Elon Musk Unveils First Look At The Falcon Heavy Rocket
SpaceX is one step closer to getting humans to Mars. CEO Elon Musk unveiled photos of the newly-assembled Falcon Heavy Rocket in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Astronomer Phil Plait explains what the Falcon Heavy Rocket means for the modern space race. Elon Musk plans to use the 27-engine rocket to get people to Mars by 2022. According to SpaceX, the Falcon Heavy will be able to carry over 30,000 pounds of cargo to Mars.
SpaceX isn't the only player in the space industry that is making big progress this week. Blue Origin successfully launched a seventh New Shepard rocket. Plait says Jeff Bezos's company has even bigger rockets in the pipeline.
The Energy Department is making a push to strengthen the U.S. battery supply chain, announcing up to $3.5 billion for companies that produce batteries and the critical minerals that go into them.
Ed Egilinsky, managing director and head of sales and distribution & alternatives with Direxion, joined Cheddar News to discuss how bond traders are reacting to the latest consumer price index data and how they're positioning portfolios ahead of next week's release of Nvidia's earnings. Egilinsky also discussed some of the other bigger-cap companies, including Alphabet, Amazon and Apple.
Facebook and Instagram will require political ads running on their platforms to disclose if they were created using artificial intelligence, their parent company announced on Wednesday.
Arturo Béjar testified before a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday about social media and the teen mental health crisis, hoping to shed light on how Meta executives, including Zuckerberg, knew about the harms Instagram was causing but chose not to make meaningful changes to address them.
