Artificial gravity space station startup Vast announced that it intends to put the first commercial space station in orbit in August 2025 via launch partner SpaceX.
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OpenAI’s Sora app is struggling after its stellar launch; plus, Music Publishers sue Anthropic for $3B
Sora's mobile app downloads fell 45% in January, and consumer spending dropped. Originally, these music publishers had filed a lawsuit against Anthropic over its use of about 500 copyrighted works. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Jan 28
SFPD investigating Zoox collision with a parked car; plus, Allbirds is closing its last brick-and-mortar store in SF
The investigation is looking into a January 17 crash where a Zoox robotaxi hit the driver's side door of a parked car, which Zoox said was "suddenly opened." Also, once symbolic of a mid-2010s San Francisco tech bro, Allbirds is cutting costs to "support the long-term health of t ... Show More
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Sep 2023
Frontier Space Technologies is developing an on-orbit autonomous lab to make space science easy
Astronauts have been conducting experiments on the International Space Station for as long as the station has been in orbit, but astronaut labor is expensive: crew time costs $130,000 per hour, and companies are capped at 25 hours per year.
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