Screenshot from the webcast of a SpaceX Starlink launch on July 11, 2024, showing a buildup of liquid-oxygen ice on the upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket. The ice resulted from a leak, which prevented the upper stage from performing a planned engine burn and led to the loss of 20 Starlink broadband satellites.Continue Reading
The search for Earth-like planets around other stars is one of the great endeavors in modern science. Astronomers have discovered numerous candidates that orbit other stars in the Goldilocks zone where liquid water is likely to exist. The next step is to study the atmosphere of these exoplanets, looking for evidence that they are Earth-like.Continue Reading
The United States indicted a North Korean hacker for cyberattacks that helped steal military and nuclear secrets and offered a $1src million reward for information about him, multiple agencies announced Thursday…Continue Reading
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — OpenAI is testing a ChatGPT-powered search engine that could put the artificial intelligence company in direct competition with search giant Google and affect the flow of internet traffic seeking news and other timely information. San Francisco-based OpenAI said Thursday it is releasing a preview of theContinue Reading
NEW YORK (AP) — More than 500 workers behind the popular video game franchisee “World of Warcraft” are unionizing. The game’s development team employees — which include designers, engineers, artists, quality assurance testers and more — are joining the Communications Workers of America, the union announced Wednesday. CWA says MicrosoftContinue Reading
Friday’s events were not the first time CrowdStrike, a popular cybersecurity service provider, caused significant disruptions to multiple operating systems. To recap what happened: Windows machines worldwide began displaying the dreaded Blue Screen of Death as they booted up last Friday, impacting banks, airlines, media outlets…Read MoreContinue Reading
A southern Indian state plans to switch all school computers from Microsoft Windows to the free Linux operating system, an official said Thursday.Read MoreContinue Reading
KRAGUJEVAC, Serbia (Reuters) – Stellantis is ready to “fight” for its place in Europe’s electric vehicle market against strong competition from…Continue Reading
Inflation in Japan’s capital city of Tokyo is widely considered a leading indicator of price increases in the country…Continue Reading
French EV and software company Ampere has announced its plan to integrate FP lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) battery technology with Renault’s nickel-cobalt-manganese (NCM) technology. Ampere is collaborating with LG Energy Solution and CATL, which will provide LFP batteries for several models of Renault and Alpine brands and cover the company’s LFP batteryContinue Reading
Are rental car agencies ready for EVs? Last January, Hertz delivered the equivalent of a public slap to Tesla, announcing that it would sell thousands of the Teslas it had bought two years previously. Comments from customers and employees indicated that the mutual PR nightmare was the result of poorContinue Reading
“Flexibility is the key to airpower,” quoth the maxim by early 20th century airpower theorist General Giulio Douhet. Going hand-in-hand with flexibility is versatility, and the B-52 Stratofortress AKA the “BUFF” (“Big Ugly Fat Fellow” or “Big Ugly Fat F*ck*r,” depending on whether you’re in polite company) has exemplified bothContinue Reading
The Airbus A380 is the biggest commercial passenger aircraft ever made. This giant of an aircraft, which leaves pilots in awe of its immense size and that they ever manage to get off of the ground, was expected to change the landscape of aviation forever, as it could (potentially) accommodateContinue Reading