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Cruise Updates Software for AVs after Wreck

Sep 1, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Detroit, Featured, Safety

An autonomous vehicle run by Cruise LLC got into a wreck while making a left turn, causing the company to update software and recall 80 vehicles. The San Francisco-based unit of General Motors says the crash happened June 3. The company says it filed recall paperwork...

NASA Prepares Return to Lunar Glory with Artemis Test Flight

Aug 25, 2022 | Space

A half century after the end of NASA’s Apollo era, the U.S. space agency’s long-anticipated bid to return astronauts to the moon’s surface remains at least three years away, with much of the necessary hardware still on the drawing board. But NASA aims to take a giant...

Ford Cutting 3,000 Corporate Jobs in Shift to EVs

Aug 24, 2022 | Detroit, Electric Vehicles

Ford is cutting 3,000 white collar jobs as it prepares to shift from traditional internal combustion engine vehicles to electric vehicles. Two thousand of the jobs are salaried positions and another 1,000 are contractors, Ford (F) said. Affected employees...

ISS Hosts a Surgical Robot in 2024

Aug 24, 2022 | Featured, Robots, Space

A tiny robot known as MIRA will be blasting off to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2024 to perform simulated surgical procedures in microgravity. MIRA, or “Miniaturized in vivo Robotic Assistant,” will fly to the International Space...

With Soaring Temperatures and Extreme Weather Events, Ocean Data Has Never Been More Important

Aug 24, 2022 | Climate, Oceanography, Weather

With life-threatening heat waves experienced around the globe and the hurricane season upon the US, access to ocean data has never been more critical. The ocean environment is a key driver of weather patterns on land. Unless we understand our oceans, the insights we...