On Oct. 27, 1961, NASA launched the first test flight of its new Saturn I space launch vehicle.
The Saturn I rocket was the United States’ first heavy-lift rocket designed to launch big payloads beyond low Earth orbit. This was also the first test flight of any rocket in the Saturn family of rockets, which includes the Saturn V that was used to launch astronauts to the moon during the…
In 1927, Norwegian civil engineer and amateur radio operator Jørgen Hals made an unusual discovery: while monitoring transmissions from a shortwave radio station in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, he began hearing odd, “delayed” radio echoes, arriving approximately…
Astroscale proposes fleet of 'bodyguard' spacecraft to protect satellites from orbital attacks
October 28, 2026
Technologies developed and tested in orbit to remove space junk and fix broken satellites can be speedily repurposed to build fleets of bodyguard spacecraft to protect important satellites from adversary attacks, space clean-up company Astroscale thinks.
Astroscale made…
Browser maker Opera has introduced a new web standard that lets users run AI models directly in its browser, without relying on the cloud.
The new standard, WebAI, is designed to work with a variety of AI models. Opera name drops Google’s Gemma – an open-weight model that Google introduced two years ago – as one example. On Macs, WebAI also supports Apple’s on-device…
General Compute raises $100 million Series A, countering the neocloud disaster narrative
October 28, 2026
CoreWeave, a publicly traded neocloud that rents out computing power for AI, has seen its stock price fall to a 12-month low, and Elon Musk is flexing $40 billion in debt for buying computing capacity and predicting that “200+ neoclouds are going to see guppy-level…
As the AI boom strains computing capacity, Nvidia has backed Indian startup Simplismart in a $14 million funding round, betting on software that helps companies run AI models more efficiently and, in some cases, with fewer GPUs.
Nvidia participated in the all-primary Series…
When you think of Hasselblad, you probably picture beautifully crafted medium-format cameras, legendary portrait photographers, or perhaps even the cameras that accompanied astronauts into space. What you probably don’t imagine is taking one underwater.
However, Instagram photographer @wetnegz is doing exactly that, using an incredibly rare underwater housing originally designed for the…
It’s the sort of unremarkable building you could have walked past hundreds of times without giving it a second thought. A long, low concrete block behind a wire fence on the edge of a field, topped by a structure that could be a water tank. Not the most exciting of…
Close your eyes and conjure up a mental image a 1930s film star. You’ll end up picturing the work of George Hurrell… whether you know his name or not.
Hurrell rose to fame as the in-house portraitist at MGM before setting up his own studio. And his pictures did more…
A Tesla Cybertruck was pulled over while driving in Germany, a reminder that the vehicle is generally not legal on European roads.
The Tesla Cybertruck has attracted plenty of attention, mostly for its unconventional and polarizing look. For better or worse*, the car looks different than anything else on the road, and thus has been the target of all sorts of discussion (*it’s for worse).
But…
