SpaceX just launched its mysterious “Starfall” return capsule for the second time ever.
Starfall was one of 32 payloads on the company’s Bandwagon-5 rideshare mission, which launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket at 7:04 a.m. EDT (1104 GMT) today (Oct. 20) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
SpaceX has been relatively quiet about Starfall, which debuted this past June…
NASA closes the book on epic OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sampling mission: 'I am immensely proud of what we did'
October 21, 2026
On Sept. 30, NASA formally concluded OSIRIS-REx, the historic first U.S. mission to pluck a pristine piece of an asteroid and deliver it safely back to Earth.
The van-sized OSIRIS-REx spacecraft — whose name is short for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource…
Robots still aren’t that good at picking things up, despite billions of dollars of investment and endless videos fed into deep learning models.
That may be about to change, thanks to a manipulation architecture built by Eka Robotics, which encompasses a…
Meeting notetaking tool Otter.ai announced on Tuesday that it has raised $320 million from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF), which provides capital to startups without diluting equity and gets returns on the results of marketing spend.
Otter.ai said that it will use these funds for enterprise growth, go-to-market strategy, international expansion, and product innovation.
The…
Over the last few weeks, personal assistants like Instinct, Fo, and Muse have enabled users to call businesses for customer support and appointment booking. Following this trend, Yelp is adding the ability for its app users to get a voice agent to call a restaurant to check…
Once presumed lost forever, these eerie photos show us all what horror movies were like 100 years ago
October 21, 2026
The photo above shows a scene from a movie which was made an entire century ago. And while it’s just a single frame, you can see exactly why it’s still entrancing audiences today.
A wild-haired and heavily bearded man is signing a document with a quill. Beside…
The Volvo EX60 delivered more driving range in the real world, covering over 350 miles
October 21, 2026
The new Volvo EX60 has an EPA-estimated range of 312 miles, but in real-world conditions, it drove over 350 miles without stopping.
Volvo EX60 beats EPA range in the real world
Volvo calls the EX60 a “game changer” as its fastest-charging, longest-range electric vehicle to date.
In July, Volvo announced the 2027 EX60 P10 AWD received an official EPA certification with an estimated driving…
Huawei’s smart car business is signing on to CATL’s battery swap network, giving the world’s largest battery maker another heavyweight partner for a technology most of the industry wrote off a decade ago.
Yinwang, the Huawei-controlled automotive unit also known as…
Foxconn is buying half of Mitsubishi Electric’s auto parts business for ¥115 billion ($727 million), its biggest bet yet on turning years of EV promises into a real car business.
But the target, Mitsubishi Electric Mobility, isn’t an EV company. It’s a traditional…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appointed Medal of Honor recipient and U.S. Marine Corps reservist Dakota Meyer to the Pentagon’s Barracks Task Force.
Meyer will now serve as Hegseth’s senior advisor to the task force, which is tasked with addressing the military’s “unacceptable” living conditions, the defense secretary announced Monday in a video on social media.
“Our warfighters…
