parcel of land in West Los Angeles for a future Loop station along its first LA-route. As could be seen in recent sale records and filings with the office of the Secretary of State of the State of California, Elon Musk’s tunneling startup under the entity name “TBC – The Boring Company” secured a commercial-zoned property located at 2352-2356 S Sepulveda Boulevard in April of this year. The property lies along the path of the Boring Company’s proposed 6.5-mile long proof-of-concept tunnel that would run from northeast Westchester to Brentwood, one of the…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday formalizing his announcement earlier this week that he’ll freeze assistance to South Africa for a law aiming to address some of the wrongs of South Africa’s racist apartheid era — a law the White House says amounts to discrimination against the country’s white minority.“As long as South Africa continues to support bad actors on the world stage and allows violent attacks on innocent disfavored minority farmers, the United States will stop aid and assistance to the country,” the White House said in a summary of the order. The White…
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, speaks with CNBC on May 16, 2023.David A. Grogan | CNBCA staff member on the Department of Government Efficiency advisory group led by tech billionaire Elon Musk resigned Thursday after The Wall Street Journal asked the White House about his connection to a social media account that advocated for racism and eugenics.The DOGE staffer, Marko Elez, earlier in the day had been approved by a federal judge along with another DOGE staff member to have access to the payment system at the U.S. Treasury, but the judge restricted his ability to share data from the…