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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/
As the Peregrine team worked to try and determine the cause of the problem, the situation began to look increasingly dire. All indications pointed to a complication arising from the spacecraft’s propulsion system which, if confirmed, would likely end Peregrine’s mission before it ever came close to landing on the lunar surface. … The failed…
Good to see the press moving on this BS fast.
Bibi is an objectively evil person who is now backed into a corner… Aaron David Miller, a former longtime Middle East negotiator, describes Netanyahu as increasingly desperate. This is, after all, a man who long cast himself as Israel’s best hope for security in a tough region — a brand badly damaged following the Oct.…
The emergence of this population panic has set off my BS alert. It smell like the “AIs will end us” crap – and it’s spouted by the same dimwits. Very glad to see the evolution of thinking about *why* this argument is shaped the way it is. If that is the argument, it brings us close the…
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