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XONA Space raises another $250M for next-gen GPS
Co-led by Future Ventures. Xona holds the first and only FCC license to operate a commercial GPS service. By flying a constellation closer to Earth, the service is 100x more powerful, so it even works indoors. And more precise, to cm resolution. And more secure and robust to spoofing. And it’s backward compatible with existing… Read More
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Forbes 250 Greatest Living Optimists
I have never met a rich pessimist. Perhaps they are like crabs, doing some garbage collection, but they rarely drive progress for humanity. So, it was with some delight that I got an email from Forbes this morning saying their analytical engine deemed me the #63 "greatest living optimist". 😋 Forbes: “Optimism is at the… Read More
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Final Frankenrocket Flight at BALLS 2026
We knew this would be a heads-up flight. The asymmetric fin can flew well twice before on smaller motors, but this time we went with a vintage K540 metalstorm motor that was 20 years old. The ascent was stable, as before, but the ejection charge blew just 1.5 seconds after liftoff. You can see the… Read More
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The Dream Weavers of Dust ✨
What if you could direct your dreams with auditory conditioning? Away from nightmares. Towards healing, even “reviving” lost loved ones. Adam Horowitz, CEO of Dust Systems, described just that at XPRIZE VISIONEERING 2026. Summary points: • BBC: “Dream Engineering is the #1 most powerful idea of the 21st Century.” • The suicide rate is 8x… Read More
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Ferrari GT Race Car
fastest I’ve gone, on approach to the turn at Thermal
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Ferrari 296 Challenge, now F1 Champion Nico Rosberg’s signature on the roof
and my wife about to let it rip
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Ferrari 296 challenge race car
at Thermal Club this weekend
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Racing cars with the F1 World Champion, Nico Rosberg
It was his first time driving in a GT race car, and yet he still earned the top lap speed for our gathering of high-speed geeks. He signed the roof of the Ferrari 296, and I drove it faster than I have ever gone before. Thx Naveen Rao for hosting us at Thermal and to… Read More
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Ferrari 488 Challenge
with the newer 296 peeling away
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Gen going in
in the zone with the Ferrari 296 Challenge
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