Say hello to ronnagrams and quettameters: International scientists gathered in France voted on Friday for new metric prefixes to express the world’s largest and smallest measurements, prompted by an ever-growing amount of data.

It marks the first time in more than three decades that new prefixes have been added to the International System of Units (SI), the agreed global standard for the metric system.

Joining the ranks of well-known prefixes like kilo and milli are ronna and quetta for the largest numbers – and ronto and quecto for the smallest.

It is meant to protect Israel’s natural gas platforms and shipping lanes.

Following a recent test, Israel’s Defense Ministry and Navy announced last week that the C-Dome, the naval version of its much-touted Iron Dome air defense system, is operational, The Times of Israel.

The Iron Dome system made it to the news during the conflict in the Gaza Strip last year, when it swung into action and blocked more than 90 percent of rockets fired at Israel. Following the successful deployment of the air defense system, the U.S. decided to procure the system from Israel. At the same time, it also inspired South Korea to build something of its own to thwart attacks from its northern neighbor.

We will see on December 18 whether the prediction program is working or not.

The 2022 FIFA World Cup, also known as Qatar 2022, started yesterday, and its excitement has echoed worldwide. It is a matter of curiosity which nation will be the champion in this big event.

Well, good news for both science and soccer lovers because Brazil has a 25 percent probability of winning the men’s football World Cup, according to Alan Turning Institute’s prediction model that anybody can use, but the results are bleak for many other countries.

Defiant Sam Bankman-Fried declares he has ‘2 weeks to raise $8b’ after FTX bankruptcy.

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In Twitter DMs, Bankman-Fried told Vox what went wrong, why he did what he did, and what lies he told along the way.

Twitter could ‘face outage’ during FIFA World Cup 2022, claims insider’First World Cup match on Sunday! Watch on Twitter for best coverage & real-time commentary,’ Musk tweeted earlier.

Twitter has a 50–50 chance of experiencing a major crash during the FIFA World Cup 2022, a recently departed employee, told The Guardian on Saturday.

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“Between the lack of preparations and the lack of staffing, I think it’s going to be a rough World Cup for Twitter,” said the former employee.

He suggested that an incident of some kind – such as a service responding slowly or incorrectly – is almost a certainty during the 29-day competition in Qatar, estimating a 90% possibility of something going wrong that users would see.

Stan Winston Studio created the Bearded Collie puppet for Disney’s “The Shaggy Dog” in 2006.

Note how cute Collie is when our Stan Winston School teacher, Michael Ornelaz pets him.

Experiments disprove the general assumption that more than one wave mode is needed to produce a spectral pattern called a frequency comb.