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How you can help NASA (even if you failed math)

How you can help NASA (even if you failed math)

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. You may unsubscribe at any time. Attention creative souls! While NASA might feel like an exclusive den of scientists, engineers, and otherworldly athletes, the agency is reaching out to storytellers and artists via two new initiatives. “As NASA pushes the boundaries of exploration and innovation for the benefit of humanity, the agency is looking for partners to share mission stories covering Artemis Moon missions, nuclear propulsion, aeronautics, and more,” NASA wrote in a press release. Since “journalists” aren’t mentioned in either of these calls for creatives, it would appear that NASA is seeking other means to keep people talking about its missions.  Specifically, they are seeking proposals from creatives including documentarians, songwriters, storytellers, and poets for projects about missions including Artemis III in 2027 and Space Reactor-1 Freedom to …

When drug after drug failed, a teen hoped brain surgery could fix her daily seizures. Insurance denied it.

When drug after drug failed, a teen hoped brain surgery could fix her daily seizures. Insurance denied it.

Published by Sam Flores

Several weeks later, the insurer went one step further, announcing a change in policy to include deep brain stimulation for certain conditions in children and adolescents. “We are constantly reviewing our medical coverage policies to keep pace with the latest treatment standards and expert recommendations,” it said in a statement. “After reviewing new clinical information, we have updated our deep brain stimulation coverage policy to include pediatric and adolescent patients in the treatment of epilepsy, OCD and dystonia when all other clinical criteria are met.” The change is “great news,” said Cambrie’s doctor, Guerriero. “Changes like this are an important step in improving access to care,” Marupudi wrote in an email. “I’m encouraged to see growing recognition of deep brain stimulation as a treatment option for carefully selected children with severe, treatment-resistant epilepsy,” she wrote. “For some patients who have exhausted other therapies, DBS can make a meaningful difference in seizure burden and overall quality of life.” Cambrie’s surgery is scheduled for June, and she is looking forward to a future with hopefully fewer seizures. …

Everyone laughed at this failed Google product, but it was right all along

Everyone laughed at this failed Google product, but it was right all along

Published by skeptic

When I think about Google Stadia, my mind instantly wants to scream “New Coke! But in crummy cloud form.” And sure, it’s true that the Big G’s game streaming platform wasn’t a success. In retrospect, though, it’s not quite the complete laughing stock most folks view it as today, years after it was shuttered in early 2023. Particularly in an era where cloud streaming has now transformed the way I use my Steam Deck. While the business model was overly muddled from a commercial standpoint and downright confusing from a consumer one, Google Stadia was a hopeful product that bet on the future of cloud gaming. Now that we’re far removed from its launch in 2019, such is the state of game streaming services today, I actually think Stadia would have a fighting chance in the current market. Let me explain myself. Why did Google Stadia fail? Tech issues and pricing models doomed the cloud service MakeUseOf Looking back, Stadia’s befuddling subscription model had about as much chance of succeeding as trying to sell turkeys …

Google’s Android XR smart glasses hope to succeed where AI-first wearables have failed

Google’s Android XR smart glasses hope to succeed where AI-first wearables have failed

Published by Jenni Sidey

Sign Up For Goods 🛍️ Product news, reviews, and must-have deals. Google put AI on people’s faces more than a decade ago with its Google Glass wearable. It was designed to put a computer directly on your face, but the world (and to some extent, the hardware) wasn’t quite ready for that yet. At Google I/O 2026 on Tuesday, Google announced new intelligent eyewear built with Samsung and Qualcomm, in frames from Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, shipping this fall. It’s a far cry from the original Google Glass project, and in many ways, it simplifies and streamlines the overall interaction. The pitch is that the glasses skip the standalone hardware category entirely. They put a Gemini agent in eyewear people would already wear, and let it do multi-step work on the phone in your pocket. The keynote demo was a single voice command walking past a cafe. The agent queued a Doordash coffee order on the phone, the user kept walking, and the only step left was a confirmation tap. The hardware enters through …

SQ321’s weather radar may have failed to display true conditions before fatal turbulence, investigators find

SQ321’s weather radar may have failed to display true conditions before fatal turbulence, investigators find

Published by Sam Flores

POSSIBLE WEATHER RADAR ISSUES Investigators found that the radar could have been “under-painting” or “no-painting” – under-detecting or not detecting inclement weather altogether. A review of SIA’s Boeing 777 fleet maintenance records across around 29,000 flights found 12 cases of weather under-detection and 20 cases where weather was not detected at all. Among these, two cases of under-detected weather were recorded on SQ321 on Apr 29 and May 1, 2024, and a third – where weather went entirely undetected – was logged on May 15, six days before the incident. In all three cases, pilots reported no fault messages on the displays, and post-flight tests found no faults. The issue was not escalated to the manufacturer because SIA’s procedures then required escalation only when the same defect occurred on the same aircraft three times within 10 days – a threshold the three reports did not meet. Further evidence emerged after the incident, when pilots ferrying SQ321 from Bangkok back to Singapore on May 26 found that one of the radars was under-detecting weather. “The investigation …

Politics Home | Labour MP Says Government’s Migration Rhetoric Has Failed To Cut Through

Politics Home | Labour MP Says Government’s Migration Rhetoric Has Failed To Cut Through

Published by Sam Flores

Uma Kumaran was elected as Labour MP for Stratford and Bow in the 2024 general election (Alamy) 4 min read58 min Labour MP Uma Kumaran has criticised the government’s media messaging on migration as being “too timid” and failing to cut through with voters. Speaking on a panel at the Progress conference in London on Saturday – hosted by Progressive Britain as a forum for developing centre-left, progressive ideas – Kumaran said the government had been “too timid” in setting the agenda around migration.  Joining a panel with government minister Matthew Patrick, director of British Future Sunder Katwala, and Emily Graham from the Future Governance Forum, Kumaran said that the government’s approach to communicating its migration policies “hasn’t worked”. “It is the government’s job to communicate what they are doing,” she said.  “It clearly hasn’t worked. We’ve alienated people on the left, and we’ve alienated those who want us to take a more extreme position. Most people are somewhere in the middle… We have not had people who are willing to …

Honda retreats to hybrids after failed EV bet triggers billion loss

Honda retreats to hybrids after failed EV bet triggers $9 billion loss

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Honda is waving the white flag. The Japanese automaker previewed two new hybrids set to launch by 2028 after taking an over $9 billion hit over its failed EV bet, leading to its biggest loss in company history. Honda turns to hybrids after EV pullback proves costly Honda admitted it was “unable to deliver products that offer value for money better than that of new EV manufacturers, resulting in a decline in competitiveness,” after suddenly announcing plans to cancel three new EVs in the US in March, warning restructuring costs could reach 2.5 trillion yen ($15.7 billion). After posting its first annual loss since it became a publicly traded company in 1957 on Thursday, Honda’s CEO Toshihiro Mibe revealed the company’s comeback plans. Honda is no longer planning to phase out gas-powered vehicles by 2040. Instead, Honda now aims “to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050,” including a mix of EVs, hybrids, carbon-neutral fuels, and carbon-offset tech. Advertisement – scroll for more content Starting next year, Honda plans to begin introducing its next-gen hybrids, underpinned by …

Starmer has failed to deliver the ‘change’ he promised – POLITICO

Starmer has failed to deliver the ‘change’ he promised – POLITICO

Published by Sam Flores

While 31 percent thought Starmer and his team had changed the country in the right way, “but not enough,” more than half — 56 percent — said Labour has either not changed anything since winning power in 2024 or changed the country for the worse. And a similar proportion — 53 percent — said Labour has no realistic chance of being re-elected whenever the next election comes.  For Nigel Farage’s nationalist Reform UK party, by contrast, the verdict is dramatically more positive. Not only is Farage distinctly more popular than Starmer, his party is seen as more likely to succeed at handling key challenges facing Britain — and 65 percent of the public believe Reform now has “a real chance” of winning power. The results suggest Farage’s Reform UK has broken through to become a far more credible political movement in the eyes of the public than it was shortly before the 2024 election.  “The Labour Party ran on a promise of ‘change’ but very few people now feel they have delivered,” said Seb Wride, head of polling …