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SpaceX’s Next Big Trick: Catch the Starship Upper Stage With ‘Chopsticks’

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-10-18 19:46:04

SpaceX finally broke out of a serious Starship slump on Tuesday, acing the rocket’s 10th flight after months of failed attemps. Now, CEO Elon Musk has set his sights on the next big challenge: catching Starship’s upper stage with Mechazilla’s “chopstick” arms. In an X post on Wednesday, August 27, Musk said the next opportunities to attempt this feat would likely be flights 13 through 15, depending on how well V3—the next iteration of Starship—performs. The Starship launched Tuesday was a V2, w

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Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll

news.ycombinator.com Elyse Betters Picaro 2025-10-19 08:01:31

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Meta could be scanning your camera roll right now. It's using your photos to provide AI-powered suggestions. Check Facebook settings to turn off the features. Meta could be analyzing and retaining your phone's photos without your explicit consent. Some Facebook users have noticed that, deep within their app settings, Meta has switched on two toggles that allow it to access their camera

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Acer just announced a Google TV box with all the ports you want

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-19 19:12:26

Acer TL;DR Acer has announced the Acer 4K UHD Google TV Box. The gadget includes USB-A connectivity, an Ethernet port, a microSD card slot, and an S/PDIF Optical Audio port. The new streaming box has only launched in South Africa for now and costs ~$80. Acer isn’t exactly a company you associate with Google TV boxes, but the company has now launched a rather impressive streaming box. Say hello to the Acer 4K UHD Google TV Box, or AiTV. The Acer Google TV Box stands out as it offers a wide v

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Gun Maker Sig Sauer Citing National Security to Keep Documents from Public

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-19 18:51:01

The secrecy battle over the Army’s Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) for Sig Sauer’s P320 has followed Glasscock v. Sig Sauer to the Eighth Circuit. A media intervenor is now asking the appellate court to keep key records open—and their brief places Practical Shooting Insights (this site) squarely in the middle of the story. What’s new The Trace intervenes in the appeal. The newsroom moved to intervene for the limited purpose of opposing sealed filings tied to class cert

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The Download: humans in space, and India’s thorium ambitions

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-10-19 23:10:00

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are bitter rivals in the commercial space race, but they agree on one thing: Settling space is an existential imperative. Space is the place. The final frontier. It is our human destiny to transcend our home world and expand our civilization to extraterrestrial vistas. This belief has been mainstream for decades, but its rise has been positively meteoric in this new gilded age of astropreneurs. But as visions of giant orbital stations and Martian cities dance in ou

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I Tested the Asus ProArt P16 Laptop and It Delivers the Goods for Creators

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-19 22:00:05

9.0 / 10 SCORE Asus ProArt P16 $2,500 at Best Buy Pros Gorgeous 16-inch, 4K OLED touchscreen Strong component lineup, including RTX 5070 GPU Slim and light given the size and what's under the hood DialPad controller on touchpad is useful Cons Runs hot and loud 3D frame rates are good but not great Display bezels are a bit thick Stylus not included for the touchscreen Asus ProArt laptops vary in price, size and capabilities, from the mighty Studiobook Pro mobile workstations to the smalle

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Google Workspace user? Do this before you set up your Pixel 10

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-20 05:31:17

Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority TL;DR Pixel 10’s Magic Cue uses AI to give contextual suggestions across apps. However, Google Workspace users don’t have access to Magic Cue. To access Magic Cue, sign in with a regular Gmail account first to unlock access. Google’s 2025 Pixel 10 smartphone lineup is finally here, and the standout new feature is Magic Cue. This AI-powered assistant uses on-device intelligence via the Gemini Nano LLM to deliver contextual suggestions designed to make daily i

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The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and the over-reliance on PowerPoint (2019)

news.ycombinator.com James Thomas 2025-10-20 04:44:47

We’ve all sat in those presentations. A speaker with a stream of slides full of text, monotonously reading them off as we read along. We’re so used to it we expect it. We accept it. We even consider it ‘learning’. As an educator I push against ‘death by PowerPoint’ and I'm fascinated with how we can improve the way we present and teach. The fact is we know that PowerPoint kills. Most often the only victims are our audience’s inspiration and interest. This, however, is the story of a PowerPoint s

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Death by PowerPoint: the slide that killed seven people

news.ycombinator.com James Thomas 2025-10-20 09:44:47

We’ve all sat in those presentations. A speaker with a stream of slides full of text, monotonously reading them off as we read along. We’re so used to it we expect it. We accept it. We even consider it ‘learning’. As an educator I push against ‘death by PowerPoint’ and I'm fascinated with how we can improve the way we present and teach. The fact is we know that PowerPoint kills. Most often the only victims are our audience’s inspiration and interest. This, however, is the story of a PowerPoint s

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How Is AI Used In Space? This Wild Look Into a Data Center Plan Has Clues

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-10-21 15:05:57

The world runs on data. As humanity’s information gets increasingly digitized and artificial intelligence creeps its way into every aspect of life, data centers become more and more important. But that data comes with a catch: the servers in these data centers have monstrous energy demands that eat up natural resources like water, and that puts a significant burden on local communities where data centers are located. Some companies think they’ve found the solution to this problem by sending th

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New dinosaur species is the punk rock version of an ankylosaur

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-21 23:25:12

Ankylosaurs, with their squat, armored bodies and bizarre, weaponized tails, are an iconic group of dinosaurs. While there were plenty of species present in the Cretaceous, they're thought to have origins that trace back to the Jurassic. It has been hard to say much about those origins, however, because the fossil evidence was so sparse. One of the earliest potential ankylosaur species, Spicomellus, was known from only a single partial rib; others are known only by jaw fragments or teeth. Now,

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With recent Falcon 9 milestones, SpaceX vindicates its “dumb” approach to reuse

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-21 23:46:46

As SpaceX's Starship vehicle gathered all of the attention this week, the company's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket continued to hit some impressive milestones. Both occurred during relatively anonymous launches of the company's Starlink satellites but are nonetheless notable because they underscore the value of first-stage reuse, which SpaceX has pioneered over the last decade. The first milestone occurred on Wednesday morning with the launch of the Starlink 10-56 mission from Cape Canaveral, Flori

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Why this Suunto sports watch quickly became one of my favorites for fitness and travel

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-10-22 14:00:24

Suunto Race 2 smartwatch ZDNET's key takeaways The Suunto Race 2 is available with a stainless steel frame for $499, or a titanium frame for $599. The Race 2 offers long battery life, extensive customization, personalized coaching, and reliable accuracy. There is no support for subscription music or payment systems and the app store is limited primarily to sports apps. View now at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I went many years without testing Suunto products,

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Russian space official: “We need to stop lying to ourselves” about health of industry

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-23 06:54:54

The chief of Russia's main spacecraft manufacturer issued a dire warning this week, saying that his corporation has reached a "critical" condition and cannot continue in its present state. "The situation is critical: multi-million dollar debts, interest on loans that 'eat up' the budget, many processes that are ineffective, and a significant part of the team has lost motivation and a sense of shared responsibility," wrote Igor Maltsev, chief of RSC Energia, which is located near Moscow. Maltse

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Part of Starship Explodes During SpaceX's Latest Test Flight

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-23 10:17:57

Coming off a string of explosive failures, on Tuesday night SpaceX once again launched its gigantic Starship rocket into space, with both its stages successfully returning to their separate landing targets on Earth. This time, the only huge explosions were planned one: final blasts as the two spacecraft touched down. After the launch had been scrubbed twice over the two prior days, the company's engineers could finally breathe a sigh of relief. The flight demonstrated several key objectives, i

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One of my favorite sports watches from 2024 just got upgrades in all the right places

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-10-23 11:07:00

Suunto Race 2 smartwatch ZDNET's key takeaways The Suunto Race 2 is available with a stainless steel frame for $499, or a titanium frame for $599. The Race 2 offers long battery life, extensive customization, personalized coaching, and reliable accuracy. There is no support for subscription music or payment systems and the app store is limited primarily to sports apps. View now at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I went many years without testing Suunto products,

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Finally, a 16-inch Windows laptop that I wouldn't mind putting away my MacBook Pro for

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-10-23 11:13:00

Acer Swift 16 AI ZDNET's key takeaways The Acer Swift 16 AI is regularly priced at $1,250. Its 16-inch OLED display, well-designed lightweight form, and marathon battery work together to create a laptop that feels more premium than its price would suggest. Its speakers, however, leave much to be desired, and it has its fair share of bloatware. $1,249.99 at Best Buy Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Acer's Swift 16 AI is a thin and light laptop with a gorgeous OLED display

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Russia’s state-run human spaceflight company may be near bankruptcy

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-23 11:54:54

The chief of Russia's main spacecraft manufacturer issued a dire warning this week, saying that his corporation has reached a "critical" condition and cannot continue in its present state. "The situation is critical: multi-million dollar debts, interest on loans that 'eat up' the budget, many processes that are ineffective, and a significant part of the team has lost motivation and a sense of shared responsibility," wrote Igor Maltsev, chief of RSC Energia, which is located near Moscow. Maltse

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With Starship Flight 10, SpaceX prioritized resilience over perfection

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-10-23 11:39:43

SpaceX has long marketed Starship as a fully and rapidly reusable rocket that’s designed to deliver thousands of pounds of cargo to Mars and make life multiplanetary. But reusability at scale means a space vehicle that can tolerate mishaps and faults, so that a single failure doesn’t spell a mission-ending catastrophe. The 10th test flight on Tuesday evening demonstrated SpaceX’s focus on fault tolerance. In a post-flight update, SpaceX said the test stressed “the limits of vehicle capabilities

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Why the sports watch I recommend for most athletes is not by Garmin or Samsung

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-10-23 23:51:00

Suunto Race 2 smartwatch ZDNET's key takeaways The Suunto Race 2 is available with a stainless steel frame for $499, or a titanium frame for $599. The Race 2 offers long battery life, extensive customization, personalized coaching, and reliable accuracy. There is no support for subscription music or payment systems and the app store is limited primarily to sports apps. View now at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I went many years without testing Suunto products,

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Last-Minute Software Patch Saves Jupiter Probe Ahead of Critical Venus Flyby

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-10-23 23:35:40

An exceptionally heavy interplanetary probe is on an eight-year journey to Jupiter, using the gravity of Earth and Venus to propel it on its path toward the gas giant. Just weeks before its scheduled flyby of Venus, the European Space Agency’s JUICE mission went silent, threatening its ability to perform the planetary encounter. Unable to communicate with the spacecraft, teams of engineers got to work on figuring out the problem under a tight schedule, hoping their efforts would reach JUICE as

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New Fossils Reveal Ankylosaur With Armor Unlike Any Other Animal, Living or Dead

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-10-24 03:00:05

Ankylosaurs were squat and thick four-legged dinosaurs with club tails and tough body armor. In other words, invincible Pokémon. A new fossil discovery, however, has revealed that the earliest ankylosaurs were several orders of magnitude more badass than their descendants. In a study published today in the journal Nature, researchers describe the partial skeleton of a Spicomellus, a genus of early ankylosaurs, unearthed in Morocco and dating to around 165 million years ago. The finding includes

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Lawmaker: Trump’s Golden Dome will end the madness, and that’s not a good thing

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-24 04:00:15

"The underlying issue here is whether US missile defense should remain focused on the threat from rogue states and... accidental launches, and explicitly refrain from countering missile threats from China or Russia," DesJarlais said. He called the policy of Mutually Assured Destruction "outdated." President Donald Trump speaks alongside Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in the Oval Office at the White House on May 20, 2025, in Washington, DC. President Trump announced his plans for the Golden D

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Under pressure after setbacks, SpaceX’s huge rocket finally goes the distance

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-24 07:48:05

STARBASE, Texas—SpaceX launched the 10th test flight of the company's Starship rocket Tuesday evening, sending the stainless steel spacecraft halfway around the world to an on-target splashdown in the Indian Ocean. The largely successful mission for the world's largest rocket was an important milestone for SpaceX's Starship program after months of repeated setbacks, including three disappointing test flights and a powerful explosion on the ground that destroyed the ship that engineers were orig

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SpaceX's giant Starship Mars rocket nails critical 10th test flight

news.ycombinator.com Mike Wall 2025-10-24 11:01:57

SpaceX's Starship megarocket took to the skies for the 10th time ever today (Aug. 26), on a bold test flight that marked a big bounceback from recent failures. Starship, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, lifted off from SpaceX's Starbase site in South Texas today at 7:30 p.m. EDT (2330 GMT; 6:30 p.m. local Texas time). That was two days later than originally planned; an issue with ground systems at Starbase forced a scrub on Sunday (Aug. 24), and bad weather caused another one on

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Object-oriented design patterns in C and kernel development

news.ycombinator.com Oshub Team 2025-10-23 06:34:15

My scheduler operations implementation A benefit of working on your own operating system is that you’re free from the usual "restraints" of collaboration and real applications. That has always been a major factor in my interest in osdev. You don’t have to worry about releasing your program, or about critical security vulnerabilities, or about hundreds of people having to maintain your code. A benefit of working on your own operating system is that you’re free from the usual "restraints" of co

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SpaceX Starship Finally Pulls Off a Successful Test Flight

wired.com Javier Carbajal 2025-10-24 11:52:01

Elon Musk and his SpaceX team can breathe a collective sigh of relief. After days of postponements, Starship was finally able to launch its tenth test could flight from the launch pad in Starbase, Texas. SpaceX's largest and most powerful rocket lifted off this Tuesday, August 26 at 7:30pm ET, reached an altitude of 192 kilometers, and embarked on a suborbital trajectory at more than 26,000 kilometers per hour towards the Indian Ocean, where the spacecraft splashed down an hour after liftoff.

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Voice recording on Nothing Phone 3’s Essential Space gets a due upgrade

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-24 22:34:51

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Nothing has updated the voice recorder functionality in Essential Space. With this update, the voice recordings will not have complete transcriptions instead of just summaries. The update is limited to Nothing Phone 3 and has yet to arrive on the Phone 3a, which offers similar summarization functionality for voice notes. The Nothing Phone 3 may stop short of being the perfect flagship, but it has some unique and nifty elements. One of them is Essential S

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This 16-inch Acer with an OLED screen has no business being this good for the price

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-10-24 21:30:21

Acer Swift 16 AI ZDNET's key takeaways The Acer Swift 16 AI is regularly priced at $1,250. Its 16-inch OLED display, well-designed lightweight form, and marathon battery work together to create a laptop that feels more premium than its price would suggest. Its speakers, however, leave much to be desired, and it has its fair share of bloatware. $1,249.99 at Best Buy Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Acer's Swift 16 AI is a thin and light laptop with a gorgeous OLED display

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SpaceX's Starship deploys its payload for the first time

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-24 21:50:30

SpaceX has successfully launched the Starship for its 10th test flight after it was delayed a couple of times due to weather conditions and other issues. This time, the company was able to achieve its objectives without the vehicle and its booster exploding mid-test. One of those objectives was deploying Starship's payload for the first time ever. If you'll recall, Starship exploded during its ascent stage in the company's seventh and eighth test flights. The vehicle made it to space for its nin

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