NASA must create a time zone for the Moon
The White House released a policy memo directing NASA to create a new time standard for the Moon by 2026. Lunar Coordinated Time (LTC) will establish an official time reference to help guide future lunar missions. The United States, China, Japan, India and Russia have planned or completed space missions to the Moon. NASA (and […]
The White House released a policy memo directing NASA to create a new time standard for the Moon by 2026. Lunar Coordinated Time (LTC) will establish an official time reference to help guide future lunar missions. The United States, China, Japan, India and Russia have planned or completed space missions to the Moon.
NASA (and the White House) aren’t the only ones trying. The European Space Agency is also trying to create a time zone outside of Earth’s time zone.
Given the Moon’s weaker gravity, time passes slightly faster there. “The same clock that we have on Earth would move at a different speed on the Moon,” said Kevin Coggins, NASA’s space communications and navigation manager. Reuters.
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Apparently the most error-free quantum solution to date.
What if we could build a machine operating at the quantum level, capable of performing complex calculations exponentially faster than a computer limited by classical physics? Despite all the heady dreams of quantum computing and press releases from IBM and Google, it remains a possibility. Microsoft now claims to have developed the most error-free quantum computing system to date, with Quantinuum. This is not something I can condense into a single paragraph. You did see InterstellarRIGHT?
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But it’s still not that good.
Stability AI has just unveiled Stable Audio 2.0, an improved version of its music generation platform. With this system, you can use your own text to create up to three minutes of audio, roughly the length of a song. You can refine the results by choosing a genre or even uploading audio to inspire the algorithm. It’s fun, try it. Don’t add voices, trust me.
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Electric vehicles have fun in the water.
Apple, looking for its next iPhone/Apple Watch/Vision Pro (maybe?), may be trying to get into robots. According to Bloomberg’According to Mark Gurman, one of the areas the company is exploring is personal robotics – and it has also started looking at electric vehicles. The report said Apple has started work on a mobile robot to follow users around their home and has already developed a tabletop device that uses a robot to move a screen.
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Not like this.
Wow.
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