There have been 244 rocket launches to successfully reach orbit this year, a record for annual launch activity. Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is expected to launch before the end of the year.
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SpaceBlueOrigin | Rating: 56 | 2024-12-21 02:59:12 AM |
Over 12 business days, OpenAI made a new product announcement or demonstrated a new AI feature every weekday in an event called '12 days of OpenAI'. This rapid pace of announcements, possibly in response to Google's releases, highlights the intensifying competition in AI development.
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AIOpenAI | Rating: 81 | 2024-12-20 10:09:17 PM |
Home Assistant launched the Voice Preview Edition, a device for voice-controlled home automation. It uses Nabu Casa's cloud or a personal computer for processing and resembles an Apple TV in size. Users can customize wake words.
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AIHome | Rating: 62 | 2024-12-20 08:19:14 PM |
OpenAI announces new AI reasoning models, o3 and o3-mini, utilizing 'private chain of thought' for simulated reasoning. Not yet released, they will be available for safety testing and research access.
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AIOpenAI | Rating: 85 | 2024-12-20 07:39:23 PM |
A startup, Elevation Lab, has announced a $20 battery case called TimeCapsule that can extend the battery life of Apple AirTags from one year to 10 years by replacing the standard coin cell battery with two AA batteries.
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GadgetsApple | Duplicated with: | Rating: 38 | 2024-12-20 05:29:04 PM |
In the past month, there has been a rapid succession of AI-related announcements and releases from both Google and OpenAI, leading to a growing rivalry between the two. Notable releases include Gemini Flash 2.0, ChatGPT with screenshare and deep research, Pika 2, Sora, ChatGPT projects, Anthropic Clio, and more. The AI community has been actively discussing these developments.
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AIGoogle | Rating: 89 | 2024-12-20 04:11:45 PM |
The Parker Solar Probe, the fastest human-made object and first NASA spacecraft named after a living person, is set to approach the Sun at high speeds during the Solar cycle, aiming to study the Sun's corona and sunspots.
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SpaceParker Solar Probe | Rating: 64 | 2024-12-20 01:20:33 PM |
The journal Chemosphere was removed from the Web of Science index due to questions about its quality criteria after publishing a corrected study on black plastics.
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ScienceWeb of Science | Rating: 49 | 2024-12-20 02:40:29 AM |
Blue Origin plans to test-fire the seven main engines of its New Glenn rocket at Launch Complex-36 in Florida, a final step before its debut flight.
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SpaceBlueOrigin | Rating: 56 | 2024-12-20 02:00:27 AM |
Researchers have developed Genesis, an open-source computer simulation system that allows robots to practice tasks in simulated reality 430,000 times faster than in the real world, enabling neural networks to learn in just hours what would take decades in real time.
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AIGenesis | Rating: 80 | 2024-12-20 01:30:27 AM |
