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Webb telescope just snapped direct image of worlds many light-years away

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It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James Webb Space Telescope has captured four of them in the stellar system HR 8799. You don't see this every day. Importantly, viewing these worlds also revealed major parts of their composition, and how they likely formed.

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Nvidia makes its internal Image Comparison & Analysis Tool (ICAT) available to all

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Nvidia's Image Comparison & Analysis Tool (ICAT) lets users quickly and easily compare multiple images and videos without the need for professional editing software. You can use ICAT to align up to four screenshots or videos at a time for direct comparison. Nvidia says it includes tools like aligning, image.

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Webb reveals thats no star over there. Its an entire freaking galaxy.

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But the James Webb Space Telescope , an observatory that can produce images with far higher resolution than the now-retired Spitzer, has revealed the unexpected truth about the fuzzy object — an answer that may just remind some folks of a certain bobble dangling from a cat collar in the original Men in Black film.

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Google rolls out Gemini 2.5 Flash preview in the Gemini app. Whats new?

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Yesterday, it launched o3 and o4-mini , the latest versions of its reasoning models that can now harness all of the tools available in ChatGPT (searching the web, image recognition, Python compatibility). On that note, GPT-4.5 Preview, its last non chain-of-thought model , is in second place on the LMArena leaderboard.

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A new AI test is outwitting OpenAI, Google models, among others

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playing Go and image recognition)" read the announcement. By comparison, its 4 percent score on the second edition shows how difficult the test is, but also how there's a lot more work to be done with reaching human level intelligence. AI systems are already superhuman in many specific domains (e.g., OpenAI's o3-low model scored 75.7

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Realmes next phone could support swappable camera lenses

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Sure, most people won't want to shell out for modular camera attachments on their phones, but those who do might end up getting far better image quality. Realme is one of the two major smartphone manufacturers to show off a modular camera system that could inform ways to get better images on phones in the future.

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Tesla’s self-driving capabilities are now a Looney Tunes cartoon joke

Fast Company Tech

He created a polystyrene wall with an image of a road printed on it and placed it in the middle of a real street to evaluate the reaction of the sensors in his own Tesla Model Y, which relies only on cameras. For comparison, Rober also tested a Lexus RX equipped with Lidar under the same conditions.

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