Biological computing is messy and gassy – It’s now cloudy, too At the start of the working day at Cortical Labs’ datacenter in Melbourne, Australia, technicians top up the resident computers with a liquid modelled on the cerebrospinal fluid that sur…
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Lees meerCalls Musk’s orbital plans “speculative” despite Bezos touting orbiting compute Amazon wants US regulators to reject a SpaceX application for permission to launch a fleet of orbital datacenter satellites, criticizing it as incomplete, speculative, a…
Lees meerNot a US flag in sight Researchers from China are narrowing down the landing sites for the nation’s first crewed mission to the Moon, set to take place before 2030.…
Lees meerVulcan rocket hardware drafted in amid Artemis reshuffle but still no word on lander NASA has selected United Launch Alliance's Centaur V upper stage for the Artemis missions that aim to return astronauts to the lunar surface for the first time sinc…
Lees meerAtomic clocks will tell you when your Waymo is late The British government is to pour £180 million into ensuring the UK keeps up with the times.…
Lees meerYou gotta start somewhere, and in this case astroboffins would have been nowhere without help from intrepid volunteers NASA has published new analysis of its 2022 planetary defense test that suggests the mission slowed down the target asteroids, alb…
Lees meerRemembering the day the Venera 3 impacted Venus It is 60 years since humanity first got up close and personal with another planet, with the impact of the Soviet Union's Venera 3.…
Lees meerWhat hath science wrought? A clump of living human brain cells wired into a silicon chip has answered the internet's most important computing question: yes, it can run Doom.…
Lees meerRemembering the day the Venera 3 impacted Venus It is 60 years since humanity first got up close and personal with another planet, with the impact of the Soviet Union's Venera 3.…
Lees meerHumanity and its neighbor safe from this menace at least Scientists have ruled out the possibility that the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 might hit the Moon on December 22, 2032.…
Lees meerSeven-year Freedom of Information battle heads to tribunal Exclusive The UK's Department for Transport (DfT) is assembling government lawyers to fight the Information Commissioner's decision that it must release a document summarizing the lessons f…
Lees meerSeven-year Freedom of Information battle heads to tribunal Exclusive The UK's Department for Transport (DfT) is assembling government lawyers to fight the Information Commissioner's decision that it must release a document summarizing the lessons f…
Lees meerSeven-year Freedom of Information battle heads to tribunal Exclusive The UK's Department for Transport (DfT) is assembling government lawyers to fight the Information Commissioner's decision that it must release a document summarizing the lessons f…
Lees meerDon't flip the switch until the NRC says you can, okay? Bill Gates-backed nuclear outfit TerraPower finally has approval to build its Natrium reactor. However, it may still face issues finding a steady fuel supply. And, oh yeah, it hasn't built any …
Lees meerBots hunt deformed RF contacts inside the collider's 27 km vacuum tubes Updated The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and CERN have jointly developed a "mouse-sized robot" to inspect parts of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that are out of reach t…
Lees meerFCC not pleased about EU space tech reqs to enter Common market, among other things Updated The US government is consulting with the telecoms industry about "reciprocity" in satellite services, in a move that could see another dispute erupt with th…
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