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Feb 9
2023

Google to launch ChatGPT Competitor, Bard, Conversational AI, LaMDA based

Game on!

Google PR:

Introducing Bard.
It’s a really exciting time to be working on these technologies as we translate deep research and breakthroughs into products that truly help people. That’s the journey we’ve been on with large language models. Two years ago we unveiled next-generation language and conversation capabilities powered by our Language Model for Dialogue Applications (or LaMDA for short).

We’ve been working on an experimental conversational AI service, powered by LaMDA, that we’re calling Bard. And today, we’re taking another step forward by opening it up to trusted testers ahead of making it more widely available to the public in the coming weeks.

Bard seeks to combine the breadth of the world’s knowledge with the power, intelligence and creativity of our large language models. It draws on information from the web to provide fresh, high-quality responses. Bard can be an outlet for creativity, and a launchpad for curiosity, helping you to explain new discoveries from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to a 9-year-old, or learn more about the best strikers in football right now, and then get drills to build your skills.

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Feb 9
2023

Coming up in 2023: the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will return its sample of asteroid Bennu to Earth!

On September 24, 2023, the sample return capsule will detach from the spacecraft, perform an entry, descent and landing sequence, and touch down in the Utah desert.

Thanks to our contribution to the mission, Canada will receive a portion of the asteroid material!

Feb 9
2023

Lonnie Reid joined NASA in 1961 as an aeronautics research engineer and became nationally recognized in turbomachinery for his knowledge of flow in advanced aerospace propulsion systems

More on Dr. Reid’s 32-year career at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Ohio: https://go.nasa.gov/3YbQ8VA

#BlackHistoryMonth

Feb 9
2023

The Tadpole galaxy by Hubble, Its eye-catching tail is about 280,000 light-years long

Also known as UGC 10,214 and Arp 188, it is a disrupted barred spiral galaxy located 420 million light-years from Earth in the northern constellation Draco. Credit Image: NASA/ESA/HST/STScI.

Feb 8
2023

A mesothelium divides the subarachnoid space into functional compartments

A fourth meningeal layer acts as a barrier that divides the subarachnoid space into two distinct compartments.

Feb 8
2023

HAL 9000: “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that”

If there’s one thing I can’t stand it’s an uppity machine.

An excerpt from the 1968 film “2001: A Space Odyssey” directed by Stanley Kubrick.

Synopsis: Mankind finds a mysterious, obviously artificial, artifact buried on the moon and, with the intelligent computer HAL, sets off on a quest, where the way the HAL 9,000 super computer malfunctions.

Feb 8
2023

Astronomers discovered breakthrough ring system in our Solar System

The discovery is putting into question everything astronomers believed about ring systems.

Astronomers from the University of Sheffield discovered a new ring system around a dwarf planet on the edge of the Solar System, according to a press release. The discovery calls into question current theories about how ring systems are formed since the ring system orbits much further out than is typical for other ring systems.

Around a dwarf planet.

The ring system is located around a dwarf planet named Quaoar, which is approximately half the size of Pluto and orbits the Sun beyond Neptune.

Paris Observatory.

The astronomers spotted the ring system by using HiPERCAM — an extremely sensitive high-speed camera developed by scientists at the University of Sheffield, which is mounted on the world’s largest optical telescope, the 10.4-meter diameter Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) on La Palma.

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Feb 8
2023

Astonished Scientists Just Discovered Another New ‘Ring World’ In Our Solar System

After the news in January of the James Webb Space Telescope spying rings around Chariklo—a tiny world over two billion miles away from Earth—new research reveals another remote ringed world in the solar system.

Quaoar (pronounced “kwar-waar”) is a dwarf planet about 700 miles/1,110 kilometers in diameter—about half the size of Pluto—that orbits the Sun beyond Neptune in the remote and cold Kuiper belt region. It has a tiny moon called Weywot.

Scientists have found rings around Quaoar, a small body in the solar system about half the size of Pluto.

Feb 8
2023

Astronomers Intrigued by Certain Stars That Are “Glitching”

A form of red giant known as red clumps have been founding to be “glitching” in their cores at an alarmingly high proportion.

Feb 8
2023

Webb telescope turns up baffling views of the early universe

New results from the James Webb Space Telescope challenge prevailing models of the early universe.