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Jul 2, 2023

European telescope launched to hunt for clues to universe’s darkest secrets

Posted by in category: space travel

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A European space telescope blasted off Saturday on a quest to explore the mysterious and invisible realm known as the dark universe.

SpaceX launched the European Space Agency’s Euclid observatory toward its ultimate destination 1 million miles (1.5 million kilometers) away, the Webb Space Telescope’s neighborhood. It will take a month to get there and another two months before it starts its ambitious six-year survey this fall.

Flight controllers in Germany declared success nearly an hour into the flight, applauding and shouting “Yes!” as the telescope phoned home after a smooth liftoff.

Jul 2, 2023

Elon Musk blames data scraping by AI startups for his new paywalls on reading tweets

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI

Now unverified accounts will only be able to see 600 posts per day, and for “new” unverified accounts, just 300 in a day. The limits for verified accounts (presumably whether they’re bought as a part of the Twitter Blue subscription, granted through an organization, or verification Elon forced on people like Stephen King, LeBron James, and anyone else with more than a million followers) still allow reading only a maximum of 6,000 posts per day.

Shortly after that, Musk tweeted that the rate limits would “soon” increase to 8,000 tweets for verified users, 800 for unverified, and 400 for new unverified accounts.

Jul 2, 2023

Abraham Gutman Speaks at National Cancer Institute Medical Imaging Workshop

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

AG mednet’s abraham gutman on harnessing AI in medical imaging.

Abraham gutman speaks at national cancer institute medical imaging workshop.

Jul 2, 2023

Astronomers identify 19 new Wolf-Rayet stars in Andromeda Galaxy

Posted by in categories: cosmology, evolution

Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars are not only hot, bright, and massive. They are also in an advanced stage of evolution, losing mass at an incredible rate.

While surveying the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, astronomers discovered a new batch of Wolf-Rayet stars.

Some huge stars in galaxies may develop into Wolf-Rayet stars before going supernova. That’s why, Wolf-Rayet stars are intriguing candidates for studying the universe’s evolution.

Jul 2, 2023

Euclid successfully launched into space by Falcon 9 rocket

Posted by in categories: cosmology, space travel

In three months, the tool will begin a six year exploration of dark energy and dark matter.

Dark energy and dark matter discovery tool Euclid successfully launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA, at 11:11 local time / 16:11 BST / 17:11 CEST on Saturday 1 July 2023. The first stage proceeded to return to Earth to be recaptured and reused at later flights.

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Jul 2, 2023

This AI robot fish explores mysterious organisms under the sea

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Euronews.

This is according to a report by Euronews and Reuters published on Friday.

Jul 2, 2023

ChatGPT parent company OpenAI to open first office outside the US in London

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

CEO Sam Altman says London location is an “opportunity to attract world-class talent”.

As artificial intelligence (AI) takes center stage globally, with new regulations on the horizon, a leading firm in the space is looking to expand internationally.

San Francisco-based ChatGPT’s parent company OpenAI announced this week that it would begin to expand outside the US, with London selected as the location for its first international office.

Jul 2, 2023

Meet ‘Fanzor,’ the 1st CRISPR-like system found in complex life

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Scientists discovered Fanzor proteins, which work like CRISPR but are smaller and more easily delivered into cells, and used them to edit human DNA.

Jul 2, 2023

A Nikola Tesla Statue That Provides Free Wi-Fi

Posted by in category: internet

Statues of famous and noteworthy people are a usual sight in a city or town, but one particular statue of Nikola Tesla in Palo Alto, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley, doesn’t just stand there and do nothing. It emits free Wi-Fi.

Jul 2, 2023

This is what it’s like to control an autonomous car from miles away

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

The exit ramp is a long, curving slope, and you have to make sure the 50-foot big rig you’re driving carefully navigates the bend and doesn’t fly out of control at a high speed.

But the thing is, you’re not actually there. You’re in a room in Silicon Valley, watching the ramp unfold in front of you on several screens. That heavy load you’re carrying is thousands of miles away in Florida.

Welcome to teleoperated driving, or remote-controlled driving with a human in front of a steering wheel, brake, and gas pedals, and a “windshield” plastered with monitors. It’s a method that allows autonomous vehicles to operate without anyone inside. Instead, there’s a watchful remote driver, or operator,… More.

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