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• Dawn Aerospace is proving that spaceplanes aren’t rocket science

  13-08-2024 17:25 via thenextweb.com
  
  Dawn Aerospace is a small startup with big ambitions: to build the first vehicle to fly over 100 km above the Earth — twice in one day.     A couple of weeks back, the budding company — headquartered in the Netherlands and New Zealand — took a major step toward that goal. Its reusable, rocket-powered Mk-II Aurora aircraft reached speeds of Mach 0.92 (967 km/h) at altitudes over 15km. While far from its eventual target, that is three times the speed and five time
  
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• EU warning to Musk ahead of Trump interview draws ire of X

  13-08-2024 17:12 via thenextweb.com
  
  Much has been said today about the interview that took place on Monday between Elon Musk and Donald Trump on X. Delayed by technical reasons, which Musk blamed on DDOS attacks, the two-hour conversation has been labelled, among other things, “surprisingly dull,” “rambling,” and “friendly.”   The exercise in mutual admiration of the two “planet-sized egos” had Trump blaming Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on President Biden. He al
  
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• Why Go programming language is on the rise (again)

  13-08-2024 09:55 via thenextweb.com
  
  Go was first released as an open source programming language in 2009, and it’s had its ups and downs over the past 15 years. Although it was only released in November 2009, Go saw such a dramatic rise in interest that it was named the 2009 Programming Language of the Year by the TIOBE Index, which awards this title to the language with the highest rise in rank in a full-year period. In just two months, Go had rocketed to the top 20 of the Language of the Year ranking, which tracks a langu
  
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