Going to the Moon via the Cloud
High-performance cloud computing has allowed start-ups to develop prototypes and run simulations including one to the moon that were previously done on supercomputers.
Credit.James Yang
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Firefly Aerospace, a start-up based in the suburbs of Austin, Texas, is building a rocket to fly to the moon.
No, this isn’t a remake of “A Grand Day Out With Wallace and Gromit,” in which the animated duo go to the lunar surface on a search for cheese; it’s a real company. It’s also an example of how the ubiquitous availability of high-performance computing through the internet has unleashed a global wave of creativity. The “cloud,” that fuzzy euphemism for networks of massive computer farms that anyone can access with a laptop and a credit card, has put even the wildest dreams within reach of people with enough know-how.
Joel Chadabe, Explorer of Electronic Musicâs Frontier, Dies at 82
As both a composer and an advocate, Mr. Chadabe devoted himself to what one music critic called the âmarriage between humans and their computers.â
The composer Joel Chadabe during his tenure at the State University of New York at Albany, where he had been hired at 27 to run the university’s electronic music studio. “I took to it, I think, because for me it was the frontier,” he said.Credit.Luther Smith
May 25, 2021Updated 5:56 p.m. ET
Joel Chadabe, a composer who helped pioneer electronic music in the 1960s, later developing compositional software programs and founding the Electronic Music Foundation, an advocacy organization for electronic music, died on May 2 at his home in Albany, N.Y. He was 82.
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Indian Police Visit Twitter Offices as Modi Goes on Pandemic Offense
The visit sent a clear message that India’s powerful ruling party is becoming increasingly upset with the company.
A billboard with a photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and a message in Punjabi reading, “Why did you send our vaccines abroad?”Credit.Narinder Nanu/Agence France-Presse Getty Images
May 25, 2021, 3:39 p.m. ET
The officers from India’s elite antiterrorism police unit descended after dusk on the New Delhi offices of Twitter, with television news cameras in tow. Their mission: Start an argument over fake news.
The offices sat empty, closed amid India’s devastating coronavirus outbreak. And the police acknowledged that they were there to deliver nothing more legally binding than a notice disputing a warning label that Twitter had assigned to some tweets.
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