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New Report Finds That China's Space Program Is Rapidly Outstripping NASA

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-21 00:05:54

While the sitting US government strips NASA of its expert leadership and funding, it seems China is more than happy to take up the mantle. A new report from the Commercial Space Federation, a lobbying group fighting for the interests of the privatized space industry, found that China's space program is experiencing a meteoric rise, and will soon pose a significant challenge to the US' dominant position in space. Posed as a "risk assessment" of the pressure Chinese competition puts on "American

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A new report finds China’s space program will soon equal that of the US

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-25 05:22:38

As Jonathan Roll neared completion of a master's degree in science and technology policy at Arizona State University three years ago, he did some research into recent developments by China's ascendant space program. He came away impressed by the country's growing ambitions. Now a full-time research analyst at the university, Roll was recently asked to take a deeper dive into Chinese space plans. "I thought I had a pretty good read on this when I was finishing grad school," Roll told Ars. "That

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Vodafone is testing an AI 'actor' to sell its products instead of paying a human to do it

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-08 13:53:01

Vodafone made a commercial starring an AI avatar posing as a real lady. This is interesting because Vodafone is a major global brand and not a fly-by-night TikTok company using a ridiculous deepfake of Jackson Galaxy to sell cat toys. The tells in the commercial are obvious and what one would expect. The AI avatar's hair is a bit off, which ruins the charade that this is a real person. The physical mannerisms and speaking tone are also wonky. A facial mole moves around at one point. It's AI. Yo

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Commercials Are Coming to NFL RedZone This Season... Sigh

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-13 01:31:55

The game of football is perfectly suited for television. Like most sports, football provides a natural break at the end of each quarter or half of play, as well as after a team scores, where the TV broadcast can cut to a commercial. Unlike other sports, a change in possession in football requires a full replacement of every player on the field, giving broadcasters additional opportunities for ad breaks as players run off and on the field. Football fans know this much before sitting down to watc

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RubyMine is now free for non-commercial use

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-18 03:25:08

Iryna Pisklyarova Read this post in other languages: 日本語 Hold on to your helper methods – RubyMine is now FREE for non-commercial use! Whether you’re learning Ruby and Rails, pushing open-source forward, creating dev content, or building your passion project, we want to make sure you have the tools to enjoy what you do even more… for free. Another chapter in the story We recently introduced a new licensing model for WebStorm, RustRover, Rider, and CLion – making them free for non-commercial u

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RubyMine Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-18 08:25:08

Iryna Pisklyarova Read this post in other languages: 日本語 Hold on to your helper methods – RubyMine is now FREE for non-commercial use! Whether you’re learning Ruby and Rails, pushing open-source forward, creating dev content, or building your passion project, we want to make sure you have the tools to enjoy what you do even more… for free. Another chapter in the story We recently introduced a new licensing model for WebStorm, RustRover, Rider, and CLion – making them free for non-commercial u

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Trump orders cull of regulations governing commercial rocket launches

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-19 17:45:35

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday directing government agencies to "eliminate or expedite" environmental reviews for commercial launch and reentry licenses. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), part of the Department of Transportation (DOT), grants licenses for commercial launch and reentry operations. The FAA is charged with ensuring launch and reentries don't endanger the public, comply with environmental laws, and comport with US national interests. The drive

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NASA Told to Overhaul Its Plans to Replace the International Space Station

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-12-02 08:27:23

For nearly 30 years, the International Space Station has played orbital home for astronauts from all over the world, but its time is running out. Slated to retire in 2030, NASA is aiming to replace it with a privately-run station that can host its astronauts in space when needed. And now under pressure to get a new station up and running fast and within a slashed budget, NASA’s current head—U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy—is completely overhauling the agency’s plans to replace the ISS.

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NASA Rewrites the Rules for Developers of Private Space Stations

wired.com Eric Berger 2025-12-02 04:30:00

About five years from now, a modified Dragon spacecraft will begin to fire its Draco thrusters, pushing the International Space Station out of its orbit and sending the largest object humans have built in space inexorably to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. And then what? China’s Tiangong Space Station will still be going strong. NASA, however, faces a serious risk of losing its foothold in low-Earth orbit. Space agency leaders have long recognized this and nearly half a decade ago awarded abo

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NASA’s new chief has radically rewritten the rules for private space stations

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-04 08:18:13

About five years from now, a modified Dragon spacecraft will begin to fire its Draco thrusters, pushing the International Space Station out of its orbit and sending the largest object humans have built in space inexorably to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. And then what? China's Tiangong Space Station will still be going strong. NASA, however, faces a serious risk of losing its foothold in low-Earth orbit. Space agency leaders have long recognized this and nearly half a decade ago awarded abo

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Affluent Travelers Are Ditching Business Class for Business Jets

wired.com Hannah Towey 2026-02-11 03:00:00

We’re cruising 35,000 feet over the French Riviera, the plane’s wing cutting through billows of white. Below us, the sea is sparkling, and I spot a cluster of yachts anchored along the coastline. A ray of light hits my glass of Champagne and turns it to liquid gold. I take another sip. So this is what it feels like to be on cloud nine. I’m flying from London to St. Tropez with the private aviation company Wheels Up, and for the first time in my life, I don’t want a flight to end. Once you’ve go

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Apple Ads Aren't Cool Anymore. Here's What I Think Changed

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-19 05:00:00

Nothing about Apple's latest promotional video felt like Apple. For over 7 minutes, an awkward comedian explains to a sleepy audience of disinterested teens that the only way parents will buy them an expensive MacBook for college is to make a convincing PowerPoint business presentation. Problem was, the presentation wasn't convincing -- and it was hard to tell who the video was even targeting. Do the parents who raised the iPad generation need to be swayed to buy Apple products? Or was Apple tr

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FLUX.1 Kontext [Dev] – Open Weights for Image Editing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-21 22:31:58

Up until today, all capable generative image editing models were only available as proprietary tools. Today, that changes. We release FLUX.1 Kontext [dev], our developer version of FLUX.1 Kontext [pro], which delivers proprietary-level image editing performance in a 12B parameter model that can run on consumer hardware. Making model weights openly accessible is fundamental to technological innovation. FLUX.1 Kontext [dev] is now available as an open-weight model under the FLUX.1 Non-Commercial

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Apple keeps pulling its own ads

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-03-02 12:13:28

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. Apple has taken down a new ad just one day after posting it, making it the fourth one removed in just over a year, as spotted earlier by MacRumors. The nearly eight-minute-long ad, titled “The Parent Presentation,” featured comedian Martin Herlihy giving students advice on how to convince their parents to buy them a Mac. Apple posted the ad on Frid

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Companies may soon pay a fee for their rockets to share the skies with airplanes

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-15 03:07:40

The Federal Aviation Administration may soon levy fees on companies seeking launch and reentry licenses, a new tack in the push to give the agency the resources it needs to keep up with the rapidly growing commercial space industry. The text of a budget reconciliation bill released by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) last week calls for the FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation, known as AST, to begin charging licensing fees to space companies next year. The fees would phase in over eight year

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Roundtable (YC S23) Is Hiring a President / CRO

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-17 18:00:00

Roundtable is a research and deployment company building the proof-of-human layer in digital identity. Roundtable seeks to research and build real-world Turing Tests, and to productize these developments in bot detection, fraud prevention, and continuous authentication. You’ll be joining Roundtable’s C-suite alongside CEO Mayank Agrawal and CTO Mathew Hardy. The primary job will be to design, manage, and execute the commercial muscle of the company. You should be prepared to spend your time do

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Latest Tech News

New Report Finds That China's Space Program Is Rapidly Outstripping NASA

A new report finds China’s space program will soon equal that of the US

Vodafone is testing an AI 'actor' to sell its products instead of paying a human to do it

Commercials Are Coming to NFL RedZone This Season... Sigh

RubyMine is now free for non-commercial use

RubyMine Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use

Trump orders cull of regulations governing commercial rocket launches

NASA Told to Overhaul Its Plans to Replace the International Space Station

NASA Rewrites the Rules for Developers of Private Space Stations

NASA’s new chief has radically rewritten the rules for private space stations

Affluent Travelers Are Ditching Business Class for Business Jets

Apple Ads Aren't Cool Anymore. Here's What I Think Changed

FLUX.1 Kontext [Dev] – Open Weights for Image Editing

Apple keeps pulling its own ads

Companies may soon pay a fee for their rockets to share the skies with airplanes

Roundtable (YC S23) Is Hiring a President / CRO

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