Ten U.S. and 2 United Arab Emirates astronauts have just completed 2 years of training NASA confirmed on Monday that an object that crashed into a Naples, Florida, home last month was a piece of hardware from the International Space Station that was supposed to burn up on re-entry before reaching the surface of Earth. Alejandro Otero said a piece of equipment from the International Space Station hit his Naples home, posting photos of the object on X in response to an astronomer who was tracking where and when the equipment would enter the Earth's atmosphere. Otero told the astronomer it looked like one of the pieces had missed Fort Myers, and landed inside his home. "Tore through the roof and went thru 2 floors," he posted on X, adding that it almost hit his son. FLORIDA MAN SAYS SPACE OBJECT CRASHED INTO HIS HOUSE.

On March 8, a piece of space debris plunged through a roof in Naples, FL, ripped through two floors and (fortunately) missed the son of homeowner Alejandro Otero. On Tuesday, NASA confirmed the results of its analysis of the incident. As suspected, it's a piece of equipment dumped from the International Space Station (ISS) three years ago. NASA's investigation of the object at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral confirmed it was a piece of the EP-9 support equipment used to mount batteries onto a cargo pallet, which the ISS' robotic arm dropped on March 11, 2021. The haul, made up of discarded nickel-hydrogen batteries, was expected to orbit Earth between two to four years (it split the difference, lasting almost exactly three) "before burning up harmlessly in the atmosphere," as NASA predicted at the time.

Computer science today is pushing the boundaries of what's possible in media; and more tangible than the excitement for blockchain, AR, or monitization is the simple fact that the internet continues enabling data in ways never before possible. I caught on a flight to Naples, Florida, an article (in print) about a Civil War era enthusiast who happens to work in biometric artificial intelligence. Rest assured, I chuckled a bit at reading in print an article about artificial intelligence in digital photography. Kurt Luther, Boyd Farrow reports, discovered a photo of a great-great-great Uncle at Pittsburgh's Heinz History Center in 2013. He's the Director of the Crowd Intelligence Lab at Virginia Tech and one of the foremost computer scientists working with photographs thanks to his epiphany that there are millions of historic photos of faces with no names.