Two astronauts, billionaire Jared Isaacman and SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis, completed the world’s first private spacewalk outside a SpaceX capsule, testing new spacesuits and procedures in a risky mission that pushes the boundaries of commercial spaceflight. Reuters reports: The astronauts… Continue Reading →

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: One of the things enterprise storage and destruction company Iron Mountain does is handle the archiving of the media industry’s vaults. What it has been seeing lately should be a wake-up… Continue Reading →

OpenAI has launched a new AI model, named “o1”, designed for improved reasoning and problem-solving skills. o1, part of a new series of models and available in ChatGPT and the API, can tackle complex tasks in science, coding, and math… Continue Reading →

Enlarge / Jared Isaacman emerges from the Dragon spacecraft on Thursday morning. (credit: SpaceX webcast) The Polaris Dawn mission took a firm step into the future on Thursday morning when two private citizens, Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis, briefly ventured… Continue Reading →

Enlarge / The latest Volkswagen Golf GTI isn’t perfect, but it has enough charm to overcome its flaws. (credit: Jonathan Gitlin) “They won’t make them like this much longer” is a pretty hackneyed aphorism, but it certainly applies to the… Continue Reading →