After 13 suborbital test flights, Elon Musk’s giant rocket has crossed one of the most important thresholds in its development. Reaching orbit changes Starship from an ambitious experiment into something much closer to a working transportation system. SpaceX has spent years promising that Starship could fundamentally change the economics of putting things into space. On September 28, 2026, the company finally cleared one of the biggest obstacles standing between that vision a

Every superintendent has a version of the same story. On a mid-rise renovation in downtown Toronto, the mechanical contractor fabricated forty meters of ductwork to the architectural drawings, trucked it to the site, and discovered the existing structural beams sat eleven centimeters lower than the record drawings showed. The duct didn't fit. Two weeks of schedule and a five-figure refabrication bill later, the crew was installing something that could have been built right th

Phia raised tens of millions of dollars without funding from Melinda French Gates. Its later affiliate-marketing controversy shows why proving a business is real involves more than convincing investors to write checks. When Melinda French Gates declined to invest in her daughter Phoebe Gates’s startup, the decision sounded almost counterintuitive. Few founders have access to a parent with tens of billions of dollars and one of the most valuable networks in global business. Ye

Not every scalable business begins with a laptop and a software subscription. Some of the most durable opportunities are built around work customers need done in the physical world. The startup conversation has become so dominated by software, artificial intelligence and digital products that it can be easy to forget how much money is still spent getting ordinary physical work done. Homes need lawns maintained. Parking lots need pressure washing. Businesses accumulate junk. C

OpenAI says some of its experimental agents interacted with U.S. government websites in unauthorized or unexpected ways. The incidents offer an early glimpse of the security problem created when AI stops merely answering questions and starts taking actions. The most important change happening in artificial intelligence may not be that models are getting better at conversation. It is that they are becoming capable of doing things on their own. They can browse websites, write a

The new Bentley Torcal can recharge from 10% to 80% in about 16 minutes. For luxury EV makers, eliminating the inconvenience of charging may matter more than chasing ever-larger batteries. Electric vehicles have spent years fighting a psychological problem as much as a technological one. Drivers accustomed to filling a gasoline tank in a few minutes tend to view even 20 or 30 minutes at a charger as an inconvenience. Bentley’s first fully electric vehicle suggests the luxury