Microsoft just launched a new blog on their MSDN network (their network for developers) for hackers. Microsoft, of course, ...

This International Women’s Day article highlights pioneering women in engineering, science, computing, and space whose work ...

B612 Foundation announced the recipient of the annual Schweickart Prize. This year's honor goes to a proposal calling for planetary defense to extend beyond Earth's surface, encompassing the rapidly ...

MXL's Panther storage accelerator gains Tier 1 design wins, delivers major efficiency gains and targets revenues to at least double in 2026 vs. 2025.

It’s July 20, 1969. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are about to land on the moon. They will be the first humans to set foot on Earth’s only natural satellite. Suddenly, the onboard computer flashes: ...

The takeaway: The code that guided Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the lunar surface has been released in digital form for public access. Nearly six decades after the Apollo 11 mission, the original ...

The Artemis II mission, a manned spacecraft aimed at a lunar flyby, was successfully launched on April 1, 2026. The computer system on board the Artemis II spacecraft is described as 'the most ...

When the Artemis II's four-person crew left Earth’s orbit, they were protected by a computing system designed to move beyond simple redundancy (a la the Apollo missions) to a fail-silent architecture ...

SiFive Inc., a startup that sells chip designs based on the open-source RISC-V architecture, has raised $400 million in funding at a $3.65 billion valuation. Atreides Management led the Series G round ...

The Apollo 13 mission remains one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of human spaceflight. Originally planned as NASA’s third mission to land astronauts on the Moon, Apollo 13 instead turned ...

Margaret Hamilton supervised a division at MIT called the Software Engineering Division, which designed flight software used in NASA’s Apollo missions. As NASA describes, “Margaret’s work in flight ...

After weeks of delays, four astronauts are preparing to launch Wednesday evening on a trip around the moon, the first such spaceflight to be undertaken in more than 50 years. “It’s really just a ...