The U.S. presidential administration proposes to significantly reduce NASA’s budget for fiscal year 2026. The White House presented a draft federal budget, which provides only $18.8 billion for the activities of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This is $6 billion, or 24.3%, less than the current FY 2025 allocation ($24.8 billion). The cuts […]

Finnish startup IXI has announced that it has raised $36.5 million in a Series A funding round to develop smart glasses with automatic vision correction. The company’s founders were previously involved in Varjo, a mixed reality helmet developer that has raised over $200 million in investment. Their experience also includes work on the technologies that […]

In mid-March, Meta* announced that the Llama family model had reached the 1 billion downloads mark, up from 650 million in early December 2024. At its inaugural LlamaCon developer conference last Tuesday, Meta provided an update, with the number of downloads reaching 1.2 billion. Speaking, Chief Product Officer, Chris Cox, emphasized the strong involvement of […]

  The iPhone 17e may not come out after all. At least Apple has not yet decided whether to release such a smartphone or not. Recall, some time ago it was reported that amid the success of the iPhone 16e, the company is considering releasing the iPhone 17e in a year, while previously between the […]

  Meteorite impacts on the surface of Mars may have a much greater impact on the planet than previously thought. This conclusion was reached by planet scientists, using an artificial intelligence algorithm to compare the appearance of new impact craters in images obtained by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter with seismic data collected by the landing […]