2026-03-10
Satellite company @planet has announced a *14 day delay* to the release of imagery in the MidEast. This will be a huge setback for those trying to verify events in the region. [image]
Bloomberg
US commercial satellite provider Planet Labs delays its Middle East imagery from four days to two weeks over concerns it could be used to target NATO members
2024-10-09
@dcastelvecchi You're just mad there isn't a math Nobel. Admit it.
Bloomberg
The Nobel in Chemistry goes to David Baker “for computational protein design” and DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and John Jumper “for protein structure prediction”
- Demis Hassabis, John Jumper share half the $1.1 million award — Remainder goes to David Baker for building new proteins
@dcastelvecchi You're just mad there isn't a math Nobel. Admit it.
Bloomberg
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prize in Physics to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for “foundational discoveries” in machine learning
had not seen them in any of the sweepstakes ahead of the announcement. But if everything is either physics or stamp collecting we just promoted machine learning to “physics”. (Love...
2023-04-13
NEW: NPR has decided it will no longer participate on Twitter due to inaccurate labelling of our main account. Twitter doesn't make or break anything we do as an organization, and so there's not much benefit for staying. Full statement from CEO John Lansing below. https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
NPR decides to “no longer be active on Twitter” after the platform took “actions that undermine our credibility” by implying NPR is not editorially independent
The broadcaster said that the label undermined its credibility “by falsely implying that we are not editorially independent.”
2022-03-21
Even in times of war, trolls gonna troll. Nice reporting, though, on Starlink's continued use in the Ukraine conflict by @rachelerman and @Cat_Zakrzewski https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Washington Post
Mykhailo Fedorov says Starlink's quality is excellent, as Ukrainians use the terminals to stay online; a source says there are 5,000+ terminals in the country
2022-03-20
Even in times of war, trolls gonna troll. Nice reporting, though, on Starlink's continued use in the Ukraine conflict by @rachelerman and @Cat_Zakrzewski https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Washington Post
Mykhailo Fedorov says the quality of Starlink is excellent, as Ukrainians use the terminals to stay online; source says there are 5K+ terminals in the country
Elon Musk recently challenged Russian President Vladimir Putin to a one-handed fistfight for the future of Ukraine.
2020-08-09
And they'll call it... Vine? Twitter has had preliminary talks with TikTok about a potential combination with its U.S. operations, people familiar with the matter say https://www.wsj.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Sources: Twitter had preliminary talks with TikTok about combining with TikTok's US operations, expecting it would face less antitrust scrutiny than Microsoft
Microsoft still seen as front-runner in bidding for video-sharing app's U.S. operations — Twitter Inc. TWTR -1.46% …