If you walk across the open yard in front of the Physics, Math, and Astronomy building at the University of Texas at Austin, you’ll see a 17-story tower and a huge L-shaped building. What you won’t see is what’s underneath you. Two floors below ground, behind heavy double doors stamped with a logo that most

The third flight of Blue Origin’s heavy-lift New Glenn launcher began Sunday with the company’s first successful reflight of an orbital-class booster, but ended with a setback for Jeff Bezos’ flagship rocket, a key element in NASA’s Artemis lunar program. The 321-foot-tall (98-meter) New Glenn launch vehicle ignited its seven methane-fueled BE-4 engines at 7:25

The alert wasn’t blared out with sirens; however it should probably have been. It seems that in some of the more closed-off policy rooms and on the hurried internal bulletins of European banking and financial oversight bodies, authorities are beginning to suspect something frightening. The upcoming financial apocalypse may not be created by any of

The evolutionary edge that fueled great white shark dominance for millions of years could soon become its greatest downfall. The ocean’s most iconic predators maintain warmer body temperatures than the surrounding seawater and are paying an increasingly steep price for it. As the oceans warm due to climate change, they now face the risk of

Oracle says its new Trusted Answer Search can deliver reliable results at scale in the enterprise by scouring a governed set of approved documents using vector search instead of large language models (LLMs) and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Available for download or accessible through APIs, it works by having enterprises define a curated “search space” of

No matter what type of Android phone you carry or how you usually use it, one thing is a near-universal constant: You’re gonna spend a ton of time messing with messages. The messages may be from clients, colleagues, or your cousin Crissy from Cleveland (damn it, Crissy!). But regardless of who sends ’em or what

Apple Business is aimed at small businesses coalesced around Macs, iPhones, and iPads. If that’s you, and all your systems are made by Apple, the service is likely to be all you need to run a small operation of up to a few dozen seats.  But Apple Business isn’t really designed to handle the advanced needs of larger

The UK government has created a Sovereign AI investment fund with up to £500 million (US$675 million) to spend on turning UK startups into national AI champions. Its support could involve investments of up to £20 million per startup, or provision of up to 1 million GPU-hours of AI compute, and fast-tracking of visas to

Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, is building an AI version of himself. The virtual CEO is being trained on Zuckerberg’s mannerisms and will be loaded with his views on corporate strategy, the Financial Times reported. The idea is that employees will find the virtual Zuckerberg more accessible than they would the flesh and blood

Has IPv6 finally reached its day of glory? It’s fair to say that IPv6 has not had the level of take-up expected when the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) ratified it back in 1998. Take-up has been agonizingly slow, not reaching 5 percent of traffic until 2014. However, the use of IPv6 has been slowly