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SpaceX’s Direct-to-Cell service delivers wide-area coverage from orbit, but it still runs into the classic satellite limits: capacity and densification in crowded areas. The most elegant fix is already sitting in Tesla’s network — Supercharger stations and the coming Cybercab fleet. Turn Superchargers into fixed small cells and Cybercabs into…

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I was wrong in thinking that SpaceX would buy 5G celltower equipment from the Echostar auction. It is the wrong equipment to get and involves paying rent to cell tower companies. SpaceX can make its own small cell systems at supercharger sites and on cybercabs. Another problem with the Dish…

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has predicted that Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics will transform the global economy to the point where money may no longer matter by 2036, as advances in technology drive an unprecedented abundance of goods and services. Speaking during an interview with The Economist editor-in-chief,…

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The hardest remaining barrier to rapid Starship reuse is no longer engines, tanks, or even catching the vehicle. It is the heat shield. Three specific problems still dominate: Mechanical loads during ascent (vibration combined with higher dynamic pressure) Coefficient of thermal expansion mismatch — stainless steel expands far more than…

Grok 4.5 (1.5 trillion parameter) at 11 will likely crack the top ten LLM on open router. Based on the number of models they are releasing. They could have new models in the 50% frontier coding score but at prices lower than Anthropic for Opus 5. Later versions of Grok…

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SpaceX will likely attempt to catch Starship back at the launch pad on its next flight. A drone view of SpaceX's Starship vehicle floating in the Indian Ocean after splashdown on Flight 13. The flame visible in this image dissipated after a few seconds. Credit: SpaceX A drone view of…

SpaceX launched the world's most powerful rocket on a critical 13th test flight late Friday, but there was no triskaidekaphobia on this mission. The July 24 test launch, Space's Starship Flight 13 mission , sent a towering rocket the size of a 40-story skyscraper into space from South Texas, returned…