Bad weather kept SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket on the ground Thursday night at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. SpaceX called off the countdown less than a minute before liftoff with 51 small satellites, hosted payloads, and orbital transfer vehicles heading into polar orbit on the Transporter 7 rideshare mission. Another […]
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The Sky This Week: A near miss and a solar eclipse
After Mars skims past the star Mebsuta, the Moon passes several planets and incites a hybrid eclipse from April 14 to 21.
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Bizarre object 10 million times brighter than the sun defies physics, NASA says
A bizarre ‘ultraluminous X-ray source’ shines millions of times brighter than the sun, breaking a physical law called the Eddington limit, a new study finds.
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Slick Slider: A Godden GR500 speedway restomod from Unikat
Speedway bikes are the very definition of purpose-built. They’re brakeless, single-gear machines with bizarre proportions, designed to do one thing—go around a dirt track at angles that defy physics. But, like all racing motorcycles, they’ve evolved over the years. Early speedway racers would simply modify existing ‘regular’ bikes to perform […]
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KTM 790 Adventure R Returns
When KTM moved to the 890 platform, it appeared the 790s were dead. But that hole in the lineup is slowly being filled back in by a range of 799cc machines.
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How to Rent Route 66 by Motorcycle, Part 1
Want to see the USA on a Yamaha Ténéré? Or a Harley-Davidson? Here’s how to do it and what to expect with EagleRider.
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“A really big deal”—Dolly is a free, open source, ChatGPT-style AI model
Dolly 2.0 could spark a new wave of fully open source LLMs similar to ChatGPT.
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Bacteria can be engineered to fight cancer in mice. Human trials are coming.
There are trillions of microbes living in and on our bodies—and we might be able to modify them to help us treat diseases. Scientists have altered the genomes of some of these bacteria that live on skin, essentially engineering microbes that can prevent or treat cancer. It appears to work […]
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Hacker advocacy group Hacking Policy Council launches to support security researchers’ work; founding members include HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Google, and Intel (Tonya Riley/CyberScoop)
Tonya Riley / CyberScoop:Hacker advocacy group Hacking Policy Council launches to support security researchers’ work; founding members include HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Google, and Intel — “There are advocacy groups for reptile owners but not hackers, so that seems like a miss,” said Ilona Cohen of HackerOne.
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Workful payroll and HR review
The Workful package includes tools for payroll plus expenses and HR management.