Engineers are masters of scale. They harness energy from the sun, wind, rivers, atoms, and ores. They manipulate electrons, photons, and crystals to compute and communicate. They devise instruments that detect perturbations in the fabric of space-time. And they grapple with challenges—anticipated or not—that are presented by the scale of the problem they are tryingContinue Reading
Lockheed Martin is in the final stages of developing and delivering the X-59 Quesst. It’s a supersonic aircraft that will be headed to NASA, and it promises to upend the supersonic aircraft industry. Whereas other experimental supersonic planes focus on breaking the boundaries regarding speed or capability, the X-59 isContinue Reading
The long-awaited Boeing 777X is the latest variant of the Boeing 777 family of long-range widebody twin-engine jetliners. It was launched in November 2013 and aims to be the largest and most fuel-efficient twinjet in the world. But why did Boeing decide on a new, elegant cabin architecture for theContinue Reading
Parallels Desktop has long made it easy to run virtualised Linux distros on macOS, with integration between host and guest OS provided through Parallels Tools for Linux, a set of drivers and kernel modules the user installs manually inside of a VM. Only, Linux kernel and distro releases are frequentContinue Reading
Nvidia’s unmatched control of AI hardware forces even Amazon and Google into deference, as reliance on GPUs sustains its dominance…Continue Reading
Five Years Ago This week in 2020, a court slowed The Traitor’s roll on the TikTok ban because the DOJ couldn’t show any actual national security threat. Meanwhile, the attacks on Section 230 were coming in waves, with a stupid new bill from Joe Manchin and John Cornyn quickly followed byContinue Reading
Git is a powerful tool that helps you keep track of changes in your files over time. While it is highly popular among the developer community, you can use Git as a note storage vault. In this case, the source files are Obsidian markdown files. When you use Obsidian forContinue Reading
NASA is Closed for Business – And Other Top Space Stories – YouTube Watch On On Episode 180 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss the headlines, from the shutdown of NASA, to the risky dismantling of the space shuttle Discovery (because Texas insists), to a rogue exoplanet’s weird weather, andContinue Reading
They streak across the sky in brilliant flashes, ignite our curiosity and sometimes even shake the ground beneath our feet. Meteors are among the most captivating phenomena in the night sky. These fiery visitors are bits of space debris burning up as they plunge through Earth’s atmosphere. But behind their fleeting beauty lies a fascinatingContinue Reading
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Microsoft currently relies on Nvidia AI chips for its data centers but is actively working to implement its own hardware solutions in the future. According to Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott, the company is building long-term plans that would not require chips from third-party providers.Read Entire Article…Continue Reading
British Airways is a dynamic operator of a global network. The airline’s principal hub at London Heathrow Airport (LHR) provides the carrier with exceptional connectivity. The airline, which emerged following World War II from the merger of multiple state-supported carriers, has grown to be one of the largest global airlinesContinue Reading
Earlier this week, Alaska Airlines’ codeshare agreements with Singapore Airlines and LATAM ended, with the airline citing that these agreements between the airlines were no longer effective. While this sounds like the extended connectivity the airline can offer is decreasing, the carrier has been compensating for this by expanding existingContinue Reading