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For 25th year, Mojave Max contest open to all Southern Nevada residents
Groundhog Day marks the start of Mojave Max watch. The desert tortoise mascot is Clark County's official prognosticator, but ...
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Boom’s XB-1 achieves supersonic flight over Mojave desert
US aerospace firm Boom Supersonic's experimental XB-1 aircraft has achieved a speed in excess of Mach 1 for the first time.
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Boom Supersonic XB-1 breaks sound barrier over Mojave Desert
About 35,000 feet (10,670 meters) over the Mojave Desert, northwest of Los Angeles, Boom Supersonic's XB-1 became the first privately funded airplane to break the sound barrier during a test ...
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11 years after a celebrated opening, massive solar plant faces a bleak future in the Mojave Desert
Meanwhile, environmentalists continue to blame the Mojave Desert plant for killing thousands of birds and tortoises. The Ivanpah solar power plant formally opened in 2014 on roughly 5 square miles ...
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London to New York in 3.5 hours: How Boom Supersonic is learning from Concorde’s mistakes
In comparison, the Boeing 747 would achieve a per-passenger mpg rate of 46.4 (6.1 L/100 km), and the popular Douglas DC-10 managed as high as 53.6 mpg (5.3 L/100 km). Coupled with the worries ...
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First independently developed jet breaks sound barrier over Mojave desert
A sleek white aircraft became the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier Tuesday, tearing through the air tens of thousands of feet above the Mojave Desert and a crowd of ...
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Moment civilian jet breaks sound barrier in test flight
The XB-1 aircraft, a jet independently developed by Boom Supersonic, has broken the sound barrier during a test flight over the Mojave Desert in California. The sound barrier was broken for the ...
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Alibaba’s Qwen2.5-Max challenges U.S. tech giants, reshapes enterprise AI
Learn More Alibaba Cloud unveiled its Qwen2.5-Max model today, marking the second major artificial intelligence breakthrough from China in less than a week, further rattling U.S. technology ...
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Qwen 2.5 Max: AI battle heats up as Alibaba claims its new model outperforms Meta and DeepSeek in benchmarks
Qwen 2.5 Max, positioning it as a top contender in the global AI race.(qwenlm.github.io) Qwen 2.5: Alibaba Group on Wednesday unveiled new benchmark scores for its latest artificial intelligence ...
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‘Gitmo’ in the Mojave: How the Marines are saving endangered desert tortoises
TWENTYNINE PALMS Marine Corps base, Calif. — The two tiny tortoises emerged from their burrows as soon as they detected Brian Henen’s footsteps, eager for the handfuls of bok choy and snap ...
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The Moab to Mojave Conservation Corridor: A Cornerstone of Protection
Spanning roughly 18 million acres and stretching 600 miles from Utah to California, the Moab to Mojave Conservation Corridor is the largest connected and protected landscape in the contiguous U.S.
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Alibaba announces Qwen 2.5-Max to fight DeepSeek — what to know
Days after DeepSeek took the internet by storm, Chinese tech company Alibaba announced Qwen 2.5-Max, the latest of its LLM series. The unveiling of this open-source agent can easily be perceived ...