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Space solar power project ends first in-space mission with successes and lessons

caltech.edu

One year ago, Caltech's Space Solar Power Demonstrator (SSPD-1) launched into space to demonstrate and test...
One year ago, Caltech's Space Solar Power Demonstrator (SSPD-1) launched into space to demonstrate and test three technological innovations that are among those necessary to make space solar power a reality.The spaceborne testbed demonstrated the ability to beam power wirelessly in space; it measured the efficiency,...
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Simulate an Ubuntu-like VM inside macOS

medium.com

Yashodhan Mohan Bhatnagar·FollowThere are times, when you’re working on a remote system that has a Unix...
Yashodhan Mohan Bhatnagar·FollowThere are times, when you’re working on a remote system that has a Unix system like Ubuntu, RHEL, etc. You want to develop scripts, checkout if some packages exist, prototype command snippets or maybe test out some compatibility.Anytime I’ve had to do that I had to spin up a t2 VM fro...

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Do they have humans test cars before they produce them or what?

bearblog.dev
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The English test that ruined lives (2022)

bbc.co.uk
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Taiwan election: Vice President Lai wins vote, defying China

nbcnews.com

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Voters in Taiwan elected Vice President Lai Ching-te as their next president on...
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Voters in Taiwan elected Vice President Lai Ching-te as their next president on Saturday, defying warnings from Beijing not to support a candidate it has called a separatist and a “troublemaker.”The election, which China had described as “a choice between war and peace,” could test recent efforts by...
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Starlink Successfully Tests Space Direct to Cell Mobile Service

ispreview.co.uk

Friday, Jan 12th, 2024 (8:08 am) - Score 1,680 Starlink (SpaceX) has conducted the first successful...
Friday, Jan 12th, 2024 (8:08 am) - Score 1,680 Starlink (SpaceX) has conducted the first successful live test of their new global Direct to Cell mobile roaming service with regular unmodified Smartphones, which came only six days after they launched (here) the first small batch of DtC capable broadband satellites. B...
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Test Can Tell How Likely a Young Driver Is to Crash

wsj.com

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SpaceX targeting February for Starship's 3rd flight test

space.com
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Engineers test autophage rocket engine

aerospacetestinginternational.com

An autophage rocket engine that consumes its plastic fuselage for fuel has been built and fired...
An autophage rocket engine that consumes its plastic fuselage for fuel has been built and fired by engineers at Glasgow University in Scotland. The autophage engine uses waste heat from combustion to sequentially melt its own plastic fuselage as it fires. It then feeds the molten plastic into the engine’s combustion...
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Google's TPUs could end up costing it $1B+, thanks to this patent challenge

theregister.com

Allegations that Google's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) were developed using stolen designs are being put to...
Allegations that Google's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) were developed using stolen designs are being put to the test as a jury trial brought against the search giant by Singular Computing kicks off this week. Google is accused of infringing patents held by Singular and developed by computer scientist Joseph Bates,...
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Money Pours into New Fabs and Facilities

semiengineering.com

Fabs, packaging, test and assembly, and R&D all drew major funding in 2023. Companies poured money...
Fabs, packaging, test and assembly, and R&D all drew major funding in 2023. Companies poured money into offshore locations, such as India and Malaysia, to access a larger workforce and lower costs, while also partnering with governments to secure domestic supply chains amid ongoing geopolitical turmoil. Looking ahea...
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SpaceX needs to build Starships as often as Boeing builds 737s

arstechnica.com

Enlarge / Ship 28, the Starship for SpaceX's next full-scale test flight, fires up one of...
Enlarge / Ship 28, the Starship for SpaceX's next full-scale test flight, fires up one of its engines on December 29 in Texas. It's no secret that Elon Musk has big ambitions for SpaceX's Starship mega-rocket. This is the vehicle that, with plenty of permutations and upgrades, Musk says will ferry cargo and people a...
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Fastest autograd in the West

arogozhnikov.github.io

Who needs fast autograd? Seemingly everyone these days! And once upon a time I needed an...
Who needs fast autograd? Seemingly everyone these days! And once upon a time I needed an autograd that is actually fast. Leaving project details aside, here are the requirements: we test many computation graphs (graph is changing constantly) many-many scalar operations with roughly 10k—100k nodes in each graph every...
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Does Your Test Suite Account for Weak Transaction Isolation?

concerningquality.com
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