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AV1 was designed to take away power from the traditional codec licensing groups and from having to pay to multiple licensing bodies. The open-source community has been trying to achieve this goal with formats such as Ogg Vorbis. However, without the big tech giants being about to use their...

Of course. This is the real reason. Amazon doesn't care about the tiny Globalstar constellation. They need the frequencies. SpaceX paid $17 billion to Echostar for their S-band frequencies. Who also has a L-band and S-band frequencies? Globalstar!

NASA will underfund LEO because it wants it to die. NASA can't come out and cut it immediately, but it will do it eventually. The goal is to establish a continuous presence on the moon. Everything else is irrelevant to NASA. Of course, a lot of administrators and industry have vested interests...

In a few city centres in Europe, I have seen deliveries only possible between 5-7am. Goods get aggregated in logistics hubs and then they are distributed in one go.

The reality is that European rockets will never be competitive. Even when the shuttle retired, the Ariane 5 was the only available rocket from the West, and it was at a time that everyone was launching GEO satellites, which Ariane 5 could carry 2 per launch. Even then, the launches were being...

This is a bike designed for the Dutch and German market. It is great for daily commutes and for bike touring. Personally, I prefer the Nexus 5e internal gear hub, since it was designed for the extra torque of e-bikes. My bike also has a Bosch motor, and I would never buy from another brand...

I have been seeing videos of a guy that has been showing the Scania diesel truck to fellow American truck drivers, and the reaction has been extremely positive. You clearly see that trucks available in the American market have not been focused on innovation and improving the quality of life of...

As an European, I welcome the Orion and Lunar Gateway cuts. The European participation in these programmes will get cancelled as a consequence, which are great news since these programmes did not make any sense to start with.

I work in the aerospace industry in Europe (yes, it still exists) and the organisation is quite diverse in terms of gender, including top management. I can guarantee you that female managers are as incompetent as their male counterparts. Having diverse organisations is easy in comparison to...

The problem with this entire saga is that nobody is interested in forking Wordpress and creating a open-source version managed under one of the big open-source foundations such as the Apache Software Foundation. Wordpress does not attract talented software engineers, and has no value to big...

There are two articles regarding the contributions of the ISS to mankind. https://www.nasa.gov/missions/station/20-breakthroughs-from-20-years-of-science-aboard-the-international-space-station/ https://www.space.com/international-space-station-2021-research-highlights If you exclude the...

But if the plan goes ahead, Novo Nordisk A/S will no longer be able to charge 10x more in the US than in Europe. Novo Nordisk A/S market value is already bigger than the entire Danish economy. While US tech companies completely dominate the entire European market, Europe has introduced a fat tax...

People that are saying that they need a ERP are wrong. Formula 1 has more in common with aerospace engineering, and the current paradigm is to employ Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE). An ERP is fine when dealing with complex supply chains and manufacturing processes. MBSE is for concurrent...

Since Google merged the teams, Waze has been completely unreliable. I am even surprised that they are introducing new features. I was expecting that they would make the experience so bad that it would force people to change to Google Maps.

Nobody who is diabetic is losing its coverage. If people pay billions of dollars every year in ineffective and dangerous weight-loss drugs, they can pay for an effective and safe weight-loss drug. The alternative is to eat healthy and do sports, but that would be too difficult. I am very much...

I challenge anyone to search for "Peugeot e-208" and tell me if that doesn't look like a pretty hot hatchback.

It is perfectly fine for ESA and the EU to have an independent access to space. What is not fine is to continue developing a rocket that was not competitive from the start, and spend all that money for nothing. They should have just kept building the Ariane 5. It was a perfectly fine rocket that...

I have a friend that was looking for a new car at the dealership, and when they told him that the brand did not have android auto, he just walked away.

With other manufacturers, you always have a bunch of legal disclaimers how it was done in controlled conditions, how certain features are not available in certain locations,... and when they are showing a vision for the future, it is explicit that it is a concept of what may be possible in the...

The problem is not the funding model for academic publishing. The problem is the entire academic system. On one hand, you have a system that relies on publishing metrics (number of papers, publishing in high-impact journals, and number of citations) as a key performance indicator (KPI) in terms...