NASA Engineers Are Racing to Fix Voyager 1

Voyager 1 is still alive out there, barreling into the cosmos more than 15 billion miles away. However, a computer problem has kept the mission’s loyal support team in Southern California from knowing much more about the status of one of NASA’s longest-lived spacecraft. The computer glitch cropped up on November 14, and it affected … Read more

Australia slams Twitter (now X) for 80% cut in trust and safety engineers

Matt Cardy/Getty Images Australia has called out X, formerly Twitter, for slashing its online trust and safety resources and hindering its ability to respond to concerns about harmful content on its platform.  The Australian eSafety Commissioner released a transparency report detailing cuts the microblogging site made to its trust and safety teams since it was … Read more

Astra lays off 25% of workforce, reallocates engineers, in an effort to combat dwindling money reserves

Astra has laid off 25% of its workforce because the starting of the quarter and is reallocating a minimum of 50 engineers and manufacturing workers away from its launch enterprise to deal with spacecraft manufacturing, the corporate stated Friday. The reallocation and layoffs are anticipated to delay testing of the under-development Rocket 4 and Launch … Read more

Google staffers reward engineers for I/O, and poke enjoyable at execs AI use

Sundar Pichai talking on the Google I/O Developer’s Convention in Mountain View, Calif. on Might 10, 2023. Courtesy: Google Google workers have been paying shut consideration to the corporate’s annual developer convention this week in addition to to Wall Avenue’s overwhelmingly optimistic response. When in it got here to doling out credit score for the … Read more