DOGE announces results from its first 80 hours of work — and it’s way behind schedule
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency announced Friday in a post on X that in 80 hours, it had cancelled approximately $420 million worth of current or impending government contracts, as well as two leases. According to B-17 News calculations, that amounts to cancelling about $126 million worth of contracts per day. If the group…
I was in the packed hall at Davos to hear Trump speak. The audience went from laughter to silence in seconds.
If you didn’t know President Donald Trump had taken the oath of office three days before, you might have thought his speech at Davos’ Congress Hall was a campaign event. Trump’s virtual address on Thursday afternoon drew a massive crowd at the Swiss event, with people lining up outside the 700-seater hall. As he was…
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launches New Glenn mega-rocket, entering the orbital big league
Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin has entered the rocket big leagues. At 2:03 a.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, Blue Origin’s 32-story-tall New Glenn rocket fired its seven engines and climbed atop a cloud of fire and steam for the first time, roaring into the skies above the launch complex in Cape Canaveral, Florida. “LIFTOFF!…
If Blue Origin wants to give SpaceX a run for its money, it has a lot of catching up to do
Jeff Bezos’s spaceflight company, Blue Origin, made a huge leap forward on Thursday when it successfully launched its uncrewed New Glenn rocket into space on the first try. It’s a pivotal moment for Blue Origin. New Glenn — named after the first American to reach orbit, John Glenn — is the company’s first and only…
SpaceX’s new-generation Starship explodes after taking off on its latest test flight
SpaceX’s next-gen Starship exploded shortly after liftoff. SpaceX’s Starship mega-rocket has stumbled on the road to commercial use. On Thursday, it unexpectedly dropped out of communications and exploded as it screamed toward space for its seventh flight. Shortly after Starship’s explosion, Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of SpaceX, wrote on X, “Improved versions of…
The massive CES tech show this week gives us a glimpse at how AI could be used in everything from TVs to bird feeders
AI is making as big a splash as you’d expect at the country’s biggest tech trade show of the year. CES 2025 technically hasn’t even started, but the AI product announcements and demos are already piling up. The biggest tech trade show in the US, formally known as the Consumer Electronics Show, kicks off Tuesday…
2 of the largest stock photo platforms are merging, sending their shares up
Getty Images is combining with Shutterstock. Getty Images and Shutterstock are merging in a deal that could help the company better prepare for artificial intelligence. On Tuesday, Getty’s stock jumped 24%, while shares of Shutterstock rose 14%, a sign that investors welcome the merger. The combined company, which will be called Getty Images, will be…
AI ‘godfather’ Yoshua Bengio says AI agents could be the ‘most dangerous path’
Yoshua Bengio, AI research scientist, and Eric Schmidt, former CEO and chairman of Google. Artificial intelligence pioneer Yoshua Bengio has been at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week with a message: AI agents could end badly. The topic of AI agents — artificial intelligence that can act independently of human input — has…
I’m a chef who loves using my air fryer. Here are my 8 favorite meals to make in it.
As a chef, I make all kinds of things in my air fryer, including grilled cheese. As a trained chef, I keep my air fryer on the counter at all times and use it for a variety of things, including toasting bread and reheating eftovers. The best air fryers work like tiny, mighty convection ovens,…
