DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Maryanne Kane, Journalist

 DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF 

By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane

PLANE TO FLY LONDON TO SAN FRANCISCO IN 1 HOUR

                                        Source:  Venus Aircraft

• Venus Aerospace just successfully tested a demonstrator drone/plane designed to fly passengers at incredible speeds.  Here's what we know:
• Texas-based Venus Aerospace is developing a passenger aircraft called Stargazer to fly at Mach 9
• That is 6,900 mph or 9-times the speed of sound
• At that speed, you could travel from London to San Francisco in 1 hour
• The rocket engine in the aircraft is revolutionary and hypersonic
• It's called a "rotating detonation rocket engine"
• The 1st flight test of the Venus drone demonstrator was successful
• The "supersonic" drone flew 10 miles, hit an altitude of 12,000 feet and a top speed of Mach 0.9 or 680 mph 
• It flew on a hydrogen peroxide monopropellant engine for the inaugural test
• The startup company says the test has given them highly valuable data for continued development of Stargazer.

BACKSTABBED BY GEN Z SLANG

                                                Source:  Stock

• Gen Z'ers (those born between the late 1990's and 2012) seem to have their own language
• A Harvard linguistics expert has revealed how video game terms have become part of their language, much as sports metaphors became prevalent in the past
• Here are some Gen Z terms:

1. NPC - non-player character; someone lacking spontaneity or genuine feelings; boring; lacks independent thinking
2. Sideguest - a task that is a side issue to the main goal
3. NERF - to make it worse

• That's just the beginning
• If you're not a Gen Z member, you might want to get up to speed on the greatest compliment you ever got... or not, so you don't get backstabbed by video slang!

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