Two of Polaris Dawn’s four astronauts could make history today by performing the first-ever commercial spacewalk, about 700 kilometers (435 miles) above our planet. Mission leader and funder Jared Isaacman and SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis will leave the confines and safety of the Crew Dragon capsule for 15 and 20 minutes, respectively. The other two … Read more
The Nintendo Switch is now over seven years old and in need of a refresh, even if the popular console maker isn’t chasing tech specs like its rival. Rumors of a Nintendo Switch 2 (again, I’d bet real money it won’t be called that) have been circulating for years. Sometimes they teased DLSS, NVIDIA’s “deep … Read more
Nevada has a new helper in its effort to clear its backlog of unemployment claims: Google AI. Gizmodo reports that under the initiative, one of the company’s cloud-based AI models will be tasked with analyzing transcripts of appeal hearings and recommending whether cases should be approved. Welcome to a future where a robot decides whether … Read more
On Wednesday, Adobe unveiled the Firefly AI video generation tool that will arrive in beta later this year. Like many things related to AI, the examples are equally fascinating and terrifying as the company slowly integrates tools built to automate much of the creative work its valuable user base pays for today. Repeating the AI … Read more
It’s easy to forget that there’s another social network besides Threads for those tired of Elon Musk’s very generic X platform. BlueSky is a great alternative, as it definitely “feels” like Twitter. However, it lacks some of the features that made Twitter such an internet hotspot back in the day. Well, we just got a … Read more