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    Bambu Lab pushes a “control system” for 3D printers, and boy, did it not go well

    Was thinking about caving in to the hype about these printers and buying one through grey channel since they do not sell officially to my country. Good thing this came before I did that. I will leave the bamboos for the Pandas now.
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    The first crew launch of Boeing’s Starliner capsule is on hold indefinitely

    Don't know. Seems to me that this an example of the perfection being the enemy of good enough. Just because it was deemed the ideal does not make it the only option and maybe a reevaluation of it's pros and cons, specially in light of the cost of postponements and readiness of flight should be...
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    The first crew launch of Boeing’s Starliner capsule is on hold indefinitely

    I was thinking about it. Being that Helium is the smallest atom and is used in industry to test for leaks thus prone for leaking, and given it's rarity, why use it to this mundane task. I know it's light and weight is a factor in space missions, but maybe Neon or Argon would be better suited to...
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    HDMI Forum to AMD: No, you can’t make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver

    My take is that AMD can’t do it because they are privy with nom public specs they have a contractual obligation not to divulge. I think this doesn’t bar if a non associated third party or parties reverse engineer the offending functionality and publish an independent implementation. But I am...
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    Daily Telescope: Finally, we’ve found the core of a famous supernova

    "Daily-ish Telescope" sounds about right!
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    Revisiting Apple’s ill-fated Lisa computer, 40 years on

    You still can print money today if you are Apple and sell memory an disk upgrades for the prices they sell
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    SpaceX is now building a Raptor engine a day, NASA says

    Not a very hard problem. Once they remove all the kinks out of the engine project and production line, they just need to carbon copy more lines to the factory or factories. The limit will be their financial capacity. Even at the current one engine a day in one pipeline, if you add ten parallel...
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    VideoLAN gets no answers on why website is blocked in India, threatens to sue gov’t

    Are you mad? And loose the revenue those companies bring in to the government by means of taxation?
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    The world’s biggest hydrogen fuel cell EV started work in South Africa

    If only someone could devise a way to do this on container ships…
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    It’s huge, expensive, and years late—but the SLS rocket is finally here

    The sky was so perfectly blue in some of the photos that it makes you believe that this is still a PowerPoint rocket.
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    Apple updates Pages, Numbers, and Keynote to 11.0

    If you consider that covering. Long time I do not read anything Ouellette posts. Everything she posts is superficial, childish or spoilery - if not all at the same time.
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    Apple announces new M1 Mac Mini, starting at $699

    Less Thunderbolt ports, RAM capped , no more 10G ethernet and absolute vendor lock in. Disgusting!
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    Honda shocks F1, says it will quit the sport after 2021

    Not so sure Honda would not agree, specially if it could rake up some money to offset all they have spent over the last years. I am more doubtful of this route because of the new budget restrictions to take effect from 2021 onwards. But if the money side will not be an issue, maybe they could...
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    Brazil hits 80,000 deaths as more leaders test positive for COVID-19

    I guess the Americans posting comments haven't seen the NYT opnion piece too... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/15/opin ... onaro.html
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    Apple Maps expands its Street View competitor to Boston, DC, Philadelphia

    "Coverage is shit in North America and worse to non-existent everywhere else." Expanded.
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    Elon Musk says driverless cars don’t need lidar—experts aren’t so sure

    I don’t know about animals. But I believe there is a reason for all the warnings of not pointing a laser source to the eye. Also, I remember reading here about a photographer’s camera being ruined by a particularly strong lidar of an autonomous car.
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    AI trained to navigate develops brain-like location tracking

    The AI came up with a surface mammalian like reconnaissance pattern after studying a surface mammalian. I wonder what would result if it was given patterns of bats, whales or of a non mammalian species - a bee for example. Would the navigation patterns of creatures that move regularly in the...
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    The second launch from Russia’s new spaceport has failed

    Not wanting to start a troll war, but America can be accused of all items above. And as of lately, specially the bit about autocratic ruler with a personality cult. So I guess, by your reasoning, America is their own "enemy" right now. Do not sit on your tail to talk about the one of others.
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    AMD Threadripper 1950X and 1920X review: Better than Intel in every way

    Not to mention that there is also the lack of Thunderbolt. Doubtful that Apple will let it go of it now.