Today in Elon Musk (opens the source in a new tab)
100 square miles of solar panels will do it. Yawfle recommends Detroit
One-Shots
US to Create Independent Cyber Command (opens the source in a new tab)
Short of creating a new branch - but would get it away from the NSA
Most of Your DNA Is Junk (opens the source in a new tab)
Some more than others, perhaps. 75% is the new estimate.
Yandex Open Sources Machine Learning Library (opens the source in a new tab)
Russian search provider releases CatBoost machine learning system
National Space Council Gaining Support (opens the source in a new tab)
Seems like a decent idea - especially if it boosts commercial space
Is Dark Matter Real? (opens the source in a new tab)
It always seemed like a fudge factor to me. Indetectable = untestable
New macOS Malware Spreading (opens the source in a new tab)
Mac has been safer than windows since forever - but nothing lasts
Can Gut Microbes Encourage Altruism? (opens the source in a new tab)
Or can they encourage its opposite?
Successful Test of 3 Megajoule Blitzer™ Railgun (opens the source in a new tab)
General Atomics plans a 10MJ Railgun for next year
Is the Standard Model for Particle Physics Cracking? (opens the source in a new tab)
Perhaps, yes, but also not cracking the way they expected.
Facebook AIs Talked to Each Other, and Kept Inventing New Languages (opens the source in a new tab)
And we can't understand them. Skynet.
Successful Test of Mach 8 Hypersonic Missile (opens the source in a new tab)
Joint US-Australia project
What if Humanity Were the Scary Xenomorphs? (opens the source in a new tab)
Been reading the Jenkinsverse. It's free, and it's fun. Check it out.
355 Issues of Galaxy Mag Available on Archive.org (opens the source in a new tab)
3 decades' worth from 1950 to 1980. Heinlein, Ellison, Bradbury...
Video of XB-70 Valkyrie Emergency Landing (opens the source in a new tab)
Cool story and amazing vid
Make Space Great Again (opens the source in a new tab)
Gov't meets with space capitalists to talk policy.
Let's Figure Out What It Would Take to Kill All Life on Earth (opens the source in a new tab)
Vesta-sized asteroid, or gamma ray burst. OR CLIMATE CHANGE.
Face Scanning DHS Security Theater (opens the source in a new tab)
Opt-out by not flying. Yet another privacy-invasion that won't help
Uber Becomes Minority Partner with Russian Yandex (opens the source in a new tab)
Yandex CEO will become CEO of the new company
Ravens Plot World Conquest (opens the source in a new tab)
Well, maybe not. But they do plan ahead.