SAN FRANCISCO — Firefly Aerospace won a contract to launch Quicksounder, a prototype for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s next-generation of environmental satellites in low-Earth orbit. The value of the award was not disclosed.
NASA awarded the contract to Texas-based Firefly on behalf of NOAA through the Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) launch services contract. Through VADR, NASA awards fixed-price contracts for...
Yikes.Crises AvertedIt's been well over a year since OceanGate's Titan submersible imploded on its way to visit the Titanic shipwreck 12,500 feet below the surface of the Atlantic, killing all passengers on board.Now, ongoing public hearings by the US Coast Guard have brought several new damning details to light, highlighting questionable decisions that led up to the disaster.If it would've been up to...
Hundreds of ancient drawings depicting decapitated human heads and domesticated llamas have been discovered in the Peruvian desert with the help of artificial intelligence. Archaeologists have previously linked these creations to the people of the Nazca culture, who started etching such images, called...
An artificial intelligence can solve the CAPTCHA puzzles used by websites to distinguish whether browsers are humans or bots 100 per cent of the time.
Andreas Plesner at ETH Zurich in Switzerland and his colleagues fine-tuned an AI model nicknamed YOLO (You Only Look...
"How could you do that, Elon?"Technical IssueRussian warlord and leader of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov has accused Elon Musk of "remotely disabling" his Tesla Cybertruck. Oh yeah: he owns one of these things. Didn't you hear?Kadyrov, who was installed as Chechnya's leader in 2007 by Russian President Vladimir Putin, first showed off his flashy ride in August. In a video he shared...
