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FAA Delays Musk’s Starship Launch #1690

September 7, 2023September 9, 2023 by Todd Cochrane

Elon Musk has announced that the next fully stacked SpaceX Starship is ready to launch. However, the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) hasn’t approved it yet. The FAA is awaiting SpaceX to implement corrective actions following issues from the first launch… Read More

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Open AI Starts Court Battle #1689

August 31, 2023September 7, 2023 by Todd Cochrane

OpenAI has thrown its first counterpunches in the upcoming court battles it faces over the use of data it scrapped to build a LLM. The stakes are high, these cases will be ongoing worldwide for next few years no doubt… Read More

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The Scourge of External Power Supplies

April 13, 2009 by Todd Cochrane

I accept that for portable devices that run off battery, having a completely seperate power supply makes a lot of sense, especially for small devices like phones and MP3 players. Why though, do appliances which will rarely if ever, move… Read More

Australia to get Fibre to the Premesis

April 7, 2009February 15, 2021 by Todd Cochrane

The Australian Government has announced that they have scrapped the tender process for a company to build an FTTN network, and will instead build its own new network that will put fibre out to 90% of all Australian homes. This… Read More

Warner Bros to Buy Pirate Bay, today of all days.

March 31, 2009April 16, 2009 by Todd Cochrane

So in early news out today from built an exciting and powerful media platform that complements Warner Bros’s mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful TorrentFreak Warner Bros has decided to buy the Pirate… Read More

Will IBM buy Sun?

March 19, 2009May 5, 2021 by Todd Cochrane

Big news around the traps is the potential of IBM to buy Sun for a projected $6.5B, which is about double what the company was valued at when the announcement came out. It has been rumoured for some time that… Read More

The universe actually exists.

March 10, 2009February 15, 2021 by Todd Cochrane

I am sure that most of the GNC audience are familiar with the names Schrodinger, Bohr, Heisenberg, Young and potentially Hardy. All of these people have been instrumentally involved in quantum theory, and specifically for this article, in uncertainty theory…. Read More