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

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Our hope with this kind of research is to understand our own solar system, life, and ourselves in the comparison to other exoplanetary systems, so we can contextualize our existence," William Balmer, an astronomer at Johns Hopkins University who led the new research, said in a statement. "We

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Why were doomscrolling about plane crashes even though air travel is relatively safe

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While only 10 of the flights in January 2025 were fatal, in comparison to 19 fatal flights in January 2024, according to the NTSB data, one of those flights was a collision between a commercial airliner and a military helicopter in Washington D.C. , in which 67 people died.

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

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SEE ALSO: Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most ancient known galaxy This is a side-by-side comparison of how the Spitzer Space Telescope viewed Herbig-Haro 49/50 in 2006, left, with Webb's composite image of the same target. When peering out into space, we get a 2D view of a 3D universe," the institute said in a news release.

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Universal Speech Model (USM): State-of-the-art speech AI for 100+ languages

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Today, we are excited to share more about the Universal Speech Model (USM), a critical first step towards supporting 1,000 languages. For the comparison, we only use the 18 languages that Whisper can successfully decode with lower than 40% WER. Comparison of USM (with or without in-domain data) and Whisper results on ASR benchmarks.

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How machine learning can be used to identify microplastics

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The width of a human hair, for comparison, ranges from 20 to 200 micrometers. Testing the tool To run our conformal prediction, my team used libraries of microplastic spectra from the Rochman Lab at the University of Toronto as the calibration set. Ambuj Tewari is a professor of statistics at the University of Michigan.

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Echo Dot vs. Echo Pop: Which Amazon device should you buy during the Big Spring Sale?

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The Pop can serve as a more discreet Alexa assistant than the Echo Dot (which is fairly universally recognized as a smart home gadget). In my side-by-side comparisons of the Echo Dot and the Echo Pop, I couldn’t detect a difference in sound quality between the two devices.

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Your New Budgeting Superpower: Program-Based Budgeting

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At the push of a button, you can have a budget-to-actual comparison not just on your overall salaries spending, but also on salaries for your summer program that are covered by a grant from the city, quickly knowing how much remains in that grant budget without having to update and reconcile external spreadsheets.

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