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Rocket Lab Offers Next-Day Shipping to SpaceDevin Coldewey | TechCrunchIt wasnt long ago that orbital launches were something that took years of planning and months of tests and careful preparation. But Rocket Labs new program will enable customers to show up at the launch site with their payload in the boot and have it in orbit 24 hours later. Premium next-day rateswillapply, of course.

FIFA Will Track Players Bodies Using AI to Make Offside Calls at 2022 World CupJames Vincent | The VergeThe semi-automated system consists of a sensor in the ball that relays its position on the field 500 times a second, and 12 tracking cameras mounted underneath the roof of stadiums, which use machine learning to track 29 points in players bodies. Software will combine this data to generate automated alerts when players commit offside offenses

MIT Proposes Brazil-Sized Space Bubbles to Cool EarthKristin Houser | Big ThinkInstead of injecting particles into Earths atmosphere to cool the planet, an interdisciplinary team of MIT researchers proposes we take solar geoengineering to space. The proposed shield would be about the size of Brazil, and the bubbles for it could be manufactured and deployed in space, possibly out of siliconthe group has already experimented with creating these space bubbles in the lab.

The Robot Guerrilla Campaign to Recreate the Elgin MarblesFranz Lidz | The New York TimesWhile security staff [at the British Museum] looked on, the two used standard iPhones and iPads, as many of the latest models are equipped with Lidar sensors and photogrammetry software, to create 3D digital images. The 3D images of the marble horse head were uploaded into the carving robot, which shaved the prototype over four days.

Bacteria Could Produce Powerful and Cleaner Rocket FuelKevin Hurler | GizmodoBecause the carbon geometry in a POP-FAME is more compact than those found in preexisting fuels, it allows a greater number of molecules to fill the same amount of space. Whats more, acute angles within POP-FAMEs place stress on the carbon bonds, and this stress, the researchers surmised, could be a major source of potential energy and with a cleaner production process.

Autonomous Drones Challenge Human Champions in First Fair RaceEvan Ackerman | IEEE SpectrumHere are some preliminary clips from one of the vision-based autonomous drones flying computer-to-head with a human; the human-piloted drone is red, while the autonomous drone is blue. With a top speed of 80 km/h, the vision-based autonomous drone outraced the fastest human by 0.5 second during a three-lap race, where just one or two-tenths of a second is frequently the difference between a win and a loss.

3D Printing Grows Beyond Its Novelty RootsSteve Lohr | The New York TimesThey say 3D printing, also called additive manufacturing, is no longer a novelty technology for a few consumer and industrial products, or for making prototype design concepts. It is now a technology that is beginning to deliver industrial-grade product quality and printing in volume, said Jrg Bromberger, a manufacturing expert at McKinsey & Company.

Cryptos Free Rein May Be Coming to a CloseGian M. Volpicelli | WiredRegulation is coming for crypto. After more than a decade when cryptocurrencies and related technologies have surged, boomed, and busted in a regulatory vacuum, lawmakers in both the US and Europe are writing new rules for a sector that has grown dangerously large in both value and reach, touching $2.9 trillion at its peak in November 2021. The ongoing crash on crypto marketshas only strengthened rule-makers resolve.

Cruises Robot Car Outages Are Jamming Up San FranciscoAarian Marshall | WiredFor [MIT roboticist and entrepreneur Rodney Brooks], robotaxis getting stuck in and blocking traffic is evidence of the challenges faced by Cruise and its competitors as they try to turn promising prototype autonomous vehicles into large-scale commercial services. A lot of technologists think if you do a demo, then thats it. But scaling is what kills you, he says. You run into all sorts of things that didnt happen at a smaller scale.i

Will These Algorithms Save You From Quantum Threats?Amit Katwala | WiredFor the last six years, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)has been running a competition to find the algorithms that it hopes will secure our data against quantum computers. This week, it published the results. People have to understand the threat that quantum computers can pose to cryptography, says Dustin Moody, who leads the post-quantum cryptography project at NIST. We need to have new algorithms to replace the ones that are vulnerable, and the first step is to standardize them.i

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