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CLIMATEWIRE | The Arctic could see ice-free summers as early as the 2030s, scientists say.That's as much as a decade earlier than previous studies have suggested.The findings, published Tuesday in the scientific journal Nature Communications, warn that even aggressive global climate action may not be enough to stop it.

CLIMATEWIRE | The 1987 Montreal Protocol is known best for saving the ozone layer.Now scientists say it also delayed the disappearance of Arctic sea ice.The international agreement to phase out ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons is widely regarded as one of the most successful environmental treaties of all time.

It started as an unremarkable flicker in the night sky.But closer observations revealed that astronomers had captured the largest cosmic explosion ever witnessed, an event thought to have been triggered by a giant cloud of gas being gobbled up by a supermassive black hole.The flare-up, traced to 8bn light years away, is more than 10 times brighter than any known supernova and has so far lasted more than three years, making it the most energetic explosion on record.

Spin Kick
Last year, NASA rammed its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft into a tiny moonlet called Dimorphos, demonstrating a promising way to redirect a potential incoming killer asteroid to save life on Earth.Now, given the huge amount of scrutiny following the collision, scientists have made another surprising discovery: Dimorphos' much larger companion Didymos is spinning so fast, they say, that it's capable of shooting pieces of rubble into space, a puzzling conclusion that highlights the fact that asteroids aren't necessarily the inert lumps of rock they're often thought of, Scientific American reports.

Paradox: Solved
Here's a Fermi Paradox solution for you: killer moons are taking out extraterrestrials.We promise it's not as ridiculous as it sounds.According to a new study published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Sciences, as spotted by LiveScience, exomoons, or moons that revolve around an exoplanet outside our solar system, could be crashing into their hosts and wiping out any chances for life on a shockingly regular basis.

Celtics Even after falling in an 0-2 hole, the Celtics have a 65 percent chance to beat the Heat, according to ESPN's Basketball Power Index.The Celtics are down 0-2 against the Heat, but at least one prognosticator still views them as the favorite to win the Eastern Conference finals.Following their crushing Game 2 loss on Friday to the Heat, the Celtics hold a 65 percent chance to win the series via ESPN's Basketball Power Index.

NFL teams try their best to gather intelligence about where the other 31 teams are likely to draft certain players, but the Bears were way off in their assessment of where running back Roschon Johnson would go.Bears General Manager Ryan Poles told Cynthia Ferlund of NFL Media that his team ran 53 different simulations of the draft before the actual draft took place, and in every single one of those simulations, Johnson was drafted within the first 114 picks.

The Boston Red Sox have been a team of high variance this season.They've looked really good at times.And they've looked bad on occasion.Still, it's hard to argue with the overall results, as the Red Sox entered the week having won eight of their last nine games to improve their record to 21-15.That in itself is good news for Boston, a club surrounded by tempered outside expectations ahead of the 2023 campaign.

There has been a lot of discussion about how AIs can make art and possibly replace artists, but I think the opposite is more likely to happen.Artists have been using AI to make art for a while now and the pace has picked up a lot in recent years.I have always loved the work of Ian Cheng who makes computer-generated simulations that evolve using artificial intelligence.

Astronomers have been looking for the source of the matter that makes up early galaxies for decades.Now, for the first time, astronomers have observed the cold, steady streams of gas that make up the raw material for stars.Despite the name, the filamentary stream surrounding and heading into the galaxy 4C 41.17- more than 10 billion light years away - is immense: a thin stream of cold carbon gas 100 kiloparsecs, or half a million light years, wide, and as massive as 140 billion suns.

Habitability is more complicated than you think.Stellar flares are usually considered a major hazard for life, especially around red dwarf stars, where the planets likeliest to host life are also close to the star and right in the line of fire for destructive flares.But a recent study suggests that stellar flares may also heat the interior of rocky planets, powering geological activity that, in turn, provides an energy source for life.

Bot v. Bot
A team of researchers from Google's DeepMind AI lab have programmed a pair of little humanoid robots to play a classic match of one-versus-one soccer - and the results are absolutely adorable.A video of these robotic little tykes shows them wobbling around with impressive, almost human-like agility, though the movements are more akin to an athletic toddler than a professional soccer player.

Expensive military hardware like a new tank undergoes rigorous testing before heading to the battlefield.A startup called Istari, backed by Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google and chair of Alphabet, reckons some of that work can be done more effectively in the metaverse.Ishtari uses machine learning to virtually assemble and test war machines from computer models of individual components, such as the chassis and engines, that are usually marooned on separate digital drawing boards.

AI-generated images have gone viral before, but none have spread so far and wide as a picture of the pope wearing what can only be described as a swagged-out puffy jacket.Call him the Supreme pontiff.The Balenciaga bishop.The vicar of drip.The picture seems to have been first posted online on Friday, submitted to a subreddit for the AI image generator Midjourney.

On Titan's icy surface, liquid water could have filled the bottom of Selk Crater for tens of thousands of years after the ancient impact that formed it.When NASA's Dragonfly spacecraft arrives on Saturn's moon Titan in 2034, it will explore the area around Selk Crater, an impact crater just north of Titan's equator.

The 2022 FIFA World Cup is taking the world by storm as hundreds of millions of fans are all tuning in to cheer on their favorite teams.But, what many may not know, is that the World Cup itself is being powered by AI & algorithms in a bid to provide excellent experiences.As officials and fans alike know, bad calls, cameras missing key plays, and even temperature can all lead to disastrous results.

Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Imag Before he was in charge of a cryptocurrency exchange that is accused of making up to $2 billion in customer deposits disappear, Sam Bankman-Fried, the 30-year-old former billionaire and CEO of FTX, was once a sports blogger for about five months.The fact that this " zhlubby guy" was once a member of this noble online class is technically not breaking news, but rather a discovered tidbit within a lawsuit filed against Bankman-Fried in 2019.

For US troops, the training is nothing new: Applying tourniquets, clearing someone's airway, recognizing signs of traumatic brain injuries.But to the Ukrainian troops receiving it, the training is literally a matter of life or death on the battlefield in the war against Russia.US troops have been providing critical medical instruction and combat casualty care to Ukrainians at Grafenwoehr Training Area in Germany for almost a year, in between other significant training on weapon systems.

Imagine there's a small fire in your kitchen.Your fire alarm goes off, warning everyone nearby about the danger.Someone calls 911.You try to put the fire out yourself maybe you even have a fire extinguisher under the sink.If that doesn't work, you know how to safely evacuate.By the time you get outside, the fire truck is already pulling up.

Astronomers have uncovered the first evidence of an active volcano on Venus, using computer images captured more than 30 years ago by a NASA spacecraft.Launched in May 1989, the Magellan probe became the first of its kind to image almost the entire surface of Venus (like, 98 percent) using radar.The spacecraft no longer exists - it was crashed into the planet in 1994.

Astronomers have another near-Earth object on their ones-to-watch lists: a newly discovered 50-metre-wide asteroid that could hit Earth on Valentine's Day ... in 2046.2023 DW was first observed on February 26 making its way toward our home world on its orbit around the Sun.Scientists have been studying the space rock over some weeks to get a better idea of its physical and orbital properties.

Wormholes are a classic trope of science fiction in popular media, if only because they provide such a handy futuristic plot device to avoid the issue of violating relativity with faster-than-light travel.In reality, they are purely theoretical.Unlike black holes-also once thought to be purely theoretical-no evidence for an actual wormhole has ever been found, although they are fascinating from an abstract theoretical physics perceptive.

Stacks and Queues are two fundamental data structures that are commonly used in computer science.Both are linear data structures that store data in a specific order, but the way they operate is quite different.It is a Last-In-First-Out (LIFO) data structure, which means that the last element added to the stack is the first element to be removed.

Emotet is back.After another months-long lull since a spate of attacks in November 2022, the notorious malware operation that has already survived a law enforcement takedown and various periods of inactivity began sending out malicious emails on Tuesday morning.Researchers with cybersecurity firms Codefense and Cryptolaemus, which track Emotet activity, both reported a sudden startup in the spamming from the botnet.

I was at the lowest point in my life.I needed a mind-altering jolt.In the end, everything-even the meaning of "everything"-changed.There is something strange in the disinterest philosophers show for experimentation with mind-altering drugs-or at least for talking about their experimentation publicly.

The mind-boggling discovery opens an unprecedented new window into the large-scale structures that stretch across hundreds of millions of light years and influence the evolution of galaxies and other mysterious phenomena, such as cosmic magnetism.In the first moments after the Big Bang some 13.8 billion years ago, the universe was a hot primordial soup of subatomic particles without much clear structure to it.

01/09/2023January 9, 2023 BaFin has yet to ascertain how the malware infects devices, the authority does know that the trojan displays fake websites of regular apps that can then acquire login details and transmit them to cyber criminals.German financial authorities on Monday warned consumers that the malware known as "Godfather" has been attacking some 400 banking and cryptocurrency apps worldwide, "including those of providers within Germany."

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will vote soon on a that would allow the San Francisco Police Department to use deadly force by arming its many robots .This is a spectacularly dangerous idea and EFF's stance is clear: police should not arm robots
Police technology goes through mission creep-meaning equipment reserved only for specific or extreme circumstances ends up being used in increasingly everyday or casual ways.

We kind of gotten used to the Dodgers being at the top of all projection systems.The general process is, L.A. gets some unprecedented projection - "We've never seen a team projected to win this many games!" - and then they exceed even those historically optimistic projections.Well, Los Angeles will have an easier time exceeding projections in 2023, because at least one system has them winning just 89.7 games.

Imagine you're crammed into your middle seat - behind a crying baby, of course - and a wave of turbulence rocks the plane.Then another.Then that singular, ominous "ding" as the flight crew kindly urges - demands, really - that passengers return to their seat and buckle up.They're sorry for the inconvenience, but it's for your own safety.

The 2023 edition of Cinema 4D, simply titled Cinema 4D 2023, sees soft body simulation improvements, the addition of a new global symmetry system, the adoption of OpenColorIO for colour management, streamlined integration with ZBrush, and plenty more.Before diving into these new features, existing users will recognise a change to the version naming convention.

A collection of the latest and hottest design and development resources (Javascript libraries, CSS snippets, DeveloGraphic Design Resources, etc.) on the web from the last week (Week 50, 2022).Web Design & Development News: Collective #480
unovis
A modular data visualization framework for React, Angular, Svelte, and vanilla TypeScript or JavaScript:
The Fastest slider library for high performance websites.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino confirmed the governing body is proceeding with plans for a 32-team Club World Cup, while the format of the next World Cup is to be revisited.Infantino was addressing the media in Doha on Friday for the first time since his extraordinary press conference at the start of Qatar 2022.

I am helping a very pregnant Cleopatra give birth.It's an exhausting and complicated process.First, she needs to be fanned.Then, I'm required to rub an ointment on her bulging belly (clockwise, counterclockwise, and, finally, up and down).After leading her to a palace bathhouse where I light candles, play music, put aromatic herbs in the water, and rub her belly some more, I catch her newborn infant.

Because Daniel Tiger is a kind of sideways sequel to one aspect of Mister Rogers'Universe, it's easy to overlook the fact that it's also very clearly part of The Matrix.It's okay.This wasn't obvious, at first, so don't feel bad.But the secret is out now: The entire world of Daniel Tiger is built out of the puppet land of make-believe from Mister Rogers, which means, when you get down to the nitty-gritty ways in which that Daniel Tiger reality operates, it's very clear that he - and at least a handful of his friends - are trapped in a simulation inside the Matrix.

Universal e-scooter sounds created to reduce the number of crashes with pedestrians will be tested from this week.Micromobility company Dott said people, including some who are blind or partially sighted, will wear a virtual reality headset to immerse them into simulations involving e-scooters emitting three sounds.

After a long night of playing Dwarf Fortress, I had a concerned look on my face when I finally went to bed.My wife asked what was wrong."I think I actually want to keep playing this," I said.I felt a nagging concern for many weeknights to come.Available tomorrow on Steam and itch.io, the new version of Dwarf Fortress updates the legendary (and legendarily arcane) colony-building roguelike with new pixel-art graphics, music, some (default) keyboard shortcuts, and a beginners' tutorial.

Check out the on-demand sessions from the Low-Code/No-Code Summit to learn how to successfully innovate and achieve efficiency by upskilling and scaling citizen developers. .Data centers are increasingly exploring different ways to build more energy-efficient supercomputers, in addition to faster ones.

We design products through a series of trials and errors.But where the errors happen is very important.An error that occurs after you release a product on the market can negatively impact your business.Luckily it's possible to avoid that using a tool called prototype.In this guide, I want to discuss what a prototype is, the different levels of fidelity (or realism) that a prototype can have, and three different types of prototypes.

Working-age people living in states governed largely with conservative policies are more likely to die early than people in states with more left-leaning policies, a new study finds, corroborating observations and theories that left-wing political commentators have maintained for years.The study, , analyzed a wide swath of policies relating to the criminal legal system, health care, taxes, climate and the environment, firearms, and labor, rating them between a 0 and 1 scale, where zero is the maximum conservative score and one is the maximum left-leaning score.