by Michael Belfiore | Apr 26, 2016 | Blog
There’s been a lot of talk during the current presidential campaign about the harm to the U.S. economy done by manufacturing jobs being shipped overseas. Actually, that’s an old story, and it needs to be updated. In fact, manufacturing jobs are actually...
by Michael Belfiore | Dec 22, 2015 | Blog
Last night at 8:29pm ET, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket leapt off the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida in a mission to put 11 communications satellites in orbit for Orbcomm. It was SpaceX’s first mission since June, when a cargo mission to the International Space...
by Michael Belfiore | Nov 24, 2015 | Blog
Yesterday at Blue Origin’s West Texas proving grounds, the company’s New Shepard spacecraft launched to an altitude of 329,839 feet, almost 2,000 feet past the international accepted boundary of space, and returned to Earth to complete a “flawless...
by Michael Belfiore | Nov 9, 2015 | Blog
When I wrote about DARPA’s Revolutionizing Prosthetics program in Popular Science back in 2007, the editors, without running it by me first, called it out on the cover with a headline that sold the project as creating a “bionic arm that’s better than...
by Michael Belfiore | Oct 2, 2015 | Articles, Blog
The much-anticipated movie The Martian opens today, and I plan to be there, come hell or high water (and we might actually get some of that here in New York!). The book is amazing hard sf, and the movie promises to be more of the same. Hopefully, it continues a recent...
by Michael Belfiore | Aug 19, 2015 | Blog
Yesterday, a participant in my free PR for Technologists teleconference asked me whether the press release is dead. “When I send one out via wire services, it seems to have about as much impact as stuffing it into a bottle and tossing it in the ocean,” he...
