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Strange New Worlds’ Season 3 Has Wrapped(ish) – TrekMovie.com

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Strange New Worlds’ Season 3 Has Wrapped(ish) – TrekMovie.com

After over five months back on board the USS Enterprise (via Toronto), filming for the third season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is wrapping up. The news of the milestone was confirmed today by Captain Pike himself. That’s (almost) a wrap on S3 On Thursday afternoon Strange New Worlds star Anson Mount posted an Instagram story with a shot of his space boots and the message “Hanging these big boys up for the season. Thanks, y’all. Looking forward to you seeing what we’re cooked up for Season 3. After a report about his post, Mount took to Twitter/X to clarify the show had “Wrapped-ish” and that he still had some work on Friday… Wrapped-ish. I’m still shooting today and there’s some stuff that others are finishing tomorrow, but close to enough. I’m seriously flashing back to the end...

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SpaceX to launch 23 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 flight from Cape Canaveral – Spaceflight Now

A Falcon 9 stands ready for a Starlink mission at Cape Canaveral’s pad 40. File photo: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now. SpaceX is kicking off the morning of Memorial Day with a Falcon 9 flight about an hour after sunrise. The Starlink 6-60 mission will add another 23 spacecraft to the company’s growing mega-constellation of internet relay satellites, serving more than three million customers. The Falcon 9 rocket is set to liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 7:30 a.m. EDT (1130 UTC). If needed there are multiple backup opportunities through 11:30 a.m. EDT (1530 UTC). Spaceflight Now will have live coverage beginning about an hour prior to liftoff. The Falcon 9 first stage booster, tail number B1078 in the SpaceX fleet, will be launching for a 10th time. Its previous...

SecAF visits Vandenberg SFB > United States Space Force > Article Display

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SecAF visits Vandenberg SFB > United States Space Force > Article Display

VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. (AFNS) -- Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall visited to Guardians and Airmen at Vandenberg Space Force Base, May 22.During his visit, Vandenberg SFB Guardians and Airmen shared operational details on how they support resilient space activities at the U.S. Space Force's West Coast Spaceport and Test range.Kendall's visit focused on modernization and strategic fiscal goals, with a specific focus on reoptimization to effectively address the challenges posed by Great Power Competition.“We need space resiliency, the ability to have assets in space, as both Russia and China have built and are building a wide array of weapons to attack our satellites,” Kendall said. “Space Force has resilient space capabilities, and ...

SpaceX details learnings from Starship Flight 3, sets June 5 as target launch date for Flight 4 – Spaceflight Now

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SpaceX details learnings from Starship Flight 3, sets June 5 as target launch date for Flight 4 – Spaceflight Now

Onboard cameras on the Starship upper stage flown during Flight 3 (Starship IFT-3) show the vehicle surrounded by plasma as it reenters the atmosphere on March 14, 2024. Image: SpaceX SpaceX is preparing to launch its massive Starship rocket on its fourth flight test from its Starbase facilities in southern Texas as soon as June 5. The target launch date comes a little less than three months after Flight 3 on March 14. In a pair of posts on its website, SpaceX outlined the learnings from Flight 3, the mission objectives for Flight 4 and the differences between the timing of everything between these two pieces of the development campaign. The Flight 4 launch window is set to open on June 5 at 7 a.m. CDT (8 a.m. EDT (1200 UTC). However, as SpaceX points out, they are still waiting on regulat...

What is artificial general intelligence, and is it a useful concept?

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What is artificial general intelligence, and is it a useful concept?

If you take even a passing interest in artificial intelligence, you will inevitably have come across the notion of artificial general intelligence. AGI, as it is often known, has ascended to buzzword status over the past few years as AI has exploded into the public consciousness on the back of the success of large language models (LLMs), a form of AI that powers chatbots such as ChatGPT. That is largely because AGI has become a lodestar for the companies at the vanguard of this type of technology. ChatGPT creator OpenAI, for example, states that its mission is “to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity”. Governments, too, have become obsessed with the opportunities AGI might present, as well as possible existential threats, while the medi...