People want small, efficient cars, and it seems Kia is listening. Today marks a refreshing change from the doom and gloom we’ve seen in the EV industry over the last few weeks. New York is holding its annual auto show, and while these events don’t hold as much relevance…
Pair instability supernovae create a “mass gap” in black holes. Many of the early exoplanet discoveries were exciting on their own, confirming that there really were strange new worlds out in the Universe. But over time, our focus has shifted more toward numbers, as we began using the frequency…
Sweden is bringing back books amid declining test scores. In 2023, the Swedish government announced that the country’s schools would be going back to basics, emphasizing skills such as reading and writing, particularly in early grades. After mostly being sidelined, physical books are now being reintroduced into classrooms, and…
“It’ll go when the engines light at T-0.” KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.—Launching to the Moon is an all-day undertaking, something the four astronauts waiting to climb aboard NASA’s Artemis II rocket know well. “It is actually a very long day,” said Victor Glover, the pilot on Artemis II. “We…
“I just don’t want to get caught flat-footed when we start to have to protect US interests out there.” KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida—The US military has always been part of NASA’s human spaceflight program. The first astronauts were nearly all military pilots, and two of the four crew members…
Apple Silicon Macs get a performance boost thanks to better unified memory usage. Ollama, a runtime system for operating large language models on a local computer, has introduced support for Apple’s open source MLX framework for machine learning. Additionally, Ollama says it has improved caching performance and now supports…
No, the sky isn’t falling, but Q Day is coming, and it won’t be as expensive as thought. Building a utility-scale quantum computer that can crack one of the most vital cryptosystems—elliptic curves—doesn’t require nearly the resources anticipated just a year or two ago, two independently written whitepapers have…
All your data remains intact, and you can go back to your original address at any time. Someone is celebrating a birthday tomorrow—it’s Gmail. The iconic email service debuted 22 years ago on April 1, forever altering what people expected from free email. But 22 years is a long…
The key is to evenly distribute elderly passengers, who move more slowly, among the aircraft cabins. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requires that, in the event of an emergency, all airplane passengers must be able to evacuate any aircraft within a 90-second window. But is that a realistic requirement,…
“Things are certainly starting to feel real here at the Cape.” KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida—The two-day countdown for the launch of NASA’s Artemis II mission began Monday evening, with clocks timed for the first of six opportunities in early April to send a crew of four astronauts around the…
