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  • Who to read to keep up with AI

    Zvi provides a complete rundown of current AI news, as neutral just-the-facts reporting. He covers more detail than most people would want—I just skim it—but he highlights the most important stuff… Arvind is in the “much less powerful than hyped, but with potential for dire misuse” quadrant. He combines skeptical takes on current AI technical practice (like…

  • Ingenuity’s 69th Flight is its Farthest So Far

    NASA’s Ingenuity has racked up important milestones since it detached itself from the Perseverance Rover’s underbelly in April 2021 and got to work. On April 19th, 2021, it became the first aircraft to complete a powered, controlled extraterrestrial flight. Since that day, it has blown away expectations and completed 70 flights. Its most recent flight…

  • China’s FAST Observatory is Playing a Key Role in the Search for Aliens

    Chinese agencies are funding projects to use the Five Hundred Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) to conduct searches for alien signals. The Far Neighbour Project (FNP) was launched in 2023 and uses some interesting observational techniques to hunt for technosignatures from advanced civilisations. They are targetting nearby stars, exoplanet systems, local globular clusters and much…

  • ESP32-based Internet Radio Streamer

    So I entered my favorite internet radio’s URL, plus my WiFi credentials into the code and loaded it to my ESP32 using the Arduino IDE. Surely enough, I saw in my serial port that the ESP32 connected to my WiFi access point and then opened successfully the streaming radio station. I could see on my…

  • NASA will debut its mysterious x-59 ‘quiet’ supersonic aircraft at famous Lockheed Martin Skunk Works facility next week

    NASA has announced plans to unveil its X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft next week, the American space agency said in a statement on Friday. “NASA will provide live coverage as it reveals its X-59 aircraft at 4 p.m. EST on Friday, Jan. 12, as part of the agency’s Quesst mission to make commercial supersonic flight possible,” read a…

  • Scientists drilling into magma chamber for potentially unlimited energy

    Scientists in Iceland are steaming ahead with an ambitious project to drill straight down into a magma chamber that could provide not only the first direct look at the oceans of molten rock stewing miles beneath the Earth’s surface, but a revolution in geothermal energy that could potentially see the technology be used anywhere on…

  • PW 4: Productivity and tools

    My experience of using ChatGPT to assist in code mirrors this… i was a little slower for a week or so and then I accelerated away. The tools that are available to each of us are so powerful, so varied and so complex that even the free ones are ignored or misunderstood. We’re too busy…

  • CH32 RISC-V MCUS GET OFFICIAL ARDUINO SUPPORT

    Just like the ESP8266’s popularity exploded when it was added to the Arduino IDE, we’ve got high hopes for the CH32 family in the coming months.

  • Researchers create first functional graphene semiconductor

    The team overcame a longstanding obstacle that has caused grief for graphene researchers for decades. Semiconductors require a band gap, across which electrons might or might not be able to jump. Graphene’s lack of a band gap meant that many scientists expected graphene electronics to be doomed – until now. “We now have an extremely…

  • Watch a Full Martian Day, From Dawn to Dusk

    On November 8th, NASA’s Curiosity Rover paused its incessant science work and just watched the day unfold on Mars. The rover used its black-and-white Hazard-Avoidance Cameras (Hazcams) to watch an entire 12-hour day on Mars as the shifting Sun cast shadows across the Martian landscape. NASA chose this day because of the Mars solar conjunction…