MARXFARE™? is using the law to try to create a one-party monopoly and thus eventually a one-party dictatorship, just like Communist China has.
AI flips that relationship around. Instead of opening eight pieces of software, imagine saying: “Plan a five-day trip to Tokyo in April. Keep the hotel under $250 a night, avoid overnight flights, put everything on my calendar and make me a packing list based on the forecast.”. That’s not really an app interaction anymore. That’s an intention—and intention may become the most important interface in computing.
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Archaeologists excavating in the ancient Hittite capital of Hattusha have uncovered a fragment of the world’s oldest peace treaty, signed around 1269 B.C.
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One way of looking at the last 20 years of spaceflight history, and NASA’s efforts to stimulate a low-Earth orbit economy, is to view SpaceX as the exception to the rule. In some sense, an economy based on astronauts in low-Earth orbit got lucky that SpaceX executed so successfully on Dragon. This allowed for the creation of a market around the idea of access at a price of $50 million per seat. At the same time, transportation competitors in cargo (Northrop) and crew (Boeing) struggled mightily. The best SpaceX’s competitors could do was nearly twice the price, and even then, not as reliably.
But then something changed. Americans stopped throwing parties. Even more fundamentally, they stopped visiting each other. Between 1975 and 1998, the share of Americans who gave or attended a monthly dinner party declined by half. The share of Americans saying they never entertained people at home tripled. [See charts below] While cultural critics often bemoan the decline of organized religion, the dip in church attendance was downright modest compared to the collapse in hosting, according to data gathered by the DDB Needham Life Style survey.
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Terrific brand activity in a market that is at best treading water amidst the smartphone photo and video explosion.
Sigma is an interesting company.
The addendum confirms that four of the seven aircraft DHS brought to Manhattan held position, and two of the four were DJI’s.
However, as IDC explains, market leader DJI itself shipped 10.4 million handheld cameras last year, more than all the member companies of CIPA combined. 2025 was the first time DJI surpassed the 10 million-unit mark. It’ll be interesting to see how ongoing issues with the FCC in the United States affect the company’s shipments this year.
We compared 12 licensed accountants against frontier AI models on realistic accounting tasks. The models were faster and more accurate than every accountant in our study.
I asked Claude to use The New York Times API and examine the war with Iran vs Libya…. Blue = Criticized the president’s strategy or conduct
Red = Reported a military success. Green = Put the president’s name in the headline
The $4.1 billion rocket and the $178 million one. NASA’s inspector general puts the cost of each Artemis launch of the Space Launch System, including the Orion capsule, the European service module and ground systems, at about $4.1 billion, and the SLS rocket by itself at about $2.2 billion. The inspector general called that cost unsustainable, and the next version of the rocket is expected to cost at least $2.5 billion apiece just to produce. When NASA moved its flagship Europa Clipper mission off SLS in 2021, it bought a Falcon Heavy to launch the spacecraft for about $178 million. Ars Technica, citing White House estimates, put the savings at roughly $2 billion, and NASA also avoided about $1 billion it would have spent hardening the spacecraft to survive the vibration of an SLS ride.
America’s rarest award for valor, equivalent to the Medal of Honor, is presented in secret, then immediately taken back and locked in a vault. In almost eight decades, only 39 people have earned it. The Cross is almost unknown to the American public, who have never heard of these hitherto anonymous heroes. “Now, this startling, intimate portrait reveals their identities, life stories, and astounding actions in CIA spying missions and covert operations across the globe.
Meanwhile, U.S. airlines flying the already-certified 737 Max 8 and 9 models have avoided upgrading to U14 and U14.1. United Airlines chose to downgrade, instead sticking with the older version of the FMS software, U13, that was introduced when the first 737 Max model was certified in 2017. While that version also has a known bug that is considered by the FAA to be a low-risk safety issue and will eventually require an airworthiness directive, airlines see it as less problematic than the host of issues that were introduced with U14.