Less than a week after its last test, SpaceX’s latest Starship spacecraft went back to the stand for engine checkouts ahead of a coming test flight. The upper stage for SpaceX’s giant Starship rocket, referred to simply as “Ship” — Ship 40, in this case — underwent a static-fire test of all six of itsContinue Reading
An illustration of the exoplanet WD 1856 b orbiting its dead star (Image credit: Robert Lea) Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe an oddball gas giant exoplanet orbiting a dead star, a white dwarf, located some 80 light-years away. This “life after death” system gives scientists a portentous vision ofContinue Reading
In the wake of the Sprint T-Mobile merger, wireless carriers immediately stopped trying to compete on price (exactly what deal critics had warned would happen when you reduce sector competition). T-Mobile, which once tried to differentiate itself as the consumer-friendly “uncarrier,” almost immediately began behaving just like AT&T and Verizon, starting withContinue Reading
Collabora Productivity got into the desktop editor market last year when they launched Collabora Office, an office suite built on the same rendering mechanism as Collabora Online, but focused on offline use. They came up with this so people could get the same editing experience online or offline without needingContinue Reading
I recently had a very interesting conversation with a reader who suggested that I should not ignore AI. Because this is the next new normal and we have to adapt. I agree but in the context of local AI. Local AI is the popular term used for the open sourceContinue Reading
Instead of just selling chips, Nvidia is offering AI clouds a revenue-sharing and credit-support model built to get GPUs into the hands of companies that could not otherwise afford them. Nvidia is changing how it gets paid. The company announced on Wednesday a new arrangement in which AI cloud providers can access large volumes of itsContinue Reading
Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) has sold several of its A30 Electric articulated haulers to LNS (Leonhard Nilsen & Sønner) for use at a Norwegian hydroelectric power plant. Four units have been delivered, and three more are scheduled to follow next month. LNS, one of Norway’s largest contractors, will useContinue Reading
Arkema has begun a 15% expansion of its polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) capacity at its Calvert City, Kentucky site. The company has invested around $20 million in the project. PVDF is one of the main binder materials used in lithium-ion battery electrodes, where it holds the active material onto the currentContinue Reading
With their numbers already in decline, secretaries and administrative assistants face another growing threat: artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT and Claude that can accomplish aspects of their workload with a tap. Employment projection data offers a grim outlook for the women-dominated profession that may be particularly vulnerable to AI-induced jobContinue Reading
The U.S. has strongly backed the government’s military modernization plan and increased defense spending., The U.S. has strongly backed the government’s military modernization plan and increased defense spending., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
One hour of satellites over the northern Atacama Desert in Chile in October 2025. (Image credit: F. Kamphues, ESO/M. Kornmesser) If the number of satellites in Earth’s orbit exceeds 100,000, humanity may lose its ability to study the universe from the planet’s surface. That’s the conclusion of a study conducted by astronomers from the EuropeanContinue Reading
FILE – The Russian space station Mir is seen from space shuttle Atlantis during a fly around after Atlantis undocked from Mir Thursday, March 28, 1996, in this image from television. NASA TV via AP KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Abdul Ahad Momand, Afghanistan ’s first citizen in space, has died at age 67, his familyContinue Reading
As the defunct carrier continues to be sold off piecemeal, Spirit Airlines has filed to sell its two gates at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL). Delta Air Lines will pay $12 million for Gates C4 and C6 pending final review by New York’s Southern Bankruptcy Court, according to WSBTV.Continue Reading