Massive, AI-Powered Robots Are 3D-Printing Entire Rockets

For a factory where robots toil around the clock to build a rocket with almost no human labor, the sound of grunts echoing across the parking lot make for a jarring contrast.“That’s Keanu Reeves’ stunt gym,” says Tim Ellis, the chief executive and cofounder of Relativity Space, a startup that wants to combine 3D printing…

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To Go Green, the Energy Industry Goes Open Source

The European Union aims to reduce carbon emissions by at least 80 percent by 2050. Former California Governor Jerry Brown signed an executive order last year calling for the state, the fifth-largest economy in the world, to go carbon neutral by 2045. Meeting these goals, or even the less ambitious goals set by other governments,…

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Today’s Cartoon: Cutting Out the Middleman

Monday, October 14, 2019. By Jeremy Nguyen, with cartooncollections.com. Information about you, what you buy, where you go, even where you look is the oil that fuels the digital economy. WIRED’s Guide to personal data collection explains it all. Every weekday, WIRED publishes a new cartoon about the worlds of science and technology. Check back…

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Jackson Square Ventures just closed its third fund with $193 million; here’s how it plans to invest it

Jackson Square Ventures (JSV), an eight-year-old, San Francisco-based early-stage venture firm that takes its name from the neighborhood in San Francisco where it’s headquartered, has closed its third fund with…

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