Jon Skillings
Editorial Director at CNET
Editorial Director @CNET. Word guy. Jazz lover. Army vet.
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1 month ago |
cnet.com | Jon Skillings
If you haven't added generative AI to your skill set yet, you should. AI chatbots such as ChatGPT and Gemini and AI image generators including Dall-E and Canva are handy, accessible and often free to use. They're also powerful gateways for getting things done, whether it's for work, a hobby or general knowledge. Now's the time to start getting familiar with them. And many of us have, to some degree.
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2 months ago |
businessandamerica.com | Jon Skillings
This artist’s rendering, also from nearly two decades ago, gives a sense of the X-37B’s size relative to that of the space shuttle. NASA said at the time that two X-37 vehicles could fit in the cargo bay of a shuttle. (The cargo bay of the X-37B, meanwhile, is roughly the size of a pickup truck bed.) Here’s the tale of the tape for the X-37B: It’s 29 feet, 3 inches long, stands 9 feet, 6 inches high, and has a wing span of just under 15 feet. Its weight at launch: 11,000 pounds.
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2 months ago |
cnet.com | Jon Skillings
1 of 18Boeing Space via US Space ForceSeven times now, an X-37B space plane has traveled to orbit and returned to Earth, each time spending months and months in space. The seventh mission ended March 7, 2025, when the uncrewed, reusable X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-7 landed at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. It had been in orbit for 434 days, or more than 14 months, after leaving Earth's gravity aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket in December 2023.
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Mar 2, 2025 |
cnet.com | Jon Skillings
1 of 28Screenshot by Aaron Pruner/CNETThe James Bond movie catalog is big -- 25 films in the official 007 canon, plus two others. Six different actors have played the cinematic secret agent across six decades, from 1962's Dr. No to 2021's No Time to Die. If it's all new to you, it might seem a little daunting. Daniel Craig's 007 is the most recent and stands out to many -- especially newer Bond watchers -- as the face of the secret agent.
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Feb 21, 2025 |
yahoo.com | Jon Skillings
The most recent James Bond movie, No Time to Die, had an ending unlike any its predecessors and opened the way to a whole new approach to the cinematic powerhouse — including, at some point soon, a new James Bond. The film wrapped up Daniel Craig's days as 007, and speculation is running hot about what lies ahead for Ian Fleming's superspy.
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