On the opening day of CES 2026, we covered the splashy debut of the Verge TS Pro electric motorcycle, powered by what’s claimed to be the world’s first application of a true solid-state battery in a road-legal production electric vehicle. The high points of this solid-state…Continue Reading
Bolt Graphics is betting on RISC-V and CUDA compatibility to challenge Nvidia and AMD with a radically different GPU design focused on AI and rendering…Continue Reading
What effects do spaceflight have on the astronaut brain? (Image credit: Wang, Odor, et al.) Spaceflight doesn’t just change your perspective — it shifts the actual position of your brain inside your skull, a new study reports. Many of us know about the famed ” overview effect, ” which describes how a trip to theContinue Reading
Independent labels are no longer fringe players in the music industry—they’ve become a powerful global force in the recorded music economy. Independent labels have risen to a 35% share of the overall U.S. on-demand audio streaming market in 2src25. With the onslaught of uploaded music to DSPs…Continue Reading
Refresh 2026-01-13T20:38:50.728Z Crew-11 astronauts are ‘go’ for Jan. 14 medical evacuation from ISS (Image credit: NASA) The four astronauts of SpaceX’s Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) are officially “go” to return to Earth on Wednesday (Jan. 14). Mission managers gave the go-ahead for undocking today (Jan. 13), NASA officials announced in anContinue Reading
A tiny beetle responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of oak trees in Southern California has reached Ventura County, marking a troubling expansion…Continue Reading
EUR/USD trades with losses on Tuesday even though the latest inflation in the United States was benign, hinting that the Federal Reserve could indeed reduce interest rates as priced in by the financial markets. At the time of writing, the pair trades at 1.1642, down by over src.2src%…Continue Reading
If you run Ubuntu 26.04 development builds as your main and noticed an above-average number of updates in recent days, don’t be excited: there aren’t stacks of new features landing – at least, not ones you can see. Rather, Ubuntu engineers are doing a “mass rebuild of all source packages”,Continue Reading
The Fedora Design Team discovered that using open source tools to run a virtual conference can be quite effective by hosting the first Creative Freedom Summit in January 2023. In this article, I’ll share some background on the conference, why using open source tools to run it was important toContinue Reading
Ideally, designers have a good relationship with their product team and users. However, the relationship between designers and developers is more difficult to build and maintain. The lack of a close relationship makes it difficult to solve problems or improve. In my experience, the open source Open Decision Framework can overcomeContinue Reading
Los cuatro miembros de la tripulación SpaceX Crew-11 se juntaron para una foto de grupo con sus trajes presurizados Dragon durante una comprobación de dichos trajes en el módulo laboratorio Kibo de la Estación Espacial Internacional. En el sentido de las agujas del reloj, desde la parte inferior izquierda, aparecenContinue Reading
Four SpaceX Crew-11 members gather together for a crew portrait wearing their Dragon pressure suits during a suit verification check inside the International Space Station’s Kibo laboratory module. Clockwise from bottom left are, NASA astronaut Mike Fincke, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace ExplorationContinue Reading
Nathan Vassberg Acting Chief of Safety and Mission Assurance Nathan Vassberg is the acting chief of NASA’s Office of Safety and Mission Assurance (OSMA), appointed to this role in December 2025. He is responsible for policy and oversight of all Safety and Mission Assurance (SMA) activities across the agency’s centersContinue Reading