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Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop  ·  activity timestamp last week

@JdeBP Translation: they're looking for Series-A funding (or something like that). Not necessarily with any expectation of delivering a product: but it's nice work, if you can get it.

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@JdeBP@mastodon.scot replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@cstross

The same thought crossed my mind. (-:

Although the disclosure statement on the original article at https://doi.org/10.64628/AB.rkrnyke4r says otherwise.

It's such a cyberpunk name, though. A quick search turned up that there was indeed a Japan-industrial #QuasarGroup from at least 1974 to 1983. Originally part of #Motorola it was sold to #Matsushita and in 1982 was selling a #MOS6502 hand-held computer that ran MS BASIC and a variant of #FORTH called snapFORTH.

#retrocomputing #HHC #QuasarHHC

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Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop  ·  activity timestamp last week

I know the researches are enthusing about materials science applications of this new tiny X-ray emitter—a nanoscale synchrotron radiation source—but I look at the world in 2025 and I just think, "drones with X-ray lasers coming to an urban battlefield near YOU!"

https://phys.org/news/2025-11-tabletop-particle-medicine-materials-science.html

JdeBP
@JdeBP@mastodon.scot replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@cstross

There's a lot of subjunctive, "concept stage", and "in simulations" there.

Doesn't "QUASAR Group" make for a good, innocuous sounding, military-industrial complex corporation name, though? (-:

#QUASARGroup #physics #XRays #synchrotrons

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