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Nasa brought crashing down to earth as budget threat follows lunar success

Today at 14:00 PM, via The Guardian

Artemis II inspired the public but the Trump administration wants to slash the science underpinning human spaceflight

It should have been a victory lap for Jared Isaacman. The Nasa administrator was in Washington DC for what he surely hoped would be a celebration with lawmakers and the US president, little more than two weeks after the successful conclusion of the first human journey around the...

Smuggled Starlink Terminals are Beating Iran’s Internet Blackout

Today at 13:34 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shared this report from the BBC:”If even one extra person is able to access the internet, I think it’s successful and it’s worth it,” says Sahand. The Iranian man is visibly anxious, speaking to the BBC outside Iran, as he carefully explains how he is part of a clandestine network smuggling satellite internet technology — which is illegal in Iran — into the country....

UK ‘invention agency’ grants £50m of public money to US tech and venture capital firms

Today at 11:00 AM, via The Guardian

Exclusive: Brainchild of Dominic Cummings, Aria is aimed at funding ‘crazy’ scientific projects to benefit the UK

Britain’s “invention agency” has pledged £50m of UK taxpayer money to US tech companies and venture capital projects.

Dreamed up by Dominic Cummings to fund “crazy” ideas, the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria) is meant to “restore Britain’s place as a scientific...

Claude, Microsoft Copilot Fail Again to Predict the Winners of the Kentucky Derby

Today at 09:34 AM, via Slashdot

In 2016 an online “swarm intelligence” platform generated a correct prediction for the Kentucky Derby — naming all four top finishers in order. (But its 2017 predictions weren’t even close.) Slashdot checked in again on how modern AI systems performed in 2023, 2024, and 2025 — but their predictions were still pretty bad. Would AI-generated Derby predictions be any better in 2026? This...

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Today at 07:00 AM, via Wired

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Today at 07:00 AM, via Wired

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Today at 07:00 AM, via Wired

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Chinese Exports of Green Technologies Surged to Record Levels After Iran War Began

Today at 05:34 AM, via Slashdot

“The war in Iran has sent oil-starved countries scrambling for fuel,” CNN reported this week. And many of those countries now want renewable fuels, the article points out, “leaving them turning to the renewables king of the planet: China.”Chinese exports of solar technology, batteries and electric vehicles all reached record highs in March, according to energy think tank Ember, a sign that the...

Former NASA Engineers Create Ingenious Way To Save Homes From Wildfires Using Noise

Today at 03:34 AM, via Slashdot

“Scientists have created a miraculous new way to stop fires from spreading through neighborhoods using nothing but sound,” reports the New York Post:Former NASA engineers with California-based Sonic Fire Tech found that using sound waves can snuff out blazes and potentially be used to stop another Pacific Palisades inferno… The technology works by targeting oxygen molecules using low-frequency...

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