NASA Releases Artemis II Moon Mission Launch Countdown

Lauren E. Low Mar 26, 2026 Before NASA sends its astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen on their Artemis II mission around the Moon, the launch team at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and teams across the country will begin counting down about two daysContinue Reading

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The EV charging industry may seem to be divided between hardware and software specialists, but the two are mutually interdependent, and must work together on various levels. BTC Power’s chargers incorporate three main categories of firmware, which enable the hardware to communicate with the vehicle and with the backend softwareContinue Reading

Intel Arc Pro B70 performance metrics: significantly faster than Nvidia’s RTX 4000 Pro at half the price and 33% more VRAM

Intel launched yesterday the Arc Pro B65 and B70 high-performance workstation GPUs aimed at AI LLM training / inference without providing specific performance info in the initial press release. A few hours later, the company released performance charts that compare the B70 model to Nvidia’s RTX 4000 Pro GPUs, which are a few years oldContinue Reading

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Age verification has suddenly become the most heated topic in the Linux world and it’s not slowing down anytime soon. Distributions are already picking sides. Void and Garuda Linux have outright rejected the idea. The privacy-focused Android distro GrapheneOS isn’t entertaining it either. Meanwhile, Fedora is exploring whether an Apple-styleContinue Reading

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Ubuntu’s App Center software tool makes it easier to manage and update Deb software in its latest update – and nets a few extra options for snaps, too. The changes are part of Canonical’s goal of making App Center, first introduced in Ubuntu 23.10, the epicentre (I’m sorry) for softwareContinue Reading