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You can now get your own artistic portrait in the style of a master thanks to AI
A new project called AI Portraits from MIT’s IBM Watson AI Lab can capture your essence in the artistic style of some of the world’s great masters, using AI powered by a generative adversa
Meet the robots Toyota is bringing to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games
Tokyo’s 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games are fast approaching, and Toyota is playing a key role in on-site mobility and transportation. The Japanese automaker has unveiled five robots it
Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI in new multiyear partnership
Microsoft is making a $1 billion bet on OpenAI, the company formed by notable founders including Elon Musk and Sam Altman three years ago with the aim of doing research and development work to steer t
Elon Musk says next Hyperloop competition will be in a six-mile, curved tunnel
Elon Musk is planning to change up the Hyperloop student engineering competition that his company SpaceX has run for the past four years. Next year’s competition will be done in a tunnel that
Team TUM wins SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition with record 288 mph top speed
SpaceX hosted its fourth annual SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition finals on Sunday at the test tube it built outside its Hawthorne HQ. We were on site for the competition, and watched as Team TUM, from
Watch Patrick Stewart grow bored of his winery in first ‘Star Trek: Picard’ trailer
Yes, Captain Jean-Luc Picard is indeed coming back. We knew this from previous announcements, but CBS All Access turned heads at this year’s San Diego Comic Con with an actual trailer of Sir Pat
NASA’s Orion crew capsule is officially complete and ready to prep for its first Moon mission
NASA’s 50th anniversary celebrations weren’t limited to just remembrances of past achievements – the space agency also marked the day by confirming that the Orion crew capsule that will
Elon Musk says Starship prototypes will have first test flights in ‘2 to 3 months’
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk believes that both the Texas and Florida Starship prototype rockets being developed by the private space company will fly “in 2 to three months,” which is an aggressiv
Hold the first Moon rock ever collected with your smartphone
NASA is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing in a variety of ways today, but here’s one you can experience no matter where you are, provided you have a modern smartphon
Original Content podcast: We’re not on the same page about ‘Frankenstein’s Monster’s Monster, Frankenstein’
Just to get this out of the way: “Frankenstein’s Monster’s Monster, Frankenstein” is a great title. In fact, it’s probably the best thing about the new comedy special on
Tesla drops request for restraining order against allegedly dangerous short seller
Tesla has withdrawn its request for a court-ordered restraining order against Randeep Hothi, documents submitted to the court where the complaint was filed revealed Friday. Hothi, an individual who is
Twitter to attempt to address conversation gaps caused by hidden tweets
Twitter’s self-service tool for blocking content you don’t want to see (as well as a growing tendency for users to delete a lot of the content they post) is making some of the conversation
China’s Tiangong-2 space station is officially no more
Chinese space station Tiangong-2 has officially ended its mission, and the orbital research facility’s entire existence. The platform de-orbited and burned up as planned at just after 9 AM ET on
Virgin Orbit signs agreement to launch small satellites for the UK’s Royal Air Force
Virgin Orbit, the small satellite launch company backed by billionaire Richard Branson, has signed an initial agreement to develop small satellite launch capabilities for the U.K.’s Royal Air Fo
Nvidia recreates the Apollo 11 landing with real-time ray tracing
It’s the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing, and Nvidia is using the anniversary to show off the power of its current GPU technology, using the RTX real-time ray tracing, which
SpaceX shares video of multiple Crew Dragon parachute recovery system tests
SpaceX is providing a closer look at some of its Crew Dragon parachute recovery system testing, with a new video compiling footage of a number of tests, including those flown from a cargo plane and a
Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith joins Disrupt SF to talk about bringing the Moon within reach
Private spaceflight company Blue Origin has its sights set on the Moon, and in May unveiled a new lander to help it get there. This October, Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith will join us onstage at Disrupt S
Google creates massive-scale tribute to Apollo 11 software lead Margaret Hamilton
Google has a number of different celebrations of the 50-year anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing going on right now, but one organized by the Maps team might be the most grandiose in terms of sc
ISRO’s Chandrayaan-2 Moon lander mission launch reset for July 22
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) was all set to launch its Chandrayaan-2 mission to deliver a rover to the Moon’s South Pole last week, but a “technical snag” observed d
Netflix reports first net subscriber loss in the US, misses global subscriber growth predictions
Netflix’s continued subscription price hikes might finally have reached the end of some customers’ patience in the U.S., judging from an overall paid subscriber decline the company reporte