ABCNEWS - What to know about Elon Musk's massive $16.8 billion chip factory
The factory is set to be the largest building in the world, Musk said.
NYTIMES (Alex Marshall) - How the Bayeux Tapestry Got to the British Museum
French art experts insisted the fragile 900-year-old masterpiece could never travel. Political will, cutting-edge engineering and unorthodox diplomacy proved them wrong.
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The first and only person to break the sound barrier in a car has his eye on another speed record
AMERICANALMANAC (Lynn Jenkins) - Trump directs $180 million toward mining schools as U.S. enrollment craters
President Trump announced more than $180 million in federal grants to rebuild America's shrinking pipeline of mining engineers and critical-mineral workers, a push his administration says is essential to breaking China's grip on the raw materials that power everything from missiles to electric cars. Trump made the announcement Friday at a State Department roundtable flanked […] The post Trump directs $180 million toward mining schools as U.S. enrollment craters appeared first on American Almanac .
President Trump announced more than $180 million in federal grants to rebuild America's shrinking pipeline of mining engineers and critical-mineral workers, a push his administration says is essential to breaking China's grip on the raw materials that power everything from missiles to electric cars. Trump made the announcement Friday at a State Department roundtable flanked by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, along with educational leaders from universities including the Colorado School of Mines. The grants split into two main streams: a $100 million Department of Energy program aimed at expanding the mining and critical-mineral workforce, and more than $80 million in…Open
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Snails are slimy. But there's more to that goo of theirs than meets the eye. It's a fact that may help inspire the creation of new materials.
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JUSTTHENEWS (Kevin Killough) - FAA certifies smallest Boeing 737 Max to fly, may be months before airlines schedule flights
Southwest and other airlines had wanted to begin offering service with the aircraft prior to the pandemic, but the certification faced years of delays resulting from fatal crashes of the Max 8 model, a redesign of the engine anti-icing system and other safety and manufacturing problems.
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Andrew Barisser, a machine learning engineer at Meta, received a direct commission and will soon begin an assignment at the Army Software Factory.
NYTIMES (Ivan Penn) - A.I. Data Centers in Space? A System to Cool Chips Could Help.
Researchers at Caltech and Sophia Space, a start-up, have developed a technology using solar power to prevent computer equipment from overheating in orbit.