This week, Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA), John Hickenlooper (D-CO), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) and Roger Wicker (R-MS) introduced the Orbital Sustainability (ORBITS) Act on the Congress floor. The bipartisan bill is aimed at developing active debris removal (ADR) technology, with the eventual goal of removing dangerous debris objects from orbit.
The debris problem
Over 100 million individual pieces of debris are in Earth’s orbit right now, ranging from flec
Man, do I not like dealing with email. And man, do I get a lot of it. And man, oh man, does it get worse the longer I don’t deal with it.
If you find yourself in a similar predicament, might I suggest following my morning Gmail routine?
The main goal is to sort the wheat from the chaff, respond quickly to messages that need to be acknowledged, and then organize the messages that need a little extra TLC into a manageable list–in that order.
Oh, and the name o
The social media app BeReal is having a moment.
A photo-sharing app, it sends a daily prompt (at a different time each day) to users to quickly take and share a real-time image—and is the #1 download in the social networking category of the Apple App Store. And it’s the seventh most popular in Google Play.
That success, though, is capturing the attention of
Apple announced its latest smartwatch, the Apple Watch Series 8, last week at its “Far Out” event in Cupertino. As new Apple Watches go, the 8 is just an incremental improvement over its predec
Airbnb is proposing a number of policy changes that governments and cities could adapt to improve remote work across the globe.
The home-rental platform released a white paper Thursday morning outlining steps that locations and lawmakers can take “to leverage the rise of remote work for their communities.” Recommendations include improving the visa process, encouraging visitor support of the local economy, and streamlining tax compliance.
“We don’t wa
Robot dogs are getting smarter.
In early demos, robot dogs debuted as “pack mules,” and were shown carrying soldiers’ payloads during forest treks. As they have become commercialized, new upgrades have given robot dogs sensors, color cameras, increased mobility, and surveillance-enhancing features.These new capabilities have further piqued the interest of both federal and local law enforce
Walmart shoppers will now be able to virtually try on clothes without leaving home.
A new feature, rolled out on Thursday in Walmart’s iOS app, uses photos that customers upload to show how clothing will look on their bodies. The technology, called Be Your Own Model, utilizes machine learning technology and does more than just superimpose images of garments on potential buyers. “We don’t want it to look like a paper doll,” says Denise Incandela, EVP of
Proof-of-stake is a mechanism for achieving consensus on a blockchain. Blockchain is a technology that records transactions that can’t be deleted or altered. It’s a decentralized database, or ledger, that is under no one person or organization’s control. Since no one controls the database, consensus mechanisms, such as proof-of-stake, are needed to coordinate the operation of blockchain-based systems.
It is one of the laws of tech that you can never find the right cable when you need it. What should be simple–pretty much every device you connect to your computer or phone uses a USB cable, so you’d expect there to be a universal cable–is instead a complete train wreck.
USB is a confusing scrabble of different port types, cable speeds, and hideously long names. I have a huge pile of USB ca
Since the beginning of 2022, the tech industry has laid off more than 78,000 employees, according to tracker Layoffs