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F1 to make rule changes from next race in Miami after engine concerns

F1 to make rule changes from next race in Miami after engine concerns

Published by Sam Flores

LONDON, April 20 : Formula One teams and stakeholders agreed unanimously on Monday to engine rule tweaks aimed at improving the racing and driver safety from the next race in Miami on May 3. The sport this season started a new era, with the hybrid power units now split roughly 50-50 between electric and combustion power. Some drivers have complained over the first three races about having to ‘lift and coast’ into high-speed corners so the combustion engine can recharge the battery, and have aired safety concerns regarding the start and speed differentials during the race.  They have also had to contend with ‘super-clipping’ where the power unit automatically diverts energy from the engine to the battery, slowing down the car even if the driver is flat on the throttle. Red Bull’s four-times world champion Max Verstappen has questioned his future in the sport. The governing International Automobile Federation (FIA) said in a statement that an online meeting with the 11 team bosses, power unit CEOs and Formula One had agreed a number of in-season …

AI answer engine drives more effective advertising at Reach and Independent

AI answer engine drives more effective advertising at Reach and Independent

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Mock-up of what Taboola’s Deeper Dive can look like on a publisher homepage. Picture: Taboola Taboola’s AI search engine is being used by up to one in six users on publisher websites that have rolled it out, the adtech company has said. Adverts next to Deeper Dive answers are now providing higher conversion rates than traditional website ad slots, CEO Adam Singolda told Press Gazette. Deeper Dive is an AI-powered search engine that can be added for free to publisher websites on any page, including the homepage or articles. Publishers receive a share of revenue from adverts placed at the top and bottom of the answers. The format begins with a short chatbot-style answer before more context is provided via links to relevant further coverage on the publisher’s website or wider network. Publishers can also choose whether to plug in a third-party feed, such as police press releases, to add further relevant information. There is a text box at the end to ask a follow-up question if needed. Reach (via sites like the Daily Star) …

Ready or not, key engine burn puts NASA’s Artemis II on path to the moon

Ready or not, key engine burn puts NASA’s Artemis II on path to the moon

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Artemis II has officially left Earth’s neighborhood, with the Orion spacecraft now on a three-day leg of the deep space journey toward the moon. After NASA polled “go” on translunar injection — or TLI, the key engine firing — flight controllers commanded the maneuver just before 8 p.m. ET on Thursday, April 2, less than 24 hours after the historic mission launched from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.  For the U.S. space agency, this moment is the real point of no return in a carefully orchestrated test flight. It’s the last major engine firing of the mission. The burn not only pushes the capsule toward the moon, it also serves as the same critical maneuver that will eventually bring the astronauts home.  That’s riskier than NASA’s usual spaceflights. On the International Space Station, astronauts circle Earth every hour and a half. If something goes wrong, they’re never more than about 90 minutes from an emergency landing. But on Artemis II, as soon as controllers take this step, NASA has committed to the rest of …

North Korea’s Kim oversees test of high-thrust engine: KCNA

North Korea’s Kim oversees test of high-thrust engine: KCNA

Published by Sam Flores

SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw a ground test of an upgraded solid-fuel rocket engine, state media reported on Sunday (Mar 29), in the latest sign of Pyongyang’s push to enhance its strategic weapons arsenal. Solid-fuel engines enable faster missile launches as they require little preparation before ignition and defence experts believe North Korea is planning to use them for the intercontinental ballistic missiles it is developing. The test of the solid-fuel engine made of composite carbon fibre material, was “part of the national defence development plan in the period of the new five-year plan”, Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said. Pursuing such high-thrust engines “conforms with the national strategy and the military demand for modernising the strategic forces”, Mr Kim was quoted as saying by KCNA, which did not disclose the date or location of the test. The latest engine being tested produced a higher thrust of 2,500 kilonewtons, KCNA reported. The development demonstrates North Korea’s “resolve to acquire missiles capable of hitting targets around the globe”, Dr Hong Min, …

Revolutionary new engine runs on the cold of space – no fuel required

Revolutionary new engine runs on the cold of space – no fuel required

Published by Jenni Sidey

Every night, the sky does something invisible and enormous. Heat escapes from Earth’s surface upward through the atmosphere and out into the cold of space. This is a process as old as the planet itself. However, no one had seriously tried to harness that nightly energy flow and turn it into usable mechanical power. A small team of engineers in California just did. Researchers at the University of California, Davis built an engine that runs entirely on the temperature difference between warm ground and a cold night sky, no fuel, no batteries, no grid connection required. It sits outside, faces upward, and quietly pulls power from the dark. The demonstration is modest in scale. Even so, the underlying principle opens a genuinely new category of off-grid energy technology. The Cold Side of the Energy Equation Solar panels capture sunlight by exploiting the fact that one side of a device is hotter than the other. The sun warms the active surface; the surroundings stay cool. Jeremy Munday, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC …

DHS Wants a Single Search Engine to Flag Faces and Fingerprints Across Agencies

DHS Wants a Single Search Engine to Flag Faces and Fingerprints Across Agencies

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The Department of Homeland Security is moving to consolidate its face recognition and other biometric technologies into a single system capable of comparing faces, fingerprints, iris scans, and other identifiers collected across its enforcement agencies, according to records reviewed by WIRED. The agency is asking private biometric contractors how to build a unified platform that would let employees search faces and fingerprints across large government databases already filled with biometrics gathered in different contexts. The goal is to connect components including Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Transportation Security Administration, US Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Secret Service, and DHS headquarters, replacing a patchwork of tools that do not share data easily. The system would support watchlisting, detention, or removal operations and comes as DHS is pushing biometric surveillance far beyond ports of entry and into the hands of intelligence units and masked agents operating hundreds of miles from the border. The records show DHS is trying to buy a single “matching engine” that can take different kinds of biometrics—faces, fingerprints, iris …

The Search Engine for OnlyFans Models Who Look Like Your Crush

The Search Engine for OnlyFans Models Who Look Like Your Crush

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For three days in February, porn star Alix Lynx flew to Miami for her first exclusive creator gathering where she was in full grind mode: shooting Reels and talking strategy with other creators. “It was kind of like SoHo House for OnlyFans girls,” she says of the experience, which is called The Circle and drew more than a dozen sex workers, including Remy LaCroix and Forrest Smith. Lynx, who is a former webcam model turned OnlyFans starlet, has a combined 2 million followers across Instagram, TikTok, and X. She joined OnlyFans in 2017 with “the luxury of having my own following,” she says, but those numbers haven’t always translated to subscriptions. It’s why she was in Miami. “I don’t think people understand. I do a shitload of marketing,” Lynx says.“That’s the big misconception with OnlyFans—when creators join they think it’s going to be easy. But unless you’re a genius at marketing on social media, which is few and far between, it’s genuinely hard to get found and gain a following.” Many of OnlyFans’ 4 million …

F1 will thrill in new engine era and Verstappen sure to stay, Domenicali says

F1 will thrill in new engine era and Verstappen sure to stay, Domenicali says

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Feb 20 : Formula One chief executive Stefano Domenicali has assured fans that the sport’s new engine era will still provide plenty of thrills and Max Verstappen is in no danger of walking away. Four times world champion Verstappen has been outspoken about the new cars not being fun to drive and producing a situation that is “like Formula E on steroids” and “anti-racing”. The Red Bull driver has said before that he will stop racing if he no longer enjoys it but Domenicali said there was no risk of that. “I have a very good relationship with Max,” the Italian told reporters on a video call when asked what made him so confident. “I know him very well. I spend a lot of time with him. That’s the reason. Full stop. He loves Formula One. There’s no doubt about it.” MET VERSTAPPEN DURING TESTING  Domenicali said he met Verstappen during testing in Bahrain on Wednesday and it had been a very constructive talk. “I guarantee you that Max wants and cares about Formula One …

Is your startup’s check engine light on? Google Cloud’s VP explains what to do

Is your startup’s check engine light on? Google Cloud’s VP explains what to do

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Startup founders are being pushed to move faster than ever, using AI while facing tighter funding, rising infrastructure costs, and more pressure to show real traction early. Cloud credits, access to GPUs, and foundation models have made it easier to get started, but those early infrastructure choices can have unforeseen consequences once startups move beyond free credits and into real cloud bills.  On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan caught up with Darren Mowry, Google Cloud’s vice president of global startups who is right at the center of those tradeoffs. Watch as they discuss what Mowry’s seeing across the startup ecosystem, how Google Cloud is competing for AI startups, and what founders should be thinking about as they scale.  Subscribe to Equity on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on X and Threads, at @EquityPod.  Source link