Decades

If you are a comic book reader who has a long flight coming up, writer Jimmy Palmiotti has one humble suggestion. He is offering hundreds of pages’ worth of his comics at a steep discount as part of a sale that see proceeds go to the World Wildlife Fund. “It can get you from Japan and back from the east coast,” Palmiotti says with a laugh of the hefty reading material, available via the service Humble Bundle, which allows buyers to adjust how much of the proceeds to go charity and how much go to…

Lake level changes in China during 2002–2023 (a) >1000 km2; (b) 500–1000 km2; (c) 100–500 km2; (d) 50–100 km2; (e) 10–50 km2. Credit: Big Earth Data (2024). DOI: 10.1080/20964471.2023.2295632 A recent study published in Big Earth Data has shown how scientists from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) harnessed satellite altimetry to track changes in the water level of…

A powerful new rocket from United Launch Alliance blasted off Monday, taking with it a vehicle expected to make the first U.S. lunar landing in more than half a century.The Vulcan Centaur rocket, which took to the skies from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 2:18 a.m. local time, included the Peregrine Lunar Lander vehicle which, if successful, would carry out the first lunar exploration since the final Apollo mission in 1972.Copyright ©2024Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.…

The first US Moon landing mission in 52 years is on its way after Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission One (PM1) lifted off this morning from Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida atop a ULA Vulcan rocket at 2:18 am EST.Under cloudy skies, the launch of PM1 took place without major delays or incidents. At one minute 16 seconds into the flight, the Vulcan/Centaur launcher reached maximum dynamic pressure. Reaching the one-minute-50-second mark, the solid rocket boosters separated from the Vulcan core…

Microsoft, Google integrate AI into products Microsoft, Google integrating more AI into products 03:20 Microsoft is adding an artificial intelligence button to its Windows…

O n an August night in 2003, a young woman who went by the name Paulina sank into the sofa of her modest, rented apartment, opened up her laptop, and began talking about sex with a man she’d recently met in a Yahoo chat group. His name was Stephen Bolen. His first communications had been terse, but he soon warmed to Paulina. It didn’t take long for both of them to begin to open up.  Paulina had told Bolen she lived in the Atlanta area, that she had a three-year-old daughter, that her daughter’s father was…

Microsoft has recently marked a significant milestone by elevating the capabilities of artificial intelligence tools. The company has introduced the Microsoft…

In a significant step today, the tech major has taken the expansion of artificial intelligence-enabled tools to the next level. It has announced Microsoft Copilot key for Windows 11 PCs. Notably, this is the first major change to Microsoft Windows keyboard in almost 3 decades. Henceforth, Copilot will be the entry point into the AI space on a Windows PC. The Windows key to the PC keyboard was rolled out almost 30 years ago and it had then enabled users to interact with Windows. In his blog Yusuf Mehdi, Executive Vice…

Microsoft is adding a button to the Windows keyboard to activate its AI Copilot service, with the first devices to sport the new key available this month.The Copilot key, which will sit to the right of the space bar, is the first change to the Windows keyboard layout since Microsoft added the Windows/Start key in 1994, underscoring the company's commitment to artificial intelligence. Microsoft's hardware partners will show off Windows 11 computers with the Copilot button over the coming days at the CES technology…

June Wan/ZDNETIn 2023, Microsoft established itself as a leader in the AI space with several major AI developments, including its GPT-powered AI chatbot assistant -- Copilot. As the new year begins, Microsoft is redirecting its efforts towards the vision of an AI PC, starting with a significant change to Windows keyboards. On Thursday, Microsoft announced the introduction of the Copilot key to Windows 11 PCs, the first significant change to the Windows PC keyboard in nearly three decades, according to the release. …