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Submission + - New Spaceport Announced in Nova Scotia - Operational in 2023 (www.cbc.ca)

Submitted by boudie2 on Thursday May 13, 2021 @02:10PM

boudie2 writes: Maritime Launch Services has secured financing it says will
allow it to begin construction on a spaceport facility this
fall and get its first launch off the ground in 2022.
The first Cyclone 4M medium-class launch vehicle would take
off in 2023. The company wants to construct a rocket-launching
site in Canso, Nova Scotia to send satellites into orbit for
use in near-earth imaging, communications and scientific
experiments.

President and CEO Steve Matier stated the company has been
approached by small satellite launchers, and MLS is
considering hosting one of them for a first flight to
orbit from the launch site as the facility scales up
its operations. The company is expecting additional
funding for the project will be secured through equity,
debt and launch contracts.

Submission + - Astronomers Search For Answers To Origin Of Interstellar Visitors (bbc.com)

Submitted by boudie2 on Saturday May 08, 2021 @10:48AM

boudie2 writes: Since the first sighting in 2017 of a space anomaly named
Oumuamua, Hawaiian for "a messenger from afar arriving first"
(pronounced oh-moo-uh-moo-uh) there has been much speculation
about it's origin and formation. In an article from the BBC
they give some background and tell us what astronomers have
discovered about it. "Tumbling through space at 57,000mph
(90,000 kmph), the object is thought to have come from the
direction of Vega, an alien star that resides 147 trillion
miles (237 trillion km) away." They go on to say that
"Oumuamua has not yet been definitively classified as a
comet or an asteroid – it might be something else entirely."
There is hope that a recently constructed observatory at the
top of Cerro Pachon, an 8,799 foot high mountain in Chile
that will be equipped with the "largest digital camera ever
constructed for the field of astronomy" will help provide
answers.

Submission + - Elon Musk's Own Engineers Say He Exaggerates Autopilot Capabilities (theverge.com)

Submitted by boudie2 on Friday May 07, 2021 @01:18PM

boudie2 writes: According to his own employees, Elon Musk has been exxagerating
the capabilities of Tesla's Autopilot system. Documents obtained
from the California Department of Motor Vehicles show that despite
Musk's tweets to the contrary “Elon’s tweet does not match
engineering reality per CJ. Tesla is at Level 2 currently,”. CJ
Moore is the director of Autopilot software. Level 2 technology
refers to a semi-automated driving system, which requires supervision
by a human driver.
Tesla is unlikely to achieve Level 5 (L5) autonomy, in which its
cars can drive themselves anywhere, under any conditions, without
any human supervision, by the end of 2021, Tesla representatives
told the DMV.

Submission + - Samsung touts Linux Desktop on S8+ (theinquirer.net)

Submitted by boudie2 on Sunday November 12, 2017 @01:51PM

boudie2 writes: Samsung has a video on youtube which they call a Concept Demo of their DeX which extends your smartphone into a desktop running Linux. Although there are many ways they could screw this up, could anyone envision actually using this? It's still an under powered ARM processor. Any potential here?

Submission + - Purism Now Offers Laptops with AMT disabled

Submitted by boudie2 on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @10:15AM

boudie2 writes: San Francisco company Purism announced that they are now offering their Librem laptops with the Intel Management Engine disabled. Part of all Intel CPUs since 2008 it enables remote management of the computer's hardware. What will be the repurcussions,
if any of this? Is Intel okay with it?
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpuri.sm%2Fposts%2Fpurism-l...

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