Firefly Aerospace, a Texas-based company resurrected from bankruptcy, is riding high these days. In a few months, Firefly will attempt to become the second company to safely place a commercial lander on the Moon. Firefly’s Alpha rocket has reached orbit four times, and engineers are developing a larger medium-class rocket in partnership with Northrop Grumman,

The classic PC games market is “in a sorry state,” according to DRM-free and classic-minded storefront GOG. Small games that aren’t currently selling get abandoned, and compatibility issues arise as technology moves forward or as one-off development ideas age like milk. Classic games are only 20 percent of GOG’s catalog, and the firm hasn’t actually

Crash and Burn The scales are falling from the eyes of the tech industry right now, as generative AI models are reportedly hitting a technological brick wall. As some experts have long predicted would happen, improvements that once came easily by simply scaling up large language models — in other words, by adding more parameters,

Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock A former CEO and executive chairman of Google, recently suggested that the tech giant’s apparent lag in AI development was due to the company prioritising employees’ personal wellbeing over progress. Eric Schmidt told an audience: “Google decided that work-life balance and going home early and working from home was more important than winning.” Schmidt

Generative AI may transform video game design, but the first playable title is just bizarre and fascinating.