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Suborbital space tourism finally arrives | FCC prepares to run public C-band auction | The big four in the U.S. launch industry — United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman — hope to be one of two providers that will receive five-year contracts later this year to launch national security payloads starting in 2022. | China’s launch rate stays high | The International Space Station is the largest ever crewed object in space.

 
AI Doesn’t Have to Be Trained on...
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Adweek Podcast: Nurturing Positive Client Relationships With...
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Why is breaking down plant material for...
Cellulose, which helps give plant cell walls their rigid structure, holds promise as a renewable raw material for biofuels — if researchers can accelerate the production process. Compared to the breakdown of other biofuel materials like corn, breaking down cellulose is slow and inefficient but could avoid concerns around using a food source while taking advantage of abundant plant materials that might otherwise go to waste. New research led by Penn State investigators has revealed how several molecular roadblocks...

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Self-Driving Tesla Almost Crashes Head-on Into Police...
“Stupid f*****g thing.” Close Call A Tesla owner had a terrifying run-in on May 3 while driving down a country road with his vehicle’s so-called “Full Self-Driving” feature turned on. Dashcam footage from the user, who goes by FixorFkit and shared the video on X-formerly-Twitter, shows the vehicle crossing the median and veering into the opposite lane to avoid a cyclist — just as a cop car was approaching from the other direction. Thanks to a quick intervention, he...

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Billionaire Cuts Investment in Nvidia, Says AI...
“We’ve had a hell of a run.” Dial It Back The AI bubble isn’t bursting just yet, but one insightful investor is suspicious it’s overhyped. During an appearance on CNBC‘s Squawk Box, billionaire Stanely Druckenmiller — the founder of the Duquesne Family Office hedge fund — revealed that his firm had cut its investment in the AI chipmaker Nvidia earlier this year. As the financier explained, he’d decided to invest in Nvidia after one of his firm’s young partners told...

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NASA’s TESS Returns to Science Operations
4 min read NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) returned to science operations May 3 and is once again making observations. The satellite went into safe mode April 23 following a separate period of down time earlier that month. The operations team determined this latest safe mode was triggered by a failure to properly unload momentum from the spacecraft’s reaction wheels, a routine activity needed to keep the satellite properly oriented when making observations. The propulsion system, which enables...

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Inside the Climate Protests Hell-Bent on Stopping...
Mara is sick. The 24-year-old has been living in a mosquito-infested forest near Tesla’s German gigafactory since March, and despite the 78 degrees Fahrenheit heat, a cold is spreading through the camp. Sitting on a makeshift bench, she tells me how she left Berlin to live among the pine trees, roughly an hour’s drive outside the city, in an attempt to stop the company from expanding. This week, she will be joined by the notorious German climate group Here...

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Meta Continues AI Push With New Generative...
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Béis Goes Country With Pit Stop Pop-Up...
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Lonely Teens Are Making “Friends” With AIs
Teens aren’t just using chatbots to do their homework anymore. Chatbot in Need Some lonely high schoolers are turning to AI models to take the place of friends or even therapists, The Verge reports, raising uneasy questions about how the technology might affect the mental health of young people. One teenage boy going by the alias Aaron told the website that he depended on the “Psychologist” chatbot on a service called Character.AI after he’d fallen out with his (human)...

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How AI might shape LGBTQIA+ advocacy
“AI Comes Out of the Closet” is a large learning model (LLM)-based online system that leverages artificial intelligence-generated dialog and virtual characters to create complex social interaction simulations. These simulations allow users to experiment with and refine their approach to LGBTQIA+ advocacy in a safe and controlled environment. The research is both personal and political to lead author D. Pillis, an MIT graduate student in media arts and sciences and research scientist in the Tangible Media group of the MIT Media...

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Could getting enough sleep help prevent osteoporosis?
As part of the University of Colorado Department of Medicine’s annual Research Day, held on April 23, faculty member Christine Swanson, MD, MCR, described her National Institutes of Health-funded clinical research on whether adequate sleep can help prevent osteoporosis. “Osteoporosis can occur for many reasons such as hormonal changes, aging, and lifestyle factors,” said Swanson, an associate professor in the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Diabetes. “But some patients I see don’t have an explanation for their osteoporosis. “Therefore,...

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It flickers, then it tips — study...
Tipping points in the climate system can be the result of a slow but linear development. However, they can also be accompanied by a “flickering,” with two stable climatic states that alternate before a final transition occurs — and the climate tips permanently. A study by the research team around Potsdam geoscientist Prof. Dr. Martin H. Trauth confirms this for the end of the African Humid Period and the transition to the pronounced aridity that is typical today. The...

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Emergency department packed to the gills? Someday,...
UCSF-led study finds artificial intelligence is as good as a physician at prioritizing which patients need to be seen first. Emergency departments nationwide are overcrowded and overtaxed, but a new study suggests artificial intelligence (AI) could one day help prioritize which patients need treatment most urgently. Using anonymized records of 251,000 adult emergency department (ED) visits, researchers at UC San Francisco evaluated how well an AI model was able to extract symptoms from patients’ clinical notes to determine their...

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AI predicts tumor-killing cells with high accuracy
Using artificial intelligence, Ludwig Cancer Research scientists have developed a powerful predictive model for identifying the most potent cancer killing immune cells for use in cancer immunotherapies. Combined with additional algorithms, the predictive model, described in the current issue of the journal Nature Biotechnology, can be applied to personalized cancer treatments that tailor therapy to the unique cellular makeup of each patient’s tumors. “The implementation of artificial intelligence in cellular therapy is new and may be a game-changer, offering...

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