Month: October 2024

Bei der Vorstellung des Tesla Cybercab sind Optimus-Roboter durch das Publikum gewuselt. Die waren aber gar nicht autonom unterwegs. (Roboter, Tesla)

Autounfälle durch Pedalverwechslung nehmen nach Beobachtung von Experten zu, besonders bei älteren Fahrern. Nun gibt es technische Lösungen. (Auto, Mobilität)

Blender bietet unbegrenzte kreative Möglichkeiten für 3D-Grafiken und Animationen. Dieser Intensiv-Workshop vermittelt Designern praxisnah, wie sie mit dem führenden Open-Source-Standard hochwertige Assets erstellen. (Golem Karrierewelt, Technologie)

SpaceX accomplished a groundbreaking engineering feat Sunday, when it launched the fifth test flight of its gigantic Starship rocket, then caught the booster back at the launch pad in Texas with mechanical arms seven minutes later.

This achievement is the first of its kind, and it's crucial for SpaceX's vision of rapidly reusing the Starship rocket, enabling human expeditions to the Moon and Mars, routine access to space for mind-bogglingly massive payloads, and novel capabilities that no other company—or country—seems close to attaining.

The test flight began with a thundering liftoff of the 398-foot-tall (121.3-meter) Starship rocket at 7:25 am CDT (12:25 UTC) from SpaceX's Starbase launch site in South Texas, a few miles north of the US-Mexico border. The rocket's Super Heavy booster stage fired 33 Raptor engines, generating nearly 17 million pounds of thrust and gulping 20 tons of methane and liquid oxygen propellants per second at full throttle.

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TerraMaster recently launched 9 new Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices featuring the company’s latest software and processors based on Intel’s 12th-gen Alder Lake-N or Alder Lake-U architecture. One of the more intriguing models is the TerraMaster F8 SSD Plus. Not only is it one of a growing number of NAS devices that use solid state […]

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Die SPD hat ihre Bundeswahlkampfstrategie vorgestellt, die sich auf wirtschaftliche Anreize, Steuererleichterungen und eine E-Auto-Förderung konzentriert. (Elektromobilität, Politik)

Die Dresdner Sinfoniker haben in einer Aufführung im Festspielhaus Hellerau einen Roboter mit drei Armen als Dirigenten eingesetzt. (Roboter, Musik)

Aurora Flight Sciences hat ein Senkrechtstarterdesign für ein Transportflugzeug vorgestellt, das die Fan-in-Wing-Technologie mit einem Blended-Wing-Körper verbindet. (Flugzeug, Politik)

Besser sichtbare Zifferblätter sowie neue Funktionen für Läufer: Das erste große Update für Garmin Fenix 8 und Enduro 3 ist da. (Garmin Fenix, Garmin)

On October 10, 2018, Tyndall Air Force Base on the Gulf of Mexico—a pillar of American air superiority—found itself under aerial attack. Hurricane Michael, first spotted as a Category 2 storm off the Florida coast, unexpectedly hulked up to a Category 5. Sustained winds of 155 miles per hour whipped into the base, flinging power poles, flipping F-22s, and totaling more than 200 buildings. The sole saving grace: Despite sitting on a peninsula, Tyndall avoided flood damage. Michael’s 9- to 14-foot storm surge swamped other parts of Florida. Tyndall’s main defense was luck.

That $5 billion disaster at Tyndall was just one of a mounting number of extreme-weather events that convinced the US Department of Defense that it needed new ideas to protect the 1,700 coastal bases it’s responsible for globally. As hurricanes Helene and Milton have just shown, beachfront residents face compounding threats from climate change, and the Pentagon is no exception. Rising oceans are chewing away the shore. Stronger storms are more capable of flooding land.

In response, Tyndall will later this month test a new way to protect shorelines from intensified waves and storm surges: a prototype artificial reef, designed by a team led by Rutgers University scientists. The 50-meter-wide array, made up of three chevron-shaped structures each weighing about 46,000 pounds, can take 70 percent of the oomph out of waves, according to tests. But this isn’t your grandaddy’s seawall. It’s specifically designed to be colonized by oysters, some of nature’s most effective wave-killers.

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