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China marches towards re-usable rockets with successful first-stage landing

Red alert for rivals as LandSpace nails it after December disaster

Chinese space startup LandSpace has landed a first-stage booster on land, the first time a Middle Kingdom company has achieved the feat.

LandSpace flies rockets called Zhuque and has built three generations of the craft.

Zhuque-1 only flew once, in 2018. Zhuque-2 became the first liquid oxygen-methane vehicle to reach orbit when it first flew in 2022. It can can carry 6,000 kilograms to a 200km low Earth orbit or 4,000kg to a 600km Sun-synchronous orbit. LandSpace has flown it eight times since 2022. Six missions succeeded.

Zhuque-3 is the company’s new flagship and can hoist 21,300 kg to a 450km orbit. The rocket uses LandSpace’s own TQ-12A engines, which burn liquid oxygen-methane fuel. The rocket’s first stage is re-usable, and can land on its four legs.

LandSpace flew the Zhuque-3 for the first time last December, but the...

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Velatir raises €5m to sell European companies control over their own AI

Velatir, an Odense startup that sells companies a way to see and control the AI their employees are already using, has raised €5m in seed funding six months after closing its pre-seed. Spintop Ventures, a Nordic early-stage firm investing in the company for the first time, co-led the round with

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Unitree’s founder says robots are nearing a ‘ChatGPT moment’

Wang Xingxing spent Thursday morning at the World Robot Conference in Beijing telling the room that humanoid robots are approaching their “ChatGPT moment”. He spent another part of the same appearance explaining why that moment might still be a decade away. The Unitree founder and chief executive was speaking the

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Why your best-interviewing AI candidate may not be your best AI hire

Demand for AI fluency has risen nearly sevenfold in two years, faster than demand for any other skill, according to the McKinsey Global Institute. My conversations with technology leaders echo this: nearly every one I speak with is hiring for AI skills. The problem, however, is that fewer can tell

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Barracuda Finds 20 Web Application Vulnerabilities on Average

New Barracuda research shows that the average web application carries 20 security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by attackers to steal data, compromise accounts or gain unauthorized access to systems. The findings are detailed in a new report, which also reveals that the most common vulnerabilities stem from preventable security

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Velatir raises €5m to sell European companies control over their own AI

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Why your best-interviewing AI candidate may not be your best AI hire

Barracuda Finds 20 Web Application Vulnerabilities on Average