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The Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bengaluru, announced on Friday that the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has honored renowned Indian astrophysicist Prof Jayant Murthy by naming an asteroid after him. The asteroid, previously designated as "2005 EX296," has now been officially named "(215884) Jayantmurthy" by the IAU's Working Group on Small Bodies Nomenclature. Positioned between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid completes one orbit around the Sun every 3.3 years. Prof Murthy's Contributions to the New…

via Marvel Studios There are many people to blame for the failure of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, but a lot of people have decided to focus their ire on Jeff Loveness in particular given that he was the person who wrote the screenplay. Of course, there are a multitude of people above his pay grade who need to sign off on such things before even a solitary word of his dialogue can be uttered in front of a camera on set, but the internet pays no heed to such trivialities. Unfounded rumors have even claimed…

If you’ve ever published a blog, or posted something to Reddit, or shared content anywhere else on the open web, it’s very likely you have played a part in creating the latest generation of artificial intelligence. Google’s Bard chatbot, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft ’s OpenAI-powered version of Bing, and similar tools from the many startups now incorporating these and other AI language models—none of these clever automated writers could exist without the enormous body of text freely available on the…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Australians generated at least $287.86 billion in value through unpaid social contributions in 2021, according to a new report from the University of Sydney's Mental Wealth Initiative. The report, "A Contributing Life: A Snapshot of the Value of Social Production," shines a spotlight on the unseen…

Louisiana’s Barataria Basin is delineated by the Mississippi River to the northeast and Bayou Lafourche to the southwest and marked on the map with a gold wash over an image taken by the European Space Agency and used here with permission under CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO. Sediment diversions, such as the Mid-Barataria sediment diversion, can help offset the relatively growing impact flood-protection levees have on Louisiana land loss. Credit: LSU…

Twitter’s crowd-sourced fact-checking program, Community Notes, is now open to contributors in the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. Twitter said over the weekend that it was expanding the contributor base by 10% per week by onboarding new individuals to the program. The social media company has also promised to include people from other countries. We admit new contributors in batches, growing the contributor base by ~10% per week. We’re monitoring quality and continuing to expand to…

NDSU researchers Dean Bangsrud and Nancy Hodur, Gov. Doug Burgum and Greg Lardy, vice president for agricultural affairs (left to right) during the study's release to media at the state capitol. Credit: North Dakota State University NDSU researchers recently completed an inaugural study on the economic contributions of agriculture to the state of North Dakota. Results show a contribution of nearly $31 billion to the economy and…

If you've already maxed out 401(k) plan contributions for 2022 and you're eager to save more for retirement, some plans have an under-the-radar option, experts say.For 2022, you can defer $20,500 into a 401(k), plus an extra $6,500 for investors 50 and older. But the total plan limit is $61,000 per worker, including matches, profit sharing and other deposits. And some plans let you exceed the $20,500 deferral limit with so-called after-tax contributions. "It's definitely something higher-income people may want to consider…

Prolific producer Kenny Beats has dropped his debut solo album, Louie, which features contributions from some of his frequent collaborators.Created over the course of one month last year, Louie sees Kenny take the spotlight after producing for some of the biggest and most exciting names in the music industry. Showcasing the breadth of his talents, the record features contributions from the likes of Mac DeMarco, Pink Siifu, Omar Apollo, Thundercat, Slowthai, and Vince Staples among others.Among the guests, Slowthai,…

The Russo brothers reminisced about their working relationship with the late Chadwick Boseman and how his professionalism influenced Avengers: Infinity War. With their new film The Gray Man becoming the number one film on Netflix, the siblings gave an interview to Vanity Fair about some of their career milestones. When the topic of Infinity War came up, Joe Russo remembered that he had never witnessed more outstanding pre-production work than the foundation Ryan Coogler constructed to shape the narrative of…