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[4K] Watch the largest and most powerful rocket launch live! Starship Flight 10

[TIME SUBJECT TO CHANGE] Liftoff NET 6:30 p.m. central [23:30 UTC] — One hour launch window.

SpaceX is launching the 10th full stack Starship with its Super Heavy booster. The booster will not be caught as SpaceX will attempt some more hazardous engine out scenarios with the booster, so it will splashdown off the coast.

But perhaps the biggest milestone is whether or not Starship S37 will be the first Version 2 vehicle to reach the goals of deploying dummy payloads, testing radical heatshield options, and ultimately propulsively splashdown in the Indian Ocean after the setbacks of Flight 7, Flight 8, Flight 9 and S36’s failures.

Want to know what’s new with Starship Version 2? We’ve got a video for you! — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQZbi8HBRcQ

Want more information on how exactly they’ll catch Super Heavy? WATCH THIS — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAPt5vbr-YU

Want to know where to watch this live? I made a video on how to visit Starbase and where to watch a launch from — https://youtu.be/aWvHrih-Juk.

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NASA’s Webb Telescope Discovers 300 Mysterious Objects That Shouldn’t Exist

Drawing on observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, researchers at the University of Missouri have identified 300 unusual candidates for early galaxies. In a recent study, researchers from the University of Missouri examined distant regions of the universe and made a surprising discov

Is the AI boom finally starting to slow down?

“There’s a widening schism between the technologists who feel the A.G.I. – a mantra for believers who see themselves on the cusp of the technology – and members of the general public who are skeptical about the hype and see A.I. as a nuisance in their daily lives,” they wrote.

It’s unclear if the industry will take heed of these warnings. Investors look to every quarterly earnings report for signs that each company’s billions in capex spending is somehow being justified and executives are eager to give them hope. Boosting, boasting about and hyping the supposed promise and inevitability of AI is a big part of keeping investor concerns about the extra $10bn each company adds to its spending projections every quarter at bay. Mark Zuckerberg, for instance, recently said in the future if you’re not using AI glasses you’ll be at a cognitive disadvantage much like not wearing corrective lenses. That means tech firms such as Meta and Google will probably continue making the AI features that they offer today an almost inescapable part of using their products in a play to boost their training data and user numbers.

That said, the first big test of this AI reality check will come on Wednesday when chipmaker Nvidia – one of the building blocks of most LLMs – will report its latest earnings. Analysts seem pretty optimistic but after a shaky week for its stocks, investor reactions to Nvidia’s earnings and any updates on spending will be a strong signal of whether they have a continued appetite for the AI hype machine.

Universal UltraRAM memory is one step closer to production: fast as DRAM and retains data for thousands of years

UltraRAM blurs the line between permanent and random access memory. Quinas Technology and IQE plc have developed the technology for scalable production.

Quinas Technology, the company behind UltraRAM, has been actively working with chipmaker IQE plc over the past year to scale UltraRAM production to industrial levels. According to Blocks & Files, еhe cooperation was successful, and a memory that promises speed, similar to DRAM and 4,000 times greater durability, than NAND, and data retention for up to a thousand years is now on the verge of production.

UltraRAM manufacturing is based on the epitaxy process. Complex semiconductor layers are grown with great precision on a crystal substrate. Later, more conventional semiconductor manufacturing processes such as photolithography and etching are used to create the structures of memory chips.

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