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Boeing-built X-37B space plane lands after completing record 908-day orbital mission

GeekWire

The X-37B space plane lands at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Boeing / U.S. Space Force Photo). The U.S. Space Force’s Boeing-built X-37B space plane today completed yet another record-setting mission, landing like an airplane at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida 908 days after it was launched. This was the sixth mission in the hush-hush X-37B test program, and the first to fly with a ring-shaped service module on its tail.

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AMD announces Epyc 9004: up to 96 cores for around $12,000

TechSpot

We should start with the name of the series: 9004, following on from 7003, 7002, and 7001. Why the nine? Not sure, but the trailing four is a reference to both the generation and the architecture, Zen 4. The codename for the series is/was Genoa, continuing AMD's tradition of naming.

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When Mark Zuckerberg met Seattle: Facebook, Meta, and a turning point for Silicon Valley

GeekWire

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO, in the company’s heyday. (Facebook Photo). The year was 2011, Facebook was serving a mere 600 million users, and Mark Zuckerberg was making his pitch to a crowd of prospective hires inside the company’s fledgling office near Pike Place Market — explaining why the social network had chosen Seattle for its first remote engineering hub. “We were like, alright, at some point, we should probably think about opening up offices in other place

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New aircraft and display technologies land in Microsoft Flight Simulator's 40th anniversary update

TechSpot

Microsoft released the first version of its flight simulator, Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.0, in November of 1982. The simulator allowed players to pilot a Cessna 182 in the Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, and Seattle areas. The release not only wowed users in the early 1980s, but it also.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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What you need to know about Elon’s inner circle at Twitter 

Vox

Dion Lee/Vox, Getty Images. Inside Elon’s war room. As Elon Musk carries out his chaotic early days as Twitter’s new CEO — slashing staff, trolling employees and users alike, and freaking out advertisers — you might wonder, who is this guy getting his advice from? In his first two weeks running Twitter, Musk has assembled a tight-knit group of his “war-room” advisers.

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FIFA 23 tries to correctly predict the World Cup winner for the fourth time in a row

TechSpot

Electronic Arts (EA) has produced games under the FIFA branding for the last 26 years, allowing players to pit their favorite teams against one another or even simulate their own tournaments similar to a World Cup. Every four (or, in this specific case, five) years, EA releases an update for.

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