Micha Kempe

We're building a Moon Base! @NASAMoonBase will serve as a habitat where astronauts live and work during long-term science missions. Join us at 2pm ET on Tuesday, May 26, for a live news event where we’ll share updates on our lunar exploration plans: go.nasa.gov/4uinkLi

🇺🇸🇺🇸 This will be awesome!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸

NASA will host a news conference next Tuesday, May 26, at its headquarters in Washington, attended by NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, to share plans for a Moon Base and highlight progress toward the first sustained presence on the lunar surface by the United States.

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One-click update Waymo's Miami service area with mapboundary.app

Chinese researchers have developed the best shortest-path algorithm in 41 years! Dijkstra’s Algorithm has been the undefeated king of the shortest path for over 40 years. Whether you’re using Google Maps, booking a flight, or routing internet packets, Dijkstra is the engine running in the background. Since 1984, textbooks have taught that its efficiency was hit by a "sorting barrier." To find the shortest path, you have to sort the points by distance. And sorting has a mathematical floor you can’t cross. Until now. A research team from Tsinghua University just published a paper that shatters the 41-year-old record. They proved that Dijkstra is not optimal. By combining the logic of the Bellman-Ford algorithm with a revolutionary "recursive partial ordering" method, they figured out how to find the path without fully sorting the nodes. The results are a massive shift in theoretical computer science: - The first deterministic improvement to the Single-Source Shortest Path (SSSP) problem since 1984. - A new time complexity of $ O(m \log^{2/3} n)$, officially beating the long-standing $ O(m + n \log n)$ limit. - On massive sparse graphs (like the web or global logistics), this means finding the best route significantly faster than previously thought possible. For four decades, the greatest minds in algorithms believed this limit was absolute. Last year, even the legendary Robert Tarjan won an award proving Dijkstra was "optimally efficient" at sorting distances. Tsinghua’s answer? Stop sorting. The world’s most settled problem is suddenly wide open again. If we can break a 40-year-old law in basic graph theory, what other "impossible" speed limits are waiting to be crushed?

Counties where the majority of adults (25 and up) have a bachelor's degree or higher:

Let's upzone NYC! Now live: potential.nyc See the zoning potential (air rights=blue) for every residential lot in NYC. And then ... change it.

I made a super simple website where you can see everywhere you can get to in under an hour on the NYC subway. The generated map is both a heat-map (changes color) and a cartogram (warps space). castrio.me/nyc

Residents along California’s Central Coast may hear sonic booms late Saturday night as SpaceX prepares to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base. ktla.com/news/local-new…

That's not a UFO! A Falcon 9 rocket just launched the Starlink 17-14 mission from SLC-4E in California at 8:23:09 PM PDT. The rocket and its expanding exhaust plumes are being illuminated by the sun, which may produce lingering noctilucent clouds for some viewers. Here's an approximate viewing map and example photos from prior launches:

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, while speaking earlier today at the Semafor World Economy Summit in Washington, said that he expects energy prices will continue to rise and “peak” in the next few weeks, as both Iran and the United States are now threatening to blockade the Strait of Hormuz. During the recent round of strikes between the two countries, Crude Oil WTI peaked at $116.20 per barrel, while Brent Crude Oil approached $117.

I love public APIs

The future is loading in Los Angeles! ☀️ Starting today, Uber and MOIA America, an autonomous technology company within @VWGroup, have started on-road autonomous testing ahead of our public launch later this year in Los Angeles.

NEWS: Waymo and Waze have announced a partnership to help cities detect and repair potholes faster by providing data from their autonomous fleet. The pilot will launch in these cities first: • San Francisco Bay Area • Los Angeles • Phoenix • Austin • Atlanta "The pilot program uses Waymo’s perception and physical feedback systems to detect and provide up-to-date information on potholes where Waymo operates. The data will be available to cities and state Departments of Transportation through the free-to-use Waze for Cities platform alongside user-reported pothole information, giving officials an additional view of surface street and highway conditions that enables them to more efficiently and effectively fill potholes. The data will also be visible to Waze users in the cities where Waymo operates, keeping road users safe by alerting them as they approach a pothole. Like other on-road features reportable in the Waze app, users will be able to verify the Waymo-identified potholes, increasing the data’s accuracy. Waymo has already identified approximately 500 potholes. Over time, we’ll expand this partnership to more cities we serve, including those with winter weather and harsh freeze-thaw cycles that exacerbate the pothole problem."

Intel is joining Terafab! SpaceX, @xAI, and @Tesla are launching the most epic chip-building effort ever - combining logic, memory, and advanced packaging under one roof → terafab.ai

Coming soon… 🇮🇱

Israel's Minister of Transport and Road Safety on @Tesla FSD (Supervised):