Chad’s Lake Iro looked like a large, circular silver mirror in this 2024 astronaut photo as sunlight reflected of its surface and into space. (Image credit: NASA/ISS program) QUICK FACTS Where is it? Lake Iro, Chad [10.10150087, 19.41766527] What’s in the photo? Sunlight reflecting off the lake and the surrounding river Who took the photo?Continue Reading
The Boeing 777 is one of the most successful widebody jets in the manufacturer’s portfolio. Since its entry into service in the mid-1990s, the aircraft has been widely adopted by global airlines and remains central to long-haul operations across many international fleets. Even after nearly three decades, the 777 continuesContinue Reading
Alaska Airlines has just announced its first transatlantic routes. The airline will be flying from its Seattle-Tacoma International Airport hub to London Heathrow Airport and Reykjavík in Iceland, starting in Spring of 2026. These are Alaska’s fourth and fifth intercontinental routes, following announcements earlier this year that it was launchingContinue Reading
– • At “IAA Mobility 2025” Continental’s Automotive group sector will make its debut as the independent company AUMOVIO – • AUMOVIO showcases pioneering technologies for the mobility of tomorrow in four areas themed “safe,” “exciting,” “connected” and “autonomous” – • Trade fair highlights include sustainable brake technologies for electric vehicles…Continue Reading
Using the Apollo vehicles that already offer autonomous rides across China Rideshare challenger Lyft and China’s Baidu plan to bring robo-cabs to the UK and Europe next year.…, Read MoreContinue Reading
For most Ubuntu users, interacting with an AI chatbot means opening your web browser or (increasingly, your IDE). Newelle , a GTK4/libadwaita app, offers a different approach — and it just hit version 1.0. Newelle bills itself as your “ultimate virtual assistant”, but it’s not quite as autonomous, anticipatory orContinue Reading
Nippon Columbia to release game in Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea…Read MoreContinue Reading
The Traitor — perhaps more than other presidents — often feels compelled to present his religious bona fides. Of course, he naturally has none. But as often as evangelical figureheads proclaim him to be (their) God’s personal pick for POTUS, even Traitor 47 occasionally feels obligated to give something backContinue Reading
As people who live in the information age, we often have to give up our privacy to use collaboration tools that have no business having access to such invasive levels of PII, all in the name of “serving relevant ads”. Yep, I am talking about the offerings from Big Tech.Continue Reading
Freudenberg Sealing Technologies is investing “a sum in the double-digit millions” to transform production at its Manchester, New Hampshire site to supply high-tech seals for EV batteries, drive systems and hydrogen applications, supported by a funding initiative from the US Department of Energy. The site previously focused on producing gasketsContinue Reading
Materials giant BASF has developed several new polyamide products for electric and electronics (E&E) applications that require exceptional stiffness and strength. Customers can now choose from a tailored portfolio of PA66/6T compounds. Ultramid T6000 is a high-temperature polyamide that outperforms PA66 in mechanical and dielectric properties in humid and high-temperatureContinue Reading
“We don’t know whether we’re going to be able to stay in control of super intelligent AI.”, (NewsNation) — Geoffrey Hinton, widely known as the “Godfather of AI,” warned that artificial intelligence will likely become smarter than humans within the next 20 years. During a Monday interview on NewsNation’s “CUOMO,”Continue Reading
The next major Chrome release will auto-detect which Linux display server its Ozone backend should use, a change that will resolve blurry UI issues for users running the browser on Wayland with fractional scaling enabled. Ozone is Chrome’s abstraction layer for graphics and input handling. It handles how the browserContinue Reading