Many youngsters fascinated by exploring outer space dream of becoming an astronaut, but few do. One who had the right stuff is Pedro Duque, who was Spain’s first astronaut. The aeronautics engineer flew aboard the space shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station. After retiring as an astronaut, he headed Spain’s Ministry of Science, InnovationContinue Reading
US charge point operator PowerUp America has been selected to receive four new funding awards through the North Carolina DOT’s National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program. The company will use the funding to bring public DC fast charging stations to Chocowinity, Plymouth, Wadesboro and Whiteville, communities located along North Carolina’sContinue Reading
Cabot will use a modified $50 million grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to expand domestic production of battery conductive additives at its existing plants in Franklin, Louisiana, and Pampa, Texas. The company plans to invest about $75 million of its own alongside the grant. The grant originallyContinue Reading
A theme going on many years here at Techdirt has been the idea that separating content and advertising, as was the traditional model, makes far less sense in the modern era. Audiences are no longer captive in the way they used to be, with many ways to skip advertising. EntertainmentContinue Reading
“The use of the word artificial makes intelligence sound fake,” the president said., “The use of the word artificial makes intelligence sound fake,” the president said., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
“The FAA should not use my constituents as guinea pigs for an unproven AI air traffic control system,” Beyer said Monday., “The FAA should not use my constituents as guinea pigs for an unproven AI air traffic control system,” Beyer said Monday., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
The OpenShot video editor is now available on the Canonical Snap Store. An official snap package of the Qt-based editing tool went live today (22 September). The new snap is already available to install via App Center on all supported Ubuntu releases, though a Deb package is carried in theContinue Reading
A Linux distro that’s as close to a Windows replacement as possible…Read MoreContinue Reading
MSI details new compact desktop PC with 128 GB RAM and Nvidia RTX Spark A few months have passed since MSI presented the EdgeMesa N AI+. Unveiled during Computex 2026, the mini-PC is one of several that leverage Nvidia’s new RTX Spark platform. As we discussed at the time, the EdgeMesa N AI+ also boastedContinue Reading
On September 1, US Air Force B-52H Stratofortress bombers landed at Royal Australian Air Force Base Tindal. The arrival looked like routine training at first glance. What it truly represents is that the newly expanded airfield is becoming the primary alternative to a long-standing bomber. The USAF can no longerContinue Reading
Many passengers experience take-off as a familiar sequence: the engines roar to life, the aircraft accelerates down the runway, takes off, and climbs steeply. However, it is often just as noticeable when the aircraft suddenly levels off while still at a relatively low altitude. In the United States, a commonContinue Reading
If you run a lightweight distro and you do not like the fact that Wayland will probably become the default, PeppermintOS has some news you should know about. It’s switching its display server from the soon-to-be-retired Xorg to XLibre for its next round of ISO refreshes. It may look likeContinue Reading
That’s very interesting to see considering OpenSearch began as a fork. When Elastic relicensed Elasticsearch and Kibana in 2021, AWS built an open alternative, keeping it under the Apache 2.0 license. Three years later, the project moved to neutral governance after the Linux Foundation launched the OpenSearch Software Foundation inContinue Reading