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  • Favicon It’s not just Musk. The shadowy Silicon Valley figures pushing politics to the right Added: Oct 12, 2025

    It’s not just Musk. The shadowy Silicon Valley figures pushing politics to the right

    In Gilded Rage the journalist Jacob Silverman investigates the tech entrepreneurs who are funding campaigns and driving policy across America and the world

    It’s not just Musk. The shadowy Silicon Valley figures pushing politics to the right

  • Favicon George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 on X: "Cracks are showing in the resistance" / X Added: Oct 12, 2025

    Site: X (formerly Twitter)

    George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 on X: "Cracks are showing in the resistance" / X

  • Favicon Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 on X: "“A chant we’ve been workshopping in Oxford” calls for the mass murder of Jews. This is Nazi level Jew-hating evil emerging from the world’s most prestigious university." / X Added: Oct 12, 2025

    Site: X (formerly Twitter)

    Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 on X: "“A chant we’ve been workshopping in Oxford” calls for the mass murder of Jews. This is Nazi level Jew-hating evil emerging from the world’s most prestigious university." / X

  • Favicon Could We Really Turn Mars Green? - Universe Today Added: Oct 12, 2025

    Could We Really Turn Mars Green?

    Site: Universe Today

    Science fiction is edging closer to reality. A team of scientists has created a detailed roadmap for transforming Mars from a frozen, lifeless desert into a world where plants could grow and humans might one day breathe without spacesuits. The plan isn't about launching missions tomorrow, it’s about whether we should even try, and what recent breakthroughs in biology, climate engineering, and space launch technology tell us about what's now possible. But there's a catch, terraforming a planet like Mars might erase its geological history forever, destroying any traces of ancient Martian life and eliminating our chance to understand how worlds evolve. The question has shifted from

    Could We Really Turn Mars Green? - Universe Today

  • Favicon Crowd-hire CEO warns America's protest culture exploited by paid agitators | Fox News Added: Oct 12, 2025

    Crowd-hire CEO warns America's protest culture exploited by paid agitators | Fox News

    Crowd-hire CEO warns America's protest culture exploited by paid agitators  Fox News

  • Favicon Extraterrestrial Life Forms Were Not Created Equal | by Avi Loeb | Oct, 2025 | Medium Added: Oct 13, 2025

    Extraterrestrial Life Forms Were Not Created Equal

    Site: Medium

    Given the billions of Earth-Sun analogs in the Milky-Way galaxy, humanity is probably not at the top of the Galactic food chain.

    Extraterrestrial Life Forms Were Not Created Equal  by Avi Loeb  Oct, 2025  Medium

  • Favicon Ray Kurzweil on the singularity and chip advancement #semiconductor #ai #manufacturing - YouTube Added: Oct 13, 2025

    Ray Kurzweil on the singularity and chip advancement #semiconductor #ai #manufacturing

    Site: YouTube

    Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

    Ray Kurzweil on the singularity and chip advancement semiconductor ai manufacturing - YouTube

  • Favicon Real Time' Crowd Goes Quiet as Bill Maher Explains Why Dems Can’t Win - YouTube Added: Oct 13, 2025

    Real Time' Crowd Goes Quiet as Bill Maher Explains Why Dems Can’t Win

    Site: YouTube

    Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” reacts to a DM clip of the “Real Time with Bill Maher” crowd being stunned by Bill Maher’s attack on Democrats for trying to...

    Real Time' Crowd Goes Quiet as Bill Maher Explains Why Dems Can’t Win - YouTube

  • Favicon Trump declares 'golden age of the Middle East' in Israeli Knesset speech | Fox News Added: Oct 13, 2025

    Trump declares 'golden age of the Middle East' in Israeli Knesset speech | Fox News

    Trump declares 'golden age of the Middle East' in Israeli Knesset speech  Fox News

  • Favicon Venezuela is collapsing — and don’t look now, but so is Cuba Added: Oct 13, 2025

    Venezuela is collapsing — and don’t look now, but so is Cuba

    Site: The Hill

    Over the last four years, nearly 20 percent of Cuba’s population has fled.

    Rolling blackouts. A worthless currency. A once-mighty industry on life support. Doctors, engineers and students leaving in droves in search of a future. That all sounds like Venezuela, but I'm talking about Cuba. As Venezuela’s crisis deepens, another — quieter but just as dangerous — is unfolding just 90 miles from Florida. The drama may be smaller, but the danger is real. If Venezuela is wobbling, Cuba is starting to fall. On Sept. 10, Cuba’s entire electrical grid failed, plunging nearly 10 million people into darkness. It was the island’s fourth nationwide blackout in less than a year. Even before that, much of the country was losing power for half the day. Officials blamed machinery; Cubans blamed the system. The country’s energy network has become a patchwork of corroded plants and emergency repairs. Over the past 14 months, it has suffered a dozen nationwide outages. Years of neglect and the burning of high-sulfur crude have crippled its power stations. As U.S. sanctions tighten on Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s ability to keep its ally supplied with oil has withered. Fuel shipments from Venezuela — Havana’s economic lifeline for two decades — now fluctuate wildly, sometimes dropping below 10,000 barrels a day before rebounding. Russia and Mexico have stepped in with emergency cargoes, but neither offers stability. Without steady deliveries, plants sputter and nights become suffocating. In some towns, residents cook by candlelight, charge phones at work, and sleep on rooftops to escape the heat. The currency collapse has ground down daily life. Even average state salaries amount to less than $20 a month at the informal exchange rate, far below the cost of living. Gasoline is scarce and ruinously expensive. In rural areas, bicycles and horse carts have replaced cars. Tourism, once the island’s economic engine, has fallen by more than half over the last decade. Even middle-class Havana now endures rolling blackouts, empty shelves, and rising petty crime. The peso trades near 400 to the dollar on the street, its weakest rate on record. Prices for staples climb relentlessly, and stores selling imported goods increasingly demand hard currency that most Cubans cannot earn. The result is a two-tiered economy that mirrors Venezuela’s descent into dollarization, where access to dollars — not work, skill or effort — determines who eats well and who doesn’t. Cuba’s signature crop has fared no better. This year’s sugar harvest is expected to fall below 200,000 tons, the lowest since the 1800s. In the 1980s, sugar harvests topped 8 million. Today, Cuba is importing raw sugar, a stunning reversal for a former agricultural superpower. The collapse gutted exports, weakened the peso and idled thousands of rural workers. The losses aren’t just economic. Over the last four years, roughly two million Cubans — nearly 20 percent of the island’s population — have fled. Hospitals lack doctors, universities lack professors, and small businesses lack skilled workers. Families are scattered, classrooms empty, innovation stalled. What appears to be a pressure valve for the regime is really a slow bleed of the nation’s lifeblood. The parallels with Venezuela are unmistakable. Both regimes chose political control over prosperity. Both leaned on external lifelines — oil, credit, remittances — that are now fraying. Both crush dissent when policy fails. Venezuela’s decay hollowed out a once-rich state. Cuba has the same script, only with a much larger arc and without the oil money. The Havana-Caracas partnership has always been more than transactional. For a quarter century, the two governments have portrayed themselves as revolutionary brothers defying U.S. power. The bond dates back to Hugo Chávez’s rise in 1999 and his admiration for Fidel Castro’s revolution four decades earlier. Cuba sent doctors, teachers, and security advisers; Venezuela paid in oil. Even today, as both regimes falter, each remains the other’s last dependable ally in a region that has largely moved on. Their bond, however, is finally fraying. Venezuelan oil shipments to Cuba have collapsed, from roughly 56,000 barrels per day in 2023 to as few as 8,000 in June 2025. Havana still provides diplomatic cover for Maduro, but both governments are now propping each other up with diminishing strength — two exhausted revolutions clinging to the same fading ideology. In both countries, force has replaced persuasion. Independent journalists are jailed, critics harassed, and citizens whisper their frustrations in private. Once-proud social programs — universal education and health care — have decayed and are now mere shells of what they once were. All that remains are schools without teachers, hospitals without medicine, clinics without electricity. Meanwhile, Washington is again engaged in a high-stakes game in the Caribbean. U.S. warships patrol off Venezuela and have destroyed vessels suspected of smuggling narcotics — a show of force meant to pressure Maduro. Cuban dissident and former political prisoner Óscar Biscet sees the regimes as intertwined. “Cuba and Venezuela are twin dictatorships that sustain each other through corruption and transnational crime,” he told me. “The communist Castro regime effectively occupies Venezuela’s political and military institutions and uses them to export repression and to traffic drugs to the United States.” Formally, President Miguel Díaz-Canel leads Cuba. In reality, decisions still flow from a small cadre of aging revolutionaries — Raúl Castro, now 93, and a few longtime comrades in their nineties. Power moves through personal networks rather than institutions. Preservation, not renewal, is the guiding rule. Across the island, billboards still trumpet “Continuity.” For most Cubans, that no longer means stability — it means continued suffocation. To be sure, Cuba is not Venezuela. Its security forces remain disciplined. Tourism and remittances still bring in dollars that Caracas can only envy. Emigration keeps anger from boiling over. And the Communist Party has survived so many shocks that it is always risky to forecast its collapse. But the warning signs aren’t hard to see. The lights keep flickering. The peso buys less every day. The sugar mills are quiet. The young are leaving. The pillars that once held Cuban socialism upright are giving way all at once. Venezuela’s collapse dominates the headlines, but Cuba’s slow-motion breakdown could have far more profound consequences. A failed state just 90 miles from Florida would unleash new migration waves, invite rival powers into the region, and test America’s resolve. Havana’s flickering lights may be the hemisphere’s next alarm bell. Daniel Allott is the former opinion editor of The Hill and the author of “On the Road in Trump’s America: A Journey into the Heart of a Divided Country.”

    Venezuela is collapsing — and don’t look now, but so is Cuba

  • Favicon The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It Added: Oct 13, 2025

    The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It

    Site: Futurism

    A preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year.

    The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It

  • Favicon Trump urges pardon for Netanyahu during Gaza address to Knesset Added: Oct 13, 2025

    Trump urges pardon for Netanyahu during Gaza address to Knesset

    Site: Axios

    "Cigars and champagne, who the hell cares about this?"

    Trump urges pardon for Netanyahu during Gaza address to Knesset

  • Favicon Orbán Viktor on X: "🕊️ President @realDonaldTrump has done it again! Upon his invitation, I will attend the Peace Summit in Sharm el-Sheikh today, where the leaders of the USA, Qatar, Türkiye, and Egypt will sign the Middle East Peace Plan. A tremendous achievement. President Trump has made it https://t.co/xz0HF2eclZ" / X Added: Oct 13, 2025

    Site: X (formerly Twitter)

    Orbán Viktor on X: "🕊️ President @realDonaldTrump has done it again! Upon his invitation, I will attend the Peace Summit in Sharm el-Sheikh today, where the leaders of the USA, Qatar, Türkiye, and Egypt will sign the Middle East Peace Plan. A tremendous achievement. President Trump has made it https://t.co/xz0HF2eclZ" / X

  • Favicon ELON CLIPS on X: "Elon Musk: To recruit the best talent in the world, you have to show that their work will make a difference to the world. “I think in general, if you want to recruit people that are really talented and driven, you have to state what's the mission, what's the problem we're trying https://t.co/pDPt06WmTx" / X Added: Oct 13, 2025

    Site: X (formerly Twitter)

    ELON CLIPS on X: "Elon Musk: To recruit the best talent in the world, you have to show that their work will make a difference to the world. “I think in general, if you want to recruit people that are really talented and driven, you have to state what's the mission, what's the problem we're trying https://t.co/pDPt06WmTx" / X

  • Favicon Ami Kozak on X: "What a time - Shkoyach @realDonaldTrump 🇺🇸🇮🇱 #Trump #DonaldTrump https://t.co/NfKxthGlQJ" / X Added: Oct 13, 2025

    Site: X (formerly Twitter)

    Ami Kozak on X: "What a time - Shkoyach @realDonaldTrump 🇺🇸🇮🇱 Trump DonaldTrump https://t.co/NfKxthGlQJ" / X

  • Favicon Israel Palestine WAR IS OVER, Trump SECURES PEACE, All Hostages RELEASED In Major Victory | Tim Pool - YouTube Added: Oct 13, 2025

    Israel WAR IS OVER, ALL Hostages Released Trump Gets STANDING OVATION | Tim Pool

    Site: YouTube

    Become A Memberhttp://youtube.com/timcastnews/joinThe Green Room - https://rumble.com/playlists/aa56qw_g-j0BUY CAST BREW COFFEE TO FIGHT BACK - https://castb...

    Israel Palestine WAR IS OVER, Trump SECURES PEACE, All Hostages RELEASED In Major Victory  Tim Pool - YouTube

  • Favicon Hugh Hewitt on X: "That is the most unprofessional treatments of a guest I can recall seeing —especially the @VP of the U.S.!— and should oblige @ABC to make changes immediately. George has always been courteous and professional in our few exchanges on and off air so I am very surprised. But if any" / X Added: Oct 13, 2025

    Site: X (formerly Twitter)

    Hugh Hewitt on X: "That is the most unprofessional treatments of a guest I can recall seeing —especially the @VP of the U.S.!— and should oblige @ABC to make changes immediately. George has always been courteous and professional in our few exchanges on and off air so I am very surprised. But if any" / X

  • Favicon Elon Musk on X: "Soon, Grok Imagine will have longer sequences with multiple scenes and camera angles automatically integrated" / X Added: Oct 13, 2025

    Site: X (formerly Twitter)

    Elon Musk on X: "Soon, Grok Imagine will have longer sequences with multiple scenes and camera angles automatically integrated" / X

  • Favicon Watch Live: SpaceX Launches Starship on its Most Ambitious Test Flight Yet Added: Oct 13, 2025

    Watch Live: SpaceX Launches Starship on its Most Ambitious Test Flight Yet

    Site: Gizmodo

    If this launch goes according to plan, SpaceX plans to roll out a new iteration of the megarocket in early 2026.

    Watch Live: SpaceX Launches Starship on its Most Ambitious Test Flight Yet

  • Favicon The Grand AGI Delusion - by Gary Marcus - Marcus on AI Added: Oct 13, 2025

    The Grand AGI Delusion

    and a fantastic symposium on AI and society at The Royal Society

    The Grand AGI Delusion - by Gary Marcus - Marcus on AI

  • Favicon Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Turing Test - YouTube Added: Oct 13, 2025

    Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Turing Test

    Site: YouTube

    Published in October 1950, Alan Turing’s seminal paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” proposed a test to determine whether machines could think and t...

    Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Turing Test - YouTube

  • Favicon The video everyone was waiting for: SpaceX reveals spectacular footage of Starship’s successful flight - Futura-Sciences Added: Oct 13, 2025

    The video everyone was waiting for: SpaceX reveals spectacular footage of Starship’s successful flight - Futura-Sciences

    Site: Futura-Sciences

    SpaceX just dropped a two-minute highlight reel of its tenth Starship test flight — and the footage is nothing short of spectacular. After a rocky start with several failed attempts, the August 26 launch marked ... Read more

    The video everyone was waiting for: SpaceX reveals spectacular footage of Starship’s successful flight - Futura-Sciences

  • Favicon Nobel Prize-Winning Philosopher Bertrand Russell Biopic in Development Added: Oct 13, 2025

    Nobel Prize-Winning Philosopher Bertrand Russell Biopic in Development, Amanda Curdt-Christiansen to Pen Script (EXCLUSIVE)

    Site: Variety

    Nobel Prize winner Bertrand Russell gets first feature biopic.

    A feature film chronicling the life of Bertrand Russell is moving forward, marking the first theatrical biopic about the British philosopher who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950 for his varied and significant writings championing humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought. Russell’s remarkable life and career — spanning nearly a century from 1872 […]

    Nobel Prize-Winning Philosopher Bertrand Russell Biopic in Development

  • Favicon Google Drive is so much more than cloud storage to me — here are 6 unconventional uses Added: Oct 13, 2025

    Google Drive is so much more than cloud storage to me — here are 6 unconventional uses

    Site: MUO

    There are some surprising ways to use Google Drive to supercharge your workflows.

    Google Drive is so much more than cloud storage to me — here are 6 unconventional uses

  • Favicon 3-legged lizards can thrive against all odds, challenging assumptions about how evolution works in the wild Added: Oct 13, 2025

    3-legged lizards can thrive against all odds, challenging assumptions about how evolution works in the wild

    Site: The Conversation

    Most lizards probably don’t survive devastating injuries. But a new study documents 122 cases of limb loss across 58 species – these exceptions shine a new light on natural selection.

    3-legged lizards can thrive against all odds, challenging assumptions about how evolution works in the wild

  • Favicon Armando Muñoz on X: "@piersmorgan https://t.co/K5gbqixwDQ" / X Added: Oct 13, 2025

    Site: X (formerly Twitter)

    Armando Muñoz on X: "@piersmorgan https://t.co/K5gbqixwDQ" / X

  • Favicon Don't buy cheese! 1 kg of cheese from 1 liter of milk in just 5 minutes! - YouTube Added: Oct 13, 2025

    Kaufen Sie keinen Käse! 1 kg Käse aus 1 Liter Milch in nur 5 Minuten!

    Site: YouTube

    Mischen Sie einfach einfache Zutaten und Sie haben einen unglaublich leckeren hausgemachten Käse! Sie werden überrascht sein, wenn Sie das Kochrezept erfahre...

    Don't buy cheese! 1 kg of cheese from 1 liter of milk in just 5 minutes! - YouTube

  • Favicon SpaceX Starship Flight 11 - LAUNCH STREAM - YouTube Added: Oct 13, 2025

    SpaceX Starship Flight 11 - LAUNCH STREAM

    Site: YouTube

    SpaceX is set to launch the 11th flight of Starship from Starbase, Texas. The launch window for Booster 15-2 and Ship 38 opens at 6:15PM CT local time (23:15...

    SpaceX Starship Flight 11 - LAUNCH STREAM - YouTube

  • Favicon Gemini can now summarize a page in Chrome Added: Oct 13, 2025

    Gemini can now summarize a page in Chrome

    Site: Android Police

    Gemini could already summarize web pages, but this new feature streamlines the process

    Gemini can now summarize a page in Chrome

  • Favicon Peter Thiel says he warned Elon Musk to ditch donating to The Giving Pledge because Bill Gates will give his wealth away ‘to left-wing nonprofits’ | Fortune Added: Oct 13, 2025

    Peter Thiel says he warned Elon Musk to ditch donating to The Giving Pledge because Bill Gates will give his wealth away ‘to left-wing nonprofits’ | Fortune

    Site: Fortune

    "What am I supposed to do—give it to my children?" Musk responded, as Thiel recounted. "You know, it would be much worse to give it to Bill Gates."

    Peter Thiel says he warned Elon Musk to ditch donating to The Giving Pledge because Bill Gates will give his wealth away ‘to left-wing nonprofits’  Fortune

  • Favicon Elon Musk on X: "Great work by the @SpaceX team" / X Added: Oct 13, 2025

    Site: X (formerly Twitter)

    Elon Musk on X: "Great work by the @SpaceX team" / X

  • Favicon Trump Gaza peace deal for Israel, Hamas, praised by Biden, Clinton Added: Oct 13, 2025

    Biden, Clinton praise Trump for Gaza peace deal

    Site: Axios

    Biden said he commends Trump and his team, and Clinton said they "deserve great credit."

    Trump Gaza peace deal for Israel, Hamas, praised by Biden, Clinton

  • Favicon SpaceX launches giant Starship rocket for moon and Mars on 11th test flight (video) | Space Added: Oct 13, 2025

    SpaceX launches giant Starship rocket for moon and Mars on 11th test flight (video)

    Site: Space

    It was the final flight for this iteration of Starship.

    SpaceX launches giant Starship rocket for moon and Mars on 11th test flight (video)  Space

  • Favicon Victor Davis Hanson: World War II Was a Noble Cause — Anything Else Is Ahistorical - YouTube Added: Oct 13, 2025

    Victor Davis Hanson: World War II Was a Noble Cause — Anything Else Is Ahistorical

    Site: YouTube

    Normally, we would expect the Left to be the ones questioning the validity of the United States’ involvement and conduct in World War II as anything other th...

    Victor Davis Hanson: World War II Was a Noble Cause — Anything Else Is Ahistorical - YouTube

  • Favicon Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS May Be A 10-Billion-Year-Old Time Capsule | IFLScience Added: Oct 13, 2025

    Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS May Be A 10-Billion-Year-Old Time Capsule From An Earlier Age Of The Universe

    Site: IFLScience

    3I/ATLAS may not have had a close encounter in 10 million years, before it approached our Solar System.

    A team of astronomers has attempted to track the path of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS back into the past, tracing its path through the galaxy in simulations involving over 13 million stars. On July 1, astronomers spotted an unusual object speeding through the Solar System at nearly twice the velocity of previous interstellar visitors ‘Oumuamua and Comet Borisov. The object was soon confirmed to be an interstellar comet, and is suspected to have a nucleus (the rocky center of the comet, excluding its coma) of around 5.6 kilometers (3.5 miles), and a potential mass of over 33 billion tons. The astronomical community continued to track the object as it moved through the Solar System and behind the Sun from our perspective. We may even have seen it using NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars. But where did it come from? Luckily for us, gravity is time-reversal symmetric, and if we know an object's trajectory, we can work backwards and trace its path. In a new paper submitted to the Astrophysical Journal, but not yet peer reviewed, a team from the University of A Coruña attempted to do just this. The team used data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, which produces a three-dimensional map of stars and other objects in the Milky Way and beyond. Tracing the object's path backwards through 10 million years, the team tried to identify where it had close encounters in the past, coming within 2 parsecs (6.5 light-years) of another star. "We identify 93 nominal encounters, 62 of which are significant at the 2σ level. However, none of these encounters produced any meaningful perturbation," the team writes in their paper. "The strongest perturber Gaia DR3 6863591389529611264 at 0.30 pc and with a relative velocity of 35 km s −1, imparted only a velocity change of |∆v| ≃ 5 × 10 −4 km s −1 to the orbit of 3I/ATLAS. Our results indicate that no stellar flybys within the past 10 Myr and 500 pc contained in Gaia DR3 can account for the present trajectory of 3I/ATLAS or be associated with its origin." In short, none of these potential close(ish) encounters could explain 3I/ATLAS's origin, and barely altered its trajectory. But mapping it back into the past, the team believes it likely originated from the galaxy's thin disk, in contrast to an earlier study, which suggested it may be from the thick disk, given how little it wandered from the galactic plane. "Together, all data indicate that while 3I/ATLAS follows a thin-disk orbit in the solar neighborhood, it may nonetheless be an old object, consistent with ejection from a primordial planetesimal disk in an early-formed system, or from an exo-Oort cloud, and is most likely associated with the transition region between the thin and thick disk, although its origin remains undisclosed," the team concludes. Further study of 3I/ATLAS and other interstellar objects is needed to draw further conclusions, but this preliminary study suggests it could be a very old object, that may have been traveling alone for billions of years until we spotted it near our star. The team suggests the object is around 10 billion years old, making it a time capsule of the formation of the earliest planetary systems in the galaxy and universe, though we will likely never know its true origin. “What makes 3I/ATLAS unique is that it allows us to study the evolution of objects originating from other stellar systems – something we had only theorised about until now," Pérez Couto, Centre for Research in Information and Communication Technologies researcher and team leader, added in a statement. "Each observation is like opening a window into the Universe’s past." The study is posted to the pre-print server arXiv.

    Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS May Be A 10-Billion-Year-Old Time Capsule  IFLScience

  • Researchers Have Discovered a Way To Simulate the Universe – on a Laptop Added: Oct 13, 2025

    Researchers Have Discovered a Way To Simulate the Universe – on a Laptop

    Site: SciTechDaily

    Cosmologists can now explore data faster than ever before with a new emulator. As astronomers continue to uncover the mysteries of the universe, their work generates increasingly vast and intricate data sets. A recent innovation is making it possible for researchers to process these enormous collec

    Researchers Have Discovered a Way To Simulate the Universe – on a Laptop

  • Elon Musk Gets Just-Launched NVIDIA DGX Spark: Petaflop AI Supercomputer Lands at SpaceX | NVIDIA Blog Added: Oct 14, 2025

    Elon Musk Gets Just-Launched NVIDIA DGX Spark: Petaflop AI Supercomputer Lands at SpaceX

    Site: NVIDIA Blog

    The future of AI took flight at Starbase, Texas — where NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang hand-delivered the first DGX Spark to Elon Musk, chief engineer at SpaceX. Amid towering engines and gleaming steel, Huang walked past rows of engineers who waved and grinned. Moments later, Musk appeared in the cafeteria, greeting staff, opening donuts and Read Article

    Elon Musk Gets Just-Launched NVIDIA DGX Spark: Petaflop AI Supercomputer Lands at SpaceX  NVIDIA Blog

  • Favicon Island spider sheds half its genome, defying evolutionary expectations Added: Oct 14, 2025

    Island spider sheds half its genome, defying evolutionary expectations

    Over a few million years, the spider Dysdera tilosensis—a species endemic to the Canary Islands—has reduced the size of its genome by half during the process of colonization and adaptation to its natural habitat. In addition to being smaller, this genome is more compact and contains more genetic diversity than that of other similar continental spiders.

    Island spider sheds half its genome, defying evolutionary expectations

  • Favicon SpaceX finally got exactly what it needed from Starship V2 - Ars Technica Added: Oct 14, 2025

    SpaceX finally got exactly what it needed from Starship V2

    Site: Ars Technica

    This was the last flight of SpaceX’s second-gen Starship design. Version 3 arrives next year.

    SpaceX finally got exactly what it needed from Starship V2 - Ars Technica

  • Favicon Replay! SpaceX launches Starship on 11th test flight - YouTube Added: Oct 14, 2025

    Replay! SpaceX launches Starship on 11th test flight

    Site: YouTube

    SpaceX launched Starship's 11th test flight from Starbase in South Texas on Oct. 13, 2025. The Super Heavy booster successfully splashed down several minutes...

    Replay! SpaceX launches Starship on 11th test flight - YouTube

  • Favicon 4 Proven Tricks To Make ANY VOCAL Sound Huge - YouTube Added: Oct 14, 2025

    Make YOUR VOICE Sound Huge – 4 Proven Tricks!

    Site: YouTube

    If your vocals sound thin, dull, or buried in the mix, this video will show you four proven tricks to make them sound big, full, and professional! You’ll lea...

    4 Proven Tricks To Make ANY VOCAL Sound Huge - YouTube

  • They’re smaller than dust, but crucial for Earth’s climate | ScienceDaily Added: Oct 14, 2025

    They’re smaller than dust, but crucial for Earth’s climate

    Site: ScienceDaily

    Coccolithophores, tiny planktonic architects of Earth’s climate, capture carbon, produce oxygen, and leave behind geological records that chronicle our planet’s history. European scientists are uniting to honor them with International Coccolithophore Day on October 10. Their global collaboration highlights groundbreaking research into how these microscopic organisms link ocean chemistry, climate regulation, and carbon storage. The initiative aims to raise awareness that even the smallest ocean dwellers have planetary impact.

    They’re smaller than dust, but crucial for Earth’s climate  ScienceDaily

  • Favicon Hans Koenigsmann, who investigated all of SpaceX’s rocket failures, is going to space - Ars Technica Added: Oct 14, 2025

    Hans Koenigsmann, who investigated all of SpaceX’s rocket failures, is going to space

    Site: Ars Technica

    “I’ve always been interested to experience Max Q from the inside.”…

    Hans Koenigsmann, who investigated all of SpaceX’s rocket failures, is going to space - Ars Technica

  • Favicon Anna Wintour: CBS News Head Bari Weiss Has The Makings of a Great Leader Added: Oct 14, 2025

    Anna Wintour Says CBS News Head Bari Weiss Has the Makings of a ‘Great Leader’

    Site: Variety

    Anna Wintour called new CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss "a very accomplished young woman with a very strong personality and a strong point of view."

    Anna Wintour has offered a vote of confidence for newly appointed CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss. Related Stories India's JioStar Reports $2 Billion in Half-Year Revenue, 400 Million Streaming Users Ally Arrives: Xbox President Sarah Bond Explains New Handhelds Steep Price, Prioritizing 'Windows Experience' and Next-Gen Console Plans Heading Into 2026 “Obviously, she’s a very […]

    Anna Wintour: CBS News Head Bari Weiss Has The Makings of a Great Leader

  • Favicon 5 NotebookLM Tips to Make Your Day a Little Easier - KDnuggets Added: Oct 14, 2025

    5 NotebookLM Tips to Make Your Day a Little Easier - KDnuggets

    Site: KDnuggets

    Here are five quality tips for using NotebookLM to make a data scientist's day a little easier.

    5 NotebookLM Tips to Make Your Day a Little Easier - KDnuggets

  • Mike Johnson: Shutdown could be longest in U.S. history Added: Oct 14, 2025

    Johnson: ‘We’re barreling toward one of the longest shutdowns in American history’

    Site: The Hill

    Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Monday the government shutdown is on its way to being one of the longest in history unless Democrats accept the House-passed, GOP-crafted stopgap bill to reopen th…

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