SpaceX Leads Reusable Rocket Race, While China Continues Crashing Boosters To Earth | ZeroHedge

As of early last week, Elon Musk's SpaceX had completed 356 launches, 319 landings, and 290 relights, according to flight data from Fox News. This is a monumental achievement for the world's first private space company to pioneer and deploy reusable rockets. 

The reusable Falcon 9 rocket has dominated the launch industry and propelled America into the number one spot in the global space race. 

Data from BryceTech shows SpaceX launched 525 spacecraft into orbit in the (more…)

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Social Media: Where It’s Hardest To Tell Truth From Fake News | ZeroHedge

According to a survey conducted in 47 markets for the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2024, concern over what is real or not on the internet in general is on the rise.

Such concerns were notably prevalent in some of the countries holding elections this year, including South Africa (81 percent), the United States (72 percent) and the United Kingdom (70 percent).

Expanding on the concerns themselves, the writers write:

Specifically, Statista's Anna Fleck notes that (more…)

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What Chinese AI Tells Us About The Semi Market | ZeroHedge

By Russell Clark of the Capital Flows and Asset Markets substack

Back in January I wondered if semiconductors were the new oil. The price action this year probably says yes. Just as the Soviet Union tried to cripple the US in the 1970s through helping organise an oil embargo, the US is trying to cripple China through creating a semiconductor embargo. The US “war” with China was always about keeping China as a smaller economy than the US. From that perspective, it has been a (more…)

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