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Some of the biggest names in the space industry recently came together to celebrate the best and brightest people in the field at the inaugural Global Space Awards. The lavish event, which also championed the life and legacy of the late NASA astronaut James Lovell, placed particular emphasis on the importance of innovation and sustainability in the future of space exploration.On Dec. 5, dozens of researchers, science communicators, celebrities and industry experts met at the Natural History Museum in London to wine, dine and strut the red carpet, all under the illuminated skeleton of a giant blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus)…
SpaceX is planning to raise tens of billions of dollars through an initial public offering next year, multiple outlets have reported, and Ars can confirm. This represents a major change in thinking from the world’s leading space company and its founder, Elon Musk.The Wall Street Journal and The Information first reported about a possible IPO last Friday, and Bloomberg followed that up on Tuesday evening with a report suggesting the company would target a $1.5 trillion valuation. This would allow SpaceX to raise in excess of $30 billion.This is an enormous amount of funding. The largest IPO in history occurred…
Sandfall Interactive, the developer of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, knows how to ride the wave. Right after the visually stunning RPG finished dominating The Game Awards, the team dropped a free “Thank You” content update for fans.This is no minor patch. It adds a playable environment and new boss battles for late-game players. The “Thank You” update also adds new music tracks, a Photo Mode and new text and UI localizations. On top of that, you’ll find quality-of-life tweaks, including improved performance on handheld PCs.Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 won a record-breaking nine categories at The Game Awards 2025. That includes…
In a night filled with gory trailers for loud action games, one of the new reveals at The Game Awards stood out for its gentle nature: Coven of the Chicken Foot. The game defied almost every trend of the night: it was a single-player game, in a beautiful cel-shaded animation style, in which the main character is an elderly woman. This, it turns out, is the first new game from Bruce Straley, one of the co-directors of the original The Last of Us, since he left Naughty Dog in 2017. In an interview with Polygon, Straley spoke for the first time about…
Archaeologists in France have discovered the remains of a 16th-century gallows where bodies of the condemned were displayed after they were hanged. The corpses of the men — and a few women — were then buried in mass graves nearby.During an excavation just outside the city of Grenoble in 2024, archaeologists with the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP) found a square brick structure and 10 burial pits dating to the 16th century, INRAP announced on Friday (Dec. 12).These discoveries initially baffled archaeologists, who thought the structure and burials might have been part of a leper colony, a…
Google is rolling out new Gemini-assisted functionality to Search and its Translate app. It says its AI can now provide more natural and accurate text translations for phrases that have more “nuanced meanings.” Translate will now take slang terms and colloquial expressions into consideration rather than provide sometimes unhelpful direct translations.The latest update to its text translation feature is rolling out first in the US and India, translating between English and just under 20 other languages, including German, Spanish, Chinese and Arabic. It works in the Translate app for iOS and Android and on the web.Gemini’s speech-to-speech translation feature has…
Fulu sets repair bounties on consumer products that employ sneaky features that limit user control. Just this week, it awarded more than $10,000 to the person who hacked the Molekule air purifier.
Almost everyone has that one mysterious corner of the house where the internet simply refuses to cooperate. You step into that corner, suddenly your phone can’t load a webpage, your videos start buffering, downloads stall, and frustration sets in — especially if that dead zone happens to be somewhere you actually need reliable service, like the bathroom. We will not go back to reading the back of a shampoo bottle like they did in cave man times. A Wi-Fi range extender is an easy and effective way to eliminate those annoying weak zones. Right now, this Wi-Fi 7 one from…
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy, the Milky Way, in unprecedented detail. In one month of observations spread across two years, the survey will unveil tens of billions of stars and explore previously uncharted structures. This video begins with a view of the Carina Nebula — a giant, relatively nearby star-forming region in the southern sky. Roman will view the entire nebula as well as its surroundings, including a 10,000 light-year-long swath of the spiral arm it resides in. The observation will offer an unparalleled…
Id Software, the company behind Doom, has voted in favor of forming a “wall-to-wall” union. The term “wall-to-wall” refers to a union that includes every employee, regardless of duties. The vote wasn’t unanimous, with 165 of 185 total employees in favor of the union.The union will work in conjunction with the Communications Workers of America (CWA), which is the same organization involved with . Microsoft, who owns ZeniMax, has already recognized this new effort, . It with the CWA and ZeniMax workers last year, paving the way for this sort of thing.”The wall-to-wall organizing effort at id Software was much…