NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe: One Open Model for 40 Languages

Posted on October 31, 2026October 31, 2026 by IE Contributor

A speech waveform, spectrogram and phonetic transcription, the raw material speech-recognition models learn from. Image: Wugapodes, via Wikimedia Commons, LGPL. A transcript can capture every word and still miss what people need: who said what, a translation for a colleague, or the correct spelling of an industry term. On October 28, 2026, NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, a free, open-weight model designed to do all of that in one place, steered by plain-language instructions. One...

Genie 4: DeepMind’s World Model Now Simulates Sound and Speech

Posted on October 31, 2026October 31, 2026 by IE Contributor

The London building at 6 Pancras Square that houses Google DeepMind. Photo: Gciriani, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Imagine typing "a crowded rural train station in 1980s Japan" and then walking around inside it, hearing the platform noise, changing the weather with a sentence, and watching passengers react. That is the promise of Genie 4, the new world model Google DeepMind announced on October 27, 2026. It is still a research preview, but it shows how quickly AI is moving from gener...

GPT-6.1 Terra: OpenAI’s Cheaper Model for Everyday Computer Work

Posted on October 31, 2026October 31, 2026 by IE Contributor

Most of the work that fills an office day is not frontier mathematics. It is reading an invoice and typing its numbers into accounting software, filling out a form, checking a drawing, or trimming a video. On October 26, 2026, OpenAI released a model aimed squarely at that kind of work: GPT-6.1 Terra, a fast, mid-tier model that combines visual reasoning with the ability to operate a computer, at a standard API price 50% lower than the model it replaces. The launch says a lot about where the A...

What Did Hubble See on Your Birthday?

Posted on August 7, 2022August 7, 2022 by 41629066

Hubble explores the universe 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. That means it has observed some fascinating cosmic wonder every day of the year, including on your birthday. The Hubble spacecraft has been in space for 32 years now and has gone through several repairs and maintenance work when the Shuttle missions were ongoing. The flying observatory has completed one billion seconds of operations in Zero gravity and conducted more than 1.5 million scientific observations. What did Hubble look ...

Dream Chaser first and only winged commercial spaceplane that is a Supersonic Space Craft

Posted on June 25, 2022June 25, 2022 by 41629066

The Dream Chaser spaceplane is a multi-mission vehicle capable of supporting a variety of LEO needs. It can be customized for both domestic and international customers via vehicle configuration, launch site, destination, landing site, duration, and a host of other variables. We have entered into agreements with multiple international space agencies. Together we are developing technologies, applications, and missions for Dream Chaser-based space systems. Dream Chaser is an American reusable l...

MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)

Posted on May 1, 2022May 1, 2022 by 41629066

MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory pioneers new research in computing that improves the way people work, play, and learn. Their focus is on developing fundamental new technologies, conducting basic research that furthers the field of computing, and inspiring and educating future generations of scientists and technologists. CSAIL has its roots in two MIT computing powerhouses: The Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) and the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (A...

iScanner smart app that can count items, measure space, solve math problem, scan documents & OCR it.

Posted on February 19, 2022February 20, 2022 by 41629066

iScanner is a document scanner that create HD scans of contracts, notes, papers, books, or other documents and OCR them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ0o2J854T4 iScanner will turn your device into a powerful digital office and help you instantly scan, save, and share any document in PDF, JPG or TXT formats. Go paperless with our fast PDF scanner - store all your documents in a neat mobile office right on your phone. AI and computer visionRecognition is based on a self-learning ne...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) scientist (Anisur Rahman & Tomonori Sait and team) have developed glue so strong that it can hold 300 lbs at 400 F.

Posted on February 5, 2022February 5, 2022 by 41629066

ORNL researchers used polymer chemistry to transform a common household plastic into a reusable adhesive with a rare combination of strength and ductility, making it one of the toughest materials ever reported. ORNL scientists Md Anisur Rahman, Tomonori Saito & team worked to develop this glue. Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory used polymer chemistry to transform a common household plastic into a reusable adhesive with a rare combination of streng...

Awais Ahmed’s ‘Pixxel’ – A space technology company creating world’s highest resolution hyperspectral satellite-imaging constellation.

Posted on January 29, 2022January 29, 2022 by 41629066

Pixxel is a space technology company working towards creating the world's highest resolution hyperspectral imaging satellite-imaging constellation. The images gathered by Pixxel's satellites will provide up-to-date information relevant to climate monitoring, crop yield prediction, urban planning, and disaster response. Awais Ahmed is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Pixxel. Pixxel is a space data company, building a constellation of hyperspectral earth imaging satellites a...

LeGrow Smart Indoor Planter is a LEGO-like system that makes indoor planting easy.

Posted on September 5, 2021September 5, 2021 by 41629066

LeGrow’s self-watering pot modules make indoor planting and maintaining easy. significantly reducing how often your seedlings and saplings need watering, gardening is perfectly practical, whether you’re a beginner or a busy bee. Indoor Gardening Made Easy, Innovative, and Beautiful LeGrow combines a sleek, modern aesthetic, cutting-edge technology, and quality material so you can grow and sustain a truly gorgeous garden. INCLUDED IN THE LEGROW BUILDER KIT - 10 Patented Design ...

Rocket Lab – private aerospace manufacturer and small satellite launch service provider

Posted on February 14, 2021February 14, 2021 by 41629066

Rocket Lab is a private American aerospace manufacturer and small satellite launch service provider with a wholly owned New Zealand subsidiary. It developed a sub-orbital sounding rocket named Ātea and currently operates a lightweight orbital rocket known as Electron, which provides dedicated launches for smallsats and CubeSats. Rocket labs is enabling companies, students, scientists, researchers, governments and entrepreneurs alike to get their ideas to orbit, right now. A solar syst...

‘ZED Fellowship’ for learners and aspiring aerospace professionals

Posted on February 14, 2021February 14, 2021 by 41629066

Zed Factor Fellowship is a new fellowship for aerospace professionals from under-represented groups. Founded by a group of space professionals from diverse backgrounds, the Zed Factor Fellowship empowers and engages learners and aspiring aerospace professionals from underrepresented backgrounds through hands-on, practical experiences working in and contributing to the leading companies of the aerospace community. ZFF fellows create and conduct their own community service project, ampl...

LeoLabs – mapping platform for space, for objects in low Earth orbit

Posted on February 13, 2021February 13, 2021 by 41629066

LeoLabs is building a global network of radar arrays that can track smaller debris than we can today, and with better precision. With their network of ground-based, phased array radars, LeoLabs produces high-resolution data on objects in low Earth orbit (LEO), providing unparalleled support for industries that rely on satellite services. Tracking & Monitoring The commercial off-the-shelf tracking service providing automated, independent monitoring for satellites - even those small...

University Of Pennsylvania’s researcher Mohsen Azadi and his team levitate object using light.

Posted on February 13, 2021February 13, 2021 by 41629066

At University of Pennsylvania in the mechanical engineer Igor Bargatin’s lab, Mohsen Azadi and his team were able to successfully demonstrate levitation of an object using light. Team built a "nanocardboard,” a material that’s as thin as a few strands of DNA and weighs less than a thousandth of a gram, but stiff enough to resist flopping for levitation. Crookes radiometer - also known as a light mill, the instrument is essentially a glass bulb under partial vacuum with paper vanes that are b...

CubeSat – miniature satellites

Posted on February 7, 2021February 7, 2021 by 41629066

A CubeSat (U-class spacecraft) is a type of miniaturized satellite for space research that is made up of multiple cubic modules of 10 cm × 10 cm × 10 cm size. CubeSats are a class of nanosatellites that use a standard size and form factor. The standard CubeSat size uses a "one unit" or "1U" measuring 10x10x10 cms and is extendable to larger sizes; 1.5, 2, 3, 6, and even 12U. Originally developed in 1999 by California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly) and Stanford U...

Terahertz (THz) spectroscopy systems – allowing us to gain new insights about many-body quantum kinetics

Posted on January 18, 2021January 18, 2021 by 41629066

Terahertz spectroscopy detects and controls properties of matter with electromagnetic fields that are in the frequency range between a few hundred gigahertz and several terahertz (abbreviated as THz). Terahertz (THz) represents the portion of the electromagnetic radiation between the microwave and the infrared region. Terahertz (THz) spectroscopy systems are widely employed to retrieve the chemical and material composition of a sample. This is single-handedly the most important driving mo...

NASA Artemis Program

Posted on December 27, 2020December 27, 2020 by 41629066

Artemis program is a U.S. government-funded international human spaceflight program that has the goal of landing "the first woman and the next man" on the Moon, specifically at the lunar south pole region by 2024. NASA is leading the program, but expects international partnerships to play a key role in advancing Artemis as the next step towards the long-term goal of establishing a sustainable presence on the Moon, laying the foundation for private companies to build a lunar economy, and eve...

NASA intern opportunity

Posted on December 27, 2020December 27, 2020 by 41629066

NASA internships and fellowships leverage NASA’s unique missions and programs to enhance and increase the capability, diversity and size of the nation’s future science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce. Internships are available from high school to graduate level. Internships provide students with the opportunity to participate in either research or other experiential learning, under the guidance of a mentor at NASA. https://youtu.be/WeA7edXsU40 OFFICE OF STEM EN...

AWS Panorama – automate tasks that have traditionally required human inspection

Posted on December 19, 2020December 19, 2020 by 41629066

AWS Panorama is a machine learning Appliance and Software Development Kit (SDK) that allows organizations to bring computer vision (CV) to on-premises cameras to make predictions locally with high accuracy and low latency. With AWS Panorama, you can automate tasks that have traditionally required human inspection to improve visibility into potential issues. For example, you can use AWS Panorama to evaluate manufacturing quality, identify bottlenecks in industrial processes, and monitor ...

Saudi Arabia’s new futuristic mega-city 33 times the size of New York City

Posted on September 27, 2020September 27, 2020 by 41629066

Saudi Arabia's new futuristic mega-city 33 times the size of New York City, a $500 billion city-state. Neom is a planned cross-border city in the Tabuk Province of northwestern Saudi Arabia. It is planned to incorporate smart city technologies and also function as a tourist destination. Neom is a planned as a futuristic city with state of the art modern technology buildings, flying taxis, robot ... Saudi Arabia wants the country to become a technological and innovation hub. NEOM wi...

NASA Prepares to Launch Parker Solar Probe, a Mission to Touch the Sun

Posted on July 22, 2018 by

Early on an August morning, the sky near Cape Canaveral, Florida, will light up with the launch of Parker Solar Probe. No earlier than Aug. 6, 2018, a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy will thunder to space carrying the car-sized spacecraft, which will study the Sun closer than any human-made object ever has. On July 20, 2018, Nicky Fox, Parker Solar Probe's project scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Maryland, and Alex Young, associate director for sc...

NASA Calls for Future Space Exploration Ideas in ‘iTech’ Competition

Posted on July 22, 2018 by

‘iTech’ Competition A new cycle of the NASA iTech initiative kicks off today with a call for technical solutions to fill gaps in areas identified as having a critical impact on future space exploration. The request for a five-page white paper is the first phase of 2018 NASA iTech Cycle III, part of a collaborative initiative to find and foster innovative solutions from small and large businesses, universities, non-profits, U.S. government organizations outside of NASA and undiscovered invent...

LIGO and Virgo make first detection of gravitational waves produced by colliding neutron stars

Posted on October 16, 2017 by

LIGO and Virgo make first detection of gravitational waves produced by colliding neutron stars Discovery marks first cosmic event observed in both gravitational waves and light. Watch the press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC: Watch the presentation at Caltech titled "Seeing and Hearing the Cataclysmic Universe" following the announcement: Part 1: For the first time, scientists have directly detected gravitational waves — ripples in space-time —...

LIGO – Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory

Posted on October 16, 2017 by

LIGO is the world's largest gravitational wave observatory and a cutting edge physics experiment. Comprised of two enormous laser interferometers located thousands of kilometers apart, LIGO exploits the physical properties of light and of space itself to detect and understand the origins of gravitational waves. Though it's called an observatory, LIGO is unlike any other observatory on Earth. Ask someone to draw a picture of an observatory and odds are it will look something like the photo bel...

Total Solar Eclipse Monday, August 21, 2017, all of North America will be treated to an eclipse of the sun.

Posted on August 17, 2017 by

Eclipse: Who? What? Where? When? and How? Total Solar Eclipse On Monday, August 21, 2017, all of North America will be treated to an eclipse of the sun. Anyone within the path of totalitycan see one of nature’s most awe-inspiring sights - a total solar eclipse. This path, where the moon will completely cover the sun and the sun's tenuous atmosphere - the corona - can be seen, will stretch from Lincoln Beach, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina. Observers outside this path will s...

Kennedy Scientists Developing Technology to Remove Martian Dust

Posted on August 11, 2017 by

NASA's Journey to Mars requires cutting-edge technologies to solve the problems explorers will face on the Red Planet. Scientists at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida are developing some of the needed solutions. Dr. Carlos Calle, lead scientist in the center's Electrostatics and Surface Physics Laboratory, and Jay Phillips, a research physicist working there, are developing an electrostatic precipitator to help solve the dust problem. "Commodities such as oxygen water and me...

NASA Plant Researchers Explore Production Of Food Crops In Space

Posted on August 3, 2017 by

NASA plant physiologist Ray Wheeler, Ph.D., and fictional astronaut Mark Watney from the movie "The Martian" have something in common — they are both botanists. But that's where the similarities end. While Watney is a movie character who gets stranded on Mars, Wheeler is the lead for Advanced Life Support Research activities in the Exploration Research and Technology Program at Kennedy Space Center, working on real plant research. "The Martian movie and book conveyed a lot of issues regarding...

NASA Prepares for Aug. 21 Total Solar Eclipse with Live Coverage, Safety Information

Posted on July 20, 2017July 20, 2017 by

For the first time in 99 years, a total solar eclipse will occur across the entire continental United States, and NASA is preparing to share this experience of a lifetime on Aug. 21. Viewers around the world will be provided a wealth of images captured before, during, and after the eclipse by 11 spacecraft, at least three NASA aircraft, more than 50 high-altitude balloons, and the astronauts aboard the International Space Station – each offering a unique vantage point for the celestial event....

China will host the World Economic Forum’s annual June meeting, often called Summer Davos on June 27 – 29 2017

Posted on June 23, 2017June 23, 2017 by

China will host the World Economic Forum's annual June meeting, often called Summer Davos on June 27 - 29 2017. The World Economic Forum, committed to improving the state of the world, is the international organization for public-private cooperation. Hundreds of business and research leaders are gathering in the Chinese city of Tianjin for the annual World Economic Forum. Innovation is in the spotlight for the current 'Summer Davos'. The World Economic Forum (WEF) is a Swiss nonprofit foun...

G-Startup Worldwide is a global startup competition held around the world to find the most innovative, early stage startups, invest $1,000,000 in them, support them with a global network and enable them to change the world.

Posted on June 23, 2017 by

G-Startup Worldwide is a global startup competition held around the world to find the most innovative, early stage startups, invest $1,000,000 in them, support them with a global network and enable them to change the world. https://youtu.be/G2M39pySzyo G-Startup is hosted at each GMIC in 2017 including Beijing, Bangalore, Tel Aviv, Jakarta, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Hong Kong & Silicon Valley. The local winners of G-Startup Worldwide at select competitions receive investment. The winner al...