Mike Whitaker, head of the Federal Aviation Administration, said Thursday that his agency’s new hands-on oversight of Boeing will ensure that air travel is safe, even as the planemaker’s shift to an appropriate safety culture will took considerable time. “It is the beginning of a long journey. There needs to be a fundamental change in … Read more
Economic experts are predicting trouble for President Biden as the nation heads toward a November general election, leaving little time for his administration to fix the stubbornly high inflation plaguing Americans. Inflation currently stands at 3.3% year over year, according to Labor Department statistics. Although it’s down from a near-record high of 9.1% in June … Read more
UPDATE: 8:15 p.m Hawaiian Electric said power was restored to all downtown Honolulu customers as of 8 p.m. 7:20 pm Hawaiian Electric said power has been restored to some customers and that crews are still working on repairs to safely restore power to remaining affected customers. 7 pm Hawaiian Electric said crews are still working … Read more
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have mapped, for the first time ever, the plasma “burps” of a supermassive black hole-powered quasar that resides relatively close to Earth. While supermassive black holes with masses millions or billions of times that of the sun are thought to reside at the heart of all galaxies, not all … Read more
Fallout 76’s Skyline Valley update certainly isn’t short on sights and sounds to tempt you from the comfort of its six-year-old map of Appalachia. Located on the southern edges of the Savage Divide that runs through the center of the map, the newly added Shenandoah region has a giant ominous vortex swirling in the sky … Read more
The North Star of macroeconomic policy—the ideal point toward which fiscal and monetary measures are intended to take us—is an America where jobs are plentiful and prices rise by 2 percent a year. And we may have come to just that place. In May, the US economy added 272,000 jobs, far more than economists had … Read more
Originally thought of as little more than a road without rocks slowing the rover, Neretva Vallis has offered a wealth of geological options for the science team. After swerving across a dune field to avoid rocks that rattle the wheels, NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover reached its latest area of scientific interest on June 9. The … Read more
It’s time to celebrate the incredible women leading the way in AI! Nominate your inspirational leaders for VentureBeat’s Women in AI Awards today before June 18. Learn more The rapid AI video generation market has changed, again: Luma AI, a startup backed by famous Silicon Valley venture firm Andreessen Horowitz, today announced the free public … Read more
A model of Tesla Inc.’s planned Optimus humanoid robot. on display during the Seoul Motor Show in Goyang, South Korea, on Thursday, March 30, 2023. The motor show will continue until April 9. Photo: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images The entire value of the S&P 500 currently stands at … Read more
How it works: A proton (far left) from the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) accelerator at CERN hits carbon nuclei (small gray spheres). This produces a shower of various elementary particles, including a large number of neutral pions (orange sphere). As the unstable neutral pions decay, they emit two high-energy gamma rays (curly yellow arrows). These … Read more