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A Chinese Zhuque-2E rocket's upper stage broke apart shortly after last week's June 9 launch, likely creating 100 to 150 pieces of debris in a busy region of low-Earth orbit crossed by the ISS and lower-altitude Starlink satellites. Most fragments should reenter within months because of atmospheric drag, but experts say the incident adds to a worsening trend as China leaves more large rocket bodies in orbit while expanding its launch rate. Ars Technica reports: The US Space Force confirmed the breakup event
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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В последнее время Meshtastic переживает своего рода ренессанс. Изобретённый в 2020 году протокол дальней радиосвязи на технологии LoRa раньше использовался для организации mesh-сетей в городах, во время стихийных бедствий, в небольших группах в походах и на кемпинге, для поисково-спасательных операций. Но в последнее время Meshtastic привлекает всё больше новых пользователей, а сфера использования расширяется.Рост популярности можно объяснить сбоями в работе интернета по всему миру и желанием наладить надёж Read more ›
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The 30-minute activation is themed to the upcoming DC show, premiering on August 16. Read more ›
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When it comes to having the smoothest, flattest foldable display, the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra does very well — but there’s another phone that does it even better. Read more ›
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As Batman fans eagerly await The Batman Part II, now with a 2028 release, here are 3 of my favorite Batman 4K Blu-rays to watch at home Read more ›
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Сколько глаз у человека? Два.А в сфере машинного обучения модели умеют видеть любую сразу тысячей или миллионами глаз. Мы живем в 3-х мерном пространстве(3D), и видим 2-х мерную картину мира. Модель, в свою очередь, обитает в цифровом пространстве. Она может видеть ваши 2D фото, 3D модель в Blender сразу со всех сторон и спокойно построить параллелепипед в 15D. Мы отлично ориентируемся в двух измерениях, немного хуже в трех, а дальше... Read more ›
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buildingSMART готовит новую версию открытого BIM-стандарта IFC5. Здесь, в отличие от монолитной ООП-иерархии (IFC2x3, IFC4), применяется компонентный ECS-подход (Entity Component System). То есть в IFC5 объект собирается из независимых частей (геометрия, материалы, свойства), которые можно комбинировать и пересобирать отдельно друг от друга. Разработка ведётся публично в репозитории buildingSMART/IFC5-development/ на GitHub, финальная спецификация пока не выпущена.Однако ниже будет не про IFC5, а о том, чт Read more ›
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Apple will refresh its Series 12 and Ultra 4 watches with better specs, but not a design overhaul. Read more ›
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There's a lot of conflicting data on how long a nuclear power plant can last, with some erroneously stating nuclear plants have to be retired after a set time. Read more ›
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From the site tech-news site XDA Developers: The consumer tech economy needs more DRAM manufacturers, and it needs them more urgently than perhaps at any point in its history. Anyone keeping track of the pricing trends will know that memory prices have climbed into the stratosphere on the back of AI infrastructure's relentless demand, and every consumer device that depends on RAM has traveled from inflated to unaffordable, quarter after... Read more ›
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Some smartphones are easy to recommend. Others come with enough compromises that you'll probably wish you picked something else after a few months. Read more ›
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Jeff Bezos, the founder of the company that just became the number one Fortune 500 business, says the cure for anxiety is not rest or meditation but action. Speaking at the Museum of Flight in Seattle in 2017, Bezos told an audience of students that stress is a signal from the body that something is […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Apple currently plans to unveil its first smart glasses at WWDC 2027 next June, and privacy will be a focus, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. For the glasses, Apple is prototyping "a slew of new hardware and software-related privacy features" that are not available on current products, he said. He did not mention any specific features, but he noted that Apple's marketing will likely emphasize the privacy measures of its... Read more ›
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The Prime Video series adaptation of Stephen King's 1974 novel arrives on October 7. Read more ›
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В этом блоге я не раз писал о компактных объектах звёздной массы, обладающих причудливыми физическими свойствами. Одним из наиболее известных таких объектов является нейтронная звезда или пульсар. Если вам интересна краткая история изучения нейтронных звёзд, рекомендую посмотреть статью Д. М. Полякова «Нейтронные звёзды и пульсары», опубликованную на сайте Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета в 2014 году. Тем интереснее, что уже в 2015 году были открыты гравитационные волны, распространяющиеся Read more ›
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Hyundai and Kia have been working on adapting existing UV light sanitization technology currently used in hospitals for safe applications in passenger vehicles. Read more ›
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I expected grief to look one way. Instead, parenting, moving, and everyday life forced me to grieve in ways I never anticipated. Read more ›
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"A humanoid robot lost its head," reports Newsweek, "during the world's first free-combat tournament for full-sized humanoid robots." The Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend competition began Thursday in Shenzhen, China, according to the article, with local robotics company EngineAI providing $40,000 of their "T800" robots (yes, named after The Terminator) to 32 participating teams from around the world: A video shared of the combat on YouTube by local news outlet Shenzhen... Read more ›
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"Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have been given a glimpse of the mechanisms that supermassive black holes use to feed themselves," reports Space.com: The powerful cosmic titans get really puzzling when astronomers using the JWST spot them before the universe was even 1 billion years old. That's because the mechanisms by which black holes devour matter to grow and then merge to create even more massive black... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from the Los Angeles Times: A federal judge has halted California's groundbreaking "Truth in Recycling" law, which aims to reduce consumer confusion about which packaging can be recycled. [Originally planned to take effect October 4th], California's recyclable packaging law prohibits manufacturers from using a "chasing arrows" recycling symbol on products or materials unless they are actually being recycled in a meaningful way, which the... Read more ›
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"If tired or wasted passengers fall asleep in a traditional taxi or rideshare, the driver can shout or shake them awake," reports Bloomberg. "Not so in a robotaxi..." Ditto Kasendar remembers soft music drifting from the robotaxi's speakers as he rode home late at night from a friend's birthday party in 2025. The next moment, Los Angeles firefighters were opening the door and asking if he was OK. His six-minute... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from Tom's Hardware: The Zilog Z80 has just turned 50 years old. This iconic 8-bit processor first went on sale in July 1976 and stayed in production for 48 years until Zilog, now a Littelfuse subsidiary, stopped accepting orders in June 2024. However, there's an open-source replacement closer than ever to shipping in the chip's original 40-pin DIP package thanks to community-funded fabrication... The... Read more ›
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The Washington Post describes a mid-tier executive at Meta as one of Silicon Valley's "winners" whose financial security suddenly "evaporated" as their workforce "pushed headlong into AI and heavy job cuts," creating a transformed job market. "Her ex-husband, a designer at Meta who was laid off in 2020, eventually gave up looking for jobs in his profession. He now lifts boxes at a warehouse." Layoffs.fyi, which tracks announced job cuts,... Read more ›
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ZDNet reports on June's Open Source Summit India 2026 in Mumbai, where Linux stable kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman gave a talk titled "Rust and Linux: How the Rust Language is Going to Help Linux Succeed." Kroah-Hartman said in his keynote that "the [Linux] kernel is moving toward Rust. Git is moving toward Rust. Lots of projects are starting to move toward Rust." He didn't always feel that way. Kroah-Hartman added,... Read more ›
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Ask Claude to make a pamphlet critical of China's leader, Thailand's king, or Saudi Arabia's crown prince — and it will decline, reports the Associated Press. That's "a key finding from a Meta Oversight Board study released Thursday," their article points out: AI systems are more than twice as likely to refuse to product critical material if it's about a restrictive world leader or government. And it raises concerns that... Read more ›
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James Cameron filmed his Avatar sequels there. Marvel filmed Thor, Iron Man 2, and The Avengers. Manhattan Beach Studios in Los Angeles even handled Star Wars' series like Obi-Wan Kenobi and The Mandalorian, which Bloomberg points out is about "a heavily armed bounty hunter in a galaxy far, far away." "Now lenders who are selling the property's $240 million mortgage are promoting the site to potential buyers as a hub... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from XDA Developers: One of the founding members of The Document Foundation and handler of LibreOffice's PR and media relations, Italo Vignoli, took to the LibreOffice blog to call out Microsoft's practices with its Office application. The last time we saw Vignoli take to the stage, we saw him accusing Euro-Office of being just as bad as Microsoft with its practices. Vignoli's new post... Read more ›
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