The task order, which has a base value of $228.5 million, makes Axiom a key partner in NASA’s ambitious plans to land Americans on the surface of the moon for the first time in over 50 years. The yearslong Artemis mission involves multiple stages of space exploration and will culminate with landing the first woman and person of color on the moon. SEE: What is Artemis? Everything you need to know about NASA’s new moon mission Axiom’s suits will allow astronauts to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before....

According to Naver, in an email sent to employees, Naver global investment officer and founder Lee Hae-jin said himself and the management team held the biggest responsibility over the incident. Lee said bullying within the company led to the "tragic incident" and said there was a problem with Naver's corporate culture. He said the solution was for younger and new leaders to overhaul the current corporate culture for fundamental changes....

In the latest instalment of the Measuring Broadband Australia report, NBN-alternative fibre connections sold by Uniti under its LBNCo and OptiComm monikers were included for the first time, albeit with a sample size of only 40 lines. The report said busy hours download speeds on Uniti were 101.6% of plan speeds while NBN full fibre could hit 103%. It was a similar story for upload speeds with Uniti lines reporting 88% of plan speeds and NBN lines hitting 91%....

The acquisition comes less than a year after NetApp acquired Spot (now Spot by NetApp), a CloudOps provider that automates and optimizes workloads running in public cloud environments. Lye said Data Mechanics’ staff and IP would be integrated with the Spot by NetApp team and portfolio to accelerate the development of NetApp’s recently announced Spot Wave storage package, which simplifies, optimizes and automates Spark workloads running in public clouds.

The CTO, long a broad-based role overlapping with that of chief information officers, is emerging as a leading player in the growth and viability of digital enterprises. A recent survey of 5,000 CTOs and CIOs by the IBM Institute for Business Value bears this out, stating that “the CTO has become one of the most strategic roles within an organization.” This “may come as a revelation for some,” the report’s authors, led by Rashik Parmar, an IBM Fellow....

The National Automated Clearinghouse Association (NACHA), the body that passed the rules, governs the ACH Network, the payment system that drives direct deposits and direct payments for nearly all US bank and credit union accounts. The national automated clearing house processes massive amounts of credit and debit transactions in the US and handles financial transactions for consumers, businesses, and federal, state, and local governments. Starting on June 30, if an account number is used for any ACH payment – consumer or corporate – it must be rendered unreadable while stored electronically, according to NACHA, which added that any place where account numbers related to ACH entries are stored is in the rule’s scope....

The multimedia project was created by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Advanced Virtuality, with a bit of help from a Ukrainian voice-cloning startup, Respeecher, which worked on Nixon’s voice. Alex Serdiuk, the CEO of Respeecher, says the idea behind this seven-minute film was to show what online misinformation will look like in the future. The project was “not just an opportunity to do cool stuff with our technology, but also to showcase what these technologies are capable of,” he said....

“Key elements to strengthen cybersecurity governance, controls, and culture are not sufficiently robust and not consistently applied. There has been insufficient progress to improve cyber security safeguards across NSW government agencies,” the auditor-general wrote in a compliance report [PDF] about the state’s cybersecurity capabilities. The audit assessed whether nine of the state’s lead cluster agencies – Premier and Cabinet, Communities and Justice, Customer Service, Education, Planning, Regional NSW, Health, Treasury, and Transport – had provided accurate reporting on their level of maturity in implementing the requirements of the state’s cybersecurity policy....

Must read: How does NordVPN work? Plus how to set it up and use itHow does ExpressVPN work? Plus how to set it up and use itHow does Surfshark work? How to set up and use the VPN Decision tree The winner in this competition is pretty decisively NordVPN, with four wins to one. But just because we awarded big category wins to Nord doesn’t mean that’s all you should consider when buying a VPN service....

Others in the 1960s such as Ted Nelson and Douglas Engelbart would further the idea. But, in August 1991, Berners-Lee would take the theory into a working system: The World Wide Web. The world would never be the same. See also: Why is your identity trapped inside a social network? In 1989, the internet was still largely used by researchers, academicians, and the military. By 1993, it was well on its way to being the internet you know....

That could help to stem the tide of rising compute demand for running AI programs that are growing in size such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and GPT-4. Also: Want a job in AI? These are the skills you need On Tuesday, the latest benchmark test of how fast a neural network can be run to make predictions was presented by MLCommons, the consortium that runs the MLPerf tests. Leading vendors such as Nvidia, Dell, Qualcomm and Supermicro submitted computer systems with various configurations of chips to see which systems took the top marks....

The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company reported Q2 net income of $2.3 billion, or 94 cents per share. Non-GAAP earnings were $1.04 per share on revenue of $6.51 billion, up 68% from a year earlier. Wall Street was expecting to see earnings of $1.02 per share with $6.33 billion in revenue. Nvidia said GPU business revenue was $3.9 billion, up 87% from the year ago period. Its compute and networking revenue increased 46% to $2....

This has, for some time, been a conundrum that’s wafted around my inner workings. If robots are so clever – and some surely are – they can protect us from all sorts of nefarious threats and intrusions. From other robots, for example. So when I first heard that a company called Knightscope had created security robots that patrolled buildings, I was unnaturally moved. How would the local, inferior humans react?...

But if you want a top-of-the-line flagship, the list narrows down to the heavyweight flagships such as the OnePlus 10 Pro and Samsung’s Galaxy S22 Ultra The two offer complete, utilitarian smartphone experiences, with prices to match. But with a $400 price gap, you’ll want to know all the key reasons to buy one over the other. Read on. Specifications You should buy the OnePlus 10 Pro if… 1. You want a flagship Android at a not-so-flagship price Nowadays, buying a “flagship” smartphone warrants a $1,000 pay-up – unless you’re buying the OnePlus 10 Pro or Google Pixel 6 Pro....

OpenAI, the company behind the buzzy new tool, is launching ChatGPT Plus, a paid subscription service that will give you general access to ChatGPT even during peak times. The service also promises faster response times, as well as priority access to new features and improvements. Also: The best AI art generators: DALL-E 2 and alternatives ChatGPT Plus is launching as a pilot program and will be available to customers in the US for $20 per month....

For users who want to try out other web browsers, possibly different ones for work and play, there are options such as Firefox, DuckDuckGo, Opera, and more. A couple of days ago Opera launched an updated version of its Android app that is advertised as being the world’s first alternative browser optimized for Chromebooks. Just to be clear, this is not a full replacement for Chrome and your default desktop browser can not be switched from Chrome to Opera....

The new Singapore region would support increasing demand for enterprise cloud services in Southeast Asia, as the region’s economy recovered, said Oracle in a statement Tuesday. The tech vendor currently operates nine cloud regions in Asia-Pacific, including two each in Japan, South Korea, India, and Australia. It is targeting to have at least 44 cloud regions worldwide by the end of next year. In Singapore, 100 startups will be offered $30,000 each in Oracle cloud credits over the next couple of years....

Data available in digital channels is also covered in the proposals, which Congress will enact since amendments to the Constitution do not require the presidential sanction stage. There were no votes against the amendment. The proposal establishes that the federal government is solely responsible for the organization and supervision of the protection and processing of personal data and has exclusivity in terms of legislation relating to the protection and processing of personal information....

Also: Google Tensor chip: Everything we know so far Both the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro will forgo using a Qualcomm processor, opting for a chip that Google designed in-house instead. Google’s referring to its own chip as Tensor and the company touts the ability to customize the chip and its features as a reason for the move. For example, the Tensor processor is customized for Pixel’s computational photography features, giving Pixel users what they’ve grown accustomed to, but also pushing the features further....

Provo, UT-based home security systems company Vivint surveyed 1013 people about their experiences with purchases that have been sent to their homes. Porch piracy is a huge issue in the US, and getting refunds is difficult. Only 54% of porch prate victims were refunded when reporting a package as stolen. The survey showed that an average of 29% of Americans reported having had a package stolen from their porch, front door or mailbox....