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We've Been Promised These Futuristic Space Hotels for 60 Years

Gizmodo

Will people actually be staying in space hotels by 2027? But there are plenty of skeptics that space hotels could become a reality for Americans who are still waiting on universal healthcare. That’s the promise of Orbital Assembly and Voyager Station , space startups that got a lot of headlines this week. Read more.

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Peloton’s lead hardware engineer is leaving the company too

The Verge

Peloton’s vice president of hardware engineering, Sam Bowen, and its commercial operations executive, Rob Barker, are leaving the company, according to a report from Bloomberg. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge.

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Insider Threat Case: FBI Busts a Test Engineer

SecureWorld News

He was a test engineer with a defense contractor and a behavioral red flag suddenly appeared. Get me in stink [sting] operation with the FBI, talking in a hotel room about trade secrets. So in March 2020, a female FBI agent posed as an agent of the Russian government and met Rowe at a hotel in South Dakota.

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New US CIO appointments, August 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

He earned a BS in electrical engineering from University of Notre Dame and an MM from Northwestern University – Kellogg School of Management. Jeff Knowlton named CIO for Sonesta International Hotels James Knowlton, Sonesta Sonesta Sonesta International Hotels is a hotel management company with over 280 properties in eight countries.

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Symantec Government Symposium 11 March 2014 at the Renaissance Hotel Washington DC

CTOvision

Paul Pittelli , Deputy Director, Trusted Engineering Solutions, NSA. Alissa Johnson , Deputy CIO, Office of Administration, Executive Office of the President. Dr. Sasi Pillay , CTO for IT, NASA. Bryan Coapstick , Director, Mobile Innovation, U.S. Public Sector, HP Enterprise Services. Moderator: Dale Zabriskie , Evangelist, Symantec.

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Expedia’s new ChatGPT travel planning tool is a litmus test for the future of AI and humanity

GeekWire

For many travelers, technology long ago supplanted travel agents for the basic booking of flights, hotels, and excursions. Travel advice is already one of the most commonly cited scenarios for people using ChatGPT in its raw form or in Microsoft’s Bing search engine, for example.

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Things fall into place on ‘Domino Masters,’ as these Seattle geeks test engineering skills on reality TV

GeekWire

Domino Masters” features 16 three-person teams tasked with constructing elaborate domino structures with a hefty dose of Rube Goldberg engineering. Ballachanda, the third Seattle competitor, is a mechanical engineer at USNC Tech in Seattle. “It’s really something I love doing,” Ballachanda said.