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• Can Ariane 6 turn Europe’s spacetech startups into global powerhouses?

  12-07-2024 19:07 via thenextweb.com
  
  When Ariane 6 suffered a glitch on its first flight, the mishap felt strangely inevitable. Nearly half of all rockets fail on their first launches. After a troubled development and four years of delays, Ariane 6 looked like a prime candidate to join the list.  The launcher was commissioned to create a European pathway into the cosmos. Since the retirement of Ariane 5 last July, the continent has had no independent access to space. Thierry Breton, the EU’s commissioner for the in
  
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• SoftBank snaps up troubled British AI chip developer Graphcore

  12-07-2024 13:09 via thenextweb.com
  
  Japanese tech group SoftBank has acquired yet another British chip player. This time it has snapped up Bristol-based AI processor developer Graphcore, whose very survival was in doubt over the past year.  The acquisition comes as investors compete to back the next big thing in AI. Moreover, larger tech companies who feel that their own in-house AI capabilities are falling short have been searching high and low for acquisitions that can mitigate these inadequacies and give them a leg up on
  
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• Today’s ethical dilemmas are being decided by tech bros. How can they keep their compass straight?

  12-07-2024 10:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  Tech bros are for the first time poised to become pivotal players in highly sensitive sectors: national security, space exploration, and more. Most recently, NATO’s €1B Innovation Fund announced investments in eight startups and VC firms with a focus on emerging military and defense technologies.  As the startup ecosystem has become more sophisticated, it is now starting to disrupt these tightly controlled sectors, which were until recently the domain of governments and legacy i
  
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• Preparing for Real-Time Applications in Avalanche Safety

  12-07-2024 08:18 via webdesignernews.com
  Launching a greenfield application or rolling out a new feature can be like going out into the wilderness: you can never quite be sure what is waiting for you out there (bears, falling rocks …or an avalanche?) With distributed systems, you can face many common problems, and a little awareness and preparedness could be what keeps your service alive! Today, I’d like to talk about one such problem: the thundering herd problem, as it relates to real-time applications. We’ll d
  
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• Did Figma Just Replace Design Concepting?

  12-07-2024 08:17 via webdesignernews.com
  Professionals across various industries have historically relied on concepts to communicate and sell ideas. Concepts are very common in advertising, branding, marketing, graphic design, fashion, architecture, and many more creative fields. It all comes down to the human brain’s innate attraction to narrative and metaphor and how we can leverage this to push ideas forward.
  
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• CSS Embraces Inline Conditionals: A New Era

  12-07-2024 08:15 via webdesignernews.com
  The accepted proposal is a green light for the CSSWG to work on the idea with the intent of circulating a draft specification for further input and considerations en route to, hopefully, become a recommended CSS feature. So, it’s gonna be a hot minute before any of this is baked, that is, if it gets fully baked.
  
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