Building rockets and looking for life on Venus: Q&A with Rocket Lab's Peter Beck Space.com caught up with Rocket Lab founder and CEO Peter Beck recently to talk about the company's ambitious plans for the future, which include a private life-hunting mission to Venus. 04/23/2024 - 6:00 am | View Link
Rocket Lab gearing up to refly Electron booster for 1st time "This is the exciting final piece of the puzzle before Electron goes reusable." Rocket Lab is taking a big step toward its first-ever rocket reflight. On Jan. 31, one of the company's Electron ... 04/17/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Rocket Lab to launch NASA's new solar sail technology no earlier than April 24 The spacecraft is scheduled to launch onboard Rocket Lab's Electron rocket from the company's launch site in Māhia, New Zealand. Solar sails, which propel payloads by harnessing sunlight the same ... 04/14/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
"Human beings had a play-based childhood from time immemorial," says author Jonathan Haidt. What caused teen mental health decline is "between 2010 and 2015, phones, screens come sweeping in The most important thing that parents can do is delay the age at which their child gets immersed in internet culture."
Fareed hosts a spirited debate on the House bill that could lead to a US ban on TikTok, with the American Enterprise Institute's Kori Schake and Glen Gerstell, former general counsel for the National Security Agency. They discuss national-security risks the Chinese-owned app might pose given its many American users.
A new government report warns that advanced Artificial Intelligence systems could pose an "extinction-level threat" to humans, and that the US must intervene. "I think we should be mindful of it," says Ret. Admiral James Stavridis. But he adds, "there have been big inventions in the past - the printing press, electricity, the internet - all of these have been a decried for the possibility of nefarious activity."