The ‘Halo Drive’ Would Shoot Lasers at Black Holes to Explore the Milky Way

“If we can’t build something capable of delivering astronomical levels of energy, perhaps we could instead steal the energy from an astronomical object.” Continue reading The ‘Halo Drive’ Would Shoot Lasers at Black Holes to Explore the Milky Way

Lux Capital closes $400 million fund to back startups “inventing the future”

active brain Lux Capital’s portfolio companies sound like they ripped their product concepts from the pages of science fiction. Among these are self-driving car startup Zoox, a company gathering oceanographic data from fleets of autonomously operating boats called Saildrone, Desktop Metal whose 3-D printers that can make objects out of alloys on the spot, and 3Scan, a startup that makes detailed… Read More Continue reading Lux Capital closes $400 million fund to back startups “inventing the future”

Lux Capital closes $400 million fund to back startups “inventing the future”

active brain Lux Capital’s portfolio companies sound like they ripped their product concepts from the pages of science fiction. Among these are self-driving car startup Zoox, a company gathering oceanographic data from fleets of autonomously operating boats called Saildrone, Desktop Metal whose 3-D printers that can make objects out of alloys on the spot, and 3Scan, a startup that makes detailed… Read More Continue reading Lux Capital closes $400 million fund to back startups “inventing the future”