Non-IT News Thread
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The first private mission to the Moon may launch Thursday night
"What it means to me is that the responsibility is very high."
The 180kg Beresheet spacecraft, privately developed by SpaceIL in Israel and funded largely through philanthropy, will spend more than six weeks raising its orbit and becoming captured into lunar orbit before finally making the first private attempt to land on the Moon. Until now, only the US, Russian, and Chinese space agencies have ever successfully landed on the Moon.
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
The first private mission to the Moon may launch Thursday night
"What it means to me is that the responsibility is very high."
The 180kg Beresheet spacecraft, privately developed by SpaceIL in Israel and funded largely through philanthropy, will spend more than six weeks raising its orbit and becoming captured into lunar orbit before finally making the first private attempt to land on the Moon. Until now, only the US, Russian, and Chinese space agencies have ever successfully landed on the Moon.
Unmanned, but still very cool.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Anything that differentiates this one from the hundreds of others that have been tried before?
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@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Anything that differentiates this one from the hundreds of others that have been tried before?
Made by a major, commercially successful helicopter company?
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Anything that differentiates this one from the hundreds of others that have been tried before?
Made by a major, commercially successful helicopter company?
They haven't had as many failures then. I wonder if they're starting to see some real demand for them now?
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Nike’s self-lacing sneakers turn into bricks after faulty firmware update
$350 self-lacing sneakers don't work with Nike's official Android app.
Nike users are experiencing some technical difficulties in the wild world of connected footwear. Nike's $350 "Adapt BB" sneakers are the latest in the company's line of self-lacing shoes, and they come with the "Nike Adapt" app for Android and iOS. The app pairs with the shoes and lets you adjust the tightness of the laces, customize the lights (yeah, there are lights), and see, uh, how much battery life your shoes have left. The only problem: Nike's Android app doesn't work.
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
he only problem: Nike's Android app doesn't work.
Um, yeah, that's the only problem, haha.
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Nike’s self-lacing sneakers turn into bricks after faulty firmware update
$350 self-lacing sneakers don't work with Nike's official Android app.
Nike users are experiencing some technical difficulties in the wild world of connected footwear. Nike's $350 "Adapt BB" sneakers are the latest in the company's line of self-lacing shoes, and they come with the "Nike Adapt" app for Android and iOS. The app pairs with the shoes and lets you adjust the tightness of the laces, customize the lights (yeah, there are lights), and see, uh, how much battery life your shoes have left. The only problem: Nike's Android app doesn't work.
lol
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Florida inmate says prison sold him $569 of music, then took it away
Prisoners who paid $1.70 per song lost access when the prison changed vendors.
Florida inmate William Demler says that since 2012, he has spent $569.50 on digital music via a proprietary digital music service sponsored by the Florida prison system. Demler listened to his music on a prison-sponsored music player he purchased for $99.95. Demler, who is serving a life sentence, says ads for the prison-sponsored service promised access to his music for his entire prison term.
But last year, the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) switched music vendors, and as a result, Demler lost access to his music collection. He was told that he'd need to buy the same songs again using the new system if he wanted to continue listening to them.
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Trump demands quick rollout of “6G” wireless tech, which doesn’t exist
Five Gs not enough: Trump urges rollout of 5G—and 6G, because it's one more G
US President Donald Trump today urged wireless carriers to deploy 5G and "6G" networks "as soon as possible," seemingly ignoring the small problem that 6G technology doesn't exist yet.
"I want 5G, and even 6G, technology in the United States as soon as possible," Trump wrote on Twitter this morning. "It is far more powerful, faster, and smarter than the current standard. American companies must step up their efforts, or get left behind."
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
and smarter than the current standard.
How is a piece of technology "smarter" or at all smart?
It's technology it can't think, it just does as it's designed to do. . .
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Trump demands quick rollout of “6G” wireless tech, which doesn’t exist
Five Gs not enough: Trump urges rollout of 5G—and 6G, because it's one more G
US President Donald Trump today urged wireless carriers to deploy 5G and "6G" networks "as soon as possible," seemingly ignoring the small problem that 6G technology doesn't exist yet.
"I want 5G, and even 6G, technology in the United States as soon as possible," Trump wrote on Twitter this morning. "It is far more powerful, faster, and smarter than the current standard. American companies must step up their efforts, or get left behind."
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@bnrstnr Our president the troll....
pun intended.
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Trump’s mistrust of the intelligence community expands to the climate
Executive order will have the NSC set up an "adversarial" review of science.
On Wednesday, the Washington Post reported that it had obtained a document that suggested the Trump administration was thinking about combining two areas where it has consistently dismissed expert conclusions: climate change and intelligence analysis. While the intelligence community has consistently accepted that climate change creates security risks for the United States, the document suggests that Trump will circumvent its advice by setting up an advisory committee in an effort headed by a retired professor noted for not accepting the conclusions of the scientific community.
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Firefly planning a major rocket assembly and launch facility in Florida
The new location will support the production of up to 24 Alpha rockets a year
On Friday, Texas-based rocket company Firefly announced that it has reached an agreement to develop manufacturing facilities and a launch site at the Cape Canaveral Spaceport in Florida. The new facility will support the production of up to 24 Alpha rockets a year, with the ability to scale from there, company officials said.
These are sizable plans. Over an unspecified period of time, the company said it will invest $52 million into the facilities. Florida’s spaceport development authority, Space Florida, will also provide an additional $18.9 million in infrastructure investments.
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Why putting Xbox games on Switch isn’t as ridiculous as it might sound
Rumored Microsoft/Nintendo collaboration wouldn't be totally out of character.
As the current scuttlebutt has it, an Xbox app to be released for the Switch would let players with a Games Pass subscription play a selection of Xbox One games on Nintendo's hardware. High-end games would work on Nintendo's lower-end hardware thanks to streaming via Microsoft's recently announced Project xCloud. Meanwhile, Microsoft would also sell certain low-end first-party Xbox One games, like the Ori series, to the Switch directly, according to the rumors.
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