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@bytparanoiczny I agree with the second part, they should have been much braver (Marc Newson designed 021C for Ford, a bold statement). However it's not just a generic car, it has a lot of innovations (the interior design, Ux/I looks phenomenal), but it could have been so much more

@MechDesignxyz They just copied chinese EVs and put a ferrari logo on it. And somehow people say it's getting hate for being different, while it's the exact opposite

Luce’s problem is not its distance from “regular” Ferraris, but that it isn’t bold enough. Jony Ive and Marc Newson should have gone completely wild with it and still be a Ferrari. It should have made Modulo look conventional (it won’t sell anyway, there’s no risk)

@Rotorfocus I believe there's a requirement for specific shelters for f-35 so they can have a direct satellite link

Shocked to see no hardened shelters for the most Eastern based NATO F-35s. Interesting choice.

Artemis II Orion Separation Events | Upper Stage, Crew Module & Fairing Panel Views watch more here: youtube.com/watch?v=yb5lcp…

#DassaultAviation et OHB s'associent pour proposer à l'ESA l'avion spatial polyvalent VORTEX-S dassault-aviation.com/fr/groupe/pres… Dassault Aviation and OHB team up to propose to ESA the VORTEX-S multipurpose space plane dassault-aviation.com/en/group/press… © Dassault Aviation - Falcon Graphics Lab

Older thread on the occasion of recent UAP disclosures. TLDR: Occam's razor dictates that the probability of some type of jamming or interference to the sensors of these aircraft is much more probable than the existence of machines capable of manoeuvring like that

Space Shuttle Flight 10 (STS-41B) Post Flight Presentation: The First Untethered Spacewalk | Bruce McCandless MMU Historic Space Shuttle Mission youtube.com/watch?v=V8QH83…

An invisible but massive technology step forward is coming in our Draper software release. X10 will now use an in-house GNSS (GPS) solver. We’ll still use the same GPS hardware, but now the math and algorithms that use satellite signals to determine the robot's location are written and controlled by Skydio. There is a mountain of math and magic that goes into these solvers, and basically, all drones just use the solvers that come with the receivers because of the enormous complexity involved. But by writing our own algorithms, we can fuse the GPS signals with other data sources - like our visual estimation system and a deep learning-generated computer vision segmentation mask that tells us which satellites are occluded by buildings or trees - to get better accuracy and robustness, and make our products that much more capable and reliable. “Always just works” is the goal, and there is a deep sea of technology and a long tail of vertical integration it takes to make that happen. Congratulations to the (tiny) elite team at @SkydioHQ that pulled this off.

A video from a completely different time, 15 years ago, January 2011, more than a year before the launch of Model S, Tesla's VP of Vehicle Engineering, Peter Rawlinson shows the technical highlights of the "new Tesla" youtube.com/watch?v=48x7OH…

.@PLD_Space has released a first look at MIURA 5 flight hardware. These are Flight 1 Liquid Oxygen (LOX) tanks for the rocket's first and second stages. The company expects to attempt an inaugural flight by the end of the year.

@Aviation_Intel Congratulations to you and your team for all the fantastic work! *also a personal thank you note, you are always very generous in giving credit and quoting tweets and videos from others (me included!). My best wishes for the next 10 years and more!

Crazy milestone today! Letter From Editor: 10 Years And 11,000 Articles Later TWZ was launched 10 years ago today and we are still here and growing thanks to all of you. twz.com/news-features/…

Robot Talk Episode 148 – Ethical robot behaviour, with Alan Winfield @alan_winfield by @RobotTalkPod robohub.org/robot-talk-epi…

VW under Piëch made a huge investment in Bugatti. Even with limited direct profits, the indirect halo effect was enormous, a W16 Bugatti was unmistakably and proudly a VW product. Unfortunately, Dieselgate and VW’s poor EV strategy crippled what Bugatti under VW could have been.

Tourbillon's engine is developed and produced fully by Cosworth (once owned by Audi!), the hybrid system is made by Rimac and components by Divergent. The W16 cars also used external suppliers (ex Ricardo made the DSG gearbox) but the engine and overall engineering was by VW

Porsche has sold its stakes in Bugatti Rimac and Rimac Group to a HOF Capital-led consortium. As mentioned below, since 2021 Porsche (and Volkswagen Group) held the majority stake in Bugatti Rimac, but now the consortium becomes the majority shareholder. newsroom.bugatti.com/press-releases…

A compilation of Boeing's X-32A/B official videos from the JSF competition youtube.com/watch?v=zUDIrn…

My 2 cents: the aircraft shown in this teaser video is just a placeholder, the actual F/A-XX proposal by NG will be something entirely different. This looks too much like Iran's Qaher-313 ridiculous mock-up. Well know for sure in a few months!

Artemis II launch unedited screenshots! full video: youtube.com/watch?v=do9-ho…