Technology

A Virginia-based company will develop next-generation air-breathing engines for the U.S. Army. With this, Northrop Grumman aims to meet the growing challenges of detecting and combating unmanned aerial systems at greater distances. The company will develop and integrate solid-fuel ramjet propulsion technology for integration into XRC missile prototypes under this $18.8 million contract with the … Read more

The takeaway: John Ternus took over as Apple’s CEO in early September, and a recent report hints at how his reign may differ from Tim Cook’s. The new CEO reportedly wants to reduce headcount, generate more revenue from services and change the company’s traditional hardware release cycle. Sources have informed Bloomberg that Apple may move … Read more

A team of aerospace engineering students from Texas A&M University have built a 50-pound drone that can carry 110 pounds over four nautical miles, demonstrating a lightweight design at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) first Lift Challenge. Under the direction of Dr. Moble Benedict, professor of aerospace engineering, the Advanced Vertical Flight Laboratory … Read more

Crystal ball: ASML is the only company that produces the EUV lithography machines needed to produce the world’s most advanced chips. Its CEO, Christophe Fouquet, says the AI ​​boom will last 10 to 15 years and that we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg. Meeting this demand will depend on better optics, vertical … Read more

The Pentagon has awarded Boeing a $20 billion contract to build the U.S. Navy’s next-generation F/A-XX fighter, officials announced Tuesday. The sixth-generation aircraft will replace the Navy’s F/A-18 Super Hornet fleet beginning in the 2030s as part of the Next Generation Air Dominance program. The carrier-based fighter is being developed to increase the range and … Read more

Through the mirror: In a stunning blog post published this week, tech entrepreneur and virtual reality pioneer Eric Gullichsen claimed that Nvidia owes him around $1 billion in shares due to a gross miscalculation more than 30 years ago. Gullichsen was a member of Nvidia’s technical advisory board from September 1993 to April 1996. According … Read more

A clean energy company in China has just carried out hydrogen-boron fusion reactions at a rate of over 100 million per second in the EXL-50U spherical tokamak, the country’s first medium-sized spherical torus experimental device. Hebei-based ENN Group said the experiment resulted in more than 100 million fusion reactions per second. It is the first … Read more

What we know so far: Just a year ago, it seemed unthinkable that PC users would soon be able to emulate PlayStation 5 games in any meaningful way. However, recent changes in Sony’s policy seem to have stimulated several related projects in recent months. While only a handful of games are currently playable and the … Read more

A hydrophone located half a kilometer beneath the Beaufort Sea has spent seven years listening to the Arctic. His images show how dramatically the underwater environment changes throughout the year. This is important for scientists trying to detect signals from earthquakes, explosions and human activity. Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory analyzed the continuous recordings … Read more

In short: After the somewhat slow sales momentum of Alan Wake 2, Remedy Entertainment’s first major Steam release in six years appears to have sparked solid growth. Control Resonant immediately surpassed its predecessor’s popularity on the platform, rising to the top of the sales charts and remaining in the top 10 10 days later. According … Read more