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NASA is racing to save an aging telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission.
The $30 million salvage operation gets underway as soon as this week with the planned launch of a robotic lifesaver.
NASA hired startup
Katalyst Space Technologies
to boost the Swift Observatory to a higher orbit
where it can continue hunting for some of the universe’s biggest explosions.
A three-armed spacecraft built by Katalyst will chase after Swift once …

NASA races to save the Swift telescope with a $30M robotic rescue mission
NASA is racing to save its Swift telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission. The salvage effort gets underway as soon as this week with the planned launch of a robotic lifesaver. NASA has hired Katalyst Space Technologies to boost Swift to a higher orbit where it can continue hunting for some of the universe's biggest explosions. Launched in 2004, Swift has been sinking faster and faster because of recent intense solar activity. It needs to get to a higher orbit as soon a…

Jio Platforms, which owns India's largest carrier and counts Meta and Google as investors, gets regulatory approval to float India's largest-ever IPO of ~$4B (Vallari Sanzgiri/The Hindu BusinessLine)
https://www.thehindubusi…

Jio Platforms gets SEBI nod for biggest IPO listing of around ₹37,700 crore
Jio Platforms secures SEBI approval for a ₹37,700 crore IPO, boosting investor confidence with strong cash flows and debt repayment plans.

Range of Embodiable LARP (RoEL) --- within a certain radius around your original face, and the most deeply ingrained elements of your socialization, what you sell yourself as can not only overwhelmingly be percieved as authentic, but become natural with enough time and commitment.
Tupac was a zesty theatre kid acting gangster, viewing it as the best way to raise the consiousness of a wider black community at the time, till he eventually *became* a genuine gangster beyond appearance. H…

NFL news roundup: Latest league updates from Saturday, Aug. 29 https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-saturday-aug-29

Last week I ordered some equipment for pickup at Micro Center. It was a big surprise when I showed up in the morning and saw a thousand people lined up to get in. The line extended around the back of the store and around temporary barriers, like a theme park. Turns out it was some kind of "grand re-opening" and they were giving away flash drives.
Happily, I was able to come back later in the day and get my order, as well as a nice commemorative mug.

“The day may not be far off when everyone will be walking around playing his or her own private radio station on a Walkman.”
From Steve Otfinoski’s Golden Age of Novelty Songs (2000)
Talking about #WeirdAl and the struggle to find universal songs to parody
Published exactly the year before the iPod was released — barely misaligned futurism
Right on the cusp of dramatic c…

The golden age of novelty songs / by Steven Otfinoski : Otfinoski, Steven : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-239), discography (p. 239-241), and index

From Translink
TransLink and PCI Developments (PCI) have officially broken ground on a new mixed-use development at West Broadway and Arbutus, marking the beginning of construction on the first project under TransLink's Real Estate Development Program.

As successfully implemented by other transportation agencies around the world, this project represents a significant step for TransLink as it begins unlocking the value of transit-oriented development. By generating trans…

Some more BBC B screen shots - I put my beeb on a TV via UHF and os now I've got screenshots here from Acornsoft {Snooker, Monsters and Snapper}, and as a Bonus, PMS Multifont - which I think was part of a 64k external 1MHz bus RAM box; which I must look at some day.
(Was UHF always this bad but our TVs were small enough not to notice?)
(My Beeb only started some stuff after I took it's lid off - is it's got some heat problems!)

Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages
—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious “age estimation” methods
—before granting them access to certain online content or services. 
Governments in the U.S. and around the world are increasingly adopting these restrictive measures in the name of protecting children online.
But in practice, these systems create dan…

Age Verification and Age Gating: Resource Hub
Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious “age estimation” methods—before granting them access to certain online content or services.  Governments in the U.S. and around the world are increasingly adopting these restrictive measures in the name of protecting children online. But in practice, these systems create dangerous new forms…

NFL news roundup: Titans WR Wan'Dale Robinson not believed to have suffered concussion https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-friday-aug-28