Eight days. That’s how long Boeing Starliner’s mission — its first flight test with crew aboard — was supposed to last. But this mission has been singular in almost every way, and astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have instead spent the past nine and a half months aboard the International Space Station.<br /> Now, finally, they're headed home. Their SpaceX Crew Dragon c [...]
The company behind Roomba robovacs told investors earlier this week that revenue was substantially down and it’s struggling to pay its debts. Amazon was briefly tapped to acquire the robot company iRobot, but the threat of a European Commission investigation led to the retailer terminating the deal — apparently happy enough to pay off the $94 million termination fee.<br /> That, however, [...]
Stability AI and Arm have released a compact text-to-audio model that runs on smartphones, capable of generating stereo audio clips up to 11 seconds long in about 7 seconds.<br /> The article Stability AI releases a compact open text-to-audio model that runs on mobile devices appeared first on THE DECODER. [...]