🚨**¡Alerta de nueva misión!**🚨 🌌🪏 La @esa aprueba la misión Arrakihs para estudiar la historia de las galaxias esa.int/Space_in_Member_Stat… @ARRAKIHS @aee_gob @CienciaGob @esascience @CGMundell

FARSHY 1.2.0 is out! With this release, our professional viewer of hyperspectral imagery and Kongsberg KMall watercolumn files gets a performance boost - and much reduced memory usage. Check it out: dapcom.es/farshy/

New release of our fapyc Python package 0.9.0, allowing to use the FAPEC data compression library 26.0 from your Python programs. Have a look with the usual "pip install fapyc", or check out some of its details: pypi.org/project/fapyc/

We've just released a patch for FAPEC and WinFAPEC, fixing some issues with certain XTF/SSS files. Also, we now have a YouTube channel! You can find there some hands-on examples of FAPEC, WinFAPEC and FARSHY: youtube.com/@DapcomDataServi…

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New FAPEC 26.0 and WinFAPEC 1.4 releases! We now support XTF (HiSAS / SSS) and EK80 data, besides several exciting improvements. With this, FAPEC consolidates as the best maritime data compression solution! More details: dapcom.es/fapec-may26/

We're glad to announce our cooperation agreement with @Filgen_nagoya! Filgen is now our reseller in Japan for FAPEC and FARSHY - our professional data compression and visualization software. We look forward to the application of FAPEC to genomics, biotech and medicine!

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Okay folks, this qualifies as BREAKING NEWS! Harold “Sonny” White, the warp drive pioneer behind NASA’s EagleWorks Lab, just stepped out of stealth with Casimir Inc. to unveil MicroSPARC: the first battery free chip to harvest continuous electrical power straight from the quantum vacuum via the Casimir force. The 5 mm × 5 mm device uses millions of custom microscale Casimir cavities fabricated on a substrate. Inside each cavity, two fixed conductive walls create a region of negative vacuum pressure (the well known Casimir effect). Stationary micropillars anchored in the middle act as antennas. Electrons from the cavity walls then quantum tunnel to the pillars because the interior is a lower energy “quieter” zone — and the probability of tunneling back is orders of magnitude lower. This one way “quantum ratchet” flow generates a measurable DC current with no external power source or moving parts. Prototypes already fabricated at university nanofab facilities (Texas A&M AggieFab, MIT.nano) have been tested in RF-shielded, low noise chambers for weeks. The team reports outputs ranging from millivolts to volts at picoamp to microamp levels using precision electrometers and Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy. Target performance for the first commercial chip: ~1.5 V at 25 µA (≈40 µW continuous). Stacking and scaling could reach milliwatts or even watts per device. Initial applications are ultra low power: always on IoT sensors, wearables, and medical implants. Longer term roadmap includes trickle charging phones, powering small electronics, and eventually grid independent homes or EVs. Commercialization is targeted for 2028, starting at ~$100/W before dropping toward $10/W. White ties the work directly to his earlier theoretical paper on emergent quantization from a dynamic vacuum and sees it as a practical power source for the deep-space missions he’s long championed. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and independent scientists have so far declined public comment. But if the engineering scales as hoped, MicroSPARC would represent a genuine paradigm shift: continuous, maintenance free power drawn from the fabric of spacetime itself. A bold leap from warp-drive theory into real hardware. Progress (and vacuum-powered chips) marches on. Photo: MicroSPARC | Casimir Inc. Source: thedebrief.org/free-energy-f…

Acabo de preguntarle a mi sobrina que aprendió hoy en la escuela, me dijo: "Aparentemente no lo suficiente, porque tengo que volver mañana".

Something interesting you might not have realized: A number of words in English are NOUNS when you stress the FIRST syllable... But VERBS when you stress the SECOND syllable. -SUSpect/susPECT -CONflict/conFLICT -PROtest/proTEST -CONvert/conVERT

Com hem pogut passar d'aquestes meravelles a les merdes actuals? No us dóna la sensació de que hem patit una involució tecnològica?

Buenu buenu @movistar_es , a l'hora de cobrar i pujar preus aneu per feina, però a l'hora de solucionar avaries, us ho agafeu amb calma, eh!

Microslop Teams is one of the biggest software turds I've ever seen. The Chat editor autocorrects to Catalan (my OS setting) when writing to colleagues in Spanish or English. It does NOT allow to deactivate autocorrect, and it ignores adding other languages. Fuck it.

Programmers were asked to create the worst user experience poossible:

In 1986, Jean-Michel Jarre was invited to create a concert in Houston to mark NASA’s 25th anniversary. The performance brought together music, light and architecture on an unprecedented scale. 1.3 million people gathered for a moment that connected Earth and space through music

La @viquipedia en català celebra 25 anys com una de les edicions més consolidades i de qualitat d’arreu del món. Va ser la tercera a crear-se i té l’honor de ser la primera d'haver penjat un article en llengua no anglesa gràcies a la iniciativa d’un informàtic andorrà que va escriure una entrada sobre l'"àbac". Amb gairebé 800.000 articles, és una de les vint Wikipedies més grans gràcies als més de 2.000 usuaris actius que mes rere mes s’esforcen per mantenir actualitzada la versió en la nostra llengua. Una feina invisible que fa accessible informació i coneixement d’infinitat de disciplines a milions de catalanoparlants. Però no només és una qüestió de quantitat. La Viquipèdia en català és la quarta del món en qualitat: obté un 9,97 als 1.000 articles considerats fonamentals i un 9,48 per als 10.000 articles més rellevants. Sou un exemple de constància, rigor i compromís amb la llengua. Sempre amb vosaltres!

Déu n'hi do com baixa el Meder a Vic. @3CatInfoelTemps #ElTemps3Cat