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SpaceX Has a Major Problem: New Versions of Starship Are Performing Worse Than Older Ones

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Engineers have successfully demonstrated that the lower-stage Super Heavy booster can guide itself back to a launch tower and be caught midair , in a key step towards making the launch system reusable. I just don't know how long it's going to take them to do that."

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Would you pay $4,000 to solve your streaming movie problems?

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Stansbury, a former Intuit CTO who took the helm at Kaleidescape after getting hooked on the system himself, says he’s on a mission to revitalize the company and reach new audiences after years of stagnant product development. ” Cheating death Kaleidescape didn’t start off in the movie download business.

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Woman Whose Last Name Is "Null" Keeps Running Into Trouble With Computer Systems

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Null is the term used in computer systems the world over to indicate "no value." And each time they got back, authorities said their flummoxed computer system couldn't process her application. "I It's a difficult problem to solve because it's so widespread," Daan Leijen, a Microsoft researcher, told the WSJ. Err, sorry.

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Even the Most Advanced AI Has a Problem: If It Doesn’t Know the Answer, It Makes One Up

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This rampant AI problem is, according to researchers who spoke to the Wall Street Journal , rooted in a reticence to be caught not knowing something. Its about having useful systems to deploy," Dobler said, "even if theyre not superintelligent." Already, companies like Anthropic are injecting uncertainty into their chatbots.

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D-Wave says it achieved ‘quantum supremacy,’ using a computer to solve a problem that would otherwise take a million years

Fast Company Tech

In effect, this means that D-Wave has achieved quantum supremacy on a useful problem, something it says nobody else has yet been able to accomplish, and which is detailed in a paper published on Wednesday in the journal Science. Its what everybody aspired to achieve, and were quite excited about it.”

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Meta will soon roll out Community Notes, a whitewashed version of Elon Musk’s fact-checking system

Fast Company Tech

The tech giant is betting on a new, community-driven system called Community Notes that draws on Xs feature of the same name and uses the Xs open algorithm as its basis. The rollout will be throttled and, initially, notes wont appear publicly as Meta claims it needs time to feed the algorithm and ensure this system is working properly.

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Building an Effective Partner Ecosystem for Your Grant Management System

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Gone are the days when each of those systems required a different login and manual data manipulation to get what you needed. Now your grant management system (GMS) is the hub of your grantmaking organization, and simple API integrations allow you to plug in the systems that work best for you. Document signatures.

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