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Weekly output: Waze updates, Google Images turns 25, Samsung turns to more titanium, Frontier Airlines + Starlink, bill to ban Chinese cars

This week may have featured an unwanted import of smoky, hazy air from Canadian wildfires, but at least that miasma did not descend on the District until Friday–the day after I got to the one Fort Reno concert I’m likely to be able to see this summer.

Patreon readers got a bonus post assessing when I’m likely to need to replace my three oldest computers–and explaining why the oldest machine is not at the front of that list.

7/13/2026: Waze Gets AI, Personalization Options—Including One to Make It Less Chatty, PCMag

I have to admit that I had not used Waze in quite some time, so I downloaded a copy to refresh my memory. I’m glad I did, as this exercise reminded that Waze has yet to match Google’s ability to show which routing will be most efficient.

7/14/2026: Google Images Marks Its 25 Birthday by Adding AI Image Generation, PCMag

This was another Google item from an embargoed announcement. It was going to be an unusually short post, but then I realized that Google’s anniversary post didn’t mention the date the company launched Google Images. Some quick Googling surfaced a New York Times story apparently written on that day, July 12, 2001.

7/14/2026: Samsung Teases New Screen Substrate for Its Next Foldable: Titanium, PCMag

One of my editors asked if I could pick up this announcement; since I try to be the guy who solves problems for my editors and since I rarely get to cover metallurgical topics, I said I would.

7/15/2026: Frontier Airlines Is Adding Starlink, But You Might Have to Pay for It, PCMag

I was going to write this Tuesday but had to set it aside for the Samsung news. But that delay gave me some extra time to send a further round of questions to Frontier’s PR office about their weird unwillingness to say what the service will cost (if an ultra-low-cost carrier that literally has “ULCC” as its stock ticker doesn’t say upfront that a service is free, it’s not going to be free) and whether they would finally add power outlets (apparently not).

7/18/2026: Bill Would Ban Chinese Connected Cars in the US—From Sale and on the Streets, PCMag

I could have written this post in fewer words if I hadn’t gotten into how Congress has done nothing to address people’s privacy concerns about non-Chinese connected cars, but I wasn’t going to do that. I will not stop reminding readers about how Congress keeps failing to pass any sort of comprehensive privacy legislation.

#AEI:
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Satellitenmission für Klimaforschung erreicht Meilenstein

Am AEI entwickeltes technisches Modell eines Schlüsselinstruments von ESAs Next Generation Gravity Mission schließt letzte Testkampagne erfolgreich ab
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https://www.aei.mpg.de/1459465/milestone-for-climate-research-satellite-mission

12.6.2026

#Airbus #EO #Erdbeobachtung #ESA #GuizzoSpace #ICU #Klima #Klimakrise #Klimawandel #Laser #MAGIC #NGGM #Raumfahrt #Satelliten #Schwerefeld #SpaceFlight #SpaceTech

Webinar Choose Europe, Choose Spain | En línea, 21 abril 2026, 13:30h. organizado por el Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, junto con la Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (@fecyt_ciencia) y con la Agencia Estatal de Investigación (#AEI) #CursosUE https://links.uv.es/M915r17

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Theory-agnostic searches for non-gravitational modes in black hole ringdown

Francesco Crescimbeni, Xisco Jimenez Forteza, Swetha Bhagwat, Julian Westerweck, Paolo Pani
SciPost Phys. 20, 025 (2026)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.20.1.025

#INFNRoma1 #SapienzaUniversity #IAC3 #UIB #AEI # #Birmingham
#AgenciaEstatalInvestigación #GovernIllesBalears

That is interesting. Expected AI to do the job (entirely).

Good work AEI MPI.

""There's no way that you can do a full investigation of every possible signal that you detect, because doing that still requires a person and eyeballs"[...].

Eventually, at the supercomputer facilities of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Germany, algorithms designed to spot RFI sorted the wheat from the chaff, reducing those 12 billion to [...] 1,000."

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/search-for-life/this-seti-program-is-chasing-down-its-final-100-signals-could-one-of-them-be-from-aliens

#SETI #AEI #MPI

@KimPerales kevin hassett thinks americans should invest their pensions in comic books.

no, really.

#KevinHassett #AEI #Uspol

Update. The American Enterprise Institute (#AEI) defends the #Trump compact and offers some improvements.
https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/the-trump-administrations-higher-education-compact-eight-proposals-for-delivering-on-its-vision/

After the compact was introduced (Oct 2025), "a rough consensus emerged that the Trump administration had identified crucial problems but that its solution needed work. This project is an attempt to do some of that work."

By "rough consensus" I suppose AEI means "rough consensus of the people and orgs we read." If so, take that as a sign of how it reads.

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Takedowns #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics

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Entscheidender Fortschritt für LISA, das Gravitationswellen-Observatorium im Weltall

AEI und OHB Systems AG unterzeichnen Vertrag für die Weiterentwicklung und industrielle Fertigung des zentralen LISA-Messinstruments.
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https://www.aei.mpg.de/1247332/entscheidender-fortschritt-fuer-lisa-das-gravitationswellen-observatorium-im-weltall

17.6.2025

#DLR #ESA #Gravitationswellen #Laser #Laserinterferometrie #LISA #Observatorium #NGGM #Phasenmeter #Raumfahrt #Raumsonde #Raumzeit #Satelliten #SpaceFlight

The right-wing #AmericanEnterpriseInstitute has turned on Trump's #BigBeautifulBill. I didn't expect to start my Monday by agreeing with #AEI

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/opinion/trump-big-beautiful-bill.html

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics Core

Tidal effects in gravitational waves from neutron stars in scalar-tensor theories of gravity

Gastón Creci, Iris van Gemeren, Tanja Hinderer, Jan Steinhoff
SciPost Phys. Core 8, 042 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysCore.8.2.042

#UU #AEI

I don't understand #tariffs well enough to comment. But when the #AmericanEnterpriseInstitute, a #conservative think-tank that focuses on #economic policy, says #Trump 's approach is wrong, I believe it. #AEI has supported many #Republican policies in the past, so it's a big deal for them to criticize him. https://www.aei.org/economics/president-trumps-tariff-formula-makes-no-economic-sense-its-also-based-on-an-error/

A fair question: given the role of federal courts in separation of powers, "checks and balances," how is it that the executive branch can cripple the courts by turning off the lights?

By the executive disobeying Congress.

Our esteemed founders did not model out their plan. Amateurs, all of 'em.

Nobody can protect us except us. Restrict spending to survival mode, send a message to #AEI's controllers. This is all about money.

#Project2025
#GeneralStrike

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/doge-rampage-may-have-immediate-long-term-effects-for-courts-judicial-branch-warns

gm

#Amway #BetsyDevos #Devos #ErikPrince #AEI #MAGA #FedSoc #FederalistSociety #Freedomworks #MLM #MLMs #Republicans #uspol #meme #memes

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Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum 20. Geburtstag, Einstein@Home!

Das freiwillige verteilte Rechenprojekt startete an diesem Tag im Jahr 2005.
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https://www.aei.mpg.de/1226909/happy-20th-birthday-einstein-home
https://www.aei.mpg.de/1226437/happy-20th-birthday-einstein-home

19.2.2025

#Astronomie #Astrophysik #Daten #EinsteinAtHome #Gammapulsar #Gravitationswellen #LIGO #Neutronenstern #Pulsar #Rechenzeit #Radiopulsar #VerteiltesRechnen

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics Community Reports

Possible causes of false general relativity violations in gravitational wave observations

Anuradha Gupta et al.
SciPost Phys. Comm. Rep. 5 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysCommRep.5

#MississippiUniversity #CMI #IFPU #SISSA #INFNTrieste #CNRS #ParisObservatory #LUTH #PSL #ParisCité #JHU #IUCAA #AEI #UMCP #NBI #LisbonUniversity #MonashUniversity #ARCCentreGravitational #UVA #PSU #UU #GlasgowUniversity #NIKHEF

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Mit Gravitationswellen rätselhafte Magnetare und Radioblitze verstehen

Daten des deutsch-britischen Detektors GEO600 helfen, die Entstehungsprozesse dieser extremen kosmischen Ereignisse zu verstehen.
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https://www.aei.mpg.de/1190535/understanding-mysterious-magnetars-and-radio-bursts-with-gravitational-waves

7.1.2025

#Astronomie #Astrophysik #FRB #GEO600 #Gravitationswellen #Magnetar #Neutronenstern #Radioblitz

Leonard Leo-linked group attacking efforts to educate judges on climate: Rightwing US thinktank claimed in report that non-profit holding trainings is ‘corruptly influencing the courts’

"A rightwing organization is attacking efforts to educate judges about the climate crisis. The group appears to be connected to Leonard Leo, the architect of the rightwing takeover of the American judiciary who helped select Trump’s supreme court nominees, the Guardian has learned.

The Washington DC-based non-profit Environmental Law Institute (ELI)’s Climate Judiciary Project holds seminars for lawyers and judges about the climate crisis. It aims to 'provide neutral, objective information to the judiciary about the science of climate change as it is understood by the expert scientific community and relevant to current and future litigation', according to ELI’s website."

#ClimateChange #LeonardLeo #aei
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/29/leonard-leo-group-influencing-judges-climate-education

AEI: Den Boden für einen Weltraumdetektor bereiten
Experten- und Expertinnentreffen am Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik. Eine Pressemitteilung des Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut, #AEI). (Grafik: A. Carvalho) #lisa #gravitationswellen
https://www.raumfahrer.net/aei-den-boden-fuer-einen-weltraumdetektor-bereiten/

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MPIfR: Zehn neue Neutronensterne für Terzan 5

Entdeckung und Untersuchung mehrerer seltener und ungewöhnlicher Pulsare in einem dichten Sternhaufen mit Hilfe von MeerKAT/Südafrika und dem Green-Bank-Teleskop/USA. Eine Pressemeldung des Max-Planck-Instituts für Radioastronomie, Bonn.
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https://www.raumfahrer.net/mpifr-zehn-neue-neutronensterne-fuer-terzan-5/

16.7.2024

#AEI #Astronomie #COMPACT #Doppelstern #GreenBank #Kugelsternhaufen #MeerKAT #MillisekundenPulsar #MPIfR #Neutronenstern #Pulsar #Radioastronomie #SARAO #Terzan5 #TRAPUM

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DLR: GRACE-C – deutsch-amerikanische Umweltmission geht in die Verlängerung

Neues Satellitenpaar soll mit Messungen der Masseveränderungen die Folgen des Klimawandels aufspüren. Eine Pressemitteilung des Deutschen Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR).
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https://www.raumfahrer.net/dlr-grace-c-deutsch-amerikanische-umweltmission-geht-in-die-verlaengerung/

19.3.2024

#AEI #Airbus #DLR #Dürre #Erdbeobachtung #GFZ #GRACEC #GSOC #JPL #Klimawandel #Raumfahrt #Satelliten #SpaceTech #STI #Wasser #Wasserkreislauf

@Teri_Kanefield Pardoning a criminal former-President is political suicide as Ford found out with #Nixon. That is why wingnut conservatives like Marc Thiessen and Danielle Pletka say that it is imperative for Biden to #pardon #tRump… to destroy the Democratic Party.

#marcthiessen #aei #daniellepletka

Used #AEI regulation to obtain some EU #Commission documents on #housing policy in Ireland. A refreshingly straightforward process after dealing with Irish FOI regimes.
More later.

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Cost of holographic path integrals

Ammanamanchi Ramesh Chandra, Jan de Boer, Mario Flory, Michal P. Heller, Sergio Hörtner, Andrew Rolph
SciPost Phys. 14, 061 (2023)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.14.4.061

#UvA #IFT #GhentUniversity
#AEI #ERDF @ERC #EC #FundaciónRamónAreces
#MinisteriodeCienciaeInnovación
#NWO
#MINECO

Not such a conspiracy theory…
The AEI, right wing libertarian supremacists: American Enterprise Institute

The IEA, see above: Institute of Economic Affairs, Tufton St.

Both wedded to Charles Murray’s “The Bell Curve” that promotes having an underclass to work till they drop.

#IEA #AEI #Libertarian