10-classic-airliners-that-needed-a-third-person-in-the-cockpit

A third seat in an airliner’s cockpit can tell you a surprising amount about the machine itself. On some jets the person occupying it wasoftenaflightengineer,responsibleformonitoringandmanagingsystemsthatmodernflightcrewsnowtakeforgranted. On others, the job became so closely tied to the aircraft that the engineer’s station was almost as recognizable as the engines or the silhouette.Continue Reading

smartsheet’s-new-ai-tool-tracks-corporate-strategies,-suggests-fixes

Work management software vendor Smartsheet has launched a new tool to help executives oversee company-wide strategies, with AI agents that monitor progress, identify problems, and recommend fixes. vsActual, announced Wednesday at Smartsheet’s Engage event, is a standalone “AI-native” application, separate from the company’s core work management software. It pulls dataContinue Reading

hp’s-next-ceo-loves-confrontation

The new year will see a new CEO for HP, which after a nine-month search has named Emma Walmsley to lead the company from January 4, 2027. Walmsley was previously CEO of drug company GSK, where she turned around its finances and spun off its consumer healthcare business into aContinue Reading

2 astronauts will finish upgrading ISS solar arrays during spacewalk today: Watch it live

Two spacewalking astronauts will finish upgrading the International Space Station’s power system today (Nov. 5), and you can watch the action live. NASA astronaut Anil Menon and the Canadian Space Agency ‘s Joshua Kutryk will install the eighth and final International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array (iROSA) today, during a roughly seven-hour spacewalk that’s scheduledContinue Reading

NASA Announces X-70 Experimental Aircraft to Advance Flight Research 

On Wednesday, NASA unveiled its newest experimental aircraft, the X-70 Fractal, during the UP.Summit at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This high-performance, highly adaptable research platform is designed to accelerate the development and testing of advanced aviation technologies.  The crewed X-70 features advanced, rapidly reconfigurable flight-control technology that will allow NASA to exploreContinue Reading

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Fierce pushback to data centers helped carry Democrats to victory in key races across the nation this week, and where the centers were explicitly on the ballot, they lost overwhelmingly. Midterm voters rejected industry-backed candidates and overwhelmingly backed resolutions to halt data center construction, dealing a major blow to theContinue Reading