[ad_1] A Spirit Airlines Airbus A32neo. Image: Kirby Lee (AP) What’s a plane without an engine? After aerospace company Pratt & Whitney issued a recall on some of its engine models, airline companies in the U.S. and Europe are scrounging for parts, and doing anything they can to prevent canceled flights. You Could Soon Get … Read more
[ad_1] Zeelo — a ‘smart buses’ platform providing bus operators, employers and schools with private bus and shuttle transport programs — has secured $14 million in a fresh Series A ‘Extension’ round of funding. The new investment was led by FlatzHoffmann (a European growth equity investor) and was joined by IREON Ventures (the CVC arm … Read more
[ad_1] NASA’s Perseverance rover has been diligently collecting rocky samples from Mars to stow them away on the planet’s dusty surface while engineers work to develop a rocket that can launch off of another world as a crucial step in the process of retrieving the samples. China’s Plan to Land Astronauts on the Moon The … Read more
[ad_1] Go behind the scenes of Invasion season 2. Outlander teases its return for next year. House of the Dragon is casting an intriguing character for season 2. Plus, Thirteen Ghosts could be heading to television. Spoilers, away! Spoilers of the Week May 9-13 Uncharted 2 Producer Charles Roven told THR he’s “looking to make … Read more
[ad_1] Sometimes, a new device makes you again consider what role technology plays in your life. The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 did that for me. Samsung Galaxy Flip 5: Hands-on first Impressions of Samsung’s Pocket-Sized Folding Phone Now, first off, I’m not saying Samsung has crafted something so revolutionary it’s turned the tables on … Read more
[ad_1] Amazon is rolling out a new generative AI tool that will summarize customer reviews for each product, the company announced Monday. Instead of sifting through hundreds, possibly thousands of personalized reviews, the AI-powered tool will sum up the most frequently mentioned product features and customer opinions that commonly pop up, in a paragraph next … Read more
[ad_1] Astronomers recently spotted one of the most massive brown dwarfs known, an object between 75 and 90 times the mass of Jupiter with a beyond-scalding dayside temperature of 8,000 K (13,940° Fahrenheit.) Gizmodo Back to School 2023 Tech Guide For comparison, the Sun’s surface is a mere 5,772 K (9,930° Fahrenheit). Astronomers observed the … Read more
[ad_1] Screenshot: Lucasfilm After a complicatedly muted run at the box office, Lucasfilm and Disney have announced that the fifth and seemingly final Indiana Jones movie, Dial of Destiny, will begin its home release launch at the end of the month. Spoilers of the Week April 11-15 Kicking off with the digital releases, Dial of … Read more
[ad_1] Image: Sharaf Maksumov (Shutterstock) The finger-on-the-pulse and Polk Award-winning crypto news media company CoinDesk is in dire straits. The website has reportedly laid off 45% of its staff as parent company Digital Currency Group explores a sale. The Biggest Crypto Heists of 2022…So Far The Block reports that the company’s layoffs include 20 employees … Read more
[ad_1] Baldur’s Gate 3, Larian Studio’s epic new Dungeons & Dragons game, has consumed a not-insignificant amount of my free time since it launched earlier this month. An amount that even I, who had been waiting half a decade to play it, thought was a little extreme. So shout out to the absolutely unhinged folks … Read more