Absolute success: scientific probe Blue Ghost fell asleep forever on the Moon after productive two weeks of work
The American company Firefly Aerospace reported that on March 17 at 02:15 Moscow time, contact was lost with the Blue Ghost lunar landing module. Night had fallen on the Moon…
China to restrict US and other countries’ access to lithium battery technology and components
Over the past few decades, China has become the world’s largest supplier of lithium-ion batteries, and has also gained control of the resource base far beyond its borders. The Chinese…
ExxonMobil to Deploy Discovery 6 Supercomputer with NVIDIA GH200 Superchips
American ExxonMobil, one of the world’s largest oil companies, has presented a project for a high-performance computing complex, Discovery 6. This supercomputer is planned to be used to support the…
Raspberry Pi RP2350 Microcontroller Now Available, Priced From $0.8
Raspberry Pi has announced the launch of the RP2350 microcontroller, which is the core of the tiny Raspberry Pi Pico 2 board that debuted last August. The RP2350 is also…
NASA astronauts trapped in space for nine months finally leave the ISS and head back to Earth
The Crew Dragon spacecraft of the American aerospace company SpaceX with a crew of four people on board successfully undocked from the International Space Station and headed for Earth. A…
Chinese authorities will allocate $55 billion this year to finance advanced developments
The new US government has not yet determined the fate of the $53 billion, five-year program for subsidizing the national semiconductor industry, adopted by its predecessors. At the same time,…
Google to Develop Its Next AI Chips in Partnership with MediaTek
A cloud provider the size of Google can justify developing its own components for its computing infrastructure, so the company has long been developing its own line of server-grade processors.…
OpenAI to Test ChatGPT’s Connection to Google Drive to Let It Dig Through Documents
OpenAI is gearing up to begin beta testing a new feature called ChatGPT Connectors. With this tool, enterprise ChatGPT Team subscribers will be able to connect their Google Drive and…
“Something Bigger Than Disco Elysium 2”: Psychogeographic RPG Hopetown Launches on Kickstarter, and Success Is Not Long in Coming
As promised, on March 17th, London-based studio Longdue, founded by former ZA/UM, Bungie, Rockstar, and Brave At Night employees, launched its Disco Elysium-inspired psychogeographical RPG Hopetown on Kickstarter. Image source:…
Grok to Learn to Create Videos: xAI Acquires AI Video Generator Developer Hotshot
Elon Musk’s xAI has acquired Hotshot, a startup that works on creating AI-powered tools for generating videos. Aakash Sastry, co-founder and CEO of Hotshot, announced the deal on his X…