Milt Windler, NASA flight director who helped save Apollo 13, dies at 94
“…we were making history.”
The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton
The devices continue to show noticeable benefits for users in various real-world tasks.
Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents
Meta says FDA isn’t sufficient to Muse reading messages. Apple begs to differ.
Someone got Doom in an SQL database
1,300 lines of SQL querying renders accurate bitmapped views of Hell at 35 fps.
Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash
Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data center pollution.
Patient-zero drill put health facilities to the test—40% of them failed
Actors with makeup and fake symptoms staggered into 73 healthcare facilities.
Lyft settles landmark driver misclassification lawsuit for $272.5M
Critics say workers are still owed far more.
The 2008 economic crisis changed the US's relationship with energy
It wasn’t obvious at the time, but the US uncoupled carbon emissions and GDP growth.
US arrests tech CEO accused of smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips into China
Nvidia’s chip-smuggling problem won’t go away as arrests continue.
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