Updated 8 p.m. Eastern with AIA comment.REYKJAVÍK, Iceland — NASA released more information about its proposed fiscal year 2026 budget May 30, outlining new investments in exploration at the expense of canceling dozens of science missions and cutting thousands of jobs.The documents provide greater detail about the top-level budget proposal from what the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) disclosed in...
College graduates were left speechless after officials at New York City's Pace University deployed an AI model to read out their names during a commencement event this month.A video that has since gone viral on social media shows students having a QR on their smartphone scanned, only to have an AI read their name out loud — an irritating use of the tech that...
AMSTERDAM — Despite a surge of interest in Europe in establishing autonomy in space systems, there remains skepticism that one of the biggest efforts along those lines, a communications satellite constellation, will be viable.European governments and companies signed contracts in December for the development of Infrastructure for Resilience, Interconnectivity and Security by Satellite (IRIS²), a constellation of satellites in medium and low Earth...
An ordinary camera could soon take photos of things that are out of sight, thanks to algorithms that interpret how light bounces off a wall.
“Normally, when light bounces off rough surfaces, like walls, it scrambles the scene into a messy blur,” says Wenwen...
The nascent carbon dioxide removal industry expects to hit a milestone this year: 1 million tonnes of planet-warming CO2 removed from the atmosphere. That certainly is progress, but things aren’t moving anywhere near quickly enough to remove the billions of tonnes of carbon...