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The Japan Times

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The Korea Times

Thomas Black

Boeing’s stealth-fighter coup is a turning point

Boeing’s Chief Executive Officer Kelly Ortberg must be pinching himself. In the span of just a few days, the company’s beleaguered Starliner...

27.10.2026 100

The Japan Times

Thomas Black

Driverless trucks show how to keep AI from killing us

The most bothersome aspect of the warning that artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity is that there are few details about how a rogue...

26.10.2026 100

The Japan Times

Thomas Black

SpaceX ushers in a new era and more junk in orbit

This week, the world left behind 69 years of space exploration and commerce and entered the age of Starship, an era that will be defined by...

30.09.2026 100

The Japan Times

Thomas Black

SpaceX’s blow-it-up testing won’t fly on starship

SpaceX’s willingness to blow stuff up and learn from the failures has propelled it from a cash-strapped startup to one of the world’s most...

20.07.2026 150

The Japan Times

Thomas Black

It’s up to SpaceX and Blue Origin to stick the moon landing

The Artemis II mission around the moon provided a conflicted nation with a much-needed wave of shared enthusiasm derived from achieving a lofty goal....

24.04.2026 150

The Japan Times

Thomas Black

Is NASA’s moon mission the end for legacy space firms?

The world witnessed the preamble to a changing of the guard in space as four astronauts climbed aboard the Orion spacecraft built by Lockheed Martin...

03.04.2026 150

The Japan Times

Thomas Black

The era of humanoid robots is here: Governments must seize the moment

For an industry that’s only just getting started, there’s a lot of hype around humanoid robots. You can thank Elon Musk and his bold...

18.03.2026 200

The Japan Times

Thomas Black

The future of drones is policing, not delivering packages

07.11.2025 150

The Japan Times

Thomas Black

The AI building boom is bound to bust

18.08.2025 150

The Japan Times

Thomas Black