Relativity Space—a rocket maker acquired by former Google executive chair Eric Schmidt last year after stumbling on the path to orbit—might just beat SpaceX to Mars. On Tuesday, NASA said it hired the company to build a spacecraft to house a suite of scientific instruments, launch it into space, and fly it to Mars. The…
For a glimpse of both golf’s past and its quickly approaching future, one need only look at Austin, Texas. When the city last hosted a PGA Tour event, in 2023, the tournament’s title sponsor was Dell, the Texas-based computer manufacturer that made its fortune in a previous tech boom. Now the tour is set to…
Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max in cosmic orange finishDavid PhelanNow Apple has announced the next software cycle for iPhone, iOS 27, coming this fall, it’s likely that there’ll only be one more major-point update to the current iOS 26. And it looks like it might arrive sooner than last year’s timetable suggested. ForbesApple iOS 27…
Image Credits:Kimberly White/Getty Images for TechCrunch 1:32 PM PDT · June 17, 2026 Former Sequoia Capital managing partner Roelof Botha is joining SpaceX’s board of directors, less than a week after the company went public in the largest IPO ever. SpaceX announced the appointment in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday.…
Tesla FSD has been touted as one of the industry’s best advanced driver assistance systems. The total fleet of FSD-equipped vehicles has driven over 10 billion miles using the semi-autonomous driving technology that allows the driver to take their hands off the wheel, but still requires drivers to …
gettyOrganizations are racing to embed AI into everyday workflows, decision-making processes and customer-facing systems. As adoption spreads, many are also accumulating a new kind of technical and operational liability: AI risk debt. It can build through routine use, unchecked dependencies and gaps between how AI is deployed and how it’s governed. That debt may not…
Trading Day: US stocks mixed, oil slides, SpaceX continues its ascent
1:11 PM PDT · June 16, 2026 SpaceX briefly passed Amazon to become the fifth-most valuable company in the world, and nearly eclipsed Microsoft, before the company’s shares pared back those gains before the market closed Tuesday. The newly public company’s stock had already climbed 20% on Monday — its first full day of trading.…
A group made up of dozens of cybersecurity experts urged the White House to remove export-control restrictions on Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos models, arguing that the order is going to limit the ability of cybersecurity defenders to secure their software and products…
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