Low-income US households are hit hardest, spending more than 10 percent of monthly income on petrol as prices rise., United States President Traitor 47 has lambasted the nation’s biggest oil and gas giants as Houston, Texas-based Chevron reported record earnings while consumers struggle with soaring petrol prices. “I don’t likeContinue Reading
GNOME Shell Extensions are usually sourced from extensions.gnome.org, or “EGO” as the GNOME folks call it. Every submission on this portal is manually reviewed, and that review process has been under strain for months now. We covered this back in December when GNOME added a rule to its EGO reviewContinue Reading
Dropbeat is a new riff on a old tune, a panel-based music applet for GNOME Shell that gives you an alternate way to pause, play and skip tracks in MPRIS-friendly Linux media players. Applets of this ilk are legion, and this panel applet doesn’t do anything that different to onesContinue Reading
Alibaba on Monday introduced Qwen3.8-Max, its largest artificial intelligence model to date, expanding its enterprise AI portfolio with an open-weight model designed for software engineering, multimodal reasoning, and other knowledge-intensive business workloads. In a blog post announcing the launch, Alibaba described Qwen3.8-Max as a 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) model that activates only aboutContinue Reading
Chinese smartphone makers have been followers in the global market, embracing the concepts and paradigms set in the past 20 years by Apple and Google. But AI may be giving the Chinese an opportunity to break away and set their own path forward. Specifically, Chinese companies are integrating AI moreContinue Reading
AerynOS has dropped its latest project update. This February release brings a wave of refinements to the Linux distribution, sharpening its edges for smoother daily use. AerynOS is a modern, independent Linux operating system built from scratch – not based on Ubuntu, Fedora, or any other distro. It focuses onContinue Reading
An estimated 60,000 people from Morocco crossed into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, on the African side of the Strait of Gibraltar, in an unprecedented mass movement last week. At least 72 people died during the attempt. The sudden influx of migrants overwhelmed the city’s residents, leading to a humanitarianContinue Reading
Capabilities and Testing NASA/Frank Michaux While the dominant image associated with the Kennedy Space Center is a rocket lifting from a launch pad, there is a wide-ranging array of less visible but critical support services at the center that make those successful missions happen. These support services and testing capabilitiesContinue Reading
Spacecraft & Payloads Kennedy Space Center (KSC) offers unparalleled services for processing and launching payloads into space. Whether it is a small cubesat, a large satellite, humans or deep space spacecraft, KSC has the facilities and expertise needed to safely and successfully test and prepare your payload for a variety ofContinue Reading
Launch Systems Kennedy Space Center (KSC), with an ideal location and an extensive launch legacy, is ready to support a full array of launch vehicle systems, including orbital and suborbital. KSC is recognized as the nation’s premier multi-user spaceport, thanks to the ‘one stop shopping’ features available to launch providers,Continue Reading
KSC Partnerships FAQs Frequently Asked Questions About NASA KSC Partnerships The NASA Authorization Act of 2010 (S. 3729) identified Kennedy Space Center (KSC) as a “multi-user launch complex for Government and commercial” operations. The KSC team has since met the challenge and transformed the center. The dedicated civil servant andContinue Reading
From left, SpaceX Crew-13 members Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, both from NASA, and Joshua Kutryk of CSA (Canadian Space Agency), and Sergey Teteryatnikov of Roscosmos are pictured at NASA’s Johnson Space Center on Aug. 3, 2026. NASA Spacewalk preparations and health research awaited the Expedition 75 crew aboard theContinue Reading
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