SpaceX could soon be providing airline passengers in-flight Wi-Fi with Starlink. SpaceX VP Jonathan Hofeller announced that the company has held conversations with several airlines and will soon be finalizing its aviation product. Airlines currently provide in-flight Wi-Fi by working with satellite broadband companies such as Gogo and Viasat. Their...
South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) has announced plans to deploy robots and an AI-based surveillance system along the border with North Korea this year. The project, which will be deploying these technologies at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in 2021, will cost $2.5 million. DAPA says the...
China has launched its first crewed mission in five years, successfully sending three astronauts to its new space station. The Shenzhou-12 mission is China’s longest-ever human-crewed one and is the third of an estimated 11 missions required to realize the country’s plans to build the new station, which...
Will flying racecars ever become a reality? Airspeeder [https://airspeeder.com/] is betting on it, and they’ve got the progress to show it with their successful test flight of the world’s first electric flying racecar, the Alauda Mk3. Airspeeder is the brainchild of entrepreneur Matthew Pearson, who had...
Former executives of several travel companies like Airbnb and Expedia have joined forces with Travala.com, a company backed by Binance, to launch Dtravel [https://www.dtravel.com/], a blockchain-based home-sharing platform. With $5 million in seed funding raised so far, Dtravel aims to facilitate short and long-term stays payable...
CryptoPunk #7523 [https://www.larvalabs.com/cryptopunks/details/7523], titled ‘COVID Alien’, was sold at Sotheby’s Auction House for a record $11.8 million. The medical mask-wearing figure is currently the highest-selling CryptoPunk, beating the $7.57 million sale of Alien CryptoPunk #7804 [https://www.larvalabs.com/cryptopunks/details/...
