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GRANT BRICKMAN: The Moon may soon get an AI to pick its parking spots, and Nova is at the pad with the reveal.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Good evening. NASA wants a permanent home on the Moon, and Nova is at the pad with a very big reveal. Nova? ▶
NOVA: Thank you, Grant! NASA plans to return astronauts to the lunar surface in 2028, the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972! ▶
NOVA: And they do not plan to stop there. The goal is a permanent human presence on the Moon, built slowly and meticulously! ▶
NOVA: Power, resource extraction, habitat technologies. Step by step. Even my helmet is impressed! ▶
NOVA: But where do you land? Researchers from The Ohio State University call their answer LUMINA, an agentic AI framework! ▶
NOVA: A study presented at DPS 58 says it can help mission planners evaluate safe landing sites, with a focus on water ice! ▶
NOVA: And here is the reveal! LUMINA does not just rely on orbital images. It also weighs terrain hazards, geology and surface properties! ▶
PASSERBY: A computer picks the parking spot on the Moon? I cannot even pick one at the supermarket. ▶
GRANT BRICKMAN: Marvellous. A machine that connects people to places. It is the old switchboard, but with craters. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Grant, it compares candidate landing sites with each other. The article also asks about Mars. Please do not book a switchboard. ▶
GRANT BRICKMAN: The AI has spoken, and it is one guy, I'm told. Back after this. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: GOG would love to mail you a physical copy of any PC game, if the roadblocks let it.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Welcome to Crossfire. The open question: can GOG really send you a physical copy of any game in its store? ▶
GARY: The dream from GOG's Marcin Paczynski: pick a game on your shelf, order it, and it arrives. Legal and logistical roadblocks stand in the way. ▶
LYLE HOTCHKISS: A box on a doorstep? That is the printing press, the Moon landing and sliced bread in one parcel! ▶
PRUDENCE NUANCE: Everyone wants the shelf. Has anyone asked who sorts out the legal part? ▶
LYLE HOTCHKISS: Decades of that download bar crawling across my screen like it owned me. A box would finally put it in its place. ▶
GARY: One more fact: it would be made to order, any game in the store. GOG calls getting there a very, very complicated thing. ▶
LYLE HOTCHKISS: Roadblocks? Convenient. Somebody wants those boxes stuck on a loading screen, and I want to know who. ▶
PRUDENCE NUANCE: GOG says hopeful and complicated in one breath. I will hold both, thanks. ▶
PRUDENCE NUANCE: The dull compromise: a few games first. The dream says any game, the roadblocks say wait. ▶
GRANT BRICKMAN: Known: GOG hopes to offer physical copies of any game. Open: how the legal and logistical roadblocks get cleared. Thank you both. ▶
The Pixel Line: viewers call in (PXL)
GRANT BRICKMAN: The phones are open: your questions on RAM, Windows and Skyblivion.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Good evening, and welcome to The Pixel Line. The lines are open, and I have been told not to touch the switchboard. ▶
PASSERBY: Hello! Why does the boss of OpenAI want my computer's memory to live in a data center? ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Ines, he said on the Cheeky Pint podcast that scarce DRAM sits unused in PCs most of the time. Samsung and SK Hynix have deals that reserve much of the output. ▶
GRANT BRICKMAN: So the RAM is in the cloud now. Good. Weather can hold anything. ▶
PASSERBY: Herbert here. I saw Windows has new shortcuts. Will it put a shortcut icon on my desktop? I have a grudge against that desktop. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Herbert, these are quick settings in Xbox mode for Bluetooth, WiFi and power, plus a revamped search. They are in Insider builds for now. ▶
PASSERBY: Hi! The Skyblivion team, is that the cat video thing? Because my cat is also remaking Oblivion. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Mila, no. It is a team remaking Oblivion in Skyrim's engine. A former volunteer is threatening legal action over code they contributed. ▶
GRANT BRICKMAN: Thank you, callers. Lines remain open, much like my questions. Back after the break. ▶
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GRETA FOOTNOTE: Do it today, before the drive does it for you. Now you know.
Weather
STORMY BYTES: London sits at 12 degrees and partly cloudy, with a high of 15, a low of 10 and a 0 percent chance of rain. Overcast, but optimistic!
STORMY BYTES: Paris is 11 degrees under a clear sky, high 16, low 7, rain chance 0 percent. Mainly clear and mainly smug!
STORMY BYTES: Berlin is 7 degrees and partly cloudy, high 11, low 6, with a 3 percent chance of light rain. A drizzle front of almost nothing!
STORMY BYTES: Madrid is a mild 16 degrees and mainly clear, high 21, low 9, rain chance 0 percent. Partly cloudy later, hype stays high!
STORMY BYTES: Rome is 14 degrees and mainly clear, high 21, low 10, rain chance 0 percent. A calm front all round!
Real or PXL?
GRANT BRICKMAN: Correct! The real one. Activision removing footage and apologising. The other was PXL's own invention, and quite a convincing hat.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Ah, fooled! We made that one up. A hat pack, no less. Do not feel bad, the best writers in the building were fooled too.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Time is up! The real headline was the Activision one. The other was ours. Do try to keep up.