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fromArs Technica
1 week ago

What happened to Amelia Earhart? New book takes on the case.

Rachel Hartigan's book, Lost, explores Amelia Earhart's mysterious disappearance and the theories surrounding her life and fate.
History
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Today in History: March 3, Millionaire makes first solo nonstop plane flight

March 3 marks significant historical events including Steve Fossett's solo non-stop around-the-world flight in 2005, Florida's statehood in 1845, and the establishment of the national anthem in 1931.
Miscellaneous
fromTheregister
2 months ago

50 years since Concorde's first scheduled flight

Concorde began scheduled passenger service in January 1976 but was retired in 2003 due to poor economics, safety concerns, and parts shortages.
Science
fromBig Think
2 months ago

How to be as innovative as the Wright brothers - no computers required

Confusing low probability with impossibility causes dismissal of feasible innovations, as shown by Lord Kelvin's incorrect declaration that heavier-than-air flight was impossible.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

Today in History: January 21, Concorde jet takes first supersonic passenger flight

Today is Wednesday, Jan. 21, the 21st day of 2026. There are 344 days left in the year. Today in history: On Jan. 21, 1976, British Airways and Air France inaugurated scheduled passenger service on the supersonic Concorde jet. Also on this date: In 1793, during the French Revolution, King Louis XVI, condemned for treason, was executed by guillotine. In 1861,
World news
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

Flapping Airplanes on the future of AI: 'We want to try really radically different things' | TechCrunch

There's just so much to do. So, the advances that we've gotten over the last five to ten years have been spectacular. We love the tools. We use them every day. But the question is, is this the whole universe of things that needs to happen? And we thought about it very carefully and our answer was no, there's a lot more to do.
Artificial intelligence
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