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  • A Chinese rocket narrowly missed a landing on Sunday—the video is amazing

    Worth it for the drone footage… A Chinese space startup conducted what it called a “high-altitude” test flight of its Nebula-1 rocket on Sunday, launching the vehicle to an altitude of about 5 km or so before attempting to land it back at the Ejin Banner Spaceport in Inner Mongolia. The test flight went well…

  • RubyConf 2022: Building a Commercial Game Engine using mRuby and SDL by Amir Rajan

  • Musical Chairs — The Rise and Fall and Rise in Global Furniture

    Shrink Inventory: At Haddy, we’re developing one new product per week — 50 times faster than traditional Asian manufacturers — and our portfolio of customers continues to grow. By embracing technology, we’ve proven that we can create beautiful, sustainable furniture at a fraction of the time and cost it took our predecessors. This speed-up will further encourage the reduction…

  • New Video Shows How Tiny Spacecraft Will “Swarm” Proxima Centauri

    Not long ago, Eubanks and his colleagues produced research papers addressing some big questions about interstellar exploration, including communications and what we might learn from a flyby of Proxima b. During the 2024 NIAC Symposium, which took place from September 10th to 12th in Pasadena, California, Eubanks and his colleagues had the opportunity to present their latest findings. As…

  • iFixit made its own USB-C soldering iron, and it’s already a joy

    My first USB-C soldering iron was a revelation. “You mean I can make liquid metal connections anywhere, in seconds, just by plugging this tiny stick into a USB cable?” Now, repair company iFixit is introducing its own take on the idea. It claims the iFixit FixHub Smart Soldering Iron is powerful enough for pros and easier for beginners…

  • RVPC Risc-V $1 computer with VGA, Keyboard and Buzzer firmware now includes the Towers of Hanoi game

    I’ve long maintained that RISC-V is one of the most exciting technologies of the future… we’re starting to see that future.

  • ‘a fundamentally different company’

    There is no doubt that under John Riccitiello Unity shat the bed again and again and again and… It is going to be really interesting to see if Matt Bromberg can pull off this u-turn. If he can, it’ll be something that is taught at business school. I hope he does. Having used both Unreal…

  • Wind powers a record summer for renewable energy in Britain

    Gotta love down and to the right…. Before August 2024, monthly generation from fossil fuels had never dipped below 4 TWh, even during the lockdowns of 2020 when demand for electricity and transport fuels plummeted. What’s more exciting is that this was the first time fossil fuels (98.5% gas and 1.5% coal) fell to third…

  • Agrivoltaics come of age

    “Far from reducing food production, agri-PV actually increases yields for some crops,” says Ember analyst Paweł Czyżak. “Agri-PV combines the best of both worlds — electricity and food production, preserving precious land for agriculture, yet still enabling the energy transition to move forward, benefitting societies and economies.” https://theprogressplaybook.com/2024/09/10/agrivoltaics-come-of-age/

  • Snake Oil, Baby

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