CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida—The field of astrodynamics isn’t a magical discipline, but sometimes it seems trajectory analysts can pull a solution out of a hat. That’s what it took to save NASA’s ESCAPADE mission from a lengthy delay, and possible cancellation, after its rocket wasn’t ready to send it toward Mars during its appointed launch window

James Dewey Watson, who helped reveal DNA’s double-helix structure, kicked off the Human Genome Project, and became infamous for his racist, sexist, and otherwise offensive statements, has died. He was 97. His death was confirmed to The New York Times by his son Duncan, who said Watson died on Thursday in a hospice in East

Blue Origin stands ready to help NASA achieve its goals with regard to landing humans on the Moon as soon as possible, the company’s chief executive said Saturday in an interview with Ars. “We just want to help the US get to the Moon,” said Dave Limp, CEO of the space company founded by Jeff

Imagine answering a call and chatting away, only to find out minutes later that the “person” on the other end wasn’t human at all. Creepy? Impressive? Maybe a bit of both. That’s exactly what happened at the Global Fintech Fest 2025, where SquadStack.ai made waves by claiming its voice artificial intelligence had effectively passed the

Some news stories slip quietly under the radar, but every now and then, one comes along that feels like a preview of tomorrow. This week, Pixazo – a creative technology startup based in India – announced it’s adding AI video generation to its API suite. Sounds simple enough on paper, right? But if you’ve been

AWS is finally making planning for cloud deployments less of a guessing game for enterprise teams. The cloud service provider has launched a new planning tool named Capabilities by Region, which provides visibility into the availability of services, tools, and features, including AWS CloudFormation resources, across its global regions. This visibility is critical to enterprises for planning

Kong has released Insomnia 12, an update to the company’s open-source API development platform. The update is intended to accelerate API and Model Context Protocol (MCP) server development with AI-powered collaboration and testing. Unveiled November 4 and generally available now, Insomnia 12 enables users to build, test, and deploy faster with native MCP clients, AI

Do you think it’s time to turn an AI agent loose to do your procurement for you? As that could be a potentially expensive experiment to conduct in the real world, Microsoft is attempting to determine whether agent-to-agent ecommerce will really work, without the risk of using it in a live environment. Earlier this week,

Generative AI is a kind of artificial intelligence that creates new content, including text, images, audio, and video, based on patterns it has learned from existing data. Today’s generative models are typically built on foundation-model architectures such as large-language models (LLMs) and multimodal systems, enabling them to carry on conversations, answer questions, write stories, generate

“What kind of AI does the world really want?”. So begins a blog post by Mustafa Suleyman, director of AI at Microsoft. In his opinion, “it’s probably the most important question of our time.” Suleyman recalls the progress experienced in recent years, which “has been phenomenal.” “We are breezing past the great milestones. The Turing