The planned flight came two days after SpaceX scrubbed a launch attempt on Wednesday amid fueling. Liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base happened at 10:44 a.m. PST (1:44 p.m. EST / 1844 UTC).
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Nov. 29, 1803: The birth of Christian Doppler
Born Nov. 29, 1803, in Salzburg, Austria, Christian Doppler studied mathematics, physics, and astronomy at the University of Vienna. After struggling to secure an academic post and working as a bookkeeper in a cotton factory for a year and a half, Doppler took a position as secondary school teacher in […]
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Newly Found Organics in Enceladus’ Plumes
Dramatic plumes, both large and small, spray water ice out from many locations along the famed tiger stripes near the south pole of Saturn’s moon Enceladus in this image released on Feb. 23, 2010. A study published in October 2025 analyzed data from NASA’s Cassini mission and found evidence of […]
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Watch live as near-Earth asteroid Eros buzzes the Andromeda Galaxy on Nov. 30 (video)
Watch live as near-Earth asteroid Eros buzzes the Andromeda Galaxy on Nov. 30 (video)
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2LOUD Releases an Eclectic Sportster Chopper Fit for a Pop Star
The builder: 2LOUD Custom. The client: Yellow黃宣. The brief: A Sportster Chopper with a faux fur seat.Ma ‘Max’ Yicheng is known for building custom motorcycles that shine in their subtlety—making his workshop’s name, 2LOUD Custom, a playful misnomer. But when he was asked to build a chopper for the m…
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Merkur Group has acquired a ‘significant stake’ in ETG developer Spintec
Merkur Group has expanded its partnership with electronic table game developer Spintec to acquire a “significant stake” in the company.… Continue reading Merkur Group has acquired a ‘significant stake’ in ETG developer Spintec The post Merkur Group has acquired a ‘significant stake’ in ETG developer Spintec appeared first on ReadWrite.
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The Download: the mysteries surrounding weight-loss drugs, and the economic effects of AI
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. What we still don’t know about weight-loss drugs Weight-loss drugs have been back in the news this week. First, we heard that Eli Lilly, the company behind Mounjaro […]
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An analysis of Google TPU v6e vs AMD MI300X vs Nvidia H100/B200: Nvidia achieves a ~5x tokens-per-dollar advantage over TPU v6e and 2x advantage over MI300X (@artificialanlys)
@artificialanlys: An analysis of Google TPU v6e vs AMD MI300X vs Nvidia H100/B200: Nvidia achieves a ~5x tokens-per-dollar advantage over TPU v6e and 2x advantage over MI300X — Google TPU v6e vs AMD MI300X vs NVIDIA H100/B200: Artificial Analysis’ Hardware Benchmarking shows NVIDIA achieving a ~5x tokens-per-dollar advantage over TPU […]
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Video: Friday Fails #379
47 nice ones to watch between stuffing faces with turkey and such.( Comments: 7 )
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Michael’s Miscellany: Observe the Helix Nebula
One of your nighttime sky targets for the next month or so should be the Helix Nebula in the constellation Aquarius the Water-bearer. Some observers call it the Sunflower Nebula, but you won’t hear that much anymore. And ever since the Lord of the Rings movies became popular, it’s gotten the moniker “The Eye […]