The iconic Galileo shuttlecraft in its new bay at the Star Trek Tour (Image credit: Adam Schneider/Star Trek Tour) Nostalgia is a hell of a thing, especially when it comes to sci-fi. For “Star Trek” fans wanting to mark the franchise’s 60th anniversary this year, a geeky pilgrimage to upstate New York should be onContinue Reading
Western Sydney Airport (WSI) will be Australia’s first major greenfield airport in more than half a century when it opens later this month. Besides Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport (SYD), the new site promises to drastically increase capacity around one of Australia’s most populous cities.Continue Reading
The newest ATR 72-600 for Air Tahiti is embarking on an extraordinary six-day journey from France to French Polynesia, covering approximately 14,455 miles (23,263 km) and visiting nine airports along the way. Registered F-OPFO, the aircraft is no ordinary regional turboprop, featuring an exclusive 26-seat, all-business-class cabin designed for wealthyContinue Reading
Modern insulated gate semiconductor switches such as Si- and SiC-MOSFETs and Si-IGBTs are far easier to use than the bipolar junction transistors and GTO (Gate Turn-Off) thyristors of decades past. A primary reason is that they are all controlled by a voltage applied to a control terminal—the gate—that looks likeContinue Reading
Swedish transport company Einride was an early pioneer in the development of autonomous electric trucks—the company has a cabless autonomous truck that has been running in pilots for several years. However, the company hasn’t put all its electric eggs in the autonomous basket—it operates a large heavy-duty EV charging siteContinue Reading
A new version of free, open-source productivity suite ONLYOFFICE is out, bringing more than a thousand bug fixes and an expanded set of AI features. ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors v10.0 is billed as a “fully rebuilt app”, and the developers warn those upgrading from earlier versions that not all of theirContinue Reading
New market research from Counterpoint Research shows that global smartphone sales fell by 20% in the third quarter of this year compared with the same period a year ago. This is the lowest level for a third quarter since 2012. The decline is attributed to the ongoing shortage of memoryContinue Reading
Microsoft has launched Decision-1, an AI model that returns probabilities for predefined answers, allowing software applications to use its outputs directly instead of processing a free-form response from a large language model (LLM). The model targets tasks such as classifying requests, prioritizing incidents, and checking AI-generated responses. Microsoft says itContinue Reading
The device has a facial recognition feature that can identify up to six specific users., The device has a facial recognition feature that can identify up to six specific users., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
PARIS (AP) — Cyberattacks disrupted European supermarket chains, affecting refrigeration systems at hundreds of stores in France and forcing a major grocer to shut down websites serving customers in Europe and the United States. French Finance Minister Roland Lescure told Parliament on Tuesday that about 700 of the country’s 10,000Continue Reading
Mozilla has a new product called Firefox Enterprise. Which is basically Firefox but built around the needs of private and government organizations. The idea is simple. If staff uses a browser for work, organizations should be able to control its settings, protect company data, and decide where its management systemContinue Reading
Remember Ubuntu’s convergence dream? One operating system across your desktop, tablet, and phone, with apps that adapt to whichever screen you’re using. Canonical pursued that vision with Unity 8 and Ubuntu Phone before pulling its investment in 2017. Now, a new project called Luma wants to tackle a similar ambition.Continue Reading
Linux Mint shook up its release schedule this year and now it’s shaking up its versioning scheme as well – the next major release won’t be Linux Mint 23, but Linux Mint 27. Releases will now be numbered by year. Linux Mint 27 will be followed by v28, and soContinue Reading