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On a day of rebranding at the Pentagon, this name change slipped under the radar

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-08 03:45:02

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday authorizing the Department of Defense to refer to itself as the Department of War, reverting to a more bellicose title used until a 1940s-era military shakeup in the aftermath of World War II. The order approves the Pentagon's use of the Department of War name as an "additional secondary title" for the Department of Defense while the Trump administration seeks congressional approval to officially change the name. Until Congress votes on th

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EchoStar offloads satellite spectrum to SpaceX for $17 billion

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-08 19:36:17

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Dish parent company EchoStar is selling wireless spectrum licenses to SpaceX for around $17 billion, the companies announced on Monday. SpaceX says it will use the spectrum to create the “next generation” of Starlink’s cellular satellite service, which customers

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Starlink direct-to-cell satellite connectivity expanding beyond T-Mobile

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-10-08 23:27:56

SpaceX and the company behind Boost Mobile have struck a deal that will bolster Starlink’s direct-to-cell satellite mobile service. EchoStar has agreed to license AWS-4 and H-block spectrum to SpaceX. The agreement is worth up to $17 billion with half in cash and half in SpaceX stock. For iPhone users, the deal will also expand Starlink’s satellite mobile service beyond T-Mobile, which is currently the exclusive U.S. mobile service provider with Starlink service. In connection with the transa

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SpaceX strikes $17B deal to buy EchoStar’s spectrum for Starlink’s direct-to-phone service

techcrunch.com Ram Iyer 2025-10-08 23:26:57

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has agreed to acquire 50MHz of wireless spectrum and Mobile Satellite Service spectrum licenses from EchoStar, for use in the Starlink satellite network. EchoStar will sell its AWS-4 and H-block spectrum licenses in exchange for $8.5 billion in cash and $8.5 billion SpaceX stock. SpaceX said the deal would let it develop and deploy its “Direct to Cell” constellation, which it claims can provide broadband-speed internet access to mobile phones across the world. Of the cash, $2

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Human stem cells age more rapidly in space, study finds

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-09 06:56:51

While scientists are still working to understand the effects an extended trip to space can have on the human body, research in recent years has suggested that astronauts may experience some pretty dramatic changes on both the physiological and psychological levels. In the latest study led by a team at University of California San Diego, researchers found signs of accelerated aging in human stem cells that spent roughly a month in space. The research focused on hematopoietic stem and progenitor

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Algebraic Effects in Practice with Flix

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-09 04:07:50

Algebraic effects are not just a research concept anymore. You can use them in real software, today. Here’s why you’d want to do that, in order of importance: Effects make your code testable One of the central goals of enterprise software development. Dependency injection, mocking, architecture patterns like clean, hexagonal, DDD are all meant to tackle this. Effects solve this elegantly by separating the “what” from the “how”. Effects give immediate visibility into what your own and 3rd-party

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A robot walks on water thanks to evolution's solution

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 04:52:22

Robots can serve pizza, crawl over alien planets, swim like octopuses and jellyfish, cosplay as humans, and even perform surgery. But can they walk on water? Rhagobot isn’t exactly the first thing that comes to mind at the mention of a robot. Inspired by Rhagovelia water striders, semiaquatic insects also known as ripple bugs, these tiny bots can glide across rushing streams because of the robotization of an evolutionary adaptation. Rhagovelia (as opposed to other species of water striders) ha

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The maths you need to start understanding LLMs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-05 16:10:47

The maths you need to start understanding LLMs Actually coming up with ideas like GPT-based LLMs and doing serious AI research requires serious maths. But the good news is that if you just want to understand how they work, while it does require some maths, if you studied it at high-school at any time since the 1960s, you did all of the groundwork then: vectors, matrices, and so on. One thing to note -- what I'm covering here is what you need to know to understand inference -- that is, using an

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Meta Reimagines Facebook's Poke Feature to Gamify Gen Z Flirting

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-10 06:06:00

When was the last time you were poked on Facebook? The feature, which has endured since the early days of the social-media platform, is still clinging to life and in fact being pushed again by Meta as a way to maintain connections with friends. Originally intended as a way to reach out to other users without actually sending a message or any meaningful content, it has been the focus of soft relaunches in 2017 and 2024. Meta has now started promoting poking all over again, according to TechCrun

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James Gunn Claims ‘Peacemaker’ Will Tie-In ‘Directly’ to ‘Superman: Man of Tomorrow’

gizmodo.com Gordon Jackson 2025-10-10 19:43:52

Superman director James Gunn is doubling down on his recent Instagram post where he said that the second season of Peacemaker is essentially the “prequel” to upcoming Man of Steel sequel Man of Tomorrow. Responding to a fan on the platform, Gunn reiterated that the season finale of the current Peacemaker series will lead “directly” into Man of Tomorrow, despite the fact that three other DCU projects—Supergirl, Lanterns, and Clayface—will all come out in-between. Peacemaker‘s highly-acclaimed s

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Experimental Hook-and-Loop Attachment System for Walls and Floors

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 19:24:07

This ReCon Project, developed at Austria's Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), proposes a hook-and-loop fastening system for wall surfaces. While a true hook-and-loop arrangement (like that used in Velcro) isn't possible with rigid surfaces, the research team came up with a close approximation. Protrusions were cast into concrete, and a flexible sheet material was 3D printed with corresponding protrusions on one face, allowing the sheet to be non-permanently adhered to the concrete. "Such

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21 years later, Meta still hasn't given up on the Facebook 'poke'

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-11 11:04:46

Meta currently has lots of priorities Mark Zuckerberg likely never would have imagined back in the early days of Facebook. The company has pivoted from social networking to the metaverse and, most recently, to AI. But somehow, one of its earliest — and most useless — features has not only survived but is apparently getting a revamp. I'm talking, of course, about the poke, which Meta is once again trying to revive. The company is making the storied feature easier to find by adding pokes back to

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The green steel firms looking to revive US steelmaking

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-11 15:01:17

The green steel firms looking to revive US steelmaking 57 minutes ago Share Save Chris Baraniuk Technology Reporter Share Save Boston Metal Making steel using electricity is less carbon intensive than traditional methods An activity centre for babies and toddlers, an Indian restaurant, an indoor golf centre – and a mini experimental steel plant. These businesses are among those that make up a small retail and industrial estate in the city of Woburn, Massachusetts. "People are dropping off the

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Facebook is trying to make ‘pokes’ happen again

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-11 23:32:52

Technically, the poke never really left Facebook. The classic feature from Facebook’s early days lets users get a friend’s attention with a virtual nudge of sorts. While the poke fell out of use ages ago, the company has more recently seen an uptick in its use among younger users, which has now prompted it to make the poke a more central part of the Facebook experience. Now users are able to poke their friends from a new, dedicated button directly on their Facebook profile, which will alert th

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Going to Space Could Make Your Cells Age Faster

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-10-12 07:33:33

Spaceflight pushes the human body to its limits, exposing astronauts to microgravity, high levels of radiation, and extended periods of isolation. These stressors affect their health in various ways, many of which scientists are still working to fully understand. But if we are ever to boldly go where no human has gone before, we need to know all the risks before we take the leap. And now new research published Thursday, September 4 in the journal Cell Stem Cell offers clues to another facet of

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Sting operation kills “copycat” sports piracy site with 1.6B visits last year

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-12 07:33:54

On Wednesday, a global antipiracy group, which included Apple TV+, Netflix, The Walt Disney Studios, and Warner Bros. Discovery, announced that it had assisted in a sting operation that took down Streameast, described as the “largest illicit live sports streaming operation in the world.” Now, accessing websites from the thwarted Streameast brings up a link from the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) that explains how to watch sports games legally. However, people have reported that

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Seriously, Acer's new 16-inch featherweight laptop makes the MacBook Air seem heavy

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-10-12 11:45:00

Acer Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Acer announced a slew of new laptops at IFA in Berlin, but the Swift Air 16 is one of the most exciting. The 16-inch laptop has a starting weight of 2.18 pounds - one of the lightest on the market. There are some trade-offs with getting a 16-inch laptop down to this size, specifically with battery life. Acer announced a new 16-inch featherweight laptop at IFA in Berlin yesterday, weighing just 2.18 pounds for

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Lawmakers Panic As They Realize China May Beat the US to the Moon

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-12 12:11:16

During a Senate Commerce Committee hearing this week, experts warned that the United States is at risk of China beating it to the Moon as NASA's Artemis program continues to lag behind. Earlier this month, China's lunar exploration program tested its "Lanyue" lunar lander at a facility outside of Beijing, declaring that it's hoping to land the first Chinese astronauts on the Moon before the end of the decade. That's well within the margin of error of NASA's first crewed landing attempt, Artemis

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U.S. Risks Losing the Moon to China if NASA’s Artemis Program Falters, Experts Tell Senate

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-10-12 15:30:13

The U.S. is at risk of ceding its lead in the new space race to China, experts told a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Wednesday, September 3, raising serious doubts about NASA’s ability to return American astronauts to the Moon before China. The hearing, titled “There’s a Bad Moon on the Rise,” examined legislative priorities for NASA’s upcoming reauthorization to ensure that the U.S. maintains its leadership in space. The nation’s position is increasingly challenged by China, which has ad

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Canada’s First Moon Mission to Fly Aboard Firefly Spacecraft

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-10-12 23:33:28

Canada’s first-ever Moon rover is going to hitch a ride aboard private space company’s Firefly Aerospace’s fourth Blue Ghost mission to our celestial satellite. The news comes after NASA awarded Firefly $176.7 million to deliver two rovers and three scientific instruments to the lunar surface. The Texas-based company pulled-off its first Moon landing on March 2, delivering payloads for NASA as part of the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative (CLPS). Firefly is set to launch its

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Lull in Falcon Heavy missions opens window for SpaceX to build new landing pads

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-12 23:13:25

Remember the first time you saw a SpaceX rocket nail a bullseye landing after hurtling back from space? How about the first time two boosters landed side-by-side, punctuating the inaugural launch of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket with thrilling synchrony? Some of SpaceX's most defining moments happened on a piece of beachfront property at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This is where SpaceX first landed a reusable Falcon 9 booster coming back from space and, a few years later, land

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Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 06:39:20

In 2004, a team of scientists discovered hydrocarbons called anthracene and pyrene in an amazing structure called the Red Rectangle! Here two stars 2300 light years from us are spinning around each other while pumping out a huge torus of icy dust grains and hydrocarbon molecules. It’s not really shaped like a rectangle or X—it just looks that way from here. The whole scene is about one third of a light year across. This was first time such complex molecules had been found in space: • Uma P. V

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World's largest sports piracy site shut down by police

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-13 09:33:38

World's largest sports piracy site shut down by police 2 hours ago Share Save Liv McMahon Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images The world's biggest destination for illegal streams of live sports events has been shut down, according to a leading anti-piracy group. The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) said on Wednesday it had teamed up with police in Egypt to close down Streameast, which had been visited more than 1.6 billion times in the past year. It allowed millions to a

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Trump’s move of SPACECOM to Alabama has little to do with national security

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-12 11:59:09

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that US Space Command will be relocated from Colorado to Alabama, returning to the Pentagon's plans for the command's headquarters from the final days of Trump's first term in the White House. The headquarters will move to the Army's Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. Trump made the announcement in the Oval Office, flanked by Republican members of the Alabama congressional delegation. The move will "help America defend and dominate the high fronti

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Madrid’s Orbital Paradigm aims to prove a cheaper path to orbital reentry

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-10-13 19:00:00

Francesco Cacciatore is a self-proclaimed skeptic. Yet after spending two decades in the European aerospace industry and hitting, as he put it, a “crisis,” he made an undeniably optimistic bet: he started a space company. “You ask yourself, ‘What am I doing?’” he said in a recent interview. “I got offered some interesting opportunities, but then I kind of collapsed and realized I wanted to try and build something myself.” That something turned out to be one of the most challenging problems in

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The Ampace Andes 1500 Power Station falls to its record-low price

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-14 07:09:29

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority I don’t like to post deals of the same product two deals in a row, but this one is kind of too good to ignore. Just yesterday, I posted an Ampace Andes 1500 sale, but today it got even better. The power station is at a record-low price of $499, saving you an impressive $900! Buy the Ampace Andes 1500 Power Station for just $499 ($900 off) This offer is available from Amazon as a “limited time deal.” We’re not sure how long the deal will last. Also, it is an

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A Shocking Number of Kids Don’t Play Outside

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-10-14 11:10:27

For plenty of us grown-ups, the time spent running around our neighborhoods or hanging by the playground swings was a highlight of our childhood. Kids today often can’t say the same, though. New research shows that a substantial proportion of children aren’t playing outdoors at all, even on the weekends. Scientists at the University of Exeter in the UK found that about a third of children reported not playing outdoors after school, while one in five reported not playing outside during the weeke

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Acer Has Some Massive Gaming Laptops and Desktops Coming This Fall

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-14 11:18:13

In the world of gaming PCs, Acer is perhaps better known for its more budget-friendly Nitro options, while its Predator brand is overshadowed by Alienware, Razer, Omen and others. That said, with every new generation, its gaming systems get easier to recommend over the competition, and that includes its latest batch of gaming laptops and desktops announced at IFA 2025 in Berlin on Wednesday. Desktops At the top of line for Predator gaming desktops is the Orion 7000. Judging by what Acer is pac

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SpaceX gets a green light to more than double its Florida launches

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-10-14 19:36:59

The world’s most-flown rocket may start flying even more. U.S. regulators have completed a key environmental review that paves the way for SpaceX to more than double the number of Falcon 9 launches from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. In addition to the annual launch increase from 50 launches to up to 120, the Federal Aviation Administration’s environmental review also approved a new on-site landing zone that could accommodate up to 34 booster landings per year. These boosters ar

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The largest illegal sports streaming service has been shut down after sting operation

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-14 23:35:37

The sports broadcasting piracy network Streameast has been shut down after it was investigated for a year by a US-based anti-piracy group. Streameast is the largest illegal sports streaming platform in the world, and while active it offered its users free access to 80 unauthorised domains. This allowed people to pirate live soccer matches from the Premier League and Champions League, as well as NFL, NBA and MLB games. According to ACE, annual traffic to the site topped 1.6 billion visits. The A

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Latest Tech News

On a day of rebranding at the Pentagon, this name change slipped under the radar

EchoStar offloads satellite spectrum to SpaceX for $17 billion

Starlink direct-to-cell satellite connectivity expanding beyond T-Mobile

SpaceX strikes $17B deal to buy EchoStar’s spectrum for Starlink’s direct-to-phone service

Human stem cells age more rapidly in space, study finds

Algebraic Effects in Practice with Flix

A robot walks on water thanks to evolution's solution

The maths you need to start understanding LLMs

Meta Reimagines Facebook's Poke Feature to Gamify Gen Z Flirting

James Gunn Claims ‘Peacemaker’ Will Tie-In ‘Directly’ to ‘Superman: Man of Tomorrow’

Experimental Hook-and-Loop Attachment System for Walls and Floors

21 years later, Meta still hasn't given up on the Facebook 'poke'

The green steel firms looking to revive US steelmaking

Facebook is trying to make ‘pokes’ happen again

Going to Space Could Make Your Cells Age Faster

Sting operation kills “copycat” sports piracy site with 1.6B visits last year

Seriously, Acer's new 16-inch featherweight laptop makes the MacBook Air seem heavy

Lawmakers Panic As They Realize China May Beat the US to the Moon

U.S. Risks Losing the Moon to China if NASA’s Artemis Program Falters, Experts Tell Senate

Canada’s First Moon Mission to Fly Aboard Firefly Spacecraft

Lull in Falcon Heavy missions opens window for SpaceX to build new landing pads

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

World's largest sports piracy site shut down by police

Trump’s move of SPACECOM to Alabama has little to do with national security

Madrid’s Orbital Paradigm aims to prove a cheaper path to orbital reentry

The Ampace Andes 1500 Power Station falls to its record-low price

A Shocking Number of Kids Don’t Play Outside

Acer Has Some Massive Gaming Laptops and Desktops Coming This Fall

SpaceX gets a green light to more than double its Florida launches

The largest illegal sports streaming service has been shut down after sting operation

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