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The FAA required SpaceX take 75 separate actions to mitigate the environmental impacts of launches from its Boca Chica, Texas, launch site. A new lawsuit says it's not enough.
Their last strike previewed the struggles of the streaming era. This one might be giving us an early taste of the age of artificial intelligence.
Federal A.I. regulation now will hinder progress, consumer choice, and market competition.
A.I. won’t kill cooking. Instead, it’ll help people become more creative and efficient in the kitchen.
FTC Chair Lina Khan has an agenda that's against big companies, not for consumer well-being.
Plus: the terrible case for pausing A.I. innovation
Is an A.I. "foom" even possible?
For good and ill, human beings advance through trial and error. The same will be the case with A.I.
Excessive government interference in the market hurts consumers and thwarts policy goals. It also gets in the way of the government itself.
After launching, ChatGPT hit 1 million sign-ups much faster than Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter did.
Coinbase says the agency's assault will "only drive innovation, jobs, and the entire industry overseas."
"The future of our planet depends on how we feed ourselves…and we have a responsibility to look beyond the horizon for smarter, sustainable ways to eat," says GOOD Meat's CEO.
The higher taxes on small businesses and entrepreneurs could slow growth. Less opportunity means more tribalism and division.
In countries that privatized, there are fewer delays and costs are lower. But labor unions and the private plane lobby stand in the way.
Online communities have made their diagnoses their identity.
The advent of effective new weight loss drugs offers hope for millions of overweight people.
McDonald's invested in some spiffy new toys, but almost everything else stayed the same.
"It's very easy for politicians to legislate freedom away," says Northwood University's Kristin Tokarev. "But it's incredibly hard to get back."
While Sohn’s record raises ethics and judgment questions, some attacks against her lacked merit.
Beware of activists touting "responsible research and innovation." The sensible-sounding slogan masks a reactionary agenda.
Politicians say they want to subsidize various industries, but they sabotage themselves by weighing the policies down with rules that have nothing to do with the plans.
The legislation, which forbids shipping anything between American ports in ships that are not U.S. built and crewed, is just another a special deal that one industry has scammed out of Congress.
Attempts to reclassify ISPs as common carriers are unsupported by law.
Net neutrality is an unnecessary and failed policy.
Americans are increasingly buying electric cars. Electrochemists and their innovations will drive down the cost of powering them.
Election betting markets are often more reliable than pundits. Did the site steal user funds? No. Did they lie to people? No. Harm anyone? No.
If you look closely, you'll find a lot of contradictions.
Despite an apocalyptic media narrative, the modern era has brought much longer lives and the greatest decline in poverty ever.
Content-generating A.I. will probably enhance human labor rather than make it obsolete.
Thanks to globalization, we plebes can pay just $6.49 for a whole Whopper meal fit for a 16th-century king.
Pessimism is everywhere, but the author of The Cloud Revolution says we're entering a golden age of abundant, ubiquitous, and liberating technology.
While some Republicans may have had misguided motivations, a few disrupted McCarthy's campaign in order to enact fiscal restraint. Their colleagues were fine with business as usual.
Regulators are beginning to smile on the sci-fi project of creating real meat products without the typical death and environmental destruction.
With government meddling, many farmers end up doing less with more, and people end up paying more for less.
Getting the best information when we need it will likely always be a challenge, but the Reddit hack helps.
Why are activists trying to stop research into a promising backup plan to handle climate change?
Government should not penalize investment, thwart competition, discourage innovation and work, or obstruct production.
The U.S. is missing out on necessary high-skilled workers by faltering on immigration reform.
All of these advances are in mice for now, but maybe these breakthroughs can one day be adapted as human therapies.
Educational freedom is good for everybody but unions, bureaucrats, and the education establishment.
One Medical and Amazon are going to provide a much-needed alternative to consumers who are already frustrated by the health care system.
Regulatory uncertainty is keeping the seaweed market from reaching its full potential.
If Europe really cared about e-waste it would stop mandating inefficient products.
Consumers lose out when compliance costs prevent services from ever entering the market.
However wonderful it is to imagine a world in which these things are possible, the government shouldn’t be shelling out millions to entertain speculation.
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