Innovation
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UFO files show Buzz Aldrin saw a ‘sizeable’ object close to the moon and a ‘fairly bright light source’ that the Apollo 11 crew felt could be a laser
Buzz Aldrin observing a “fairly bright light source” while aboard the Apollo 11. A mysterious object making “multiple 90-degree turns” at a speedy clip. A blaringly bright object doing corkscrew twists over the skies in Kazakhstan. Those are some of the details in a new batch of files on UFOs that the Pentagon began releasing
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Meet ‘Ace,’ the paddle-wielding robot who just beat humans at ping pong in AI breakthrough
A paddle-wielding robot is so adept at playing table tennis that it is posing a tough challenge to elite human players and sometimes defeating them, according to a new study that shows how advances in artificial intelligence are making robots more agile. Japanese electronics giant Sony built the robotic arm it calls Ace and pitted
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin grounds New Glenn rocket after a bad engine put a satellite in the wrong orbit
Jeff Bezos’ rocket company, Blue Origin, blamed a bad engine Monday for a failed weekend launch that left a satellite in the wrong orbit, dooming it. Launches of the huge New Glenn rocket are grounded until Blue Origin and the Federal Aviation Administration complete their investigation. The rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force
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Exclusive: Your delivery robot will now offer the blind real-time, on-the-ground eyes around sidewalk hazards
The delivery robots rolling down your sidewalk have cameras, sensors, and a constant need to dodge whatever is in their path. Think fallen e-scooters, construction zones, and tricky curbs. That data gets stored so that other robots know what lies ahead of them—and it’s now going to the world’s most widely used GPS app for
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Blue Origin launches New Glenn, suffers issue deploying craft
Blue Origin’s flagship New Glenn rocket launched to space on its third flight, reusing a booster for the first time but failing to correctly place the satellite it was carrying into its intended orbit. The rocket took off from the launchpad at Cape Canaveral, Florida at approximately 7:25 a.m. local time, and its reusable first
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Meet the millennial and Gen Z ‘attention activists’ who are trying desperately to unplug from their phones
More than a dozen millennials gathered in a brownstone apartment in Brooklyn and placed their phones in a metal colander before two hours of reading, drawing and conversation — anything but staring at screens. A similar scene played out a few miles away, in an early 20th-century cardboard box factory turned high-end office space. Nearly
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New drones are giving Ukraine a battlefield advantage and ravaging Russia’s oil industry
Ukraine’s constant innovation in drone technology is giving its military an edge on the battlefield, dealing major blows to Russia’s army and economy. While Russia invaded Ukraine four years ago with superior numbers, that advantage has since been neutralized by Western aid and the emergence of new drones, which now account for the vast majority
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Artemis III will practice docking Orion with lunar landers in Earth orbit next year while Musk’s Starship and Bezos’ Blue Moon compete for Artemis IV
Never-before-glimpsed views of the moon’s far side. Check. Total solar eclipse gracing the lunar scene. Check. New distance record for humanity. Check. With NASA’s lunar comeback a galactic-sized smash thanks to Artemis II, the world is wondering: What’s next? And how do you top that? “To people all around the world who look up and
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‘It’s 13 minutes of things that have to go right’: Artemis II splashes down despite faulty heat shield
After nearly 10 days in space, complete with a historic loop around the moon, the four astronauts on NASA’s Artemis II mission faced their most dangerous moment yet: not in deep space, but in the final 13 minutes of their journey home. “It’s 13 minutes of things that have to go right,” said NASA’s Artemis
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Ukraine will have the most important defense industrial base in the free world, former CIA chief predicts
The transformation of warfare since Russia invaded Ukraine four years ago is also changing how countries must adapt their defense industries, and Kyiv is leading the way, according to former CIA director and retired Gen. David Petraeus. In an interview with World at Stake earlier this week, he called Ukraine the “arsenal of democracy,” a