On August 12-13, 24 students from the West Coast cohort of NASA’s Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) gathered at University of California, Irvine (UCI)
Mark Zuckerberg basically just confirmed that your feeds will soon be full of AI-generated content. Another reason the fediverse needs to exist: so that you can follow humans. theverge.com/24253481/meta-ceo…
NASA is advancing an innovative approach to enabling commercial inspection of defunct, or inoperable, satellites in low Earth orbit, a precursor to capturing
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In an interview with The Verge, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that existing research shows there isn’t a causal connection linking social media platforms and teen mental health.
NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia is scheduled to support the launch of a suborbital sounding rocket for the Department of Defense during a launch
NASA launched its reimagined art program by unveiling two murals on Sept. 23, 2024. The murals, titled “To the Moon, and Back,” were created by New York-based
As systems integration team lead for NASA’s Commercial Low Earth Orbit Development Program (CLDP), Hector Chavez helps build a future where NASA and private
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Manufacturing equipment that will be used to build components for NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for future Artemis missions is being installed at
NASA’s TBIRD (TeraByte InfraRed Delivery) demonstration and its host spacecraft — the PTD-3 (Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator-3) — have completed their
This @coloradosun headline should be "Elon Musk's nonprofit-y brother Kimbal illegally fired workers for organizing and has to pay a pittance": coloradosun.com/2024/09/25/bro…
#México Mañana se cumplen 10 años de la desaparición de los 43 normalistas de #Ayotzinapa.
43 estudiantes que fueron secuestrados y desaparecidos sin que ningún gobierno desde entonces haya hecho lo suficiente para encontrarles o encontrar a los autores de esas desapariciones forzadas.
There are some interesting referral statistics embedded in this piece. Facebook referral traffic has fallen more than 40% over the last year; referrals from Reddit have increased by 88%. #Mediawerd.io/2024/google-discover-i…
It's remarkable what a force Google Discover has become, while Google search slowly shrinks for many publishers. One theory I like is that Google is throwing publishers a bone with Discover traffic, while they take away search traffic via AI Overviews. But as the Niemen article notes, Discover is much more of a black box algorithm — there are few ways to optimize for it. And yes, social drives no traffic these days; all the main centralized platforms de-emphasize links now.
And even the open social platforms often strip referrers and utm tags, so nobody knows how if traffic comes from there. (Still Mastodon's biggest own-goal imo.)
I agree re: Discover counterbalancing search. It's such a shift towards the curated and sanitized, alongside the black box nature of it. I don't think it'll end well.
Even if we didn't set Referrer-Policy deliberately, a lot of our activity happens in native mobile apps that wouldn't send a Referer header anyway. And even if we got it all working, you'd have no way to group it all under "fediverse", it'd just be thousands of individual domains... I don't see what we can do here.
An all-volunteer crew on a simulated trip to Mars "returned” to Earth on Sept. 23, 2024, after being isolated in a tiny habitat at Johnson Space Center in
At NASA’s White Sands Test Facility (WSTF), Fire Department Deputy Chief James Herrera and his team were on high alert from the moment the blaze began.
Un nuevo estudio presentado por la Universidad de California indica que este modelo de #IA, inteligencia artificial, consume hasta 3 botellas de agua para generar apenas 100 palabras
El modelo GPT-4 de OpenAI consume muchísima agua. Un nuevo estudio presentado por la Universidad de California indica que el modelo de IA, inteligencia...
Whether the cargo, also known as payloads, are small scientific experiments or large technology to build infrastructure, there won’t be a crew on the Moon to
Looking deep into the early universe with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have found something unprecedented: a galaxy with an odd light signature, which they attribute to its gas outshining its stars.
We, the undersigned, pledge to boycott and not visit The Canary Islands until the octopus farm proposal is dropped and octopuses are recognised as sentient beings in Gran Canaria.
I am struck by how throroughly the modern laws of war supposedly repudiate targeted (and "treacherous") assasination, considering how thoroughly normalized it has become in the US-backed wars. For instance: lieber.westpoint.edu/assassina…
Lori Arnett approaches her work at NASA with a simple motto: think big, start small, act fast. As the Associate Director for Digital Transformation for the
The open source and cross-platform Nexus Mods app that's currently in development has a new 0.6.1 release available for testing with some nice improvements.
Time again for some big savings, along with completing your Resident Evil collection with the GOG Autumn Sale now live with the re-release of Resident Evil 3: Nemesis.
With the two previous games World and RISE being Steam Deck Verified, I'm hopeful that Monster Hunter Wilds will also be playable on Steam Deck (and Desktop Linux) with Valve's Proton when it launches February 28, 2025.
Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered wasn't the only Horizon announcement from Sony's State of Play, with LEGO Horizon Adventures set to arrive on November 14.
Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver 1&2 Remastered are real and they're coming to PC on December 10, with Aspyr Media once again taking control of updating older games.
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •@Gargron @Bluewall "I don't believe that nicotine or our products are addictive."
Joseph Taddeo, president of US Tobacco, in a statement to Congress in 1994.
Four other tobacco and cigarette executives gave the same statement.
The tobacco industry intentionally engineered cigarettes to make them more addictive for most of the 20th century.