Light Start: SpaceX’s Mars scheme, Qualcomm reigns supreme, Rayman’s new theme, and iPhone 15 held in esteem

Thirty seconds (and two years) to Mars Image: SpaceX (X.com) Humans are going to Mars… in four years. And that’s if, and only if, Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans to send five uncrewed Starship missions to the Red Planet don’t result in utter catastrophe. We harbour no...

Light Start: Starship’s boo-boo, TLOU Part 2 debut, Borderlands 4 is true, and Coke’s AI Christmas spew

Starship Oddity Image: SpaceX (X.com) SpaceX has finally done it. Over the weekend, the private space company’s largest-ever rocket, Starship, took to the skies, eventually reaching space. Unfortunately, that’s where the good news ends. Shortly after it achieved its...

Light Start: Teens get Bard AI, Starship reaches for the sky, Buds 3 Pro supply, and Threads just won’t die

Bard, but for teenagers Of all the major AI players; ChatGPT, Llama 2, Grok, Google’s Bard is probably the one getting the least fanfare. It might have something to do with the $100 million stuff-up that sent the search giant’s AI marketing efforts into the toilet....

Light Start: Starship (may be) a go, The Terminator gets a show, Hades in tow, and Dbrand’s keycaps cost some dough

Starship may go Starward on Friday Credit: SpaceX (X.com) Anyone that is serious about space travel is already aware of SpaceX’s Starship and its dreams of one day leaving this forsaken planet, if only temporarily – after the disastrous (yet still sort of successful)...

SpaceX launches most powerful rocket in history in explosive debut – like many first liftoffs, Starship’s test was a successful failure

On April 20, 2023, a new SpaceX rocket called Starship exploded over the Gulf of Mexico three minutes into its first flight ever. SpaceX is calling the test launch a success, despite the fiery end result. As a space policy expert, I agree that the “rapid unscheduled...