Inside Microsoft Ignite: How Microsoft and NVIDIA are redefining the AI stack

Presented by Microsoft and NVIDIAAs the world’s leading platform providers and champions for advancing AI globally, NVIDIA and Microsoft continue to deliver unequaled value for organizations investing in and deploying AI. The companies’ collaborative efforts at the 2025 Microsoft Ignite conference offered tangible proof, introducing practitioners and decision-makers to new and expanded AI infrastructure andContinue Reading

‘Putting the servers in orbit is a stupid idea’: Could data centers in space help avoid an AI energy crisis? Experts are torn.

(Image credit: fotograzia/Getty Images) As artificial intelligence (AI) models keep growing and getting more power-hungry , researchers are starting to ask not whether they can be trained — but where. That’s the context behind Google Research’s recent proposal to explore space-based AI infrastructure, an idea that sits somewhere between serious science and orbital overreach. TheContinue Reading

The Earth Observer: Offering Perspectives from Space through Time

An Intertwined History: The Earth Observer and EOS The Earth Observer , a newsletter issued for more than 36 years, will release its last online content at the close of 2025. This newsletter evolved in parallel with NASA’s Earth Observing System (EOS). It is almost impossible to speak of this newsletter without mentioning EOS. As TheContinue Reading

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Nobody relaxes too much in the fleeting moments of near-normalcy because they know these can disappear at any time., Over the past year, Gaza’s infrastructure has been subjected to a devastating reality. What once functioned under strain has been pushed beyond the point of collapse. Electricity networks, water systems, hospitals,Continue Reading

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On January 1, Bulgaria will become the 21st country to adopt the European Union’s single currency., EXPLAINER On January 1, Bulgaria will become the 21st country to adopt the European Union’s single currency. On January 1, 2026, Bulgaria will bid farewell to its lev currency and become the 21st EuropeanContinue Reading

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The coalition carried out a strike at Yemen’s Mukalla port after accusing foreign-backed vessels of delivering weapons., The Saudi-led coalition carried out a targeted strike at Yemen’s Mukalla port, accusing foreign-backed vessels of delivering weapons to southern separatists. The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen has carried out a “limited military operation”Continue Reading