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Fascinating technology. I always thought the impulse engine was just a clever piston doodad that transfers momentum from an artificial gravity pocket 😃
Impulse engine | Memory Alpha | #StarTrek
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Impulse engine
An impulse engine or impulse drive was a common propulsion system used on starships used to create impulse power in order to achieve impulse speeds. In Federation starships, the impulse drive was essentially an augmented fusion rocket, usually consisting of one or more fusion reactors, a driver coil assembly, and a vectored thrust nozzle to direct the plasma exhaust. The fusion reaction generated a highly energized plasma. This plasma, ("electro-plasma") could be employed for propulsion, or...

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/de/2025/05/20/belgische-regierung-einigung-auf-einen-gemeinsamen-standpunkt-z/

Belgische Regierung: Einigung auf einen gemeinsamen Standpunkt zum Gaza-Konflikt | VRT NWS: nachrichten
Gegen 1 Uhr in der vergangenen Nacht haben sich die führenden Minister der belgischen Regierung auf eine Position zum Krieg in Gaza geeinigt. Dies teilte Außenminister Maxime Prévot (Les Engagés) nach der Sitzung des Kernkabinetts mit. Prévot wird diesen Standpunkt beim Treffen der EU-Außenminister vorlegen.

So I think the idea is to keep dropping buttons and keys from laptop keyboards until everything is just a tablet? RIP dedicated pgup/pgdn keys.
meanwhile some hardware engineer was like, "keep that dedicated 'prt sc' key, I push that 500 times per day! never touch page down, tho.."

“I have a hypothesis: all of these [Women in Tech] initiatives are operating in closed and exclusive spaces, which is sending a strong signal to the male majority with the power to affect real change that they are not welcome here, and it is not their problem to solve.” —@…

Why Women in Tech isn't enough
Women in Tech spaces help, but fall short in the long run. Real progress needs systemic change and active involvement from men in positions of power.

A New Quantum Interferometric Protocol Using Spin-Dependent Displacements
Necati Celik, Songul Akbulut Ozen, Burhan Engin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19544 …

A New Quantum Interferometric Protocol Using Spin-Dependent Displacements
We propose a quantum interferometric protocol that leverages spin-dependent spatial displacements to enable high-precision parameter estimation beyond classical limits. By inducing a unitary coupling between a particles spin degree of freedom and its momentum, the protocol generates entanglement between spin states and spatial positions, resulting in coherent spatial superpositions. Interferometric reconstruction of the resulting phase differences enables Heisenberg limited sensitivity for para…

Run by an anonymous software engineer,
the twitter account
"Pentagon Pizza Report"
tracks Google data for pizzerias around the military complex in Arlington Virginia.
(Anonymized Google Maps data are aggregated from “timeline” or “location history” on phones, including visits made to the establishments.)
Often posting multiple times a day on X, PPR frequently singles out spikes in pizzeria activity,
-- allowing its 200,000-plus followers to dra…

Pentagon Pizza Report (@PenPizzaReport) on X
Pentagon Pizza Report: Open-source tracking of pizza spot activity around the Pentagon (and other places). Frequent-ish updates on where the lines are long.

Compressed Ultrafast Photography of Plasmas Formed from Laser Breakdown of Dense Gases Reveals that Internal Processes Dominate Evolution at Early Times
Peng Wang, Yogeshwar Nath Mishra, Seth Pree, Lihong V. Wang, Dag Hanstorp, John P. Koulakis, Daniels Krimans, Seth Putterman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04608

Compressed Ultrafast Photography of Plasmas Formed from Laser Breakdown of Dense Gases Reveals that Internal Processes Dominate Evolution at Early Times
Compressed ultrafast photography (CUP) is applied to laser breakdown in argon and xenon under pressures up to 40atm to obtain 2D images of the plasma dynamics of single events with a spatial resolution of 250x100 pixels and an equivalent frame rate of 500 GHz. Light emission as a function of position and time is measured through red, green, blue, and broad-band filters. The spatially encoded and temporally sheared image normally used in CUP is now enhanced by the introduction of a constraint gi…