A rocket blazed into space Thursday afternoon carrying 34 OneWeb satellites. It's the latest sign that 2020 will be a year in which new devices are deployed into Earth's orbit at an unprecedented pace as OneWeb and rivalSpaceX race to make global broadband a reality. The OneWeb
Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell has declassified a list of names of former Obama administration officials who allegedly requested the "unmasking" of Donald Trump's first national security adviser Michael Flynn's identity, a senior ODNI official confirmed Tuesday. But it remains unclear why the DNI did not
Civil rights activist and longtime Rep. John Lewis occupies a rare space of bipartisan respect in US politics and the trailer for the new documentary "John Lewis: Good Trouble" chronicles the moments of his life that have shaped his place in American history. Directed by Dawn
The Pentagon has officially released three short videos showing "unidentified aerial phenomena" that had previously been released by a private company. The videos show what appear to be unidentified flying objects rapidly moving while recorded by infrared cameras. Two of the videos contain service members reacting in awe
One of the big questions facing policymakers is whether to push ahead with their climate and environmental goals or to relax them during the global health pandemic. The Trump administration is choosing the latter, arguing that the regulatory pressures on business are, well, bad for
When people think about artificial intelligence, they often think about what intelligence machines can do on their own, without human interaction. However, some of the most powerful and useful AI systems are those that help or augment human capability. The idea of AI systems that
One of the most mind-bending concepts about the Universe itself is that gravity isn't due to some unseen, invisible force, but comes about because the matter and energy in the Universe bends and distorts the very fabric of space itself. Matter and energy tell space how
When Jay Kreps was at LinkedIn, he had several mission-critical responsibilities. He was the technical lead on the platform’s search systems, recommendation engine, and social graph. But perhaps most impressively, he was one of the co-creators of Apache Kafka, an open-source software now used by over 100,000
These days it seems nearly every major tech company is working on offerings for 5G infrastructure and the elusive “edge.” While it may be easy to write these efforts off as opportunistic copycats, the simple truth is that the concept of distributed computing across a
Last month, Zoom joined a long list of companies whose user data has fallen prey to hackers. More than half a million account logins for the hugely popular video conferencing platform were discovered on the dark web, either offered for free or for next to nothing. While some users may be tempted to
