At this week's
#Seattle #Space Superiority
#Summit, space industry executives traded stories about how
#AI and other technologies are accelerating their progress.
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/ai-tech-trends-supercharge-space-industry/ #Tech#NorthKorea is famously secretive, but a newly released
#satellite image from a Seattle-area startup called
#Xplore shows what's happening there in hyperspectral detail.
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/xplore-hyperspectral-north-korea-satellite/ #space #LIGO and
#GoogleDeepMind have created an
#AI tool called Deep Loop Shaping to reduce the "noise" in the mirror systems used by gravitational-wave detectors - opening a path to deeper insights into black holes and neutron stars, and maybe better noise-canceling headphones.
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/ligo-google-ai-gravitational-waves/ #gravitationalwaves #Space #Tech Achieving data downlink speeds of more than 1 gigabit per second is a notable achievement for the nascent
#Amazon #ProjectKuiper #broadband network, but this was just a test. Your mileage may vary when the service becomes commercially available.
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/amazon-gigabit-data-speeds-project-kuiper-satellite-network/ #Space #TechAfter three test flights that fell short of the mark,
#SpaceX put its
#Starship super-rocket through a successful test mission that featured a first-of-its-kind payload deployment. Now I have this strange desire for a Pez candy dispenser.
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/08/26/spacexs-starship-goes-the-distance-in-10th-test-flight/ #SpaceT-Mobile subscribers who purchase one of Google's new
#Pixel10 phones will be able to explore a new frontier in mobile connectivity: satellite access to data-dependent apps including
#Google Maps.
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/google-pixel-10-t-mobile-satellite-data/ #Tech #Android #TMobile #TSatelliteSome may think science-fiction conventions are all about flights of fancy - but a lot of serious subjects were addressed at
#Seattle #Worldcon 2025. Here's a story recapping what futurists and authors had to say about the past, present and future of
#surveillance.
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/08/18/how-watching-the-watchers-could-help-stop-big-brother/ #Tech #BigBrother #ScienceFiction
How watching the watchers could help stop Big Brother
If Big Brother is watching us, can we fend him off by watching him back? Thanks to the proliferation of smartphone videos and social media connections, we’re starting to find out. The past, p…
#GameOfThrones author George R.R. Martin explains how one of Edgar Allan Poe's stories helped send him on a twisty trail to literary stardom. Also:
#Murderbot author reflects on her success, and an awkward moment at
#Worldcon attracts notice.
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/game-of-thrones-creator-science-fiction-worldcon/ #ScienceFiction #Fantasy Tonight's
#Hugo Award ceremony marked the climax of Seattle
#Worldcon 2025, this year's edition of the world's premier science-fiction convention. Check out this report about the new crop of Hugos, mostly because there are links to all of the award winners.
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/08/16/star-trek-lower-decks-doubles-up-on-hugo-awards/ #HugoAwards #ScienceFiction #Books #Space #StarTrek #StarTrekLowerDecks
‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ doubles up on Hugo Awards
“Star Trek: Lower Decks,” the animated Trek spinoff that focuses on Starfleet’s lower ranks, scored a double win tonight when this year’s Hugo Awards were handed out at the …
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