Clusters

Researchers have identified 317 million unique gene clusters belonging to oceanic microbes. Creating the world’s largest open-source catalog representing only the ‘tip of the iceberg’ in marine metagenomics, the library offers a tool for exploring how these genetic resources could be used in medicine, energy, food and other industries.The ocean’s microbiome is a vast, highly diverse gene pool with complex metabolic capabilities. The global ocean genome has already proven to be a major resource for science, particularly in…

A flooded street in Merced County in California on Jan. 11, 2023. Credit: Andrew Innerarity / California Department of Water Resources Early in 2023, a series of storms dumped record-breaking amounts of rain and snow across California. Flooding, power outages, and mudslides from the deluge resulted in 21 deaths and more than $3 billion in losses. The…

Xenon nanoclusters between two graphene layers, with sizes between two and ten atoms. Credit: Manuel LängleNew possibilities in quantum technology and condensed matter physics opened by noble gas atoms confined between graphene layers.For the first time, researchers have successfully stabilized and directly imaged small clusters of noble gas atoms at room temperature. This breakthrough offers new opportunities for basic research in the field of condensed matter physics and potential applications in quantum information…

The future may bring forth innovations such as curved displays, 3D visualizations, and further advancements in AR technology.New Delhi: In recent years, the automotive industry has undergone a significant transformation in the in-car display technology, revolutionizing the way drivers interact with their vehicles. From traditional instrument clusters to expansive pillar-to-pillar displays, the landscape has evolved rapidly, incorporating cutting-edge technologies like…

Geo-Zoning is a method used to partition a geographical area into distinct zones or regions, with a set of rules or guidelines governing activities and land use within its boundaries using driving distance or driving time. This concept is widely used in urban planning, land use management, representatives to locate customers seamlessly, and various other fields. The K-Medoid algorithm is a partition technique of clustering that clusters into K groups around medoids, which are data points representative of clusters; unlike…

Google Cloud has swiftly responded to a medium-severity security flaw in its platform that could pose a risk to Kubernetes clusters. The vulnerability, discovered and reported by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, has the potential to be exploited by an attacker who already has access to a Kubernetes cluster, specifically targeting the Fluent Bit logging container. This flaw, if abused, could allow the attacker to escalate their privileges within the cluster, leading to potential threats such as data theft, deploying malicious…

Published By: Samreen PallLast Updated: November 14, 2023, 14:39 ISTKarnataka Government Unveils Rs 50,000 Crore Investment Plan and 1 Lakh Jobs in the New EV Policy. (Representational image/News18)Karnataka's EV Policy: Rs 50,000 Cr Investment, 1 Lakh Jobs, Model Cities, and Innovative Incentives to Propel Electric Mobility Growth by 2028.The Karnataka government on Friday unveiled a revised draft Electric Vehicle policy (2023-28) which aims to attract Rs 50,000 crore investment while creating a job potential for one…

It is 2023 and, sorry, Siri somehow still didn’t catch that. Despite the tsunami of advancements generative AI systems have enjoyed in recent months, the synthetic assistants on our mobile devices remain nearly as hard of hearing as they were in 2011. A newly developed dataset from Meta AI, however, promises to improve the performance of such automatic speech recognition (ASR) tools by clustering speech at the “utterance level.” Meta has long sought to improve its ASRs’ performance, teaching them to train without the aid…

Scientists have found strong evidence that supermassive stars existed within globular clusters when they formed 13 billion years ago. Here, an image of the globular cluster M13, 22 000 light years from Earth, consisting of a million stars squeezed into a space 150 light-years across. Credit: HST STScI NASA ESAResearchers from the universities of Geneva, Paris, and Barcelona have uncovered strong evidence that the peculiarities seen in sizable star clusters can be explained by supermassive stars.Globular clusters are the…

A multi-institute research team synthesized a family of nano-wheel-like metallic clusters, each with specific properties — such as fluorescence and different types of magnetism — that could advance next-generation technologies. Credit: Polyoxometalates, Tsinghua University PressResearchers in China have developed nano-wheels, a new family of metallic compounds with unique properties for use in advanced sensors and other technologies. The team synthesized lanthanide-based nano-clusters with diverse applications, including…