NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-U (GOES-U) mission.

OpenAI told the developer he was no longer allowed to use its tech after he refused to insert a monitoring tool.

I got notified from Apple today that Quran Reader has been removed from sale in China because it has "content that is illegal in China as determined by the Cyberspace Administration of China". It's literally just the Quran. apps.apple.com/app/quran-read…

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Anyone else seeing this? I made a comment that included "joinmastodon.org" and got this from Facebook.

I should state from the very beginning that the noscript of this post is a bit of a tease.  I don’t know why nothing can go faster than the speed of light.  No one does.  It is a fundamental pos…

German news outlet Deutsche Welle (DW) notes that the federal government held a closed-door session with the parliamentary Interior Committee of the Bundestag. In the meeting, it...

sketch + style = paints :art: (TOG2018/SIGGRAPH2018ASIA) - GitHub - lllyasviel/style2paints: sketch + style = paints (TOG2018/SIGGRAPH2018ASIA)

As discussed between me and @mikedld from time to time.
C++'s std:: tools are more useful than the bespoke tools in libtransmission's C code. Nearly every time I go in to fix or cha...

How big of a team can someone lead well? What are the factors that might decrease or increase this size? Find out more in this article

A new study shows that 17 billion life years could be saved if air pollution was reduced to WHO standards, but there's only one way to do it – ending the system that pollutes the world in the name of profit.

The assumption that Adam Smith accepted inequality as the necessary trade-off for a more prosperous economy is wrong, writes Deborah Boucoyannis. In reality, Smith’s system precluded steep inequalities not out of a normative concern with equality but by virtue…

Personal webpage of Fabian Mentzer.