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I love this concept… but it reeks of unintended consequences. Lionel Mora and Patrick Torbey, co-founders of Neoplants, had the idea of building an organism with, what Mora describes as, “virtuous function.” In other words, they wanted to use synthetic biology to add positive functions that could have a positive impact on the environment. They…
A short documentary directed by Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers visits the unassuming warehouse where more than 80,000 student instruments are maintained. “The Last Repair Shop” shares the stories of how the four craftspeople came to their roles, punctuated by testimonies from students who’ve benefited from their work. Glimpsing their mending techniques and skill at repairing even the smallest…
Hawaii shut down its last coal plant on September 1, 2022, eliminating 180 megawatts of fossil-fueled baseload power from the grid on Oahu — a crucial step in the state’s first-in-the-nation commitment to cease burning fossil fuels for electricity by 2045. But the move posed a question that’s becoming increasingly urgent as clean energy surges across the United States: How do you maintain a reliable…
Welcome to GodotOS, an operating system interface created entirely in Godot! Browse folders, edit text files, view images, play games, and more in one cohesive polished interface that can even be used on the web! https://github.com/popcar2/GodotOS
Their proposal calls for a 100-gigawatt (GW) laser beamer boosting thousands of gram-scale space probes with laser sails to relativistic speed (~10-20 percent of light). They also proposed a series of terrestrial light buckets measuring a square kilometer (0.386 mi2) in diameter to catch the light signals from the probes once they are well on…
Holy shit, this is awesome! A stark contrast with the other AI companion company. A shake up of the current model is desperately needed. We’re beyond diminishing returns and into incumbents holding on for as long as they can make money. This is a bright spark. The R1, the pocket-size gadget from Rabbit that’s supposed…
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…
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
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…
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