Auroras expected tonight and through the weekend as US braces for ‘cannibal’ solar eruption The last gasp of a powerful coronal mass ejection that hit Earth on Tuesday will bring lovely auroras to parts of the northern US and most of Canada tonight, with more displays on the way this weekend. Tonight may be the … Read more
Google DeepMind announced the release of its Gemma 2, a 2 billion parameter version of the AI model family. Gemma is a lightweight text-to-text open model designed for developers and researchers. The new model learns from larger models through distillation and produces better results than GPT-3.5 models on the LMSYS Chatbot Arena leaderboard. Gemma 2 … Read more
Meta’s second quarter earnings report continues to show that generative AI may take a long time to generate significant profits. However, Meta already makes a lot of money – $39 billion in revenue and $13.5 billion in profit last quarter, up 22% and 73%, respectively. Meta’s ability to invest heavily in AI comes from its … Read more
Newly discovered nanoscale “cubes” found to be efficient catalysts Researchers at Tokyo Metropolitan University created sheets of transition metal chalcogenide “cubes” connected by chlorine atoms. Unlike previous studies on atom sheets like graphene, this team used clusters instead, which breaks new ground. The research was published in the journal Advanced Materials. The team successfully formed … Read more
Eye health is an easy area to overlook for many people until a problem arises. Visual decline, infection, injury, and other ocular issues are fairly common, especially as we age. However, there are ways to help prevent infection and damage to keep our eyes healthy. To maintain good eye health: * Don’t sleep in your … Read more
Most of us spend a lot of time inside a web browser. If you’re a Chrome, Firefox, or Edge user, then you’ll know these browsers come with a huge number of third-party extensions to augment the features already built into the software. But what if you need some kind of specific extra functionality, some tool … Read more
Time series data is used globally across various domains, including finance, healthcare, and sensor networks. Identifying patterns and anomalies within this data is crucial for several tasks like anomaly detection, pattern discovery, and time series classification. However, traditional methods suffer from high computational complexity, making them impractical for extensive datasets. Stumpy was developed to efficiently … Read more
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused as the main plotter of the 9/11 attacks, agrees to plead guilty. He, along with two accomplices, will serve up to life in prison instead of facing a death-penalty trial. The plea bargain brings partial closure to a case that has dragged on for twenty years and become mired in legal … Read more
Nuclear physicists question origin of radioactive beryllium in the solar system Scientists have discovered that a rare element, beryllium-10, found in some of the oldest solids in the solar system, such as meteorites, actually predated the formation of the solar system. This challenges long-held theories about its origin. Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory studied … Read more
We’ve reached the limit of a very successful way to make new elements in the lab. – In new research, scientists unveil a new take on that technology and report its success. – The heaviest elements could have new uses and properties we haven’ dreamt of. – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has announced a new … Read more