Futurism

MARCH 24, 2025

And as SpaceX inches closer to successfully launching and landing a full-scale prototype, it's worth having a look back at all of the spectacular tests and failures that brought us here. May 2020: First Fireball SpaceX's fourth prototype, dubbed SN4, erupted in a gigantic fireball during its fifth static firing test in mid-2020.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) worked together to manipulate 737 Max recertification tests following two fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019, according to a damning new Senate report. Our findings are troubling,” Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), who chairs the committee, said in a statement.

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Wired

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

These WIRED-tested smart water sensors can help you catch problems quicker. Dont let busted pipes or an overflowing washing machine dampen your day.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Focus instead on the benefit that your work brings to the societal problem you’re trying to solve. And framing your organization or donors as the sole source of reversing this societal problem leads to saviorism. 6) Don’t Forget A/B Testing. We frequently talk about A/B testing as a digital tactic—and it is!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 12, 2022

Basically, it is a third-party bit of code that tries to fix accessibility problems on your site as it loads on someone’s computer or phone. . However, since they try to fix accessibility problems automatically without actually testing or changing your specific website, they often cause more problems than they solve.

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Engadget

MARCH 24, 2025

We tested more than a dozen options to come up with the best USB-C hub for maximizing your ports, and weve included advice on what to look for before you buy. Power delivery Nearly all of the USB-C hubs I tested support passthrough charging. Then I put each USB-C hub through a gamut of basic tests.

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Ars Technica

MARCH 18, 2025

To simplify matters, researchers at Johns Hopkins University's Terradynamics Laboratory are building crouching spider robots and testing them on synthetic webs. Our lab investigates biological problems using robot physical models," team member Eugene Lin told Ars.

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Singularity Hub

MARCH 24, 2025

In a test, the team directed two robots, each loaded with a different chemical, to jump off a ledge and merge together without breaking, allowing the chemicals to react inside their Teflon shells. In another test, the researchers zapped adjacent bots with sound waves, deforming them into a bridge-like shape.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

And the Pepperdine Waves have a problem with it. Applied to the Pepperdine suit, the Rogers test might find the use of the Waves team name is fine for Netflix and Warner Bros. A court will now weigh in on the Waves fate, and considering the unsettled nature of the Rogers test, whatever they decided could have a ripple effect.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

Some examples of rule-bender language include develops creative and innovative solutions to problems, communicates in a tactical and persuasive manner and thinks outside the box.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

Images: Meta] An unsolvable problem? Metas own oversight board has pointed out huge problems with the plan. The old third-party fact checking suffered from similar latency problems. But Meta says there has been no A/B testing of Community Notes to see how it performs versus third-party fact-checking.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

That’s why we created Candid Labs , a destination where our users can discover the breakthrough technology Candid is developing to support those working to solve the biggest problems in society. Now, we’re inviting the public to test drive the tool on Candid Labs.

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Ars Technica

APRIL 14, 2025

Over the weekend, Samsung purged the One UI 7 update from its servers, which indicates that a serious problem has occurred. It takes time to do thatseven months and counting since Android 15's releasebut it seems Samsung should have spent a little more time testing all those changes.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The problems contributed to Congress denying the Armys request to buy 6,900 pairs as part of a 2023 government funding bill. The Army could eventually order as many as 121,000 devices, but the new version would still need to pass a high-stress combat test this year before going into full production.

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Towards Data Science

JUNE 2, 2023

How to improve the code quality of your dbt models with unit tests and TDD All you need to know to start unit testing your dbt SQL models Photo by Christin Hume on Unsplash If you are a data or analytics engineer, you are probably comfortable writing SQL models and testing for data quality with dbt tests.

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Engadget

APRIL 14, 2025

The first time I tried a fully split, thumb cluster board, I knew I had found the answer to my particular problem. Photo by Amy Skorheim / Engadget How we tested ergonomic keyboards All our guides begin with extensive research to figure out whats out there and whats worth testing.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

The problem, says Hebbia CEO George Sivulka, is that RAG can get too bogged down in keyword matches to focus on answering a user’s actual question. One recent test of a legal AI tool, where the system was asked to find notable opinions by a made-up judge, found it highlighted a case involving a party with a similar name.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Now, as the Houston-based company seeks to repeat the journey , its executives say they've made improvements to their new spacecraft, Athena, that should help it avoid the problems that impacted the mission in 2024. Flight controllers had discovered a problem with the spacecraft's navigation system just a few hours before touchdown.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Let’s dive into each of these points further to look at where we can run into problems and how to fix them. If for some reason you sent the email to less people than you meant to, you may have identified your problem. If your donation page is the problem, there are a few reasons why that could be.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

In a sector that is so risk-averse—afraid of change, reluctant to explore new ideas, and adopt new practices—why do we rely on super risky problem-solving skills? She encourages us, as sector professionals, to rethink our outdated problem-solving habits and stop making assumptions without acknowledgment and testing.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 6, 2025

The problems you are trying to solve are complex and the potential organizations you can support are many. Show the innovative courage of sharing your knowledge to help the next organization evolve and take the next step forward towards unraveling these complex problems. Yes, this will include vendors.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Cross-functional projects can bring fresh perspectives and innovative solutions to complex problems. Encourage Experimentation : Create a test and learn culture where new ideas and pilot projects are welcomed. Empower Cross-Functional Collaboration : Create opportunities for different teams to work together on shared goals.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

Microplasticsa global problem The term plastic refers to a wide variety of artificially created polymers. Sophisticated algorithms whose inner workings can be opaque make these predictions, so the lack of an uncertainty measure becomes an even greater problem when machine learning is involved.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 4, 2022

Most charities had used the same tried-and-tested methods for decades (namely, galas and sponsored endeavors), but with new health and safety guidelines to contend with, this was no longer possible. Nonprofit fundraising had been due an upgrade to catapult it into the modern era for a while. When the pandemic hit, that event finally came.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 16, 2019

If your organization is using generic or low-cost website hosting for WordPress, it’s likely you’re running into common problems: Your website’s pages and posts load slow. WP Engine’s one-click staging for testing plugins or new features. From serious problems to simple plugin recommendations, you’ll be covered.

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Wired

MARCH 7, 2025

The new version of Starship will be tested again in four to six weeks. A third consecutive failure could indicate fundamental problems with the updated design.

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Engadget

MARCH 31, 2025

The 9950X3D has the same 170 Watt TDP (Thermal Design Profile) as its 2D variant, so cooling shouldn't be a huge problem, and unlike most other 3D V-Cache chips, it's also fully overclockable. The 9950X3D was also 33 percent faster in the same benchmark's multi-threaded test. (I

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Singularity Hub

APRIL 11, 2025

Although some of todays models can generalize a skill across similar problems, they struggle to transfer those skills across more complex tasks requiring multiple steps. This is a notoriously hard problem and the results are fantastic. Thats the problem with sparse rewards.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

An avenue to test this presented itself to the team because the gig economy platform they were collaborating with, which matches North American homeowners with small business entrepreneurs for domestic repairs, decided to simplify its customer ratings from the common five-star system to a straightforward up versus down vote scale.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 17, 2025

As an AI model is pretrained , its tested by being shown a sample set of tokens and asked to predict the next token. Here, in addition to input and output tokens, the model generates a host of reasoning tokens over minutes or hours as it thinks about how to solve a given problem.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

Now, theres a company looking to address that problem with a simple yet radical solution: Putting renewable energy into giant batteries and transporting those batteries by train. We tested the technology, the feasibility, made sure the mechanical standards were there, Smith says. Thats enough to power a city of 100,000 for a full day.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

And at this point, that shouldn't be your problem. But the deal looks even better when put in context with a 2025 Roborock that I'm testing right now. A peek at the best early Amazon spring sale deals on self-emptying robot vacuums Budget pick Shark AI Ultra AV2511AE $299.99 at Amazon $1,399.99

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NVIDIA AI Blog

JANUARY 30, 2025

Performing this sequence of inference passes using reason to arrive at the best answer is known as test-time scaling. As models are allowed to iteratively think through the problem, they create more output tokens and longer generation cycles, so model quality continues to scale.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

By analyzing this data, Satelytics can rapidly pinpoint problems like methane leaks with remarkable detail and deliver alerts within hours, minimizing costs and operational disruptions. Air Force, Varda Space Industries, and others, continue to transform testing and evaluation. It also raised $27.5

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TechSpot

MAY 22, 2022

The Verge's Sean Hollister took the service for a test run this week and found that it's even worse than it appears on paper. It has many problems, the most outrageous of which is the pricing: he paid $69 for a new battery for his iPhone Mini, the same price.

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The MatrixFiles

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The problem is, note taking is hard. Putting AI Note Takers to the Test Over a couple of months, anyone who was interested in trialing AI note takers took part in a test. Check for the ease of turning on and off We tested a bunch of apps, including Fireflies, Otter, Tactiq, ChatGPT, and Fathom.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 22, 2024

Innovation and problem solving Utilize emotional drivers to achieve a deeper understanding of member needs. Identify potential challenges by anticipating problems and mitigating conflict. Service is a single point on a continuum of interactions that centers around communication and problem-solving.

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