New Civil Engineer: Transport secretary Grant Shapps has hailed an announcement today as a “pivotal moment” in the mission to launch rockets from the UK. The government laid out the Space…
Financial Times: Foxconn does not normally care too much about style. Even its investor conferences are held at the drab concrete-block building that houses the Apple supplier’s headquarters in an industrial suburb of Taipei. But in March, the world’s largest contract…
RT: Baidu has launched its autonomous taxi service in Beijing, which it says will be China’s first paid autonomous vehicle service where users can hail a robotaxi without a safety driver behind the steering wheel. The fully driverless Apollo Go…
IEEE Spectrum: An Australian transportation agency has begun laying the tracks for improved commuting with quantum computing. Its partnership with the startup Q-CTRL is exploring how quantum computing could someday allow commuters and tourists to enjoy the fastest possible travel through…
New York Times: In darkness, four astronauts splashed down early Sunday morning in the Gulf of Mexico near Panama City, Fla. That marked a successful end of a mission for NASA led by a private company, Elon Musk’s SpaceX, to take its…
