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

Mashable Tech

"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 This allows us to see far more of the universe.

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Why the best time to solve problems might be the middle of the night

Fast Company Tech

Your mind in the middle of the night In a well-known study from 2022 titled Mind after Midnight , a team led by scientists at the University of Arizona found that late-night thoughts tend to be negative, more ruminative, and more impulsive. It turns out that I wasnt alone. Theres less distraction at night.

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Rogue Chrome extensions can steal passwords from websites such as Gmail, Amazon & Facebook

TechSpot

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have created a proof-of-concept Chrome extension that is capable of stealing plaintext passwords from the HTML source codes of virtually any website. A paper published by the researchers last week detailed how a comprehensive analysis of the security of text input fields in web.

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SSDs might cause double the CO2 emissions of HDDs

TechSpot

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of British Columbia recently published a study alleging that solid state drives can lead to double the carbon emissions of hard disk drives (HDDs). The study analyzes the carbon impact of different devices and components across their lifespans.

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Fusion startup Type One Energy gets $29M seed round to fast-track its reactor designs

TechCrunch

One built the HSX stellarator at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, two more performed experiments on it, and a fourth worked on the Wendelstein 7-X reactor, the world’s largest stellarator. But not all of it. Type One Energy is the brainchild of a handful of physicists steeped in the stellarator world.

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How can nonprofits successfully engage the next generation of donors?

ASU Lodestar Center

Emily Santeler is a 2021 graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University. She is the advancement associate for the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A lifelong resident of Wisconsin, Ms.

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Challenges for Solving

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This would be worth doing with someone like the University of Wisconsin's TRACE Center 7. This proof of concept would also require a prototype screen reader that could communicate via this protocol as opposed to "reading" pages in a browser. The experience might be akin to navigating an automated phone answering system (e.g.,

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