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
Vay, a startup that made a teleoperated breakthrough in car-sharing in Berlin and Las Vegas, is expanding into commercial and business-to-business services supported by recent deals with French carmaker Peugeot and Belgium-based Poppy. Vay is not a traditional ride-hailing or car-sharing startup, nor does it operate a robotaxi service. Yet when customers in Las Vegas … Read more
These two technology leaders are leveraging artificial intelligence to fuel further growth. Artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly becoming the most important narrative in the technology industry as companies recognize the massive opportunities it creates, from business productivity to cybersecurity. Already, a handful of companies have emerged as AI technology leaders, including the semiconductor company Broadcom … Read more
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and a Crew Dragon spacecraft are ready to launch the Polaris Dawn commercial astronaut mission from Launch Complex 39A. Liftoff from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is set for no earlier than 3:38 a.m. EDT (0738 UTC) on August 27, 2024. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now Update 10:18 pm EDT: SpaceX is … Read more
