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18 pictures show how profoundly large our cosmos is

18 pictures show how profoundly large our cosmos is

Published by Jenni Sidey

Cosmically, humanity is a mere drop in the Universe’s vast ocean. This image, taken from the International Space Station by astronaut Karen Nyberg in 2013, shows the two largest islands on the southern part of the Mascarene Plateau: Réunion, in the foreground, and Mauritius, partially covered by clouds. To see a human on Earth from the altitude of the ISS, a telescope the size of Hubble would be needed. The scale of a human is less than 1/5,000,000 the scale of Earth, but Earth is just a proverbial drop in the cosmic ocean, with a diameter of only a little over 10,000 kilometers. Credit: NASA/Karen Nyberg Our civilization’s entire experience — excepting spaceflight — is confined to our planet: 13,000 km across. This view of the Earth comes to us courtesy of NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft, which had to perform flybys of Earth and Venus in order to lose enough energy to reach its ultimate destination: Mercury. Several hundred images, taken with the wide-angle camera in MESSENGER’s Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS), were sequenced into a …

Kirsten Jacobson Joins Writ Large as Manager

Kirsten Jacobson Joins Writ Large as Manager

Published by Daniella Wilson

Kirsten Jacobson has joined Writ Large as a manager. Jacobson is joining Writ Large from Good Fear Content, where she spent six years as a manager. Before this, she was in development at companies Moonshot Entertainment and Friendly Films, working on projects like Queen of the South and Sneaky Pete. Joining Jacobson will be clients that include Pachinko writer Melissa Park, Abbott Elementary writer Joya McCrory and Running Point writer Talia Caldwell, in addition to India Gurley (Fire Country) and Lauren Conn (The Interrogator). “Kirsten is the perfect fit for Writ Large. She has phenomenal taste, tremendous passion for her clients, an excellent reputation, and a tireless work ethic. We are so thrilled to bring her into the fold,” said the Writ Large partners in a statement. Said Jacobson, ”Writ Large is a company I’ve admired for a long time. I’m excited to be a part of such a dedicated, dynamic, and well-respected team.” Source link

Local AI Workstation AMD Ryzen AI Halo Runs Large LLMs

Local AI Workstation AMD Ryzen AI Halo Runs Large LLMs

Published by Miika Tikkanen

The AMD Ryzen AI Halo represents a significant development in local AI processing by focusing on privacy and eliminating reliance on cloud services. Equipped with the Ryzen AI Max Plus 395 chip and 128 GB LPDDR5X unified memory, it is built to handle resource-intensive tasks such as running large language models or fine-tuning neural networks. According to Sam Witteveen, the system’s unified memory architecture allows the CPU and GPU to share resources efficiently, reducing bottlenecks during operations like image generation and video rendering. Explore how the Ryzen AI Halo supports a wide range of AI workflows with its pre-installed software ecosystem, including LM Studio and Comfy UI, which enable tasks like natural language processing and creative content generation. Learn about the performance capabilities of its Radeon 8060S GPU, delivering 60 teraflops at FP16 precision and its 50 TOPS Neural Processing Unit, designed for emerging AI applications. This deep dive offers a detailed look at the hardware and software features that make the system suitable for developers and researchers. Key Features and Capabilities TL;DR Key Takeaways …

The Large Hadron Collider is being upgraded so that it can unlock the secrets of the Higgs boson

The Large Hadron Collider is being upgraded so that it can unlock the secrets of the Higgs boson

Published by Miika Tikkanen

Deep beneath the French-Swiss border, the world’s largest scientific instrument has fallen silent. After years of smashing proton particles together at nearly the speed of light, Cern’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has stopped operations and entered a long shutdown. While no particle collisions are taking place at the LHC, thousands of scientists, engineers and technicians are dismantling parts of the machine, installing new technologies and preparing one of the most ambitious upgrades ever attempted in experimental physics. When it switches on again, around 2030, it will become the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC), capable of delivering roughly seven times more data than the collider that discovered the Higgs boson. For me, this shutdown marks another milestone in a project that has shaped much of my scientific life. I first became involved in the High-Luminosity collider long before the Higgs boson particle was discovered in 2012. Over nearly two decades I have had the privilege of contributing to the programme on both sides of the Atlantic. In the United States, I served as upgrade coordinator for …

Farewell, atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider

Farewell, atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. You may unsubscribe at any time. It’s difficult to overstate just how much the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has helped advance our understanding of the universe. Since its debut in 2008, the 16.7-mile-wide subatomic smasher buried underneath Switzerland proved the existence of the Higgs boson particle (aka the God particle), highlighted the perplexing nature of muons, and even measured antimatter. Apocalyptic conspiracy theories to the contrary, it expanded on key concepts in quantum physics, while charting a path forward for researchers around the world. Still, all good things must come to an end. On June 29, CERN announced that the LHC had officially entered “Long Shutdown 3,” thus ceasing operations after 18 years of remarkable work. But in keeping with some of the most mindbending quantum physics concepts, the …

Roku’s New Home Screen Has More Personalization… and a Large Ad

Roku’s New Home Screen Has More Personalization… and a Large Ad

Published by Miika Tikkanen

Roku is rolling out a new interface across all of its devices, which now includes a prominent “For You” section — and a large ad.   Also read: Best Streaming Devices of 2026 At an event in New York City, Roku’s Preston Smalley said this was the first major update to the home screen in a decade. “This is one of the most valuable pieces of real estate in streaming, as half of all broadband users are using this screen,” Smalley said. The ad marquee now takes up the right-hand side of the screen and includes suggested shows as well as paid placements. Smalley told CNET that the proportion of each type, paid or programmed, wasn’t set and could change. Previously, the ad was only visible when you clicked off the text menu into the apps, but this part of the screen is not defeatable. The two other interface elements, which are configurable, are the “For You” section at the top and a new “Quick Access” section at the bottom that’s based on the apps …

Uber Builds Large Stake In Germany’s Delivery Hero As Takeover Speculation Builds

Uber Builds Large Stake In Germany’s Delivery Hero As Takeover Speculation Builds

Published by Jenni Sidey

Uber is exploring a potential takeover of Delivery Hero after building a large stake in the rival German food delivery company, Bloomberg News reports. This follows an earlier report that Uber had built a 19.5% stake. On Monday, Uber disclosed that it owns 19.5% of Delivery Hero, plus an additional 5.6% through options. The position was built with the help of Morgan Stanley traders, according to people familiar with the matter. Uber’s move to acquire Delivery Hero could be an attempt to expand Uber Eats’ global footprint and improve its competitive position against DoorDash outside the US. Delivery Hero operates in more than 60 countries, giving Uber exposure to markets where it is either underscaled or trailing its competitors. Map of Operatoins of Delivery Hero Brands “While Uber’s ultimate intentions on further stake-building remain unclear, we view the move as a clear endorsement of the strategic attractiveness of Delivery Hero’s asset base for Uber,” JPMorgan analysts wrote in a note. Earlier, Uber said it “currently” has no intention of increasing its stake in Delivery Hero …

Four swing House races in Pennsylvania loom large for both parties — and for 2028, too

Four swing House races in Pennsylvania loom large for both parties — and for 2028, too

Published by Sam Flores

Control of the House of Representatives could come down to four pivotal battleground races in Pennsylvania. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. With an increasingly limited map of competitive seats, both Democrats and Republicans are emphasizing the importance of these campaigns, which are about to get floods of money and investment from both sides. Some of that has already started, including from Gov. Josh Shapiro, who is on a party-building kick as he faces a re-election bid that, as of yet, is not expected to be particularly competitive. Shapiro, a potential 2028 presidential contender, has emphasized those four races, making primary endorsements in each and signaling he will be deeply involved in them as November nears. Help the battleground Democrats win, and Shapiro will be able to tell Democratic presidential voters about how he helped the party retake the House and defeat a broad spectrum of Republican House members. Fall short, and his political strength will come under further scrutiny. And there’s the Donald Trump factor, …

Men Haven’t Yet Noticed That a Large Number of Women Are Disgusted by AI

Men Haven’t Yet Noticed That a Large Number of Women Are Disgusted by AI

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech If you’ve been on TikTok lately, you might have come across a viral meme showing yet another dark side of AI: its impact on cishet relationship dynamics. Variations on the format typically depict a woman working hard at a laptop, with a caption explaining that she’s burning out so “her man” can run an AI startup that “loses $30K a month.” It feels like there’s a serious side to the jokes, since they come in the dark shadow of many grim stories about the tech colliding with established relationships, from breaking up marriages to facilitating infidelity. Indeed, Wired just ran a fascinating feature about how AI is disrupting the dynamics of families — and the women getting ground down by the whole situation, which the story’s author Alessandra Ram memorably terms the “sad wives” of AI. Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, chair of labor studies and employment relations at Rutgers University, told Wired that it comes down to …

The testosterone myth? Large analysis finds no link between the “macho” hormone and risk-taking

The testosterone myth? Large analysis finds no link between the “macho” hormone and risk-taking

Published by José Betancourt

A meta-analysis of 52 studies found no link between testosterone levels and risk-taking. In general, only studies where participants completed specific lottery-based economic tasks showed a modest association between testosterone levels and risk-taking, while other types of behavioral studies did not. Furthermore, the lack of association did not depend on participants’ sex. The paper was published in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. Testosterone is a hormone that belongs to a group of hormones called androgens. It is present in both males and females, but it is usually found in much higher levels in males. In males, testosterone is produced mainly in the testes; in females, smaller amounts are produced in the ovaries and adrenal glands. Testosterone plays an important role in the development of male reproductive organs before birth and during puberty. During puberty, it contributes to changes such as a deeper voice, facial and body hair growth, increased muscle mass, and the growth of the penis and testes. In adults, testosterone helps regulate sexual desire, sperm production, bone density, red blood cell production, and muscle …