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Sideways landing cuts moon mission short
A private lunar lander is expected to cease operations Tuesday, its mission shortened after it tumbled over near the south pole of the moon.
A private lunar lander is expected to cease operations Tuesday, its mission shortened after it tumbled over near the south pole of the moon.
Indianapolis was one of the top nine markets affected by the AT&T outages, according to outage tracker Downdetector.
That federal funding represents Indiana’s share of the $41.6 billion Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program—called BEAD—which aims to extend broadband access to nearly 8.5 million U.S. addresses currently unserved or underserved by broadband infrastructure.
Intuitive Machines reported Friday that it’s communicating with its lander, Odysseus, and sending commands to acquire science data.
The group also will look to increase the number of open source AI models—rather than the proprietary systems favored by some companies—develop new hardware and team up with academic researchers.
In an increasingly digital United States, landlines are more and more a remnant of a time gone by, an anachronism of a now-unfathomable era when leaving your house meant being unavailable to callers.
IDEA Week is an annual entrepreneur and innovation festival that takes place in the South Bend-Elkhart region. This year, the weeklong festival will extend its brand to events in Indianapolis in hopes of forging stronger connections between the two regions.
The outage knocked out cellphone service for thousands of its users across the United States starting early Thursday before it was restored.
The landing put the U.S. back on the surface for the first time since NASA’s famed Apollo moonwalkers.
The annual Mira Awards honor the best in tech in Indiana. Indianapolis-based TechPoint said the record number of entries for two of the key awards underscores the “vibrancy of Indiana’s tech sector.”
Google and its rivals have spent billions to ramp up their capabilities in generative AI and are keen to attract corporate clients to show their investments are paying off.
Cisco foresees sluggish demand for its products and software services during the next three to six months while its customers exercise “a greater degree of caution” amid an uncertain economic outlook, CEO Chuck Robbins said.
An analysis of 11 romantic chatbot apps released Wednesday by the not-for-profit Mozilla Foundation said almost every app sells user data, shares it for things like targeted advertising or doesn’t provide adequate information about it in their privacy policy.
The fledgling points programs already have their detractors, with many users bemoaning a lack of transparency—most haven’t explained how their points can be used—while experts warn they may pose regulatory risks of their own.
The Biden administration on Friday announced the investment of $5 billion in a newly established public-private consortium aimed at supporting research and development in advanced computer chips.
The program, which runs through Feb. 18, allows consumers to visit participating businesses and other locations around the state, accumulating points that they can then redeem for NBA-related prizes.
Facebook and Instagram users will start seeing made-by-AI labels on deepfake images that appear on their social media feeds, part of a broader tech industry initiative to sort between what’s real and not.
If Andretti Acquisition Corp.’s shareholders approve the merger, the deal is expected to close shortly after the vote, and shares of the combined company will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
SK Hynix, one of the world’s largest semiconductor chip makers, plans to build a high-tech packaging plant in Indiana, according to a report Thursday in the Financial Times.
On Wednesday, the CEOs went before the Senate Judiciary Committee to testify as lawmakers and parents grow increasingly concerned about the effects of social media on young people’s lives.