US Coast Guard Air Stations provide a crucial safety net for sailors at sea, aviators who find themselves ditching over open water, as well as fishers, enthusiasts, and even the military. There were only a handful of these vital airfields to sustain the Coast Guard’s fleet of rescue aircraft.Continue Reading
Chipmaker Nvidia is buying artificial intelligence software platform Hugging Face for $13 billion. It’s the latest deal by the company, whose processors are integral to the AI boom, and highlights Nvidia’s push to champion increasingly popular open-source AI models. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wrote in a blog post Thursday thatContinue Reading
Nvidia said it will pay $12.93 billion for Hugging Face’s platform, which hosts more than 3 million models and 500,000 datasets., Nvidia said it will pay $12.93 billion for Hugging Face’s platform, which hosts more than 3 million models and 500,000 datasets., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
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Nvidia has introduced a new software tool for jumpstarting an explosion in local inferencing infrastructure. The Personal AI Router (PAIR) project is open-source software designed to link different computer systems, even different computer operating systems, into a custom AI cluster where chatbots, AI agents, and other compatible LLM applications share…Read Entire Article…Continue Reading
Isar Aerospace’s second Spectrum rocket launches from Andoya Space Center in Norway on Sept. 5, 2026. (Image credit: Isar Aerospace) No rocket had ever reached orbit from Western European soil — until today. The German company Isar Aerospace launched its Spectrum rocket from Andøya Space Center in northern Norway today (Sept. 5) at 4:12 p.m.Continue Reading
Who Owns the Moon? – Capitalism and Property Rights in Space – YouTube Watch On On Episode 226 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Dr. Rainer Zitelmann to discuss the history of capitalism and how it applies to our future in space. Capitalism — and a strong profitContinue Reading
Sushi, the spacebar preview utility for Nautilus file manager, has been ported to GTK4 for GNOME 51. For anyone unfamiliar with it, Sushi is like Quick Look on macOS: you highlight a file (image, music, video, document, etc) in Nautilus, press the spacebar and an instant preview of its contentContinue Reading
Sponsored by Churod Electronics. Increased battery density is the endgame of all cutting-edge battery design, improvements cannot come at the expense of safety or cost limitations. The question then becomes how to push the envelope in a safe and cost-effective way. Monitoring the state-of-health of cells is at the top ofContinue Reading
Brynn Forlizzi and Teddy Aaron are the co-founders of Soothe Note, an app marketed as a “cancer care companion.”, Brynn Forlizzi and Teddy Aaron are the co-founders of Soothe Note, an app marketed as a “cancer care companion.”, from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
A report earlier this week said millions of driver’s licenses, including that of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, may have been leaked on the dark web., A report earlier this week said millions of driver’s licenses, including that of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, may have been leaked on the dark web.,Continue Reading
I have mostly stayed away from the whole saga surrounding the drip-drip leaks of Grand Theft Auto 6 content prior to the big reveal on Netflix because, frankly, I am quite wary of giving companies the kind of guerilla marketing wins that sometimes look like this sort of thing. ThatContinue Reading
New electric vehicle sales data released today by the Electric Vehicle Council shows a another great month for EV sales, led significantly by Tesla. The report features just Tesla and Polestar, with EV sales of other brands to arrive in the coming days when the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries publishes August VFACTS report…Continue Reading