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We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.
ALT A full disk image of Earth, as seen from the Orion capsule. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. From about 8 to 9 o'clock, a large brown landmass is Africa, with the Iberian peninsula twinkling with lights just where the planet curves. At the 1 o'clock spot, aurora glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space. Credit: NASA/Reid Weisman
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Boom is supersonic. On Jan. 28, 2025 at 8:31am PST / 16:31 GMT, XB-1 broke the sound barrier.
Chief Test Pilot Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg safely and successfully achieved supersonic speed in XB-1, the first civil supersonic jet made in America.
✅New top speed: Mach 1.122 (652 KTAS)
✅New max altitude: 35,290 ft.
✅Flight time: 34 minutes
✅Airspace: Bell X-1 Supersonic Corridor and the Black Mountain Supersonic Corridor in Mojave, CA
XB-1 demonstrates that Boom has the team, technology, and tools to deliver supersonic commercial travel with Overture, cutting travel times in half.
Congratulations to the Boom team on making aviation history!
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I'm hiring full time engineers and geometry processing and computer vision researchers to help us read hundreds of ancient scrolls buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius 2000 years ago.
We are scanning 100 scrolls this year (20x more than have been scanned in the last 25 years) and are closer than ever to automating the full unwrapping and ink detection pipeline.
Please apply by emailing [email protected]
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THE @BLASTTV AUSTIN MAJOR 2025
👉 blast.tv/article/blast-cs-ma…
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For the last couple months, our team has been working hard on a few paradigm-changing features for HTML Canvas.
One of them is the ability to have HTML elements in a canvas.
Here's a ThreeJS demo with a live HTML texture.
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Experience the magic of the #SIGGRAPH2023 Real-Time Live! online. We will be streaming LIVE exclusively on Twitch on 8 August from 6-7:45 pm. Follow @ACMSIGGRAPH on Twitch and set a reminder for the show ✨ bit.ly/3D80cpK
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The top 10 predictors of successful engineering careers.
I've helped hire 100s of engineers in my 12+ year career. I've managed and steered the careers of multiple engineering teams.
Some of these may surprise you, but I am confident they predict career success in our industry.
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Here is what confuses me about San Francisco.
We have the most liberal, left-wing government & population in the country.
We have a $13B budget.
And we have 8,000 people sleeping in the rain this week.
Can someone please explain this to me?
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I've been working on an investigation for the past two months, and it's deeper than I've gone on a story in a long time.
This isn't just another video. It's the REAL reason McDonalds ice cream machines are always broken.
youtu.be/SrDEtSlqJC4
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This got buried in the crush of news yesterday. FB abandoned drilling equipment and 6,500 gallons of drilling fluids under sea floor in OR. Is this not a perfect metaphor? Move fast, break things, leave behind toxic waste, hope no one notices.
Facebook was drilling under the Oregon coast to connect a high-speed cable to Asia earlier this year when an accident left drilling equipment and 6,500 gallons of drilling fluid stranded beneath the seafloor. The company has no plans to retrieve it.
oregonlive.com/environment/2…
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Dorking: the use of search engines to find very specific data alec.fyi/dorking-how-to-find…
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to all of you who had waited patiently to have a README on your @github profile—it works now! try it out ✨
xitter.cf/pifafu/status/12657731…
hey, so we heard ya & are trying out a thing where you CAN have a readme on your @github profile...
@mikekavouras built it btw! re: xitter.cf/pifafu/status/12628300…
