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William English, Engineer Behind ‘The Mother of All Demos’, Dies at 91

An anonymous reader quotes The Los Angeles Times:
On Dec. 9, 1968, the then-small world of computer engineering was shaken to its core by a presentation of new technologies projected onto a screen in a San Francisco hall. The attendees at the historic event saw demonstrations of video conferencing, the first public use of a computer mouse, hyperlinking in which clicking a…

Tyson Bets On Robots To Tackle Meat Industry’s Worker Shortage

At Tyson’s 26,000-square-foot, multi-million dollar Manufacturing Automation Center near its headquarters in Springdale, Arkansas, the company will apply the latest advances in machine learning to meat manufacturing, with the goal of eventually eliminating jobs that can be physically demanding, highly repetitive and at times dangerous. Bloomberg reports: Advances in technology are making it possible to make strides in automation. For example,…

Halfway Through ISS Mission, NASA Astronauts Anticipate Their Ride Back to Earth

“They’ve been up there about a month now, floating around on the International Space Station, keeping tabs on their ride home,” reports the Washington Post: “Certainly, the highlight for both Doug and I was the initial arrival at space station, coming through the hatch again and being on board after several years of working on a new spacecraft,” Behnken said in…

Washington Post: A Top NASA Official Improperly Contacted Boeing

The Washington Post reports:
After a top NASA official improperly contacted a senior Boeing executive about a bid to win a contract potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars, the company attempted to amend its proposal past the deadline for doing so, according to people with knowledge of the matter. That raised alarm bells inside the space agency, where officials were concerned…

SpaceX vs. Space Shuttle: NASA’s Falcon 9 Astronauts Compare the Differences

NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken flew to the International Space Station on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon. But they’re also uniquely qualified to describe what it felt like, since both had also flown twice on NASA’s Space Shuttle. So how did its solid-fueled booster rockets during the first stage of lift-off compare to SpaceX’s liquid-fueled booster rockets? Slashdot reader Iwastheone shares…

Watch NASA Astronauts on SpaceX Crew Dragon Docking with ISS

“We’re less than 10 meters away…” “@AstroBehnken and @Astro_Doug are suited up, strapped in their seats and ready to be welcomed by the crew aboard the @Space_Station,” NASA tweeted an hour ago. They’re now just 135 meters away from the space station, and you can watch the docking live on YouTube. 1,024,406 people are already watching… “NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and…

Live: SpaceX Crew Dragon launch 2nd attempt

Join the livestream as Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken launch from US soil aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon. Ever since the Space Shuttle Atlantis touched down… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/337317/live-spacex-crew-dragon-launch-2nd-attempt…

NSA Warns of Ongoing Russian Hacking Campaign Against US Systems

The U.S. National Security Agency on Thursday warned government partners and private companies about a Russian hacking operation that uses a special intrusion technique to target operating systems often used by industrial firms to manage computer infrastructure. Reuters reports: “This is a vulnerability that is being actively exploited, that’s why we’re bringing this notification out,” said Doug Cress, chief of the…

Watch SpaceX Launch People To Space For the First Time Live [Updated]

SpaceX is set to mark a huge milestone in its own company history, with a first-ever crewed spaceflight set to take off from Cape Canaveral in Florida later today. From a report: The mission is Commercial Crew Demo-2, the culmination of its Crew Dragon human spacecraft development program, which will carry NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to the International…