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Pushback on self service check out due to higher theft and increased discontent from customers.

Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the northern hemisphere).

Police handled 13,097 online fraud reports between January and May, an increase of 113 cases compared with the 12,984 logged in the same period last year.

But the amount lost was up from the HK$1.61 billion in the same period last year.

The first Samsung 60TB SSD, the BM1743, has been launched. The company believes it is possible to launch a 120TB SSD in the future.

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Here’s our best hope for hypersonic flight yet: the sodramjet.

Only two women from Canada have been to space previously, though Jenni Gibbons will join their ranks in the near future.

Pandya’s first flight to space will be on a commercial mission, which is different from the missions with NASA.

Grief-laden vitriol directed at AI fails to help us understand paths to better futures that are neither utopian nor dystopian, but open to radically weird possibilities.

This insightful video essay about the late great Iian M Banks and his extraordinary series of books known as “The Culture” gives us a glimpse of the potential we have now as a species, set in a future where we have not just met that potential, but EXCEEDED it.

Hitchhiking-rotations Learning with 3D rotations, a hitchhiker’s guide to SO — ICML 2024 https://github.com/martius-lab/hitchhiking-rotations v/@rsasaki0109

Learning with 3D rotations, a hitchhiker’s guide to SO — ICML 2024 — martius-lab/hitchhiking-rotations.