During NASA’s SpaceX Crew‑13 mission aboard the International Space Station, astronauts will support a series of biomedical and human performance investigations, including a new collaborative effort to study how spaceflight affects blood flow and clotting. NASA also is testing crew members’ manual piloting skills, evaluating methods to counter vision and brain changes, gathering essential healthContinue Reading
Sponsored by Coilcraft. For battery-powered applications, improving the efficiency of the entire power supply circuit extends battery life, and inductor efficiency is often a major design consideration. Careful consideration of inductor efficiency can mean the difference between having your battery work when you need it and having to stop inContinue Reading
ROHM Semiconductor’s SiC MOSFETs are being used in the electric powertrain of BMW’s Neue Klasse, the Gen 6 platform for the automaker’s electric vehicles. ROHM did not name the device family or the voltage class, and didn’t say which Tier 1 supplier builds the power electronics around the chips. TheContinue Reading
Isaacs said her car had zero damage, and she was nowhere near the crash scene, but troopers told her Flock had her license plate., Isaacs said her car had zero damage, and she was nowhere near the crash scene, but troopers told her Flock had her license plate., from NewsnationContinue Reading
“In any other context, you’d look at this and go, ‘Shut this down. This is the dumbest idea I ever saw,’” Roger McNamee says., “In any other context, you’d look at this and go, ‘Shut this down. This is the dumbest idea I ever saw,’” Roger McNamee says., from NewsnationContinue Reading
Ubuntu kernel updates are about to become more frequent, as Canonical attempts to keep up with an ‘explosion’ in security vulnerabilities being discovered with the help of AI. The company has announced it’s adopting a ‘unified’ two-week stable release update (SRU) cycle for kernel updates, which will speed up patching,Continue Reading
It’s been five years since Google first offered a glimpse of Project Starline, a three-dimensional videoconferencing platform billed at the time as as a “magic window” that enables realistic and immersive calls. On Wednesday, Google announced that Google Beam — as the software element of the product is now called —Continue Reading
Microsoft has added a “pay-as-you-go” option for OneDrive storage, providing an additional way for Microsoft 365 commercial customers to buy extra cloud storage capacity for users. Previously, increasing storage capacity for OneDrive users meant purchasing capacity “packs” for individual accounts, available in 100GB, 500GB, and 1TB through 6TB sizes. WithContinue Reading
Picture a main contractor in Leeds coordinating a logistics warehouse where the structural grid leaves a 2,800 mm clear zone over a plant deck. The architect wants a flush external profile, the roofing contractor needs a single kerb rather than three linked domes, and the fire engineer needs a provenContinue Reading
openKylin is China’s homegrown, open source operating system which is developed by a consortium of companies, research institutes, and individual contributors. We have covered openKylin in the past but that was more than two years ago. There is a new major release in the form of openKylin 3.0 that bringsContinue Reading
Contrary to what you might expect of a newly launched Linux distribution, Gravity Linux has a long-term goal of not existing as a distro. The project is a Fedora Remix for Apple Silicon Macs that ships with KDE Plasma on Wayland as the default desktop. Everything in it is builtContinue Reading
Ubuntu’s new AI-powered dictation tool Myna isn’t officially ready, but you can give it an early test. Canonical has added the Myna orchestrator snap and a pair of speech-recognition AI models to the Snap Store recently, and made its new desktop Myna Settings tool available to test from a PPA.Continue Reading
Worldwide AI spending will increase 49.5% in 2026, to $2.7 trillion, and grow another 36.2% in 2027 as AI usage continues to expand, Gartner predicts in the latest quarterly update to its IT spending forecast. But there’s been no diversion of money from other areas of IT to feed AI,Continue Reading