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“The A&M MoCap Lab was announced in February this year”
“estimates reached between $723 million and $1.33 billion.”
“Rocket debris struck the Moon at around 06:35 GMT on Wednesday, according to the South Korean space agency.”
“SpaceX operates close to 11,000 low‑orbit satellites, delivering near‑global broadband connectivity.”
“the debris weighed four tonnes and was the size of a school bus”
“pushed back the reveal of its AI-powered eyewear — codenamed N50 — from later this year until its Worldwide Developers Conference in June 2027, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.”
“The facility was inaugurated by SS Rajamouli in February”
“launch and landing costs ranging from $234 million to $320 million”
“the empty upper stage of this Falcon 9 rocket, which scientists predicted would hit the Moon at a speed of about 5,400mph (8,700km/h)”
“It was jettisoned during a January 2025 mission that brought two lunar landers, Firefly's Blue Ghost and ispace's Hakuto-R, to the Moon”
“22-acre campus with 12 fully equipped studio floors”
“If PROMISE costs even 20 percent of your low-end estimate, we simply will not fly it.”
“the empty upper stage of this Falcon 9 rocket, which scientists predicted would hit the Moon at a speed of about 5,400mph (8,700km/h), is about the size of a five-storey building and weighs approximately 4,000kg (630st) on Earth.”
“It struck the lunar surface with the force of roughly three tonnes of TNT”
“We spent around 1:3x to get that Dolby Atmos premier mix facility”
“Its robotaxis, which are now bespoke versions of the Hyundai Ioniq 5 (complete with radar and Lidar), have driven over two million autonomous miles with zero at-fault incidents.”
“The same booster section from the January 2025 mission is due to set off on its 18th flight on 10 August.”
“NASA estimated it would blow open a crater about 60 feet wide and 12 feet deep, though others have estimated that it could be up to 100 feet wide”
“10,000 square foot climate-controlled motion capture sound stage”
“Laura Major, the company’s CEO, said at the time that rival startups were able to get to a “90% performance” very quickly, often relying solely on high-definition cameras.”
“SpaceX says the mission hopes to launch 29 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit.”
“Astronomers ... projected it would smash into the lunar surface at 5,400 miles per hour, which is about seven times the speed of sound here on our home planet”
“54 Vicon Valkyrie cameras and 10 Vicon Vero cameras”
“Tesla's own data confirms a crash rate three times worse than humans even with a monitor at the wheel”
“The rocket that blasted from Florida last January was carrying two lunar landers into space.”
“One “with the same energy as the upper stage hits the Moon about every six days,” according to NASA”
“has already conducted two Hollywood productions remotely”
“Waymo's numbers suggest it is 17 times safer after covering some 220 million rider-only miles.”
“"I think people are really underestimating Starlink". He predicted the satellite internet service - the one part of the company that is currently making a profit - could one day deliver a majority of the world's internet”
“The ESO telescope recorded these “chemical fingerprints” of the plume, which were visible for five to 10 minutes, the observatory said”
“joint venture between Nagarjuna Akkineni’s Annapurna Studios, Baahubali producer Shobu Yarlagadda's Mihira Visual Labs and Hollywood technology partner Animatrik Film Design”
“Tesla has accumulated just 380,000 driverless miles over the past year since launching its robotaxi service.”
“SpaceX has cut the cost of reaching orbit from around $10,000-$20,000 a kilogram to about $2,000 with its Falcon 9 rocket”
“The plume measured a few tens of kilometres in size, according to Carl Schmidt, an astronomer from Boston University’s Center for Space Physics”
“On August 4, AWS open-sourced Kiro Crew under the Apache 2.0 license.”
“As Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon series celebrates its 25th anniversary”
“Anthropic's AI model that had gained access to three other companies' systems.”
“The first occurred on March 4, 2022, when part of a Chinese Long March 3C rocket launched in 2014 impacted the lunar far side, carving out an unusual double crater”
“More than 39,000 Amazon developers reportedly used Crew within six months.”
“a 60fps 4K resolution mode for current-gen consoles and PC”
“The discarded Falcon 9 rocket part had been lingering in space for over a year”
“nearly 500 contributors submitted 597 changes to the project.”
“I must've auditioned for over 60 characters.”
“tubular steel frame covered by fourteen moulded plastic body panels”
“ACP reached version 1.0 in June 2026.”
“I didn't get any of them, and they never called me about any of them.”
“reducing its weight to around 2,000 pounds, roughly half a ton less than many comparable steel-bodied vehicles of the period”
“Kiro-ACP, extending the protocol with more than twenty additional agent methods covering capabilities such as live steering, specifications and richer permission controls.”
“GTA 6 arrives on November 19 for PS5, Xbox Series X, and Series S.”
“Hundreds of agents were put to work alongside its 12,000 human engineers and developers.”
“Rockstar just announced that a special presentation for GTA 6 will be revealed on August 27.”
“Goldman CIO Marco Argenti told CNBC that Devin is 'like a new employee' and was expected to be three or four times more productive than existing AI tools.”
“Titled Grand Theft Auto 6: An Extended Look, the video will premiere on Netflix and later be available on YouTube.”
“a performance review carried out by Cognition on deployments across its customer base in late 2025 reported that one large organization saved five to 10 percent of development time using Devin for fixing security issues in code.”
“The Garmin Fenix 8 line came in three sizes (43mm, 47mm and 51mm), and two screen options: a standard bright AMOLED screen of the sort you see on many smartwatches, and a duller memory-in-pixel (MIP) varient with solar charging.”
“For another customer, it reported that the time taken to fix vulnerabilities reduced from 30 minutes per issue to 1.5 minutes, versus human developers.”
“the Garmin Fenix 8 Pro, a model which came in two sizes (47mm and 51mm)”
“the number of pull requests accepted by human reviewers without needing significant recoding increasing from a third to roughly two-thirds.”
“the Garmin Fenix 9 will arrive in three sizes like its predecessor, and in three different models; the base version, the Garmin Fenix 9 Pro ... and the Garmin Fenix 9 Pro InReach.”
“Argenti went on to tell Fortune that he had switched from measuring AI usage among staff to monitoring how quickly ideas became prototypes and then working production models.”
“Both the Garmin Fenix 9 Pro and Pro InReach are said to be getting Solar models, which means the MIP screen would be back for another generation — but the standard Garmin Fenix 9 will remain an AMOLED watch.”
“he stated that it was like the bank had become capable of “3D printing software.””
“Best overall: Garmin Venu 42.”
“Samsung’s Galaxy Z Series has achieved its highest-ever pre-order performance, with the Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, Z Fold8, and Z Flip8 surpassing all previous foldable smartphone records by over 17% with just one day remaining in the pre-order…”
“32GB is ideal for serious players who run the most demanding titles”
“pre-orders for the non-flip models (Z Fold8 and Z Fold8 Ultra) are up by 70% compared to the Z Fold7 figures.”
“Microsoft has brought back 8GB models with last year's Surface Pro and Surface Laptop”
“The new form-factor model, the Z Fold8, has set “a new benchmark in foldable phone innovation and accounting for 40% of total European pre-orders,” Samsung went on.”
“MacBook Neo that packs 8GB of RAM”
“pre-orders in Korea broke records with 1.44 million units ordered in seven days.”
“Microsoft just made it clear that the company is now actively working to make Windows 11 run better with 8GB before the end of the year”
“The Galaxy Z Fold8 is likely to account for around a million of those.”
“Bose QC Headphones (2nd Gen) will cost £299 (which converts to around $400, AU$600, though I'd expect the actual prices to be a little lower). For context, the first-gen model cost $349 / £349.95 / AU$549.95”
“The Z Fold8 Ultra is $100 more than the Z Fold7 for the 256GB storage version,””
“The new headphones will go on sale on August 13”
“the Z Fold8 starting price is $100 lower than the Z Fold7.”
“Bose Immersive Audio, a feature previously exclusive to the Ultra lineup, which offers some useful presets.”
“Samsung also noted that three times as many Flip users are switching to the larger Fold phones than in previous generations,” Mashable pointed out.”
“There's now also support for USB-C wired audio, so you can listen to lossless audio from your phone”
“many estimates placing HVAC-related energy consumption at up to 40% of the average home’s total energy use.”
“Beyond black and white color options, three limited‑edition models are being unveiled. Rosewood Mauve is a bold purplish option — see our glowing Bose QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds (2nd Gen) review for reference — while Eucalyptus Green, pict…”
“the typical HVAC system delivered only 57% of the equipment’s laboratory-rated capacity into the home. Because of installation defects, roughly 43% of the heating and cooling the equipment was supposed to deliver never made it into the liv…”
“The older siblings had a 40mm driver”
“The average pressure in an HVAC system runs 164% higher than the HVAC equipment manufacturers require.”
“The first generation launched in 2002”
“average airflow measures only 75% of manufacturer requirements.”
“brand-new 32-bit 8-channel DAC, which Marantz says delivers 'greater precision, improved imaging, enhanced dynamic expression and more coherent surround performance throughout the listening environment.'”
“some return duct systems pull more than 50% of their air from attics reaching temperatures between 130°F and 140°F.”
“support for 1440p video passthrough with AMD FreeSync for gamers”
“Google is in the midst of dropping more than $40 billion in Ellis County south of Dallas.”
“Cinema 50 Series 2 has nine channels putting out 110W apiece”
“Hyperscale computing in Texas now uses about 12 gigawatts of power. That's roughly 15% of the electrons coursing through the grid managed by the Electricity Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which in turn manages about 90% of the state…”
“11.4 channels of processing”
“Texas now has the fattest pipeline of data centers projects, which if they all got built would require an additional 93 gigawatts of power, according to Bernstein Research.”
“Cinema 60/DAB Series 2 is a 7-channel, 100W per channel model”
“450 GW in potential demand from all centers in the works nationwide (Virginia is second with 44 GW).”
“Cinema 70s Series 2 delivers 7 x 50W”
“Just last year ERCOT received requests for grid connection from more than 200 new data center projects”
“analysts at Bernstein Research figure that the projects “credible” enough to reach completion will only use roughly a third of that power”
“Fermi’s 5 GW project near Amarillo and Pacifico Energy’s 6 GW one near Fort Stockton”
