After years of effort, SpaceX has been certified by the U.S. Air Force for the nation’s most critical launches, opening the door to a multibillion-dollar military market. The Air Force announced the certification late Tuesday, saying the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is now eligible to be considered in bids for national security space launch missions. The first opportunity will come in June, when the Air Force releases a request for proposal for an
V irtual reality looks like the next mega tech trend, investment bank Piper Jaffray predicted in a research report Wednesday. The market for VR and augmented reality headsets could be worth $62 billion in 2025, Piper Jaffray said. It estimates 500 million headsets sold at an average selling price of $125 that year. Content for virtual reality goggles could generate $5.4 billion by 2025, the investment bank says. “We believe virtual reality and augmented reality are the next mega tech themes through 2030,” Piper Jaffray
After triumphing on “Jeopardy” and making strides for the health care industry, IBM’s (IBM) Watson artificial intelligence supercomputer may help disrupt the oil and gas industry. On Wednesday, IBM said that it was teaming up with Woodside, Australia’s largest independent oil and gas company, to use Watson to give employees access to “unstructured and historical data contained in project reports in seconds.” Woodside said that the computer would