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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescopeis arguably the next great milestone in space astronomy since the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) arrived at its orbit in 2022. Named in honor of Dr. Nancy Roman, NASA’s first chief of astronomy and the “Mother of Hubble,” the telescope’s mission is to push the boundaries of what is possible in deep space optics, astrophysics, and planetary discovery.

Guest contributor: Olga Yashkova, Research Manager, IDC Picture a self-driving car that identifies a cyclist obscured by a building before they reach an intersection. The vehicle stops in time to prevent a crash. That split-second save is what edge AI was built for. That applies equally well to a maintenance alert that keeps a factory line running rather than permitting a machine to fail and to an imaging system that helps a radiologist catch what the eye might miss.

The telecom industry has spent the better part of a decade transforming the radio access network (RAN). Operators have virtualized network functions, embraced cloud-native architectures, deployed Kubernetes-based infrastructure, and invested heavily in Open RAN ecosystems. Now, as the industry intensely discusses AI-RAN, many operators are asking: Does this require another major architectural overhaul?

Walnut Creek, CA – Aug. 19, 2026 – Wind River, an Aptiv company and global leader in software for the intelligent edge, announces Wind River Professional Services has been appraised at Level 3 of the CMMI® Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration. This appraisal acknowledges respected third-party validation for a company’s work and processes and is greatly valued in industries where design, development, and certification processes are of paramount importance.

Spacecraft have historically relied on processors that prioritize survivability over performance. Engineers have long accepted this trade-off because space is an unforgiving environment. Radiation, extreme temperatures, vibration, and multi-year missions demand reliability levels commercial processors cannot provide. That paradigm may be about to change.

Aptiv taps Kyndryl to power modernization initiatives and expand worldwide access to Wind River technologies NEW YORK and SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland, July 14, 2026 — Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, and Aptiv, a global industrial technology leader, today announced a strategic collaboration to accelerate customer innovation in mission-critical environments across global markets.

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Wind River is ranked the #1 edge OS leader by VDC Strategy. Wind River extends its long-established global leadership across the embedded OS, real-time operating system (RTOS), and commercial embedded Linux categories. Wind River is also included as a leading vendor in VDC’s recent “Edge AI Development Solutions” report.

Modern avionics programs are increasingly drawn to virtualization patterns inspired by the cloud. Organizations manage one application per virtual machine (VM) with minimal operating system images per workload and strong isolation between functions. However, the way virtual machines are designed and supported by the underlying hypervisor is critical in the context of a DO-178C and DO-297 certification environment.

SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland — Aptiv PLC (NYSE: APTV), a global industrial technology leader, today announced an expanded collaboration with NVIDIA to accelerate the adoption of production-ready edge AI. The companies are working together to evolve NVIDIA Jetson - including next generation platforms such as Jetson Thor - into commercially supported, production-ready edge AI platforms for the next generation of intelligent systems.

VMware is used by so many teams for so many things that transitions can be brutal. Few likely made the effort to learn how the existing system was used, much less document it. And even less likely bothered to explore near-term environment changes. Many IT executives have made the transition from VMware to an alternative and lived to tell the tale. Usually, they have scars – largely due to a lack of preparation.