Wind carved the valley, but a channel running through it that starts higher up on Mount Sharp is thought to have been eroded by a small river.Ĭ++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup " joins calls for changing the programming language itself to address security concerns," according to an article shared by Slashdot user guest reader: Having climbed nearly a half-mile above the mountain's base, Curiosity has found these rippled rock textures preserved in what's nicknamed the 'Marker Band' - a thin layer of dark rock that stands out from the rest of Mount Sharp.įar ahead of the Marker Band, scientists can see another clue to the history of Mars' ancient water in a valley named Gediz Vallis. "Billions of years ago, waves on the surface of a shallow lake stirred up sediment at the lake bottom, over time creating rippled textures left in rock," according to a NASA news release. "We climbed through thousands of feet of lake deposits and never saw evidence like this - and now we found it in a place we expected to be dry." "This is the best evidence of water and waves that we've seen in the entire mission," said Ashwin Vasavada, Curiosity's project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, in a statement. Instead, the rover found some of the clearest evidence yet of ancient waters. The rover is traversing an area of Mars called the "sulfate-bearing unit" that researchers previously thought would only show evidence of mere trickles of water, as scientists believed the rocks there formed as the surface of the red planet was drying out. "In the foothills of a Martian mountain, NASA's Curiosity rover found stunning new evidence of an ancient lake in the form of rocks etched with the ripples of waves," reports CNN.īut they add that the evidence "appeared in an unlikely place." Thanks to stx23 (Slashdot reader #14,942) for sharing the news. The hardware itself has proven itself to be a solid base to work from, but without good reviews you get less sales, and without strong sales, the plan doesn't work. That in turn I believe has resulted in less than flattering reviews, and little mainstream coverage. It is more robust and stable than it has ever been, but this came at the cost of fewer new features.
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With so much of our focus on hardware, and less funding to devote to improving our software - the quality and features available on the Mark II at launch were clearly underwhelming. If we had that million dollars we would be in a very different state right now. So what went wrong? The single most expensive item that I could not predict was our ongoing litigation against the non-practicing patent entity that has never stopped trying to destroy us. I could see a clear way forward that strengthened Mycroft as a project, as a business, and as a community. Far more than the total contributions from the campaign, which is why I personally committed so much additional funding. Many of these steps took multiple iterations to get right, and there are many more things that I'm glossing over. We engaged audio engineers to optimize the quality and volume of the sound output. With that plan in mind, we pushed forward and started production. The best plan we could devise to fulfill the remaining campaign rewards was to use the slim margins we have on new sales to cover the increased costs of hardware production. The announcement details Mycroft's long, strange trip, from a hardware-focused partner that couldn't provide stable hardware to their switch to using off-the-shelf parts - followed by supply chain disruptions (with hefty import and manufacturing fees): However we do not have the funds to continue fulfilling rewards from this crowdfunding campaign, or to even continue meaningful operations." "We will still be shipping all orders that are made through the Mycroft website, because these sales directly cover the costs of producing and shipping the products. But this week the company's CEO posted on Kickstarter that "without immediate new investment, we will have to cease development by the end of the month. In 2019 Slashdot covered Mycroft, an open-source voice assistant for Linux-based devices (including Raspberry Pi boards).
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