The Cross Heads

New drone has legs for landing gear, enabling efficient launches

“What we meant by energy efficiency was calculating the energy input and energy output. The energy output was the kinetic energy and the potential energy at the moment of takeoff, defined as the moment when the feet of the robot stop touching the ground,” Shin explains. The energy input was calculated by measuring the power […]

December 5, 2024 | drones, Robotics, Science | No comments

Judge rejects Boeing plea deal that was opposed by families of crash victims

The compliance monitor is supposed to ensure that “Boeing implements a program designed to prevent and detect violations of US fraud laws,” O’Connor wrote. Failing to retain a monitor would violate Boeing’s probation, but O’Connor said that Boeing wouldn’t actually have to comply with the monitor’s recommendations. “[T]he plea agreement prohibits imposing as a condition […]

December 5, 2024 | 737 max, Boeing, boeing plea deal, Policy | No comments

Broadcom reverses controversial plan in effort to cull VMware migrations

Broadcom will no longer take VMware’s biggest 2,000 customers directly. Instead, it will work with VMware’s 500 biggest customers, giving channel partners the opportunity to participate in deals and provide additional value for VMware customers. The reversal is being viewed as an effort from Broadcom to discourage migrations from VMware, but there’s skepticism around how […]

December 5, 2024 | Biz & IT, Broadcom, vmware | No comments

Study: Warming has accelerated due to the Earth absorbing more sunlight

The concept of an atmospheric energy imbalance is pretty straightforward: We can measure both the amount of energy the Earth receives from the Sun and how much energy it radiates back into space. Any difference between the two results in a net energy imbalance that’s either absorbed by or extracted from the ocean/atmosphere system. And […]

December 5, 2024 | albedo, atmospheric science, climate change, Earth science, global warming, Science | No comments

AT&T says it won’t build fiber home Internet in half of its wireline footprint

AT&T planned to hit that milestone by 2025 but achieved it this year, she said. But as Johnson stressed, AT&T wants to get rid of copper in the remaining 500,000 square miles. “This is really good progress… however, without the full discontinuance of services across an entire wire center geography, we’re unable to stop the […]

December 5, 2024 | AT&T, at&t fiber, Policy | No comments

How did the CEO of an online payments firm become the nominee to lead NASA?

So how would NASA astronauts get to the Moon without the SLS rocket? Nothing is final, and the trade space is open. One possible scenario being discussed for future Artemis missions is to launch the Orion spacecraft on a New Glenn rocket into low-Earth orbit. There, it could dock with a Centaur upper stage that […]

December 5, 2024 | Features, jared isaacman, NASA, Science, Space | No comments

OpenAI announces full “o1” reasoning model, $200 ChatGPT Pro tier

On Thursday during a live demo as part of its “12 days of OpenAI” event, OpenAI announced a new tier of ChatGPT with higher usage limits for $200 a month and the full version of “o1,” the full version of a so-called reasoning model the company debuted in September. Unlike o1-preview, o1 can now process […]

December 5, 2024 | 12 days of OpenAI, AI, Biz & IT, ChatGPT, ChatGPT Pro, chatgtp, GPT-4, GPT-4o, machine learning, o1, o1-preview, openai | No comments

Apple takes over third-party Apple Passwords autofill extension for Firefox

Over the last few years, Apple has steadily been building password manager-style features into macOS and iOS, including automatic password generation, password breach detection, and more. Starting with this year’s updates—iOS 18 and macOS 15 Sequoia—Apple broke all that functionality out into its own Passwords app, making it all even more visible as a competitor […]

December 5, 2024 | Apple, Tech | No comments

Soon, the tech behind ChatGPT may help drone operators decide which enemies to kill

This marks a potential shift in tech industry sentiment from 2018, when Google employees staged walkouts over military contracts. Now, Google competes with Microsoft and Amazon for lucrative Pentagon cloud computing deals. Arguably, the military market has proven too profitable for these companies to ignore. But is this type of AI the right tool for […]

December 5, 2024 | AI, Anduril, Biz & IT, ChatGPT, chatgtp, machine learning, openai | No comments

The return of Steam Machines? Valve rolls out new “Powered by SteamOS” branding.

Steam Machines 2.0? While there hasn’t been any wider official rollout for the Powered by SteamOS program yet, any move by Valve to offer officially licensed SteamOS compatibility for third-party hardware wouldn’t come as a complete surprise. Valve’s Lawrence Yang has been saying since 2022 that “we’re excited to see people make their own SteamOS […]

December 5, 2024 | Gaming | No comments

December 2024
M T W T F S S
 1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
3031