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1 Software finds the best way to stick a Mars landing
Finding a suitable landing site therefore involves piecing together information collected over the years by past Mars missions. Selecting a landing site for a rover headed to Mars is a lengthy process that normally involves large committees of scientists and engineers. At the same time, the landing site should not exceed a certain slope, otherwise the vehicle would topple over while attempting to land. The program can also lay out possible paths that a rover can take from a given landing site to certain geological features. Once they generate a raw map of possible landing sites, the researchers take into account various uncertainties in the landing location, such as changes in trajectory and potential navigation errors during descent.
2 The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Pulsar™ as a Top-Level Project
This is the testament to all work done over the years by all the contributors, before and after starting our journey within The Apache Software Foundation,” said Matteo Merli, Vice President of Apache Pulsar. “We are excited for Pulsar’s graduation and to see the growth of its vibrant open- source developer community within The Apache Software Foundation. Seeing Pulsar become a top-level Apache project is a great milestone that validates our confidence in the current and future innovations of Pulsar and the Pulsar community.” Apache Pulsar is in use at MercadoLibre, Oath, One Click Retail, STICorp, TaxiStartup, Yahoo Japan Corporation, and Zhaopin.com, among others.
3 How Platform Strategies Continue to Create Value
Their stories illustrate a number of broad principles that represent the locus and control of platform value today. Platforms were once considered small and even quirky additions to business strategy. This is no longer the case: In 2018, companies deploying platform business models continue to surprise and challenge conventional approaches to creating value. The power of the platform to create value can also be seen by helping companies discover new revenue streams. Technology, scale, and smart risk management. Executives building and operating platforms pointed to the interplay between technology, scale, and smart risk management.
4 One man’s flying car dream is taking off, thanks to MIT
For electrical engineer Felipe Varon, it was a flying car. The company he founded with two partners, Varon Vehicles Corporation, built a prototype flying car designed to travel in its own lane, at low altitudes, safely clear of both land-bound and aeronautic traffic. A flying car would take only 17 to 20 minutes.” Varon and his partners did a soft-launch for the prototype in Colombia and received positive feedback. Most children dream about fabulous flying machines. In 2018, he completed courses including Beyond Smart Cities and Radical Innovation, Mastering Innovation and Design-Thinking, and Precision Engineering Principles for Mechanical Design.
5 RxDB A realtime Database for the Web – Release of version 8
RxDB is a Reactive, serverless, client-side, offline-first database in javascript.
6 kubespy: tools for observing Kubernetes resources in real time
Tools for observing Kubernetes resources in real time, powered by Pulumi. Create, deploy, and manage cloud native applications and infrastructure in your favorite language, using an open source platform that enables sharing, reuse, and safe and predictable changes in a team environment.
7 How Small Problems Snowball Into Big Disasters
The Three Mile Island disaster forced hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate their homes. But the Three Mile Island accident isn’t the only meltdown caused by a seemingly small issue that snowballed into a gigantic disaster. To find out exactly how this happens, we talked with Chris Clearfield, co-author of “Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It.”
And it all stemmed from a plumbing problem, a valve that didn’t shut. It absolutely dominated the news cycle.
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