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Comment Re:We've operated drones on mars (Score 5, Informative) 78

" We've operated drones on mars, typically calling them rovers."

We have ALSO operated a flying drone on Mars.

It was called Ingenuity.
It hitched a ride on the Perseverance rover and was originally meant as a 30-day tech demo with 5 flights. It massively exceeded expectations.
Final stats:

72 flights total, from April 19, 2021 to January 18, 2024
Total distance flown: 11 miles (about 17.7 km)
Total time in the air: 128.8 minutes
Maximum altitude: 79 feet (24 meters) on Flight 61
Maximum speed: 22.4 mph (10 m/s), reached during Flights 62, 68, and 69

It ended when one of its carbon fiber rotor blades was damaged during landing on its final flight, likely from striking the ground.

Comment Re:Especially right before a midterm election (Score 1) 59

William Randolph Hearst (newspapers, magazines, radio stations),
Joseph Pulitzer (newspapers),
Cyrus McCormick (newspapers),
Robert McCormick (Chicago Tribune),
the Sulzberger family (New York Times),
the Graham family (Washington Post),
he Chandler family (Los Angeles Times),
the Taylor family (Boston Globe),
the Bancroft family (Wall Street Journal),
the Newhouse family (Condé Nast, newspapers),
James Cox / Cox family (newspapers, TV stations, radio stations),
the Gannett family (newspapers, TV stations),
Stanley Hubbard (TV stations, radio stations),
the Sinclair family (TV stations),
Walter Annenberg (TV Guide, newspapers, radio),
Ted Turner (CNN, TV stations),
Rupert Murdoch (Fox News, Wall Street Journal, New York Post, The Times of London, newspapers worldwide),
Silvio Berlusconi (Mediaset TV channels in Italy),
the Barbey family (Village Voice, newspapers),
Sheldon Adelson (Las Vegas Review-Journal),
Warren Buffett (30+ newspapers including Omaha World-Herald),
Mortimer Zuckerman (New York Daily News, US News & World Report),
Michael Bloomberg (Bloomberg LP),
Jeff Bezos (Washington Post),
Patrick Soon-Shiong (Los Angeles Times),
John Henry (Boston Globe),
Marc Benioff (Time magazine),
Chatchaval Jiaravanon (Fortune magazine),
David Ellison (Paramount/CBS),
Elon Musk (X/Twitter),
Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp),
Larry Ellison (Paramount, if Ellison deal closes)

And in the broader sense: the Axel Springer family in Germany (Bild, Die Welt),
the Bertelsmann/Mohn family (RTL, magazines),
Robert Hersant in France (Le Figaro, newspapers),
the Agnelli family in Italy (La Stampa), and Springer's current owner Mathias Döpfner backed by KKR.

The pattern is clear: media ownership has always been a rich man's game. The only thing that's changed is the price tag.

Comment Millions? (Score 1) 52

Chrome alone: somewhere between 3.45 and 3.83 BILLION users worldwide.

The exact number is fuzzy because Google doesn't publish an always-current total user count, but has stated that over 2 billion people use Chrome every day.

Chrome's market share is around 65-68% of all browser traffic globally.
South America is Chrome's strongest market at 78.9%, while North America is one of its weakest at about 52% because of high iPhone/Safari usage in the US.

The Chromium engine overall is the really staggering number. About 83% of all browser usage runs on Chromium. That includes Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, Samsung Internet, and dozens of others.

So roughly 5 BILLION people are using a Chromium-based browser, whether they know it or not, not 'millions'.

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