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NASA and SpaceX marked another milestone Friday evening when a Falcon Nine rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral, carrying the thirty-fourth commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station. Aboard the Dragon capsule is a fresh batch of scientific experiments, continuing the steady rhythm of research happening two hundred fifty miles above our heads.
Closer to the ground, Tesla's robotaxi program is drawing renewed scrutiny after new crash data reveals two incidents since July of last year involved vehicles being operated remotely by human operators. It's a detail that complicates the autonomous narrative — when a crash happens and a person is at the controls, the questions about accountability get considerably harder to answer.
And on the philosophical side of tech, there's a conversation circulating about Jevons Paradox applied to artificial intelligence — the idea that as knowledge becomes cheaper and more abundant through AI tools, the thing that actually becomes scarce and valuable is genuine insight. It's a useful frame for anyone trying to understand what human judgment is still worth in an age of instant answers.
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