Stories by Sarah Lee-Jones

United Airlines is putting live NFL and college football broadcasts on Starlink-enabled seatback screens starting this week, under a new deal with DISH that runs through the Super Bowl in February. The airline said fans can watch games from ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, FS1, ESPN, ESPN2, NFL Network, and Thursday Night Football on Prime Video...

SpaceXAI’s Grok Bot can talk now, with the company rolling voice onto desktop and mobile over the next couple of days after the official Grok Bot account posted a short demo on September 17. In the post, Grok Bot put it plainly: “Grok Bot can talk now.” A follow-up said voice is rolling out on […]

Starship Flight 14 mission art. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX on Thursday, September 17, 2026, said it is now targeting Starship Flight 14 as early as Monday, September 28, pending regulatory approval, moving the attempt off the earlier NET Tuesday, September 22 window from Starbase. In an official post on X, the company wrote that it is...

Neuralink quietly posted a VOICE-trial clip on September 16 that shows participant Kenneth Shock, implanted in January 2026, producing audible speech from neural signals alone, including the words “I love you” to his wife as she reacts to hearing a familiar voice again. The company framed the moment simply as “A beautiful surprise.” On September...

Tesla owners are finding that Grok, the in-car AI from xAI, can open websites and articles in the cabin browser by voice instead of pecking at the touchscreen. https://twitter.com/DevinOlsenn/status/2100295649417933183 On September 16, Vancouver creator @DevinOlsenn posted a tip with video showing Grok bring up a page after a spoken request. He called it “super handy”...

Forum Mobility said on September 17, 2026 that it is breaking ground on four new California electric truck charging depots that will add 30 MW of heavy-duty capacity, with Tesla set to operate public Megacharging sites at three of those locations. The depots span Northern and Southern California and will offer Megawatt Charging System (MCS)...

Starlink said Starlink Mobile is now available in Panama with +Móvil, giving people messaging apps, maps, and SMS in places that previously had no cellphone signal. The official September 16 post quotes the local carrier’s own launch note and frames this as a direct-to-phone satellite link, not a new dish sale. https://twitter.com/Starlink/status/2100312938116718736 +Móvil is selling...

[caption id="attachment_72543" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] SpaceX Falcon 9 on a U.S. Space Force mission. Credit: SpaceX[/caption] The U.S. Space Force is handing SpaceX unusual room to shape one of its biggest new low-Earth orbit constellations, according to SpaceNews on September 16. For the roughly $2.3 billion Space Data Network Backbone, the service is setting coverage, capacity,...

[caption id="attachment_72795" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Falcon 9 liftoff of USSF-259 from Vandenberg. Credit: SpaceX / X[/caption] SpaceX just got USSF-259 off the pad after Tuesday’s scrub, sending a Falcon 9 skyward from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Wednesday, September 16, 2026. https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/2100391523338588268 The company confirmed liftoff on X a...

[caption id="attachment_72638" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Tesla Model Y family. Credit: Tesla[/caption] Tesla quietly revised the Model Y L owner’s manual figures for overall height and ground clearance, trimming the published numbers by 3 to 4 millimeters from the April edition, according to an exclusive follow-up from @Tslachan. https://twitter.com/Tslachan/status/2099831708228968570 In the April version cited by @Tslachan, overall...

[caption id="attachment_72766" align="aligncenter" width="993"] Forecasted Supercharger stall availability in Google Maps. Credit: Tesla Charging / X[/caption] Forecasted Supercharger stall counts just followed Google Maps into the car dashboard, after Tesla Charging said the prediction feature is now also available over Android Auto. https://twitter.com/TeslaCharging/status/2100287856208134572 The September 16, 2026 post replies to Tesla Charging’s June 25 rollout...

[caption id="attachment_72754" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Tesla FSD Supervised testing in Spain. Credit: Tesla Europe / X[/caption] Two years of Full Self-Driving Supervised testing across Spain just picked up a concrete mileage total from Tesla Europe, Middle East and Africa, which said the program has now covered 460,000 kilometres. https://twitter.com/teslaeurope/status/2100188661794881815 FSD Supervised is still SAE Level 2...

The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened an investigation Friday into whether about 1,000 Tesla Cybercabs were properly certified under federal motor vehicle safety standards, Reuters reported, a day after Tesla began commercial Cybercab rides in Austin. According to Reuters, NHTSA is examining the process and technical data Tesla used to claim compliance with...

[caption id="attachment_72457" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Tesla FSD Supervised in Slovenia. Credit: Tesla Europe / X[/caption] Slovenia’s Infrastructure and Energy Minister Jernej Vrtovec tested Tesla Full Self-Driving Supervised at Tesla Center Ljubljana, then posted that the system can handle steering, intersections, lane changes, and other maneuvers while the driver stays in control. Tesla Europe amplified an English...

[caption id="attachment_71752" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] SpaceX and Tesla Terafab concept. Credit: SpaceX / Tesla[/caption] Elon Musk told the All-In Summit that SpaceX and Tesla’s Terafab bet is not optional: the companies either build the in-house chip plant or fail to scale. Speaking with SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell during the Los Angeles session, he said the Terafab...