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BETA Technologies cuts ribbon on new Vermont facility; electric aircraft production is underway

October 2, 2023
All-electric aircraft developer BETA Technologies is putting the finishing touches on a new assembly facility in its native Vermont we learned about earlier this year. With two impressive electric aircraft in its arsenal working to get certified for commercial flights, BETA is already assembling eVTOLs at its new home. Here’s the latest. BETA Technologies is a fully integrated electric aircraft…
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Nikon Nikkor Z 135mm f/1.8 S 'Plena' pre-production sample gallery

October 2, 2023
Nikon’s Nikkor Z 135mm f/1.8 S ‘Plena’ is designed to minimize vignetting, maintain rounder bokeh edge-to-edge and produce sharp images with exceptional clarity. Nikon seems to have put a lot of thought into making a lens that maintains a high quality of light and smooth fall-off to create depth of field with gradual gradations. The resulting lens feels tailor-made for portrait…
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GamingNews

Spectating Gran Turismo esports at Porsche Rennsport Reunion 7 exhibition

October 2, 2023
GamesBeat Next unites gaming industry leaders for exceptional content, networking, and deal-making opportunities. Join us on Oct 23-24 in San Francisco.  Register Now Fresh from seeing an inspiring Gran Turismo movie, Randall Hayward got a rare chance to see a real Porsche racecar exhibition — and he won $15,000 in a Gran Turismo 7 esports tournament at the same time. Hayward was…
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CryptoNews

Vitalik Buterin Discusses Ethereum Protocol 'Enshrining': 'Blockchains Are Social Systems' – Blockchain Bitcoin News

October 2, 2023
Vitalik Buterin, the co-creator of Ethereum, has discussed the next steps that the protocol is about to take and how the upcoming decisions should be the result of balancing complexity and functionality. Buterin noted that Ethereum started with a philosophy of striving for simplicity but that blockchains were “social systems” and that there are rationales for adding functionalities directly to…
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