Imagine if one company could become the railroad, electric utility and cloud-computing provider of the emerging space economy. That potential fueled excitement around the long-anticipated initial public offering of SpaceX. Investors are not simply betting on rockets anymore. They are betting on an entire orbital ecosystem. Among the most ambitious and challenging ideas riding thisContinue Reading
Mars Science Laboratory Mission Team Members Jun 18, 2026 Written by William Farrand, Senior Research Scientist, Space Science Institute Earth planning date: Friday, June 12, 2026 Rather than going from stage to stage at a music festival to hear different bands playing different varieties of music, Curiosity has been ascending up Mount Sharp through physicalContinue Reading
Bruker has launched the timsMRMS, a mass spectrometry platform that combines trapped ion mobility spectrometry (TIMS) with magnetic resonance mass spectrometry (MRMS) to characterize the ultra-complex molecular mixtures found in next-generation battery materials. For battery researchers, the timsMRMS enables molecular-level analysis of electrolyte formulations and degradation of the solid-electrolyte interphaseContinue Reading
Sponsored by ITECH. As EV platforms push from 400 V to 800 V and beyond 1,000 V, engineers are facing a growing gap between charging capability and what can be safely tested in real-world conditions. This whitepaper unpacks the concept of “validation anxiety” and the risks tied to reliability, lifecycleContinue Reading
I can’t say I know for sure that Stephen Colbert is a Techdirt reader, but I very much believe he is. His interests align somewhat with ours, he often comments on some of the same topics we do, and, it turns out, he decided to troll his previous employer duringContinue Reading
ATLANTA (AP) — Bina Ramroop broke down in tears when she realized she wasn’t going to get the World Cup tickets she had bought for her grandson’s 13th birthday. As thousands poured into Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Monday to see Spain face Cape Verde in what turned out to beContinue Reading
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s law requiring children under 16 to get parental consent to use social media apps must be restored, a divided panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. The decision comes as a blow to NetChoice, which has won court victories against identical digitalContinue Reading
In a mouse study conducted by scientists at the Dasman Diabetes Institute in Kuwait, rodents fed a sucrose-free diet developed insulin resistance, gut microbial imbalances and signs of fatty liver disease despite maintaining similar body weight. The post Eliminating Sucrose from Low-Fat Diet Alters Gut Microbiome…Read MoreContinue Reading
Xiaomi has unveiled a robotic charging arm designed for residential garages that automatically plugs and unplugs an electric vehicle without any owner intervention. The system detects the vehicle’s position after parking, extends to the charging port, connects the cable, and retracts it once charging is complete or a preset battery level is reached…Continue Reading
Host of the 82nd IATA Annual General Meeting in Rio de Janeiro earlier this month, LATAM Airlines Group is at the forefront of integrating artificial intelligence with cloud computing to improve important areas of operations ranging from customer service to aircraft maintenance. Simple Flying interviewed Juliana Rios, Chief Information andContinue Reading
The Boeing Australia MQ-28 Ghost Bat Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) has been designed to meet Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) requirements, and is also one of the leading contenders for future US Air Force CCA increments. Boeing pitched it to the Air Force as its solution for the Increment 1Continue Reading
Epic Games used its State of Unreal 2026 keynote to announce Lore, an open source version control system the company built in-house and is releasing for free. You see, game and film projects have a workflow where they have to mix source code with large binary files such as buildContinue Reading
Last week I shared something personal and something I was way too hesitatnt to share. It was the fact that the ad-driven model that kept It’s FOSS running for 14 years is breaking down, and that YOUR support is the most direct way to keep this going. The response wasContinue Reading