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Citizen Scientists Just Helped Discover Nearly 8,000 New Eclipsing Binary Stars
"Citizen scientists have successfully located thousands of previously unknown pairs of 'eclipsing binary' stars," reports the Washington Post, citing a recent announcement from NASA.
The ongoing initiative helps space researchers hunt for "eclipsing binary" stars, a rare phenomenon in which two st...
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Chinese Film Foundation Plans to Use AI to 'Revitalize' 100 Classic Kung Fu Films
"The China Film Foundation, a nonprofit fund under the Chinese government, plans to use AI to revitalize 100 kung fu classics including Police Story, Once Upon a Time in China and Fist of Fury, featuring Jackie Chan, Jet Li and Bruce Lee, respectively," reports the Los Angeles Times.
"The foundati...
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Simulation of Crashed Boeing 787 Put Focus on a Technical Flaw
Investigators of a deadly Boeing 787 crash "are studying possible dual engine failure as a scenario that prevented the Boeing Co. 787 jet from staying airborne," reports Bloomberg:
Pilots from the airline reenacted the doomed aircraft's parameters in a flight simulator, including with the landing g...
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The FSF Faces Active 'Ongoing and Increasing' DDoS Attacks
The Free Software Foundation's services face "ongoing (and increasing) distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks," senior systems administrator Ian Kelling wrote Wednesday. But "Even though we are under active attack, gnu.org, ftp.gnu.org, and savannah.gnu.org are up with normal response times at...
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'Vibe Coder' Who Doesn't Know How to Code Keeps Winning Hackathons in San Francisco
An anonymous reader shared this report from the San Francisco Standard:
About an hour into my meeting with the undisputed hackathon king of San Francisco, Rene Turcios asked if I wanted to smoke a joint with him. I politely declined, but his offer hardly surprised me. Turcios has built a reputation...
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