NASA sends 4K video from a flying plane to the ISS using lasers
900 Mbps from Earth to orbit, and I still can’t get reliable Wi-Fi in my backyard
Jealous of the fact that the International Space Station has better internet than you do? Well, here’s one more benchmark to envy: NASA has successfully streamed 4K video from an in-flight aircraft to the ISS and back again.
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Text generators like ChatGPT have dominated my conversations with educators about AI in the past year. Despite their emergence a year before chatbots, text-to-image generators like DALL-E or Midjourney typically come up only in generic conversations about plagiarism or bias.
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Large language models may enable real-time communication with extraterrestrial civilizations despite the vast distances between stars. We need to start thinking about what to tell them about us
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Data visualization is not a recent innovation. Even in the eighteenth century, activists and economists, as well as educators and politicians, were fully aware of the power of visualization to produce new knowledge.
But who, more precisely, was wielding this power? On whose behalf? And for whose benefit? The answers to these questions are what this project explores.
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ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice mode arrived on Tuesday for a select few OpenAI subscribers chosen to be part of the highly-anticipated feature’s alpha release.
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I’ve tested countless Linux distributions over the years. Here’s my essential list of the top post-install steps to take before you dive in too deep.
So, you’ve finally installed Linux, and you’re ready to make it your go-to operating system (or at least explore it to find out if it’s a worthy replacement). You might find the OS pretty easy to use out of the gate. Depending on the desktop environment you’ve chosen (such as GNOME, Plasma, Budgie, Pantheon, Cinnamon, etc.), it probably has all the bits and pieces you’re used to.
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SearchGPT is in a prototype stage with limited access, but its features and data will be integrated with ChatGPT in the future.
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George Smart is on a mission to save mid-century modern houses. He believes the structures are works of art that people should respect—if they only realized their significance and knew how to preserve them.
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The military use of AI-enabled weapons is growing, and the industry that provides them is booming
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James Cook University researchers investigating men’s empathy towards animals have found higher levels in men who own pets versus farmers and non-pet owners. The study is published in Animal Welfare.
Dr. Jessica Oliva is a senior lecturer in psychology at JCU. She said it was well established that women felt more animal empathy (AE) than men.
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