Home News Spaceflight Artist’s concept of the DRACO (Demonstration for Rocket to Agile Cislunar Operations) spacecraft, which will demonstrate a nuclear thermal rocket engine. Nuclear thermal propulsion technology could be used for future NASA crewed missions to Mars. (Image credit: DARPA) NASA and the U.S. military plan to launch a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Earth orbit...
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Vivaldi, Mozilla raise alarms over Google’s proposed ‘DRM for the
Image: StackCommerce A proposed Google specification for ensuring trust on the Web has come under fire for potentially giving websites control over which browsers have the right to access them — and potentially blocking an unwanted browser from accessing a site owned by Google or Microsoft. At issue is what Google calls Web Environment Integrity
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Was Napoleon Bonaparte an enlightened leader or tyrant?
Published July 25, 2023 20 min read The year was 1802. France’s wealthiest colony, Saint-Domingue, on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola—today shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic—was in turmoil. As former slaves battled their French overlords, an alliance of Black and mixed-raced generals fought to restore order under the French flag. Then came news...
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Nvidia announces availability of DGX Cloud on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for generative AI training
Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here Nvidia announced today the wide accessibility of its cloud-based AI supercomputing service, DGX Cloud. This service will grant users access to thousands of virtual Nvidia GPUs on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), along with infrastructure in the U.S. and U.K. DGX Cloud...
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Meta’s Threads finally adds a following feed
Image: Dominik Tomaszewski / Foundry Text is hotter than ever. Threads, the “Instagram but with a tech focus” social media app built by Facebook, now has a feed dedicated to following…the people you follow. Meanwhile, TikTok, the Chinese social video app, has also followed Threads’ lead by adding its own text-only posts. Meta chief executive
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Iceland has entered a new volcanic era
Published July 24, 2023 5 min read For centuries, the country’s western volcanic peninsula has been dormant, but a new era of volcanic activity could be on the horizon. The Fagradalsfjall Volcano, a raised crater of bubbling lava—glowing bright yellow in an expanse of dark gray—is the latest eruption heralding Iceland’s new period of volcanic...
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Remnant II is the first PC game ‘designed with upscaling in mind’
Image: Gearbox Preorders for Remnant II, the sequel to Souls-like shooter Remnant: From the Ashes, are tearing up the Steam sales charts ahead of its release tomorrow. But early access players on PC are already playing a familiar tune when it comes to recent multi-platform releases: widespread performance issues even on high-end hardware. Apparently the...
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AMD ‘Zenbleed’ bug lets hackers steal data from Ryzen CPUs
Image: AMD A new vulnerability has been discovered in AMD’s Zen 2 processors—one that allows data like passwords and encryption keys to be stolen from the CPU. Disclosed publicly this week by Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy, this bug affects consumer chips as well as server, including Ryzen 3000 series parts. As detailed by Ormandy
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Detecting threats beyond the limits of human, sensor sight
Remember what it’s like to twirl a sparkler on a summer night? Hold it still and the fire crackles and sparks but twirl it around and the light blurs into a line tracing each whirl and jag you make. A new patented software system developed at Sandia National Laboratories can find the curves of motion...
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China is sending zebrafish to the Tiangong space station
Home News Science & Astronomy A zebra danio, or zebrafish, swims in a tank in a research institute in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei province Thursday, April 22, 2021. (Image credit: Feature China/Future Publishing via Getty Images) China is planning to send zebrafish to its space station in the future. The small fish species will...