Inside Microsoft Ignite: How Microsoft and NVIDIA are redefining the AI stack

Presented by Microsoft and NVIDIAAs the world’s leading platform providers and champions for advancing AI globally, NVIDIA and Microsoft continue to deliver unequaled value for organizations investing in and deploying AI. The companies’ collaborative efforts at the 2025 Microsoft Ignite conference offered tangible proof, introducing practitioners and decision-makers to new and expanded AI infrastructure andContinue Reading

‘Putting the servers in orbit is a stupid idea’: Could data centers in space help avoid an AI energy crisis? Experts are torn.

(Image credit: fotograzia/Getty Images) As artificial intelligence (AI) models keep growing and getting more power-hungry , researchers are starting to ask not whether they can be trained — but where. That’s the context behind Google Research’s recent proposal to explore space-based AI infrastructure, an idea that sits somewhere between serious science and orbital overreach. TheContinue Reading

The Earth Observer: Offering Perspectives from Space through Time

An Intertwined History: The Earth Observer and EOS The Earth Observer , a newsletter issued for more than 36 years, will release its last online content at the close of 2025. This newsletter evolved in parallel with NASA’s Earth Observing System (EOS). It is almost impossible to speak of this newsletter without mentioning EOS. As TheContinue Reading

Singapore EV Charging Management Software Platform Market is projected to reach USD 53.7 million by 2033, growing at a robust CAGR of 28.5% from USD 7.8 million in 2024. This significant growth underscores the burgeoning demand for efficient and intelligent solutions to manage the expanding electric vehicle charging infrastructure across the island.  …Continue Reading

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Schaeffler, The Motion Technology Company, will showcase a number of new technologies related to software-defined vehicles, automated driving, magnet-free systems that eliminate rare earth minerals, and modular powertrain solutions at CES 2026 in Las Vegas in January. Among the innovations Schaeffler will be presenting: A reimagined Master and Zone ControllerContinue Reading

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Archer Aviation has announced it is partnering with several US cities to submit multiple applications for initial electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxi operations, as part of the White House’s eVTOL Integration Pilot Program (eIPP). The program is a public-private initiative led by the US Department of TransportationContinue Reading

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A new GNOME Shell extension rethinks the app grid (aka the app picker, app drawer, launcher screen – what do you call it?) by making it scroll vertically instead of horizontally. Y’know, the way it used to, pre-GNOME 40. GNOME 40’s switch to horizontal app grid scrolling in 2021 irkedContinue Reading

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Last week, Marco Rubio and the State Department revoked visas for five Europeans—including Imran Ahmed, a legal permanent resident in the US married to a US citizen—because they don’t like their speech about disinformation. The State Department’s justification? This form of speech suppression is necessary to protect free speech. ThisContinue Reading