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Artemis II Desktop Pictures
Nick Heer: NASA has put a few hundred photos on Flickr with some awesome views — and I must emphasize how the word “awesome” undersells these images. I am using this one as the wallpaper on my iMac right now, and it feels like a pretty good use of a big, high-resolution display. Previously: Default […]
NASA Artemis II mission gives Kerbal Space Program huge boost on Steam
PC players on Steam are returning to Kerbal Space Program in record numbers to celebrate the Artemis 2 historic moon mission
Artemis II’s Fault-Tolerant Computer
Logan Kugler (via Hacker News): To ensure those wrong answers never reach the spacecraft’s thrusters, NASA moved beyond the triple redundancy of traditional systems. Orion utilizes two Vehicle Management Computers, each containing two Flight Control Modules, for a total of four FCMs. But the redundancy goes even deeper: each FCM consists of a self-checking pair […]
Train to Busan's director is reinventing the zombie thriller again with Colony
Watch the first teaser for Colony, Yeon Sang-ho's latest blood-soaked horror movie, coming to theaters in August.
Anthropic says its $20M donation to Public First Action is not "to influence federal elections" but is to educate the public on AI policy and promote safe AI (Veronica Irwin/Transformer)
Veronica Irwin / Transformer:
Anthropic says its $20M donation to Public First Action is not “to influence federal elections” but is to educate the public on AI policy and promote safe AI — The company's money isn't allowed to be used in the midterm battles. Without it, pro-safety candidates may be even more outgunned than expected