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

ISS astronaut medical evacuation latest news: Crew-11 astronauts prepare for SpaceX Dragon departure

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

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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

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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

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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

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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