The Nova-C module failed after a moonlit night
The American lunar module Nova-C could not withstand the extremely low temperatures and ceased operations, according to the developer company Intuitive Machines. On March 1, it was put into a…
The crews spent the day at the Cosmonaut Hotel waiting for the launch of Soyuz TC-25
The main and backup crews of the piloted spacecraft “Soyuz MS-25” on the reserve launch day traditionally spent their time at the “Cosmonaut” hotel in the city of Baikonur, according…
US Department of Justice Sues Apple for Violating Antitrust Laws
Apple is accused of illegal monopoly in the smartphone market. In early March, the company was fined nearly $2 billion in the EU for disrupting the work of music streaming…
“Family groups” have been added to the Steam platform with the ability to share games
The American company Valve has started testing the “Family Groups” feature in the digital distribution service Steam, which combines some previously existing functions including Steam Family Sharing and family view,…
Sber’s GigaChat language model ranked in the top five worldwide
According to Arabian Business, it has become the fourth, ahead of Google’s Gemini and GPT-3.5. How much can you trust this evaluation? Photo: Mikhail Metsel/TASS The Russian-language language model from…
A digital way to assess the quality of paper has been created
Scientists from Russia and Belarus have developed a unique method for digital analysis of the properties of paper and cardboard, which allows the assessment of over 10 quality parameters of…
Discord has started blocking servers with forbidden information in Russia
On March 13, Roskomnadzor (RKN) added the messenger Discord and the app for viewing and creating short videos Yappy to the register of social networks. The register includes resources visited…
A giant cloud of solar plasma caused X-ray flares on Mercury
The closest planet to the Sun, Mercury, was in the path of a coronal mass ejection (CME) – a cloud of stellar plasma that turned out to be about 40…
Singapore chip manufacturer Silicon Box invests $3.5 billion in Italy
Today, the Italian Ministry of Enterprise and Investment and the Singaporean chip manufacturer Silicon Box signed an agreement under which the Asian company will invest €3.2 billion ($3.5 billion) in…
Dying Giant Betelgeuse Baffles Astrophysicists
One of the brightest stars in the northern sky – a source of many surprises. A new study suggests that the extreme rotation of the giant Betelgeuse may actually be…