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The Dreamchaser launch is gonna be fun to watch.[SPOILER] Vulcan’s debut was much-anticipated in the US launch community because the rocket provides a potentially viable competitor to the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets flown by SpaceX. The US Space Force, in particular, has been waiting on Vulcan to fly dozens of payloads into orbit.…
the Weinersmiths aren’t anti-space. They aren’t even anti-space-settlement. Rather, they argue that the path to space-based scientific breakthroughs, exploration of our solar system, and a deeper understanding of our moral standing in a vast universe cannot start with space settlements. Landing people on the Moon or Mars any time soon is a stunt – a…
It’s the latest chapter in a decades-long effort to expand free speech rights for corporations while restricting them for people — a project of which Gibson Dunn is a key architect. While the idea to create “corporate personas” that could contribute to public debate — and to advocate for free speech protections for them — was first…
This is delightful… I love the intersection of ideas. Capturing Qi is a project that brings three feng-shui objects into the digital age by making them smart devices that you can control through an app to bring energy into your home. You get a crystal ball, a wind chime, and a water fountain were designed…
Given the complex network of often deeply personal reasons that people believe in pseudoscience, we, as scientists and fans of the scientific method, can’t tackle it head-on. Evidence has repeatedly shown that simply shoving data in peoples’ faces doesn’t work to change their minds. Neither does simply telling somebody they’re wrong and leaving it at…
In our digital era, movies and T.V. shows were supposed to get easier to watch, not harder. But it turns out, media companies are fickle—and media distribution can get complicated as it crosses borders. … So what are a viewer’s options when a studio or streamer abruptly yanks a film or series from distribution or,…
Unlike influencers in the so-called “wellness-to-fascism” pipeline, the Johnsons do not exploit skepticism toward mainstream health expertise to prime their audiences for right-wing talking points. Instead, they start with a fascist aesthetic tradition that prizes hard young bodies and fuse it with the language of self-help culture, promising potential followers eternal life among a cadre…
Green ammonia is a fuel made through a 100 per cent renewable and zero-carbon processes, such as combining hydrogen from water electrolysis and nitrogen separated from the air through a renewables-powered Haber process. It has been proposed as an alternative fuel source for the shipping industry, although there has long been uncertainty about how and…
A reduction to 24 ships per day from the normal 38 doesn’t sound like a lot, but that’s a 36% loss in annual Canal traffic. Imagine the East Coast without 17% of its Asian-sourced fuel and goods, or having to bear the cost of rerouting that traffic through thousands more miles at sea.
Psychedelic drugs such as MDMA and psilocybin, the hallucinogenic compound found in magic mushrooms, have promised to revolutionize psychiatric treatments. Now, a small trial in military veterans suggests that a lesser-known, potent psychedelic drug called ibogaine could be used to treat traumatic brain injury (TBI). One month after ibogaine treatment, the veterans reported that TBI symptoms such as post-traumatic stress…
I have a different preferred starting point which is less descriptive but more operational: WebAssembly is a new fundamental abstraction boundary. WebAssembly is a new way of dividing computing systems into pieces and of composing systems from parts. https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/01/08/missing-the-point-of-webassembly
Over promising and under delivering again… SpaceX still has a lot to prove, including achieving a stable orbit, swapping fuel between spacecraft, and of course the ability to make a safe and soft approach to the lunar surface. https://futurism.com/the-byte/nasa-push-back-moon-landing-spacex-starship How long before Musk sues NASA for…reasons.
War is PR with violence. There were no beheaded babies. If you’ve ever used that story as a reason to justify your position, then you’ve gotta ask serious questions about your media literacy. In war, you’ve gotta do the mahi. If your main source is Twitter, then you’ve really gotta do the mahi. If you…
As professor and author Gary Marcus and film industry concept artist Reid Southen, who has worked on several major films for the likes of Marvel and Warner Brothers, argue in a recent piece for IEEE Spectrum, tools like DALL-E 3 and Midjourney could land both companies in a “copyright minefield.” https://futurism.com/ai-image-generators-copyrighted-characters
With the portable Li-Ion battery powered FM radio receiver you can listen to your favourite radio station. This device is equipped with cost-effective components, including a CH32V003J4M6 32-bit RISC-V microcontroller, a RDA5807MP FM radio tuner IC, an audio amplifier (TC8871 or XPT8871), a 128×32 pixel OLED display (SSD1306), and a Li-Ion battery charger (TP4054 or…
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has now allocated enough funds to replace more than 5,000 of the country’s school buses with zero-emission alternatives.
If you could sum up what we learned in 2023, and I think what tech has learned, too, is that people matter. Even in the wildest of innovations, people still matter, and human relationships still matter, and you can’t shortcut it. – Rich Ziade, Aboard Podcast https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/humans-all-the-way-down/
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