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Feb 12, 2023

Relativity Space stacks 3D-printed rocket on launch pad ahead of 1st flight

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The 3D-printed rocket from Relativity Space may make its debut flight this month if all goes to plan, marking the first liquid natural gas booster to reach orbit.

Feb 12, 2023

Lifespan Record Broken In E5 Study

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food, life extension, media & arts

This has been the news lately. This is a good breakdown of info and apparently Katcher wishes to do dog trials.


In this video we provide a quick update on activities at Yuvan Research. It is very exciting to see that Sima, the last remaining rat in the E5 trial is still alive and has surpassed the age of the previous record for lifespan of a Sprague Dawley rat.

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Feb 12, 2023

A hungry black hole is converting a star into a cosmic doughnut and a stellar taffy at the same time

Posted by in category: cosmology

Ali BeatrizAli Beatriz Ali BeatrizAli BeatrizPosted January 14, 2023 under Astronomy.

Astronomers have discovered a monstrous black hole with an appetite and a sweet tooth. The black hole is ripping apart an unfortunate star, stretching it like taffy and shaping the “leftovers” into a stellar donut the size of the solar system before feasting on this cosmic confectionary.

The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN or “Assassin”) first spotted the violent incident, referred to as a tidal disruption event (TDE), via a flash of high-energy radiation. The feast is taking place at the heart of a galaxy 300 million light-years away.

Feb 12, 2023

I’m Microsoft’s former VP of HR. Here are the 3 types of employees most at risk during layoffs — and the 2 that are safest

Posted by in category: futurism

Chris Williams ranks employees who are most likely to get laid off in a recession and advises keeping your résumé updated regardless of your risk.

Feb 12, 2023

Google’s exclusive $15 billion deal with Apple is the missing piece that Microsoft’s Bing needs to win search

Posted by in category: futurism

Google pays Apple to remain the default search engine on its mobile products. Without distribution deals like this, Bing will struggle to win search.

Feb 12, 2023

See what it’s like to use Bing’s new AI search feature

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Microsoft announced an updated version of its Bing search engine using a more advanced version of the tech behind ChatGPT.

Feb 12, 2023

8 Candidate Alien Signals From 5 Stars Found by AI Algorithm with Dr. Cherry Ng and Peter Ma

Posted by in categories: alien life, information science, robotics/AI

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Did We Find Them? 8 Candidate Alien Signals Found with a new AI Algorithm by SETI.

A deep-learning search for technosignatures of 820 nearby stars.
https://seti.berkeley.edu/ml_gbt/MLSETI_NatAstron_arxiv3.pdf.

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Feb 12, 2023

Andromeda galaxy crash triggered a mass galactic migration 2 billion years ago

Posted by in category: space

The influx of stars into the galaxy next door to the Milky Way was revealed by intricate patterns in their motion today and reflects a violent event in our galaxy’s past.

Feb 12, 2023

Why everything eventually becomes a crab

Posted by in category: humor

Crabe-shape beings.


The joke—that everything will eventually look like a crab—comes from an actual truth. The crab shape has evolved so many times that scientists had to come up with a special term for it: carcinization.

While it’s probably not in the stars for humans to evolve into crabs, it is something that has happened multiple times in the crustacean family, where a creature may have started out looking like a lobster or a hermit crab and then eventually turning into the low, round, pinchy critters we all know and love. But before we dive into why this is, let’s first define the term “crab.”

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Feb 12, 2023

Automated Pre-Play Analysis of American Football Formations Using Deep Learning

Posted by in categories: entertainment, robotics/AI

Annotation and analysis of sports videos is a time-consuming task that, once automated, will provide benefits to coaches, players, and spectators. American football, as the most watched sport in the United States, could especially benefit from this automation. Manual annotation and analysis of recorded videos of American football games is an inefficient and tedious process. Currently, most college football programs focus on annotating offensive formations to help them develop game plans for their upcoming games. As a first step to further research for this unique application, we use computer vision and deep learning to analyze an overhead image of a football play immediately before the play begins. This analysis consists of locating individual football players and labeling their position or roles, as well as identifying the formation of the offensive team.