Month: June 2025

(g+) Arbeiten im Ausland: Was andere Länder IT-Profis bieten – und was nicht

Deutsche Fachkräfte beschäftigen sich vermehrt mit Perspektiven im Ausland. Ist in Schweden, Dänemark oder Pakistan alles besser? Ein Ratgebertext von Oliver Jessner (Arbeit, Wirtschaft)

Deutsche Fachkräfte beschäftigen sich vermehrt mit Perspektiven im Ausland. Ist in Schweden, Dänemark oder Pakistan alles besser? Ein Ratgebertext von Oliver Jessner (Arbeit, Wirtschaft)

Scientists built a badminton-playing robot with AI-powered skills

A lower latency visual system might be needed to make the robot more competitive.

Robots like Atlas, Spot, and Stretch have amazed people with natural, life-like agility and body balance. What they were lacking, though, was a way to quickly connect this natural movement to perception—the robotic equivalent of the reflexes that let you catch a ball or duck in an instant to avoid getting hit.

So, a team of scientists at ETH Zurich got busy fixing this problem. “I wanted to fuse perception and body movement,” said Yuntao Ma, a roboticist who led a team developing an AI-powered, badminton-playing robot.

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Souveränität: Deutsche Cloud muss genauso gut sein wie US-Hyperscaler

Wenige Unternehmen würden zu einem deutschen Cloud-Anbieter wechseln, der hinter den US-Hyperscalern zurückliegt. Auch bei den Preisen sind Unternehmen sensibel. (Cloud, Cloud Computing)

Wenige Unternehmen würden zu einem deutschen Cloud-Anbieter wechseln, der hinter den US-Hyperscalern zurückliegt. Auch bei den Preisen sind Unternehmen sensibel. (Cloud, Cloud Computing)

5 things in Trump’s budget that won’t make NASA great again

These are things NASA should be doing if it’s going to be reborn as an exploration agency.

If signed into law as written, the White House's proposal to slash nearly 25 percent from NASA's budget would have some dire consequences.

It would cut the agency's budget from $24.8 billion to $18.8 billion. Adjusted for inflation, this would be the smallest NASA budget since 1961, when the first American launched into space.

The proposed funding plan would halve NASA's funding for robotic science missions and technology development next year, scale back research on the International Space Station, turn off spacecraft already exploring the Solar System, and cancel NASA's Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft after two more missions in favor of procuring lower-cost commercial transportation to the Moon and Mars.

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She was a Disney star with platinum records, but Bridgit Mendler gave it up to change the world

“The space industry has a ground bottleneck, and the problem is going to get worse.”

Bridgit Mendler was not in Hollywood anymore. Instead, she found herself in rural North Dakota, where the stars sparkled overhead rather than on the silver screen. And she was freezing.

When her team tumbled out of their rental cars after midnight, temperatures had already plummeted into the 40s. Howling winds carried their breath away before it could fog the air. So it was with no small sense of urgency that the group scrambled to assemble a jury-rigged antenna to talk to a spacecraft that would soon come whizzing over the horizon. A few hours later, the rosy light of dawn shone on the faces of a typically scrappy space startup: mostly male, mostly disheveled.

Then there was Mendler, the former Disney star and pop music sensation—and she was running the whole show.

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