It remained to be seen how much scientific data might be lost as a result of the shortened lifespan of Odysseus, which according to previous estimates from the company and its biggest customer, NASA, was supposed to operate on the moon for seven to 10 days.

Intuitive Machines ‘s forecast for a premature end to the mission came as new details emerged about testing shortcuts and human error that led to an in-flight failure of the spacecraft’s laser-guided range finders ahead of its landing last Thursday near the moon’s south pole.

“There were certainly things we could’ve done to test it and actually fire it. They would’ve been very time-consuming and very costly. So that was a risk as a company that we acknowledged and took that risk”, Mike Hansen, the company’s head of navigation systems, told Reuters in an interview on Saturday.

The company said during its first post-landing news briefing on Friday that Odysseus caught the bottom of one of its six landing legs on the uneven lunar surface on final descent and tipped over, coming to rest horizontally, apparently propped up on a rock.
Shares of Intuitive Machines plunged 35% on Monday.

Despite its less-than-ideal touchdown, Odysseus became the first U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon since NASAs last crewed Apollo mission to the lunar surface brought astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt there in 1972.

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Everyone from developers and quality assurance (QA) professionals to digital marketers will be able to benefit from the new capabilities Applitools provides to efficiently build, maintain and execute functional and visual tests in minutes across all environments, browsers and devices.

“The Applitools Intelligent Testing Platform is a game-changer as it empowers tech-savvy individuals and non-developers to leverage Autonomous testing to ensure flawless digital experiences,” said Alex Berry, CEO of Applitools.

“By harnessing Visual AI and Generative AI, we continue to advance UI test automation to streamline testing processes and expedite the delivery of flawless digital experiences. With Autonomous and our Intelligent Testing Platform, we empower individuals from various teams to contribute to the quality of digital experiences. By fostering cross-team collaboration and putting app and digital asset quality control in all hands, bugs are prevented from reaching production so customers can save resources and invest in innovation and mission-critical endeavors”, he added.

The company says the move is a response to the challenges associated with traditional testing methodologies, which have often not kept pace with the rapid pace of development.

The approach the company uses combines codeless and code-based testing, enabling integration into CI/CD pipelines and offering capabilities such as natural language test building and Visual AI. This enables comprehensive test coverage and reliability at scale, significantly improving the speed of delivery and quality of digital experiences.

With the addition of Autonomous, the Applitools Intelligent Testing Platform stands at the forefront of AI-powered test automation across applications and documents. The platform now includes five powerful solutions that, together, will change the way organizations ensure error-free digital experiences:

• Autonomous: a game-changing generative test platform for web and multi-page web applications that reduces manual work at every stage of the testing lifecycle. It automatically generates and self-maintains comprehensive, powerful and resilient test suites, and allows using plain English and Visual AI to validate complex scenarios.
• Preflight: a codeless testing platform for QA professionals building comprehensive, end-to-end tests for web applications of any complexity.
• Eyes: an AI-powered engine that can integrate into nearly any test framework and language to help validate any interface, from web applications to mobile applications, documents and more.
• Ultrafast Grid: the next generation of cross browser testing, Ultrafast Grid allows users to perform visual testing across multiple browsers and devices in seconds, to ensure content is visually perfect on every device, screen size, and browser combination.
• Execution Cloud: the first cloud-based testing platform with built-in self-healing capabilities that enable engineering and testing teams to run existing tests against an AI-powered test infrastructure.

By combining the power of Autonomous, Preflight, Eyes, Ultrafast Grid and Execution Cloud, teams can reduce manual work, create and maintain resilient tests using plain English and involve more teams in the QA process.

Since 2007 CodeIT is held under the patronage of the President of the Republic of Bulgaria – Rumen Radev with the support of numerous business and academic partners dedicated to the mission of supporting IT talents in the country and around the world.

The patrons of the first round are prof. Anastas Gerdzhikov, Rector of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” Kliment Ohridski”; Prof. Maya Stoyanova, Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” and Dr. Antoan Tonev, Director of SMG “Paisii Hilendarski”.

All participants with a non-zero result will receive a prize – a T-shirt with the vision of the new season, and five participants in each of the 6 rounds will receive additional prizes on a draw provided by the sponsors – Cougar Gaming and Prestigio, as well as a special CodeIT sweatshirt.

Media partners of the competition are DevStyleR and B2B Media.

“For decades organizations standardized on CentOS because it was freely available, followed the Enterprise Linux standard and was well supported by many vendors. After CentOS was discontinued, it left not only a gaping hole in the ecosystem, but it also clearly showed how the community needs to come together and do better. OpenELA is exactly that—the community’s answer to ensuring a collaborative and stable future for all professional IT departments and enterprise use cases”, said Gregory Kurtzer, CEO of CIQ and founder of Rocky Linux.

OpenELA’s mission is to provide open source code, tools and systems to the community. Core principles include adhering to established standards, providing timely updates and secure solutions, maintaining transparency, and ensuring that these resources remain free and accessible to all.

OpenELA serves as a platform for stakeholders interested in promoting open source enterprise Linux distributions, fostering collaboration, and aligning with the values of the open source community.

OpenELA functions as a platform for individuals and groups interested in advancing open source enterprise Linux distributions, fostering cooperation, and adhering to the principles of the open source community.

Within OpenELA, the Technical Steering Committee (TSC) holds a pivotal role in project governance, as noted by the working group. The TSC is responsible for supervising technical aspects, providing direction for development and maintenance, and managing access to OpenELA’s Git organizations.

Initially, the TSC is composed of experienced individuals from the founding companies, with the expectation that its membership will evolve over time. The TSC is of paramount importance to OpenELA’s technical vision, as it advocates for the interests of the community, facilitates collaboration, ensures code security, and upholds code availability.

Being a technology leader is not just a task you have to do. Being a leader is a calling and a mission that carries with it great responsibility. Technology leaders care about their employees because they know that they are the foundation of a successfully completed project or created product.

Today we’re sharing the top tips that will turn you into a better version of yourself and your team’s favorite #tech leader, presented by 101 Ways.

Focus on leadership, not just technology
Technology leaders often think they must have the best technology knowledge in the world. But not only is it impossible to stay on top of the details of every technology or software development trend, given the broader responsibilities you have as CTO, CIO, etc., it’s simply not your job. As a leader, you’re not there to write code, you’re there to look at the bigger picture and make sure your teams are focused on the right problems and have the resources they need to get the job done.

What you need to do
You don’t need to have all the answers or understand all the details. You need trusted advisors who understand those details. Your job is to put that advice into context and make decisions about what is important and what is not. Then focus on communicating those priorities across the organization and ensuring your teams have the support and resources they need.

Do not forget about the attitude to culture
A sense of community has a huge impact on employee productivity, performance and engagement.

Ultimately, culture is about connections and what those connections facilitate. Culture requires attention to nuance and intentional action of reaching out and intentional listening. The need for intentional culture is becoming more apparent in the context of productivity and remote working, as well as managing teams that are not always (or never) in the same room.

What you need to do
Get into the expectations you have set for the team and embody them. Let your employees know that anyone who wants to drop by for a chat can do so, and that they’ll find a good companion and advisor in you.

Nurturing respect through differences
One of the many reasons for the ongoing obsession with the details of the latest technology trends is the fear that the only way to earn the respect of employees is to be “the best.” While there may be a grain of truth to this, you’ll never know as much about the details of a topic as
someone who spends their day, every day in this world.

What you need to do
You need to earn respect by being an effective leader and providing your teams with the support and resources they need.

You also need to develop a sense of comfort from not knowing all the answers. If you exude confidence when asking questions, you can actually use these moments as opportunities to let someone on your team shine by offering a solution. The doubt you feel is most often just in your head.

Stability AI will work with AWS to make its open source tools and model available to more students, researchers, startups and enterprises.

“At Stability AI, our mission is to build the foundation to activate humanity’s potential through AI. AWS has played an integral role in scaling our open-source foundation models across modalities. We are delighted to run these models on Amazon SageMaker to enable thousands of developers and millions of users to leverage the power of AI with a robust set of tools”

 

said Emad Mostaque, founder and CEO of Stability AI.

 

“We look forward to seeing the amazing things that developers build and customers design and implement using collective intelligence and augmented technology”

he continued.

Stability AI plan to use AWS’ SageMaker ML platform, on top of its lower-level infrastructure services with GPUs and AWS’ own Trainium chips. Stability AI’s open source approach seems to be winning in bringing on more developers and driving innovation in this space.

There is a question which has been discussed for a long time since video games changed so much in the past few years: How does gaming impact people?

When we talk about advantages of being a gamer – the first thing we need to know is that gamers are really good at multitasking. Why? The answer is simple – while playing, gamers need to carefully watch their enemies, moving their character, watching their health line, etc. This turns out to be really useful, especially when their regular job requires them to do many things at once.

Sometimes people find themselves in a situation which requires making a fast decision. For games this isn’t a difficult task as they are able to make fast decisions. In their virtual world, players are constantly forced to decide whether to open the right or the left door. The unknown consequences for their character’s life and storyline makes them feel on the alert. That’s why in real life they can make a decision really fast.

Not everyone succeeds in adapting to a teamwork environment. There are many people out there who can’t fit in their team and find it difficult to work with other people. Players don’t have a problem with that as multiplayer games are making it much easier for them to adjust to playing with other people. There are games whose storylines and missions are impossible to be completed if a gamer is playing alone. So, this is how players become more adaptive among other people when it comes to teamwork on a project for example.

Of course, these are not the only advantages of playing games but we need to look at the negative aspects of being a gamer.

Every gamer has heard around millions of times in their life that video games are dangerous and addictive. At some point, this statement is true. Let’s take a look at the relationship issues, for example. Players are usually indifferent to their loved ones when they get addicted to a certain game. This is the time when they start being rude and stop showing their love to their friends and families which is a hurtful life experience to them.

Often gamers fly off the candle from their social environment. Hanging out with friends, traveling, exploring the world and meeting new people are replaced by a virtual world full of unrealistic characters. Instead, players prefer to stay in their rooms, spending hours trying to complete an achievement or overcoming an obstacle.

Last but not least, there are failures at school or at the workplace. Gamers who are addicted to playing usually stop being productive because their mind is somewhere in the game even when they are not playing. All those assignments and tasks transform into annoying duties which need to be done. The lack of motivation, mixed with disinterest makes the perfect formula for a failure at school or at work.

The painting by the famous French artist Pierre Auguste Renoir “Double Portrait of Jeanne Baudot” will be the first masterpiece to be auctioned. According to the project webpage, global sales will start on December 22 at 16:00 Moscow time.

“The Greatest Works of Art” is the first special project of Third Place NFT. Its main mission is to create the largest accumulated collection of classical art. As part of this project, the platform plans to locate world-famous art objects verifying their authenticity in partnership with a number of major museums, and, with the help of NFT technology, to make them accessible for everyone.

As part of the tokenization Renoir’s painting will be divided into 1125 exclusive NFT tokens. Its holders will receive the rights to use the painting, exclusive rights to digital copies of the acquired NFTs, as well as non-exclusive rights to a full digital copy of the famous artist’s painting.

Cortex says it experienced 10x customer growth since its launch in May 2021. Current customers include the likes of Grammarly, 8×8 and Rappi.

The  mission of the company is to build a system of record for engineering teams — or at least those that adopt modern development practices. The services catalog is at the heart of what Cortex does and it was also the first product the team launched. Now it is starting to build out its features around this catalog. Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta said:

“We very quickly realized that once you have all these microservices being tracked in this catalog, you can do some interesting things there.”

The goal is to give engineering leaders insights into the quality of their services, but also to help the engineers themselves understand what services are available and what their status is.

With today’s announcement, the company is also launching its Service Creation tool. It gives developers a basic scaffold for new services based on their own templates.

Also new with today’s release are new team features to help improve cross-team collaboration and developer onboarding.

Rocket Lab is the only other company besides SpaceX, which has successfully recovered the first-stage booster twice in its history to achieve reusability.

Two BlackSky Earth were sent to geospatial imaging satellites to low Earth orbit. That was part of a rapid five-launch agreement on behalf of BlackSky between Rocket Lab and launch services provider Spaceflight Inc. 

The satellites will join seven others already in orbit, as the geospatial intelligence company’s aims to grow its constellation to 14 satellites by the end of this year.

This mission marks Rocket Lab’s twenty-second Electron launch and the fifth mission this year.