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Everything SpaceX revealed about its updated plan to reach Mars by 2022

 “The future is vastly more exciting and interesting if we’re a space-faring species than if we’re not,” Musk said as he took the stage. “It’s about believing in the future and thinking the future will be better than the past.” This plan will obviously be very expensive, and Musk led with that since it was a considerable criticism of what… Read More

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Hey, Elon Musk, what about toilet paper on Mars? – CNET

The SpaceX CEO is updating his red planet plans. Neal Stephenson, Jonathan Nolan and other science and sci-fi smarties have questions about going interplanetary.
Source: CNET

First China, now South Korea has banned ICOs

 South Korea has banned ICOs, the up-and-coming method of raising funding via crypto tokens, due to concerns over the potential for financial scams. China’s Central Bank became the first to outlaw ICOs, which are also known as token sales, in a move made earlier this month and now Korea is following suit. Companies from across the world have raised more than $1.8 billion this year to… Read More

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Crunch Report | GoPro Releases The Hero 6 Black

The GoPro Hero 6 and Fusion 360 camera are released, IKEA buys Instacart and Aston Martin is building a submarine. All this on Crunch Report. Read More

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SpaceX plans to use spaceships for Earth passenger transit

 Elon Musk was at IAC showing off his ambitious plan to ultimately make Earth an interplanetary species, and one of the new pieces of his plan he revealed was Earth-to-Earth transport using SpaceX rockets to cut down trips to almost anywhere on Earth in under an hour, and to most destinations in under 30 minutes. The plan would essentially fly passengers up to an altitude where the craft… Read More

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Lockheed Martin’s Mars Base Camp would stage Mars surface missions

 Lockheed Martin shared more information about its Mars Base Camp (MBC) architecture and operation plans at this year’s International Astronautical Congress, as reported by Space. The concept images shared by Lockheed reveal a platform from which large interplanetary ships, as well as surface landers which can ferry passengers back and forth from the station.
The Mars Base Camp plan… Read More

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Weekend Streaming: 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' returns after six years – CNET

It’s a pretty good weekend. Pretty, pretty, pretty good weekend.
Source: CNET

Russian government linked to fake black activist accounts – CNET

Facebook and Twitter accounts attempted to stoke racial tensions and promote divisiveness in the US, CNN reports.
Source: CNET

Elon Musk shares images of “Moon Base Alpha� and “Mars City� ahead of IAC talk

 Elon Musk is giving us a sneak peak of what he’ll be talking about in just a few hours at the International Astronautical Congress in Australia. The SpaceX founder shared an image he captioned “Moon Base Alpha” on Instagram today, featuring a computer rendered image of the proposed moon base, which he called for originally during a talk at the International Space Station… Read More

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Apple would like to remind the FCC that it can’t activate imaginary FM radios that iPhones don’t have

 Apple responded today to FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai, who issued a statement that “urged” Apple to activate the FM chips that he claimed are in iPhones in the name of public safety. The recent hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria were the hook for the reasoning. The only problem? Apple hasn’t even included FM radio chips in iPhones since the iPhone 6s. That’s right, Pai… Read More

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