Earlier this month, astronauts disposed of some 172 pounds of trash from the International Space Station (ISS) using a completely new method: sending it out of the commercial Bishop Airlock designed, owned, and operated by Houston-based Nanoracks. Once the specially designed trash bag was ejected from the airlock, voilà—the ISS crew had less waste to worry about.
Cooper Read, Bishop Airlock program manager at Nanoracks, noted, “The first full end-to-end cycle was a g
An organization called Arkive, which launched out of stealth mode on Wednesday, aims to use the power of the internet to build what it calls the first decentralized, physical museum.
Arkive admits people from around the world as members, with about 200 signed up so far and another 800 on a waiting list, and enables them to vote on what historical and artistic artifacts the museum will acquire. The museum intend
Digital pharmacies looking to set themselves apart in a crowded field are taking a page—and executives—from the biggest names in tech. Case in point: SoftBank-backed startup Alto Pharmacy, which just landed a top Amazon exec as its next CEO.
Alicia Boler Davis will take the reins of the company on September 1, a little more than two years after she joined Amazon as SVP of global fulfillment. At the time she was appointed, Boler Davis was
Three and a half decades of nearly insurmountable technical and funding hurdles bore fruit in full-color glory as NASA unveiled its first public images and spectroscopic data this week from the James Webb Space Telescope.
The White House set the astronomy world abuzz on Monday night when it
The conscious and active pursuit of a productive and healthy life invariably includes reflection, self-examination, and experimentation. From time to time we should look at our systems and tools and evaluate them for just how well they are serving us in our work. And if a hot new life hack lands and takes the town by storm, why not try it?
When our phones began to feature App Stores with millions of apps that purported to improve lives—for free—I went absolutely
Like Facebook before it, Uber is dealing with the public relations fallout following the leak of thousands of confidential documents. And it’s not painting a pretty picture of the company’s early days.
The data dump, comprising over 124,000 con
If you’re a Gmail user and you’re constantly bumping up against the free storage limit, there are a few things you can do to give yourself some digital breathing room.
Best of all, each trick offered here only takes a few minutes and can be repeated whenever you need to clear up additional space.
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Twitter filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk on Tuesday, after Musk decided to back out of a $44 billion takeover bid. Musk’s termination of the Merger Agreement between himself and the social media platform late la
America, in case you haven’t heard, is in the midst of an e-bike boom.
The Light Electric Vehicle Association reports in a recent study that the U.S. imported about 790,000 electric bicycles in 2021–a 70% increase over the year prior. For comparison, the U.S. imported 652,000 electric cars in 2021, making that year the
Another tech founder and billionaire is off to greener pastures. Ev Williams announced he was stepping down as CEO of Medium, the online publishing platform, after nearly a decade at its helm. In his announcement, published on the website, W