Last week, Google’s parent company, Alphabet, lost approximately $500 billion in market value in a single day. Investors were rattled by slowing advertising growth and the company’s enormous spending on
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Imagine you’re riding in a self-driving car when its brakes fail. Ahead, five pedestrians are crossing the street. The car can continue straight, killing all five, or swerve into a
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Astronomers keep building bigger telescopes. Hubble has a 2.4-meter mirror. James Webb stretches that to 6.5 meters. Future observatories will undoubtedly push the limits further. But eventually you run into
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Elon Musk says SpaceX wants to build a “self-growing city” on the Moon, potentially within a decade, while still pursuing a future city on Mars. That sounds audacious, futuristic and—if
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Look up at the night sky and you may already be seeing the beginnings of a profound change. SpaceX’s Starlink has put thousands upon thousands of satellites into low Earth
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When I wrote Ares, I needed a reason why enormously powerful government institutions might find themselves desperate for resources. So I gave the United States an $85 trillion national debt.
Whenever I see one of Waymo’s driverless cars tooling around town, I think of the Johnny Cab from Total Recall. We may not have colonies on Mars yet, but watching
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In Part I of this series, I looked at the surprisingly difficult problem of cooling a data center in space. In Part II, I explored the damage cosmic radiation can
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Mark Cuban was recently asked a question about artificial intelligence that doesn’t get nearly enough attention. Not whether AI works. Not whether it will transform business. Not whether it will
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In Part I, I wrote about one of the counterintuitive problems with putting data centers in space: cooling them. Space may be cold, but a vacuum doesn’t give you air
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