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FAST lets lunar landers make their own landing pads pre-touchdown:
Masten Space Systems is working on a way to protect future lunar landers from the regolith thrown up by their engines as they land, by injecting alumina ceramic particles into the rocket engine plume to glue together lunar dust and create their own landing pads just before touchdown.
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25 September 2021.
Sticky-tape module designed to let robots know when floors are clean:
Increasingly, robots are being used to autonomously clean floors and other surfaces in places like airports and hospitals.
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24 September 2021.
Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt:
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is David with a comment on our post about the Russian government abusing the law to shut down Alexey Navalny's smart voting app:
It's worth remembering that Navalny is in a labor camp for violating the conditions of his probation by not dying but getting foreign medical aid after being poisoned by Putin's thugs.
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26 September 2021.
Facebook Moves To Tout Image Rather Than Apologize For Rogue Content: Report:
The effort, called Project Amplify, would be a dramatic shift in policy for the social media giant, which had taken to apologizing publicly for any untoward content.
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22 September 2021.
Masten’s FAST Spacecraft Can Make its Own Moon Landing Pad by Coating Lunar Dust:
Since the lunar surface has limited sunlight and extremely cold temperatures, landing on the Moon is a difficult task to say the least.
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26 September 2021.
How a plant virus could help stop cancers from reaching the lungs:
Using a virus that grows in black-eyed pea plants, nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego developed a new treatment that could keep metastatic cancers at bay from the lungs.
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25 September 2021.
Space, The Boring Frontier:
Suppose you randomly go 1 million miles somewhere away from our Sun.
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28 May 2021.
Is Facebook leading us on a journey to the metaverse?:
Nick Clegg will on Monday set out the tech giant’s vision of a virtual world where you can work, shop and ‘live’.
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26 September 2021.
Gene editing ‘would allow us to create hardier farm breeds’:
The biotechnology is comparable to traditional breeding methods and vital to create livestock resistant to disease, droughts and heatwaves, says groupLeading UK researchers, vets and farmers have urged ministers to free livestock science of unnecessary legal curbs as the country prepares, post-Brexit, to ease gene-editing rules.
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26 September 2021.
Remote working jobs row shows how much tech has changed:
Tech's biggest priorities have changed, but not everyone has realised it yet.
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26 September 2021.
Climate change: Whisper it cautiously... there's been progress in run up to COP26:
Pledges made at the UN have lifted hopes for the Glasgow summit, but some major questions remain.
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24 September 2021.
Vizio’s M-Series TV Is Affordable and Mantle-Worthy:
This flatscreen delivers reliable picture quality, satisfactory blacks, and a pleasant interface—all at a respectable price.
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26 September 2021.
Instagram Worsens Body Image Issues And Erodes Mental Health:
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Narro talks to Destinee Adams, a college senior, who co-wrote an article about the negative impacts of Instagram on her mental health and on her generation for TIME.
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26 September 2021.
New lava lake lets DR Congo volcano 'breathe', experts say:
The reappearance of a lava lake in the crater of the Nyiragongo volcano in eastern DR Congo is a good sign, experts said Sunday, four months after a major eruption killed 32 people.
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26 September 2021.
In Race for 5G, Alarm and Security Services Get Stuck in the Middle:
Covid-19 shutdowns and chip shortages have made it more difficult to upgrade devices and meet a deadline set by AT&T.
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26 September 2021.
Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka hug after Ryder Cup victory:
Winning solves everything.
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26 September 2021.
Chip shortage: Here's why the semiconductor industry gets into trouble predicting the future:
Chip companies are reporting record demand amid shrinking supplies.
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26 September 2021.
Ancient Footprints Suggest Humans Arrived In Americas During Ice Age:
Human footprints found in New Mexico are about 23,000 years old, a study reported, suggesting that people may have arrived long before the Ice Age’s glaciers melted.
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26 September 2021.
NASA's Got A New, Big Telescope. It Could Find Hints Of Life On Far-Flung Planets:
The James Webb Space Telescope will let scientists study small, rocky planets around distant stars in more detail than ever before.
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23 September 2021.
Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka hug after Ryder Cup victory:
Winning solves everything.
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26 September 2021.
US Military Seeks Comments on Its Plan to Build a Small, Transportable Nuclear Reactor:
America's Department of Defense "is taking input on its plan to build an advanced mobile nuclear microreactor prototype at the Idaho National Laboratory in eastern Idaho," reports the Associated Press:
The department began a 45-day comment period on Friday with the release of a draft environmental impact study evaluating alternatives for building and operating the microreactor that could produce 1 to 5 megawatts of power.
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26 September 2021.
As US expands internet access, cities wary of being left out:
The Biden administration has promised to expand affordable internet access across the nation, but an interim rule narrows eligibility for broadband funds.
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14 September 2021.
Scientists pinpoint age of molten 'Einstein ring':
New science from a stunning 2020 Hubble image illuminates the back story behind a shining loop of light.
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26 September 2021.
The US is about to kick-start its controversial covid booster campaign:
The news: The White House is set to kick off its booster shot campaign today, after Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Rochelle Walensky overruled her own agency’s advisors in favor of recommending third doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for frontline workers.
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24 September 2021.
Some of the tech in my workday
Best programming language?
The PYPL PopularitY of Programming Language Index is created by analyzing how often language tutorials are searched on Google.
The TIOBE Programming Community index measures popularity based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses, third party vendors and search engine activity.
w3techs analyses page content to determine the technology used, and also uses publicly available information from sources such as Alexa, Google, Microsoft and ipinfo.io.
While Java and Python top the popularity charts, more than 80% of all websites run on PHP.
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