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How Modern Hardcore Music Pushes Studio Hardware to the Limit
If you have ever listened to the Philly punk band Soul Glo, the first thing that hits you is raw, blistering speed. With their landmark album 'Diaspora Problems' and new tracks arriving ahead of their next release, the group has become famous for smashing t…
4 min readNASA Gears Up for a Permanent Moon Base with Nuclear Rovers and Cosmic Cargo
NASA is moving way past short weekend trips to the Moon. Through a fresh round of awards and industry partnerships, the space agency is putting serious funding into building permanent lunar infrastructure—the cosmic equivalent of cargo freighters, power sta…
3 min readLeveling Up to an Electric SUV: Inside the Tech of the Model Y
Electric vehicles have officially reached their second wave. Early EV adopters who picked up sedans five or six years ago are hitting their first upgrade cycle, and they are not heading back to gasoline. Instead, drivers are jumping into next-generation ele…
3 min readSmart Road App: Helping Builders Flatten the Path!
Imagine you need to build a brand new road, a helicopter landing pad, or an airplane runway right in the middle of a muddy field. Military engineers in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps do this all the time! Their work is called horizontal construction because…
3 min readChatGPT Maker OpenAI Joins the Trillion-Dollar Club!
OpenAI, the team behind the famous AI chatbot ChatGPT, just reached an eye-popping milestone. In a brand-new fundraising round, investors handed the company an extra 11 billion dollars. That pushed OpenAI's total estimated price tag to a dizzying 1.25 trill…
3 min readSpy Games in the Chip Lab: The Secret Hunt for AI Secrets!
You might think secret agents only chase after mysterious briefcases or hidden maps. But in the world of high-tech computing, the most valuable treasure on Earth right now is a tiny piece of silicon called an AI microchip! Companies like Nvidia build super-…
3 min readCell Towers in Space! SpaceX Wants to Power Your Phone
Have you ever taken a road trip and watched your phone signal drop to 'No Service'? That happens because traditional cell phone service relies on tall metal towers planted in the ground. If you wander too far from a tower, your phone can't send or receive c…
3 min readGoodbye, Swift! A Giant Space Explosion Hunter Retires
Meet the Swift Observatory, a legendary NASA telescope launched to track down the fiercest fireworks in the cosmos! In deep space, dying stars and colliding black holes unleash mega-blasts called gamma-ray bursts. These flashes shine with mind-boggling powe…
3 min readWhy Electric Cars Are Way Cooler Than You Think!
For over a century, gas cars ruled the roads. You drove until the fuel needle dropped, pulled into a gas station, pumped smelly fuel, and paid a chunky bill. Because gas stations are on almost every corner, many people worry that electric vehicles, or EVs,…
3 min readInstagram Brings Its Free 'Edits' Video Maker to Mac Desktops!
Have you ever tried editing a video on a tiny phone screen? Pinching, tapping, and trying to cut clips down to the exact millisecond can make your thumbs feel like they just ran a marathon!
3 min readMeet the X-70 Fractal: NASA's Shape-Shifting Sky Laboratory!
NASA just showed off a brand-new experimental airplane called the X-70 Fractal! Unveiled at the famous Kennedy Space Center in Florida, this super-sleek jet is not meant for carrying vacation passengers. Instead, it is a high-speed flying laboratory operate…
3 min readPocket Brain to Cloud Brain: Qualcomm Moves into Data Centers!
You might not know the name Qualcomm, but there is a big chance their microchips power your family's smartphones right now! For years, Qualcomm grew fast by designing the miniature brains that connect handheld devices to cell towers and run mobile games.
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