NASA’s new supersonic X-59 aircraft shows off its dizzying acrobatics in new video
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AI IS A SUPERSONIC TSUNAMI
Via Camus This 7-minute exchange between Elon Musk and Joe Rogan is quietly one of the most important conversations of the decade. Elon lays it out plainly: AI is a “supersonic tsunami” already erasing every purely digital job—coding, emails, spreadsheets, customer support—faster than any shift in history. What survives longest? Anything that moves real atoms: welding, plumbing, …
Boom Supersonic XB-1 jet breaks sound barrier over Mojave Desert on first test flight (video).
A civilian jet has achieved an aviation milestone, breaking the sound barrier for the first time during a test flight over the Mojave Desert in California. Boom Supersonics’ XB-1 aircraft, flown by Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg, entered the supersonic corridor on Tuesday and reached an altitude of 35,290 feet before accelerating to more than 1,200kph – …