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The IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage Device (DASD) marked the pinnacle of 14-inch disks in 1981. Utilizing nine platters, it broke the 1 gigabyte barrier with a total capacity of 1,260 MB and ultimately reached 2.52 GB when two HDAs were paired. A three-capacity version was offered in 1987. The IBM 3380 was revolutionary not just for its storage capacity but also for its impact on the data storage industry. It represented a significant leap in technology, providing businesses with unprecedented storage capabilities that were essential for the growing demands of data processing in the 1980s. One HDA (as pictured)...

Speculation has been swirling for months that Rivian (RIVN) needed a partner and a much needed cash infusion to keep operations alive. The EV startup put the rumors to bed late Tuesday, announcing a joint venture with Volkswagen (VWAGY), with plans for the global auto giant to invest $5 billion in Rivian. Investors greeted the Rivian-Volkswagen partnership with excitement as RIVN shares skyrocketed more than 20% Wednesday morning, though off overnight gains of 50% or more. However, questions remain about Rivian's cash burn as attention turns to how Rivian and Volkswagen will execute its joint venture. "We believe the opportunity...

A Korean Air Boeing 737 Max 8 experienced a sudden emergency shortly after taking off from Incheon International Airport, plummeting 26,900 feet before making multiple erratic loops before stabilizing. The plane, which departed from Incheon International Airport at 4:45 p.m. local time on Saturday, suffered issues with its pressurization system while flying over South Korea’s southern resort island of Jeju. According to data from Flight Radar, the plane began descending sharply, dropping nearly five miles in 15 minutes. Commercial jet airliners typically cruise at altitudes ranging from 30,000 to 40,000 feet. So, assuming the aircraft was flying at the upper...

Horrifying footage captured the moment a young fitness fanatic working out at a gym in Indonesia fell to her death after she stumbled backward off a treadmill and tumbled out of a third-story window. Video taken from a security camera shows the 22-year-old woman on a treadmill at a gym in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Tuesday moments before she tragically fell to her death. Footage shows the woman working out near the end of a long line of treadmills inside the packed gym before she stops and allows the machine’s belt to move her backward. After she’s dropped off the machine,...

Suitable Occasion On Monday, NASA had to suddenly cut a planned spacewalk outside of the International Space Station short after astronaut Tracy Dyson discovered water squirting from her spacesuit and obscuring her visor with ice. Now, the astronauts are investigating what may have caused the leak, kicking off what NASA is calling a "spacewalk review" in a Tuesday update. "[Astronaut Mike] Barratt began Tuesday morning troubleshooting Dyson’s spacesuit and inspecting the suit’s components," NASA wrote, while Dyson "wrapped up her day swapping out a water resupply tank in the Destiny laboratory module." Oddly, the next spacewalk scheduled for next week...

Playing catch-up with the likes of SpaceX, China has announced the successful test flight and landing of a reusable rocket. On June 23, 2024, the liquid-fueled launcher rose to a height of 7.5miles (12 km) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. Vertical landing rockets have been around since the Apollo days, but it's only in the last decade that companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin have turned them into a game changer. By recovering a booster intact instead of crashing into the ocean, a very large part of launch costs can be saved. It also allows for economies of scale...

Novel drug treatment developed for diabetes shows promising results of enhanced sleep and overall health for patients diagnosed with obesity and living with obstructive sleep apnea ================================================================== Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and international collaborators have led a worldwide, advanced study demonstrating the potential of tirzepatide, known to manage type 2 diabetes, as the first effective drug therapy for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a sleep-related disorder characterized by repeated episodes of irregular breathing due to complete or partial blockage of the upper airway. The results, published in the June 21, 2024 online edition of New...

Quantum entanglement in top quarks has been demonstrated, according to physicists at CERN who say the discovery offers new insights into the behavior of fundamental particles and their interactions at distances that cannot be attained by light-speed communication. The research, led by University of Rochester professor Regina Demina, extends the phenomenon known as “spooky action at a distance” to the heaviest particles recognized by physicists and offers important new insights into high-energy quantum mechanics. Initially discovered almost three decades ago, top quarks are the most massive elementary particles that have been observed. The mass of these unique particles originates from...

In a bid to acquire a key supplier, Boeing has shifted how it plans to pay for the deal, according to two people familiar with the negotiations, a move that could help the plane maker preserve money as it addresses safety and quality problems. Boeing would use stock instead of cash to buy Spirit AeroSystems, said the two people, who were not authorized to speak publicly about the deal. One added that Boeing would pay more than $4 billion for Spirit, which produces aviation parts, including the body of the Boeing 737 Max, the company’s most popular plane. One of...

An ambitious underwater road and rail tunnel is currently under construction in Europe that will link Germany and Denmark. Named the Fehmarnbelt tunnel, it will cross an 18-km (roughly 11.2-mile) stretch of the Baltic Sea. The Fehmarnbelt tunnel (aka Fehmarn Belt fixed link) is being created by Femern A/S, Rambøll, Arup and TEC, and is described by the team as the world's longest immersed tunnel (i.e. a tunnel built elsewhere and then sunk into place) and the world's deepest immersed tunnel with road and rail traffic. The immersed part is important as there are longer undersea tunnels, such as the...

NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps (center) is pictured assisting NASA astronauts Mike Barratt (left) and Tracy C. Dyson (right) inside the Quest airlock. Image Credit: NASA TV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson and Mike Barratt were supposed to go on a spacewalk on Monday, June 24 – but a fault led to the expected 6-and-a-half-hour walk being cut down to just 31 minutes. There was a water leak from the service and cooling umbilical unit on Dyson’s spacesuit that was described on the live stream by Dyson as spreading water "everywhere" in the airlock. The pair had already switched to...

China's lunar probe has returned to Earth with the first ever samples from the Moon's unexplored far side. The Chang'e-6 landed in the Inner Mongolia desert on Tuesday, after a nearly two-month long mission which was fraught with risks. Scientists are eagerly awaiting the Chang’e-6 as the samples could answer key questions about how planets are formed. China is the only country to have landed on the far side of the Moon, having done so before in 2019. The far side - which faces away from Earth - is technically challenging to reach due to its distance, and its difficult...

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnamese automaker VinFast, for a short time the third-most valuable car company in the world, has a big problem: It just can’t sell enough cars. Idle factories bleed money and the company’s financial health is at stake. After finding the U.S. market a tough nut to crack, Vinfast is hoping its tiniest and cheapest car yet — a roughly 10-foot-long pure battery electric mini-SUV priced at $9,200 and called the VF3 — will become Vietnam’s “national car” and win over consumers in Asian markets. Designed specifically for the Vietnamese and other Asian markets, the VF3 is...

An eight-year-old girl who was traveling with her parents on a SkyWest Airlines flight to Chicago died suddenly after becoming unresponsive. Despite “aggressive resuscitative efforts” by medical staff to save the girl’s life, she was pronounced dead upon landing. Sydney Weston was lying with her family from Joplin when she suffered a medical emergency, forcing the flight to reroute to Peoria, Illinois. Flight personnel began “rapidly rendering aid” to the girls, according to Peoria County Coroner’s Office. The plane made an emergency landing at General Wayne A Downing Peoria International Airport at 7.02am on Thursday. Medical staff began performing “life-saving...

Among many far-left Democrats, there is an uncontrollable hatred of President Donald Trump. These individuals suffer from “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” a condition that Dr. Drew Pinsky, a board-certified physician and addiction specialist, said infects “people that get tied up in the hysteria…people that are suggestible, hypnotizable, the ones that feel out of control…have an external locus of control….detached…from their internal feelings…and placed everything out here.” This syndrome is raging among the left as the latest Real Clear Politics poll average shows President Trump leading in a two-way race against President Joe Biden. Trump’s lead is even greater when five presidential...

speaking of asian navies... The Great War of Archimedes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcNrKxqIYW0&pp=ygUbdGhlIGdyZWF0IHdhciBvZiBhcmNoaW1lZGVz 2 h 9 m possibly the best historical themed movie I've ever seen. lots of Japanese actors also seen in the recent version of Midway. totally changed my understanding of why what happened in japan regarding ww2. if we go to war with china, I'm glad japan is on our side.

You may not know that while the bald eagle has been adopted as America’s symbol of liberty and freedom since the 1780s, it’s not the official national bird. Cynthia Lummis introduced a bill Thursday to finally make it official. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For many, the majestic sight of a bald eagle soaring overhead evokes a sense of patriotism and freedom that’s at the heart of being an American. What most of those people probably don’t know is that while the bald eagle has widely been adopted as the symbol of America going back to the 1780s, it’s not the official national bird....

The idea of a giant virus lurking on a vast ice sheet might sound like the plot to the latest science fiction blockbuster. Giant viruses were first discovered in 1981, when researchers found them in the ocean. These viruses had specialised in infecting green algae in the sea. Later, giant viruses were found in soil on land and even in humans. But it's become a reality, after researchers discovered giant viruses while exploring the Greenland ice sheet. Before you panic that the viruses could spark the next pandemic, there's good news. Scientists from Aarhus University say the viruses could actually...

A Boeing 737 aircraft suddenly plummeted to less than 500 feet off the ground over Oklahoma, terrifying residents who feared the jet was going to crash. Southwest Airlines Flight 4069 was nine miles away from Will Rogers World Airport just after midnight on Wednesday when records show the 737 dived to between 400 and 500 feet as it flew over a high school in the city of Yukon. Doorbell camera footage showed the Boeing 737 MAX-8 then hovering above houses, before it flies out of frame. The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the incident and SouthWest has confirmed they are...

The world’s largest airline pilot’s union, Air Line Pilots Association, International (ALPA), has instructed its members to refrain from using the words “cockpit,” “airmen,” and “manpower” to be more inclusive. The ‘woke’ ALPA published its diversity, equity, and inclusion language guide to “reflect the diversity we have at ALPA” and “create a more inclusive workplace.” “While the word ‘cockpit’ dates back to the 1900s, it has been and may be used in a derogatory way to exclude women in the piloting profession,” the guide explained, according to Breitbart. “Many women have heard a variation of ‘It is called a cockpit...