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Scientists Discover Four Intriguing Planets Around Closest Single-Star Solar System to Earth

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Astronomers have spotted four smaller-than-Earth exoplanets orbiting the closest single-star system to us, called Barnard's Star. Its a really exciting find Barnards Star is our cosmic neighbor, and yet we know so little about it," said University of Chicago PhD student and first author Ritvik Basant in a statement.

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Scientists Intrigued by "Star Grinder" Pulverizing Entire Star Systems in Our Galaxy

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Astronomers suggest there's a giant "star grinder" lurking at the center of the Milky Way, churning up potentially tens of thousands of star systems that are unfortunate enough to get too close.

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Where AI and Graphics Converge: NVIDIA Blackwell Universal Data Center GPU Accelerates Demanding Enterprise Workloads

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speedups for text-to-video generation, nearly 2x faster inference for recommender systems and over 2x speedups for rendering. KLAs industry-leading inspection and metrology systems capture and process images by running complex AI algorithms at lightning-fast speeds to find the most critical semiconductor defects.

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

Mashable Tech

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. We want to take pictures of other solar systems and see how they’re similar or different when compared to ours. "We

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Changemaker Spotlight: Shemitria Smith, Clark Atlanta University

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is responsible for the overall advancement services at Clark Atlanta University as the senior director of advancement operations. With over 16 years of Raiser’s Edge NXT® experience at that time, the University had just switched over to Raiser’s Edge from Banner and was looking for an “expert”. Shemitria Smith, M.Ed.

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Massive Foundation Model for Biomolecular Sciences Now Available via NVIDIA BioNeMo

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Unveiled today as the largest publicly available AI model for genomic data, it was built on the NVIDIA DGX Cloud platform in a collaboration led by nonprofit biomedical research organization Arc Institute and Stanford University. We know theres immense opportunity for exploration, but we dont yet know what were going to discover.

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Flatpak could become a universal app store for Linux systems

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Some influential people in the open-source community are pushing for the adoption of a one-stop app store for Linux-based operating systems. The store would be built on Flatpak, a popular software deployment and package management utility, and it could provide customers with the same user-friendly approach other popular app stores.

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