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For those who've missed this Memphis-Arkansas exhibition game, here are some quick Razorbacks highlights:
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In China, tunnel boring machines are known as the “king of engineering machinery” 工程机械之王.
This particular Chinese TBM is digging a 16 km undersea high-speed rail tunnel. It can be remotely operated and its blades need to be replaced every meter.
Now China is trying to make increasingly “intelligent” TBMs full of sensors that can operate autonomously.
China went from relying on TBM imports to producing 2/3 of the world’s TBMs.
Genuinely fascinating article despite it being a Global Times article.
China’s domestically built super-large-diameter shield machine “Yongzhou” is chewing through the world’s longest undersea high-speed rail tunnel — advancing toward the deepest point, roughly 80 meters beneath the seabed. Next year it will meet its twin under the sea in a first-of-its-kind operation in #China. Here’s how the “steel giant” is navigating complex undersea geology. #ChinaNeoMake
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"Nothing of this scale has been seen in the United States, experts say, since the federal government’s counterinsurgency against the New Left and the anti-war movement in the 1960s and 1970s."
Incredible reporting here from @awinston
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Photographer Hadlee Renjith captured the rare Melanobatrachus, also known as the Galaxy Frog, deep in the forests of Munnar, Kerala. Its skin is dotted with tiny blue speckles that look like stars across a night sky.
(Via @hadlee_renjith)
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The Justice Department is drawing up contingency plans to potentially intervene in next week’s midterm elections, three national security officials tell me: kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-p…
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Of the 3 most populous counties in Arkansas, 2 (Pulaski & Washington) are getting election "monitors." Benton is not. I'll let you figure out which one is strongly Republican and which two have the largest number of Democrats.
#arpx #arnews #arleg
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You are telling me that the company with the largest IPO this year earns majority of their data center revenue from the company with the second largest IPO this year
ANTHROPIC AGREED TO SPEND UP TO $120.5B ON COMPUTE FROM SPACEX $SPCX
The deals are with SpaceX's AI unit, for access to Nvidia $NVDA chips
Once all the capacity is delivered, expected in December 2026, Anthropic will pay about $3.1B a month. The deals run into 2029.
After early periods ending in January and March 2027, either side can cancel with 90 days' notice.
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Note that they don't really step on the gas until half way through this video. I say that because you're going to spend the first minute saying, "yeah, that's pretty fast" and then they step on it and it becomes terrifying
