On Oct. 15, 1997, NASA launched the Cassini spacecraft on a mission to explore Saturn and its moons. It lifted off aboard a Titan 4B rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. It took almost seven years for the Cassini spacecraft to reach Saturn , with the spacecraft entering orbit around the ringedContinue Reading
Can SpaceX’s Terafab reach the scale of TSMC? The answer starts with understanding the sequence: develop the process, prove the production line, then replicate it. The useful question about Terafab is how it gets from a working production line to an enormous chip-manufacturing operation. That requires a sequence. Acquire the expertise. Develop and qualify theContinue Reading
A routine Boeing 777 service between London Heathrow Airport (LHR) and Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD) was recently disrupted due to a cabin pressure abnormality. The long diversion for British Airways BA295 occurred when the aircraft’s pressurization system failed at an altitude of 36,000 feet. An immediate controlled descent, aContinue Reading
There are some airports that are seemingly connected to all parts of their region and the world. Within the US, the world’s largest aviation market, there are multiple hubs that are connected to dozens upon dozens of destinations with hundreds of daily flights. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) has longContinue 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
NVIDIA officially entered the Windows PC race this week, and its arrival brings a formidable new competitor to the premium AI PC market. With its RTX Spark platform, NVIDIA is bringing its Grace Arm CPU architecture, Blackwell GPU technology and extensive software ecosystem together in a new generation of WindowsContinue Reading
The AI boom is seeing one of its first major busts, as Character.ai has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection while it searches for a buyer. Founded in 2021, Character.ai enables users to create customizable chatbots and interact with them, and by February 2025 claimed to have over 20 millionContinue Reading
HONG KONG (AP) — China on Friday said it plans to restrict or ban exports of 40 technologies that span artificial intelligence, chips and solar power as its technology race with countries including the United States intensifies. The Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Science and Technology jointly published aContinue Reading
Ukrainian missions were disrupted when the Starshield terminals began to lose connection, forcing some units to cancel missions., Ukrainian missions were disrupted when the Starshield terminals began to lose connection, forcing some units to cancel missions., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
Valve’s October 15 Steam Client Beta changes how the Linux client is built and run. It moves the client to a 64-bit build and runs it inside a Steam Runtime container. Alongside that, a fix for the updater window failing to show up is included, as is the new AchievementContinue Reading
Qiusheng Wu has put out the first release of RustGIS, a new open source GIS application with an announcement on X. v0.1.0 is available right now for anyone to use, along with a second release, v0.2.0, that has rolled out close on the heels of the first one. The tool’sContinue Reading
YouTube has no shortage of great ideas. What separates one channel from another is often how those ideas look on screen. Viewers scroll fast. If your video feels blurry or unprofessional, the audience’s attention slips away before you even get to the good part. That is the main reason whyContinue Reading
We knew that a number of big tech firms were helping to fund the construction of The Traitor’s ballroom, but we didn’t know just how much they were giving to the cause. Now the Washington Post published a list of all the major donors to the White House ballroom project…Continue Reading