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Technicians work on the MAVEN spacecraft at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of its launch in 2013. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett But NASA’s two other Mars orbiters have been in space for more than 20 years. The older of the two, named Mars Odyssey, has been at Mars since 2001 and will soon run out of fuel, probably some time in the next couple of years. NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which launched in 2005, is healthy for its age, with enough fuel to last into the 2030s. MRO is also important to NASA because it has the best camera…
Mark Zuckerberg has for months publicly hinted that he is backing away from open-source AI models. Now, Meta’s latest AI pivot is starting to come into focus. The company is reportedly working on a new model, known inside of Meta as “Avocado,” which could mark a major shift away from its previous open-source approach to AI development.Both CNBC and Bloomberg have reported on Meta’s plans surrounding “Avocado,” with both outlets saying the model “could” be proprietary rather than open-source. Avocado, which is due out sometime in 2026, is being worked on inside of “TBD,” a smaller group within Meta’s AI…
Is It Time To Move To Bazzite Or SteamOS Yet? There are many gamers who use Microsoft Windows out of convenience; not because they want to. Recently Linux has become more feasible, with thousands of Steam games officially supporting that OS. The switch to Linus may not be attractive to someone who would much rather prefer a plug and play experience without needed to know how to mount drives properly or CHMOD like a pro. To that end Bazzite was created, a Linux distro specifically designed for gamers which comes with drivers and game launchers ready to go. Just make…
This video highlights the Rover Operations Center at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. A center of excellence for current and future rover, aerial, and other surface missions, the ROC will support partnerships and technology transfer to catalyze the next generation of Moon and Mars surface missions. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The center leverages AI along with JPL’s unique infrastructure, unrivaled tools, and years of operations expertise to support industry partners developing future planetary surface missions. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on Wednesday inaugurated its Rover Operations Center (ROC), a center of excellence for current and future surface missions to the Moon…
Last week, after two decades of waiting, Blizzard finally added player housing to its popular MMORPG World of Warcraft. And pretty quickly after it was added, players figured out how to make houses float in the air. Instead of patching out this unintended feature, Blizzard is making it official, but with some warnings. On Wednesday, World of Warcraft community manager Randy Jordan aka Kaivax explained in a post that shortly after WoW update 11.2.7 went live on December 2, crafty players discovered unlisted hotkeys that allowed them to move their homes up into the air. The community is still debating…
The CAR complaints were dismissed in January 2025 by then-FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel and then revived by Carr after Trump appointed him to the chairmanship. Carr has continued making allegations of news distortion, including when he threatened to revoke licenses from ABC stations that air Jimmy Kimmel’s show. During the Kimmel controversy, Carr said he was trying “to empower local TV stations to serve the needs of the local communities.” The FCC subsequently opened a proceeding titled, “Empowering Local Broadcast TV Stations to Meet Their Public Interest Obligations: Exploring Market Dynamics Between National Programmers and Their Affiliates.” The FCC invited…
Indie game developer Edmund McMillen hosted a Reddit AMA today offering some more details about his upcoming game Mewgenics. For starters, the Steam release date for this turn-based cat-breeding RPG has been slightly delayed to February 10. The game was first announced all the way back in 2012 and had most recently been slated for a launch some time this year. Part of the long development cycle was so that McMillen could pause to launch Super Meat Boy Forever, the sequel to his Super Meat Boy platforming hit from 2010. Gamers may also know McMillen for The Binding of Isaac,…
About 3 billion years ago, a hapless star got caught in a twisted tug-of-war between two gigantic black holes — and now, we are seeing the faint screams of X-rays emanating from this violent event. If confirmed, it could be the most distant episode of two black holes attacking a star ever seen.An international team of astronomers reported their decades-long observation of the faintest known variable X-ray flare in a paper accepted for publication in the journal The Innovation in November.The X-ray source, named XID 925, was first spotted in 1999 within the Chandra X-ray Observatory’s Deep Field South survey,…
Apple Music and Apple TV were briefly down during outage, according to Apple’s System Status page. The outage was logged on Apple’s own system at around 2:53PM ET and affected both of the company’s streaming services, along with Apple TV’s Channels feature, until the company resolved the issue around 4:31PM ET.On DownDetector, reports of issues with Apple TV and Apple Music first appeared right around 2:33PM ET, a little before Apple officially confirmed the outage on its own site. Only “some” users were affected by the outage, according to Apple, and anecdotally, multiple members of Engadget’s staff were still able…
But if Musk’s rationale for keeping SpaceX private was to protect the Mars dream, is he abandoning this long-standing aim? Not necessarily. It’s likely that Musk sees artificial intelligence as a key part of the Mars vision. Whether one believes the Optimus robot will become a viable product or not, Musk does. And he’s spoken about sending the robots to Mars to make the way smoother for the first human settlers. Musk also believes that a larger and more financially robust SpaceX is necessary to undertake the settling of Mars. He understands that NASA will not pay for this, as…