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 …
AI has changed what clients expect. The AI aesthetic has become a default visual reference point that many researchers now push towards. But we often create images for scientific journals. When clients ask us to chase the AI look, we explain that it is likely to work against them as it doesn’t match what journals want: clarity over spectacle. Sometimes they listen.
Anyone else remember the jawdroppingly funny Chevy Chase/Richard Pryor skit...
...and can you believe it's on YouTube? 😂
▶️ Word Association - Saturday Night Live
https://youtube.com/watch?v=yuEBBwJdjhQ
#Dylan on life on your '80s, New York Times
Prometheus,
the physical AI startup co-founded by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj, the former co-founder of Verily, Google’s life sciences unit,
announced it raised $12 billion at a $41 billion valuation.
The new funds came from Bezos,
as well as from JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and BlackRock, among others.
This is the second fundraise round for Prometheus, which launched late last year with an initial raise of $6.2 billion, according to CNBC.
Prometheus is bu…
Retirement isn't the end. It's an exciting new chapter! Inspired by Churchill: "Success is not final. Failure is not fatal." Age does not limit dreams. Let's embrace this journey, stay energized, and chase endless possibilities! #NewBeginnings #PurposefulLiving #ChaseYourDreams
Surface Waves Alter Air Entrainment During Water Entry
Chase T. Gabbard, Mario Ibrahim, Joseph Quinton, Eli Silver, Jesse Belden, Daniel M. Harris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20067 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20067 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.20067
arXiv:2607.20067v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: When a sphere crosses an air-water interface it can entrain a significant volume of air, a process relevant to numerous naval, industrial, and environmental settings. While air entrainment through sphere impact onto quiescent baths has been extensively studied, real-world interfaces are inherently unsteady, and the influence of surface waves is less understood. In this Letter, we systematically investigate the effect of interfacial geometry on the air entrained by impacting hydrophobic spheres onto an axisymmetric wavefield. By analyzing the resulting cavity across a wide parameter space, including wave phase, driving amplitude, and frequency, we reveal that local interface deformation dramatically alters air entrainment. This effect is driven by a geometric modulation of the splash curtain, which shifts the transition between cavity closure modes. We demonstrate that the influence of the waves is fully described by the local wave slope at the radius of the sphere, which alongside the Weber number We and Bond number Bo, establishes a foundational parametric framework for predicting air entrainment and cavity metrics across highly dynamic, real-world surfaces like the open ocean.
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Yesterday I observed a pair of gray catbirds pursuing a small garter snake around the yard. Per an internet search they don't eat snakes but will chase them away from an area to protect eggs and chicks in nest. #birds #catbirds #snakes
Hexara (PC) Hey so if you're old enough to have any kind of fond memories of the game Hexic on the 360, this is basically an exact clone of it available on Steam. It's got the same exact gameplay without straight up stealing the assets. Also the dev responded to my (and another) review mentioning repetitive music by patching in more tracks of chillout tunes, bonus. Was an easy 1st day buy, and cheap. Even has a leaderboard (I'm currently in 2nd place woo)
Bank accounts held by President Donald Trump were closed by Capital One in 2021
-- after it flagged financial activity that had characteristics of money laundering, the bank disclosed in a court filing over the weekend.
The court filing is tied to a lawsuit filed against Capital One by one of Trump’s financial holding companies shortly after he was sworn into office a second time.
Trump alleges that Capital One illegally closed his accounts for political reasons, following …
OpenAI VP of Global Policy Ann O'Leary says AI policy in the US is anchored in the states and informed by California's AI transparency law passed last year (Chase DiFeliciantonio/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/11/openai…
RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@HalleAndert/117076666613445805
I'm addicted to music. And I love seeing the detailed credits on recordings so I can chase down session musicians or producers, going down rabbit holes of listening I wouldn't ha…
(It is pretty weird that the government is simultaneously implying that the drivers were influenced by TikTok videos, as well as being suspected criminals involved in a police chase.)
As thousands of people from all over the United States came to the Laguna Madre area this past weekend to watch SpaceX’s latest launch in South Texas,
many who live in the nearest towns
—Laguna Vista, Port Isabel, Laguna Heights, and South Padre Island
—stayed indoors.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents had been arresting several people in the area over the last few weeks,
likely as part of a new federal directive from earlier this month to increa…
Maximum Coverage Chase Decoder for Optical Interconnects
Alessandro Cardinale, Wenqing Song, Bin Chen, Alex Alvarado, Andreas Burg, Yifei Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11401 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.11401 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.11401
arXiv:2606.11401v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We propose a low-complexity Chase decoder for optical interconnects that formulates test pattern selection as a generalized maximum coverage problem. For concatenated RS-BCH and oFEC codes, our decoder achieves the standard Chase decoding performance with 25% and 61.3% fewer test patterns, respectively.
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Dramatic Chase Scenes
Season 8 Episode 16 "Night of the Dolphin"
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx #Baywatch
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Anderson .Paak:
🎵 The Chase (feat. Kadhja Bonet) EDIT
#NowPlaying #AndersonPaak
How Amex-owned Resy and Chase-partnered OpenTable reservation apps became assets in the card wars, wiring the best restaurant tables into premium card perks (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/restaurant-reserva…
The world’s largest banks
committed💥 $906 billion
in financing to the fossil fuel industry last year,
-- an “unfathomable” increase in investment
locking in years more of #coal, #oil and #gas production
as the world …
Steve McQueen in Pullet. Great car chase that never crosses the road.
#ChickenAnything
#HashTagGames
A New York State school district is piloting a humanoid robot teacher by the company Realbotix to help students with summer school classes (Chase DiBenedetto/Mashable)
https://mashable.com/tech/new-york-school-testing-robot-teacher
Brilliant run by yer man on The Chase just then. #TheChase
Sources: JPMorgan Chase terminated its banking relationship with Polymarket in 2025 over regulatory concerns, though it still maintains some ties to the company (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/4e3774b6-52e5-4b8a-be76-0bb87495e1f0
Q&A with Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson on why the startup is going public via SPAC, the physical layer as its proprietary advantage, safety, and more (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/05/this
Aging isn't just a life stage. It's a chance to harness the wisdom and resilience life's journey has given us. We should grasp this phase with enthusiasm and purpose. Remember, you're never too old to set new goals or chase new dreams! Let's pledge to live fully and vibrantly. #SeniorLiving #InspiredLiving
"The Trump administration has adopted a new and unusual tactic in its ongoing push to investigate voter fraud – obtaining the IP addresses of people who registered to vote online."
FBI takes 'extraordinary step' to chase down Trump's voter-fraud claims: report - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/fbi-voter-fraud/
Feeling stuck in the monotony of daily life? Don’t worry. Ambition Never Ages! Your deep experience and wisdom are key assets in realizing those long-held dreams. Act with resolve! Make today the start of your journey toward your goals. What dream are you ready to chase now?
Every day is a new chance to chase dreams and set meaningful goals. In enhancing seniors' lives, I'm driven by the idea that each moment brims with potential. Today's doubts can hinder tomorrow's triumphs. Let's face them head-on! Remember, BELIEVING unlocks greatness.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
Yard Act:
🎵 Thrill Of The Chase (Primavera 2026)
#YardAct
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