Reassessing 1986's SpaceCamp
…But it had poor timing. Lee : Poor timing is the understatement of the (last) century. SpaceCamp made its theatrical debut on June 6, 1986, barely four months after the very public destruction…
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Amazon turns to Jeff Bezos' other company to do some heavy lifting
…More rockets, please It would be timely. Another heavy orbital-class rocket developed at the same time as New Glenn, ULA’s Vulcan, has struggled to sustain even a meager launch cadence…
The newest AI boom pitch: Host a mini data center at your home
…In a CNBC interview, SPAN also claimed it could install 8,000 XFRA units at a cost five times lower than building a typical 100-megawatt data center with the same compute…
Starlink shuts down its GPS-style cheat code. Researchers may unlock it anyway.
…Starlink’s PNT capability relies on round-trip time measurements between the user dish and a single satellite at a time, Humphreys said. The two-way communication between the user dish and…
$130 billion in data center projects blocked by protests so far this year
…Sociologist’s unique take on data center opposition Sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom has been spending time with organizers in North Carolina to better understand the playbook that’s fueling this momentum. In…
Two AI-based science assistants succeed with drug-retargeting tasks
On Tuesday, Nature released two papers describing AI systems intended to help scientists develop and test hypotheses. One, Google’s Co-Scientist, is designed as what they term “scientist in the loop…
A bold satellite rescue mission came together in record time, but will it work?
…But then we had a different challenge of time was running out.” NASA engineers estimate Swift will fall below an altitude of 186 miles (300 km) this fall—perhaps around October. At…
OpenAI president forced to read his personal diary entries to jury
…Because of this, Brockman can appear self-contradictory at times, he testified. Other times, he recorded text messages or Signal messages from people to capture and mull their ideas, he noted. And…
Is Peter Thiel the target of Pope Leo's Gandalf quote? An investigation.
…In his new encyclical, released yesterday , Leo quotes one literary character in the entire 40,000-word document. It’s Gandalf, doling out some of his wisdom in a scene from Return…
Review: AMD's Radeon RX 9070 GRE is a disappointing way to spend $549
…It’s also around 25 percent faster than the 16GB RX 9060 XT most of the time. But that small performance dip is enough to make the RX 9070 GRE slower than…