Why the SpaceX spacewalk is such a huge deal
The privately funded Polaris Dawn mission lifted off on September 10 from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. | Gregg Newton/AFP via Getty Images Billionaire Jared Isaacman and SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis completed the first privately funded spacewalk Thursday…
Apple’s new AI is magically mediocre
Apple announced that its new AI technology would be available in October at an event at its Cupertino campus on September 9, 2024. Apple Intelligence is cool, useful, and perhaps most importantly, charmingly unfinished. Unlike some other AI projects, this…
There’s a fix for AI-generated essays. Why aren’t we using it?
<img alt="A computer screen full of lines of code." data-caption="The language program developed by the US company OpenAI uses artificial intelligence to write a random binary code consisting of zeros and ones. | Frank Rumpenhorst/picture alliance via Getty Images” data-portal-copyright=”Frank…
Why Nvidia triggered a stock market freakout
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during the Nvidia GTC Artificial Intelligence Conference at SAP Center on March 18, 2024 in San Jose, California. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Nvidia, the world’s leading AI chip manufacturer, sparked a global stock market downturn Wednesday,…
Electric school buses are the future we deserve
In August, the Oakland Unified School District became the first major school district in the country to electrify its entire bus system. | David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images Riding an electric school bus seems like it would be an…
Two astronauts are stranded in space. This one is jealous.
Former NASA astronaut Cady Coleman speaks during a keynote address at CES 2023 on January 4, 2023, in Las Vegas, Nevada. | David Becker/Getty Images Most people are now probably familiar with the story: Two American astronauts were sent to…