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Suborbital space tourism finally arrives | FCC prepares to run public C-band auction | The big four in the U.S. launch industry — United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman — hope to be one of two providers that will receive five-year contracts later this year to launch national security payloads starting in 2022. | China’s launch rate stays high | The International Space Station is the largest ever crewed object in space.

New tool evaluates progress in reinforcement learning

If there’s one thing that characterizes driving in any major city, it’s the constant stop-and-go as traffic lights change and as cars and trucks merge and separate and turn and park. This constant stopping and starting is extremely inefficient, driving up the amount of pollution, including greenhouse gases, that gets emitted per mile of driving.  One approach to counter this is known as eco-driving, which can be installed as a control system in autonomous vehicles to improve their efficiency…….

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Book Review: People who are part of...

There are celebrities whose persona is as famous, if not more so, than their works, or what made them stars in the first place. Andy Warhol, probably the most important artist to emerge from the 1960s American avant-garde, is one example. His nervous face peering beneath a shock of white hair is as signature as his Campbell soup cans. It’s clear Warhol wasn’t ashamed to tell the world that he should be reckoned with as a human being, accepted…

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In Ancient Bulgaria, the Tombs of the...

The reign of Seuthes III began with blood and strife. The Odrysian Kingdom of Thrace, which made up much of the territory of modern-day Bulgaria, had been invaded by Macedon some decades prior. Now, a Macedonian governor ruled the kingdom in place of its native kings. Seuthes, a member of the Odrysian royal family, had revolted against the Macedonian governor of Thrace and, with the death of the Macedonian leader Alexander the Great in 323 BC, he took back……

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The PMS Training Problem (and How Good...

Labor efficiency remains a top priority for hotels. Training new employees can take weeks or even months, especially when staff encounter complex legacy systems for the first time. With turnover rates higher in the hotel industry than in any other economic sector (1), this cycle becomes a constant drain on managers’ time and productivity. Why The post The PMS Training Problem (and How Good UX Can Help) appeared first on Revfine.com….

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Atalanta consolidates 3rd place in Serie A...

MILAN (AP) — Atalanta consolidated third place in Serie A on Sunday, while the race for the final Champions League spot behind it heated up. Charles De Ketelaere found the back of the net in the league for the first time in 2025 with a first-half double to help set Atalanta on its way to a 4-0 win at Monza. Monza, which was rooted to the bottom of the table and had looked doomed for months, was mathematically relegated…

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Rantanen has hat trick as Stars rally...

DALLAS (AP) — Mikko Rantanen assisted on Wyatt Johnston’s tiebreaking power-play goal with 3:56 left before completing a third-period hat trick with an empty-netter as the Dallas Stars beat the Colorado Avalanche 4-2 in Game 7 on Saturday night to wrap up the first-round Western Conference playoff series. Rantanen, who was in the playoffs with Avalanche the past seven seasons and part of their 2022 Stanley Cup title, had his second four-point period in the series. He is only…

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How Guest Experience Drives Hotel Revenue (and...

From discovering your hotel to booking a room, from checking in to ordering room service — the guest experience isn’t a set of isolated touchpoints. It’s a journey. One that shapes how your brand is perceived and directly impacts your bottom line. Turning Happy Guests into Higher Profits The connection between guest satisfaction and revenue The post How Guest Experience Drives Hotel Revenue (and How to Maximize It) appeared first on Revfine.com….

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Tal Barahi Temple in Pokhara, Nepal

As a country landlocked by China and India, Nepal doesn’t typically prompt thoughts of islands. And yet, Tal Barahi Temple is a two-story pagoda built on an island in Pokhara, India’s Phewa Lake.  The temple is dedicated to the Hindu goddess Barahi. Barahi is known in Nepal as a manifestation of Durga, a major Hindu goddess, and Amija, a group of deities representing female ancestors.  Visitors can access the island by private boat or kayak. The island offers beautiful views……

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Aeon Mall Okinawa Rycom Aquarium in Okinawa,...

One of the largest malls in Japan is the Aeon Mall Okinawa Lycoming. It is home to the 100-ton Rycom aquarium in an otherwise unassuming location for marine wildlife.  This 100-ton aquarium houses fish representing the region’s native marine inhabitants. More than 1,000 fish representing dozens of species are located within the aquarium, along with spineless aquatic invertebrates like sea cucumbers and stars. The aquarium overlaps with the first-floor elevator, giving shoppers a chance to observe animals like the endangered Napoleon……

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Radar and communications system extends signal range...

A team from MIT Lincoln Laboratory has built and demonstrated the wideband selective propagation radar (WiSPR), a system capable of seeing out various distances at millimeter-wave (mmWave or MMW) frequencies. Typically, these high frequencies, which range from 30 to 300 gigahertz (GHz), are employed for only short-range operations. Using transmit-and-receive electronically scanned arrays of many antenna elements each, WiSPR produces narrow beams capable of quickly scanning around an area to detect objects of interest. The narrow beams can also……

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Novel AI model inspired by neural dynamics...

Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a novel artificial intelligence model inspired by neural oscillations in the brain, with the goal of significantly advancing how machine learning algorithms handle long sequences of data. AI often struggles with analyzing complex information that unfolds over long periods of time, such as climate trends, biological signals, or financial data. One new type of AI model, called “state-space models,” has been designed specifically to understand these sequential……

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TeleAbsence: Poetic encounters with the past

In the dim light of the lab, friends, family, and strangers watched the image of a pianist playing for them, the pianist’s fingers projected onto the moving keys of a real grand piano that filled the space with music. Watching the ghostly musicians, faces and bodies blurred at their edges, several listeners shared one strong but strange conviction: “feeling someone’s presence” while “also knowing that I am the only one in the room.” “It’s tough to explain,” another listener……

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Baltimore Museum of Industry in Baltimore, Maryland

This museum dedicated to Baltimore’s industrial history is fittingly housed in an 1889 building formerly utilized for the packing of oysters, fruit, and vegetables from the Eastern Shore. By that time, canning was the city’s second-largest industry. Baltimore had established itself as a major national trade and commerce hub due to its geographic location—the westernmost port on the Atlantic seaboard—and infrastructure as the site of the first American commercial railroad, which linked the Port of Baltimore with interior farmlands…….

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International Storytelling Center in Jonesborough, Tennessee

Near the end of his oft-bleak history of Appalachia, historian John Alexander Williams cites Jonesborough, Tennessee, as one possible future for the region’s small towns. He specifically calls out Jonesborough as a community that successfully reinvented itself through the preservation of its historic buildings and the escalation of an annual fall festival into the National Storytelling Festival. As Williams tells it, the festival caught tailwinds from a national storytelling revival that was tied to the counterculture’s 1970s shift away……

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