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Enlarge / Boeing’s Strainer spacecraft is seen docked at the International Space Station in this picture taken July 3. (credit: NASA) The astronauts who rode Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station last month still don’t know when they…

Enlarge / The Cadillac V-Series.R is one of General Motors’ factory-backed racing programs. (credit: James Moy Photography/Getty Images) It is hard to escape the feeling that a few too many businesses are jumping on the AI hype train because it’s…

Enlarge / One day, using pixellated fonts and images to represent that something is a video game will not be a trope. Today is not that day. SAG-AFTRA has called for a strike of all its members working in video…

Have you ever seen a face in a cloud or a power outlet? This common phenomenon, known as face pareidolia, is when we perceive faces in inanimate objects. Recent research published in the journal Emotion reveals that our brains process…

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino) Internet service providers are eager to get money from a $42.45 billion government fund, but are trying to convince the Biden administration to drop demands that Internet service providers offer broadband service for…

Enlarge / A bad update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon security software crashed millions of Windows PCs last week. (credit: CrowdStrike) CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said Thursday that 97 percent of all Windows systems running its Falcon sensor software were back online,…

Enlarge / A jet of particles moving at nearly light-speed emerges from a massive star in this artist’s concept of the BOAT. (credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab) Scientists have been all aflutter since several space-based detectors…

Enlarge / An AI-generated image released by xAI during the open-weights launch of Grok-1. (credit: xAI) Elon Musk-led social media platform X is training Grok, its AI chatbot, on users’ data, and that’s opt-out, not opt-in. If you’re an X…