Copper is critical to the energy transition away from fossil fuels. The metal is an excellent conductor of electricity, used in everything from electric vehicles to wind turbines. But by the end of the decade, the International Energy Agency expects copper supplies to drop to 20% of demand. A surreptitiously operating startup thinks it can … Read more
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ignites its Merlin engines during a static fire test at dawn on August 25, 2024. The test follows a dry suit test on the mission’s flight day. Image: Flight Space Now The SpaceX and Polaris Dawn teams checked a couple of important boxes before getting ready to launch the historic … Read more
File: A Falcon 9 rocket is ready to launch a Starlink mission. Image: SpaceX Update 5:06 am EDT: SpaceX has launched the mission and landed B1081 on the drone, “Of course I still love you.” After its second flight mission in as many months with a Falcon 9 rocket, SpaceX proceeded to set a new … Read more
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, Boeing’s Crew Test Commander and Pilot, respectively, inspect safety hardware aboard the International Space Station. Image: NASA NASA is at a crossroads when it comes to the conclusion of the Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test. The agency will announce its decision on whether or not to return NASA … Read more
SpaceX lost its flight head booster, tail number B1062, during its attempted landing on the drone, “A Shortfall of Gravitas.” This was the 23rd flight of the booster. Image: SpaceX Update 5:20 am EDT: SpaceX is scrubbing the Starlink 9-5 launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base to allow more time to review data from the … Read more
Europe doesn’t have many big language model makers (LLMs), but one of those rare AI beasts – Germany’s Aleph Alpha – seems to be getting ready to drop out of the race, according to Bloomberg, which has an interview with the CEO Jonas Andrulis on his. pivot to a broader generative AI support game. The … Read more
At its best, programming is a creative endeavor, but in this age of transforming everything else, much of a developer’s day is filled with what All Hands AI co-founder and CEO Robert Brennan calls the “work-oriented key” such as writing unit tests. , dependency management and keeping the documentation up to date. AI, on the … Read more
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft that launched NASA Test Crew astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, seen through a window on the SpaceX Dragon Endeavor spacecraft. Image: NASA. After weeks of debate, NASA has ruled out returning two astronauts to Earth aboard Boeing’s Starliner capsule because of lingering concerns about multiple helium leaks and degraded propellants, both … Read more
Software documentation—the resources that explain how software works and how to use it—has evolved dramatically over the past few decades. Once mostly in the form of PDFs and static plain text, today’s documents are more interactive and user-friendly than they used to be. But the creation of them is still a lake of time. Han … Read more
Investors looked back when they should have been looking forward. Give credit where it’s due, Citi analyst Paul Lejuez saw that coming a mile away. He downgraded Lululemon Athletica (LULU 0.06%) in July on the problems that “the general assortment of products lacks cohesion, is not compelling/exciting for the consumer and feels disjointed”. He added … Read more
