Artemis II: Why is Nasa sending people back to the Moon?

As Artemis II astronauts travelled behind the Moon, they lost contact with Earth for about 40 minutes. The communications blackout had been expected as the spacecraft signals were blocked by the Moon. Nasa says the crew flew to the furthest point from Earth during the blackout at 252,756 miles (406,771km). Once contact was regained, astronaut…

Corporate travel management company Navan — once known asTripActions — filed updatedIPO documentswith the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissionon Friday,even though the federal government is currently shut down. Navan isproceedingundernew SEC rulesthatallowswanna-bepublic companies that are in limbo during the shutdown to fileupdatedinformation,including share count and pricing, and have their statements automaticallyokayedin20 days without staff scrutiny.Once…

Up to 3 million abandoned oil and gas wells litter the U.S. alone, and while many still contain oil or natural gas, the owners decided it wasn’t worth it to keep pumping. “They’ve tried everything,” Prab Sekhon, CEO of Eclipse Energy, told TechCrunch. “There’s still a ton of oil left behind.” Eclipse doesn’t have a…

A rise in the need for computers and data centers to power AI is causing a massive shortage of RAM, driving memory prices sharply higher. Now, analyst firm IDC predicts that this will cause smartphone shipments to plummet by 12.9% this year, making it the biggest single-year dip in more than a decade. Hours after…

In this, Goddard appears to be caught in the same predicament the AI boom has created for many of us. Three years in, companies have built tools that sound so fluent and humanlike they obscure the intractable problems lurking underneath—answers that read well but are wrong, models that are trained to be decent at everything…