The mission represents a rare public announcement of the launch of SpaceX’s Starshield satellites, a government variant of Starlink satellites. Liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base is scheduled for 9:24:30 p.m. PDT on Saturday, June 6 (12:24:30 a.m. EDT / 0424:30 UTC on Sunday, June 7).
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June 6, 1980: The asteroid impact theory
“Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction,” by physicist Luis Alvarez, geologist Walter Alvarez, Frank Asaro, and Helen Michel, was published in Science June 6, 1980. In it, the authors propose that an asteroid crashing to Earth was responsible for the death of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. (The timeline […]
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NASA’s X-59 Aircraft Flies Supersonic for First Time
NASA’s experimental X-59 aircraft marked a major milestone Friday, June 5, when it flew faster than the speed of sound for the first time, setting the stage for demonstrating its quiet supersonic capabilities later this year. NASA test pilot Jim “Clue” Less took off and landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California, reaching a top speed of approximately Mach 1.1 (713 mph) and altitude of 43,400 feet. The X-59’s flight began at 11:08 a.m. PDT and lasted 81 minutes, with the team focusing on […]
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How ‘Spider-Noir’ captured the multiverse in True-Hue Full Color and Authentic Black & White (interview)
‘It was such a great playground to play in, and I hope that it opens up more projects like this for creatives to embrace and trust.’
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Flashback Friday: The Top 9 Custom Motorcycles of June 2024
The custom motorcycle world moves at a breakneck pace, so sometimes it’s nice to…
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Ride And Destroy’s The Brawl Returns to San Diego Harley-Davidson for Round Two of the 2026 Harley Stunt Series
The smoke, tire marks, and high-risk Harley-Davidson stunt riding action are headed back to Southern California this weekend as Ride […] The post Ride And Destroy’s The Brawl Returns to San Diego Harley-Davidson for Round Two of the 2026 Harley Stunt Series appeared first on Hot Bike Magazine.
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Rhode Island Senate advances bill expanding sports betting competition
Rhode Island moved closer to ending its single-operator sports betting model after the state Senate approved legislation that would bring… Continue reading Rhode Island Senate advances bill expanding sports betting competition The post Rhode Island Senate advances bill expanding sports betting competition appeared first on ReadWrite.
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How a USB-connected speaker can infect a PC without ever being touched
Seller of the Sound Blaster Katana V2X doesn’t consider the behavior a vulnerability.
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The Download: AI hacking beyond Mythos, and chatbots’ impact on our brains
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The Meta hack shows there’s more to AI security than Mythos On Monday, reports emerged that attackers had used Meta’s AI customer support agent to steal […]
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OpenAI rolls out Lockdown Mode, an optional security setting designed to offer users advanced protection from prompt injection attacks by limiting some features (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: OpenAI rolls out Lockdown Mode, an optional security setting designed to offer users advanced protection from prompt injection attacks by limiting some features — The company says most users don’t need to use the feature. — OpenAI has begun rolling out Lockdown Mode …