David Szondy

5 days ago | newatlas.com | David Szondy

In a major milestone for modular nuclear power on the way to the mainstream, the US Department of the Air Force has issued a Notice of Intent to Award (NOITA) to Oklo that may lead to the construction and operation of a military reactor in Fairbanks, Alaska. Small nuclear reactors yielding less than 50 MW that can be mass produced in factories and shipped to where needed have very much been in the news in recent years.

6 days ago | newatlas.com | David Szondy

The US Navy has tidied up after itself by, for the first time, launching and recovering a Yellow Moray Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) through the standard torpedo tube of a Virginia class nuclear attack submarine.

1 week ago | newatlas.com | David Szondy

Maybe cars, trucks, and motorcycles aren't exciting enough, because Honda is moving into space vehicles. The company has announced that it has successfully flown a reusable rocket to an altitude of almost 300 m (1,000 ft) and then safely landed it. Reusable rockets that can make powered landings at the end of their launch missions are nothing new. In fact, they fly so often that they've become about as newsworthy as a cargo plane taking off.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | David Szondy

14 hours agoHere's Why Airbus Shares Took Off TodayShares in aerospace giant Airbus (OTC: EADSY) rose by as much as 3.1% in early trading as the Paris Air Show concluded for industry professionals (it remains open to the public until Sunday). Airbus had a lot to say and $21 billion in orders to announce , but unfortunately, its great rival, Boeing …1 day agoIsrael’s air defense against Iran, explainedIsraeli officials this week reported an interception success rate of more than 90 percent.

1 week ago | newatlas.com | David Szondy

ChatGPT volunteered to play a 1977-vintage Atari 2600 to a game of chess and came to regret it after the eight-bit chess engine from the age of Disco Fever and the introduction of the Force did better than expected. A lot better. On a LinkedIn post, Citrix software engineer Robert Caruso related how he entered into a conversation with ChatGPT about the history of AI in chess that led to it offering a game with Atari Chess.