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NASA recently provided a fascinating glimpse into the cosmos by capturing radar images of a stadium-sized asteroid as it passed by Earth. The asteroid, known as 2008 OS7, made a close approach to our planet on February 2, prompting NASA to utilize its Deep Space Network radar system to obtain detailed images of this celestial object.NASA snaps Asteroid 2008 OS7Measuring between 650 feet and 1,640 feet wide, the slowly-spinning asteroid posed no threat to Earth as it drifted past at a safe distance of approximately 2.9…

Jamie Lee Curtis remembered Richard Lewis, her co-star on the late-Eighties sitcom Anything But Love, and credited the stand-up legend as “the reason I am sober” in a tribute following the Curb Your Enthusiasm actor’s death. “I’ve just read that my friend Richard Lewis has died,” Curtis wrote on social media. “I remember exactly where I was when I saw a billboard of him about a stand up special on Sunset Boulevard when we were casting the ABC pilot Anything But Love and asked the casting people to bring him in to…

The impacts and power of generative AI were realized at scale in businesses last year. Now, every software company, supermarket brand, and business, even tangentially related to tech, appears to be building an AI-based solution of their own for 2024. But how much do we know about the foundations of these technologies and what they're doing with our data behind the curtain? How well is the AI black box we’re all learning to trust really understood outside of niche tech circles? What is there to know about something that is…

Genshin Impact was released in 2020 yet it feels like it has been around for longer – the game won many awards and this January it became the fastest mobile game to reached $5 billion in revenue. This means that the OnePlus 12R Genshin Impact Edition is styled after one of the biggest brands in the world right now. It’s not the company’s first collaboration with the HoyoVerse, but this one is the result of extra effort. The bespoke design is inspired by the character Keqing. It’s painted in Electric Violet and a first…

Call it what you want, but the genre popularized by Vampire Survivors has become a veritable sensation, with countless attempts to capitalize on its popularity. (Seriously, the number of these--and propensity for using the word Survivor in their name--is astounding.) I've found and enjoyed a number of these, particularly those that introduce some kind of added wrinkle: Boneraiser Minions with its companion-based action, 20 Minutes Till Dawn's more active combat, and the distinct classes and equipment of…

“We used advanced fabrication techniques to cut small transducers from high-quality piezoelectric materials that allowed us to design miniaturized ultrasound stickers,” Xuanhe Zhao, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says. Credit: Courtesy of the researchersMIT’s ultrasound sticker enables continuous monitoring of organ stiffness, revolutionizing the early detection of diseases such as liver and kidney failure.MIT engineers have developed a small ultrasound sticker that can monitor the stiffness of organs deep…

Scientists have devised a method of using fish scales to convey encrypted messages. Not only would the technology divert seafood industry waste from landfills, it should also be less costly than existing options such as special inks.The technique was developed by researchers at the National University of Singapore, led by Prof. Sow Chorng Haur. Potential applications include the production of authenticity-verifying tags on product packaging, which would be hard for counterfeiters to read and even more difficult for them…

The Indian startup ecosystem needs more founders with deep technical expertise, particularly in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and software development, according to Rajan Anandan, managing director, Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia Capital India).The next frontier for the country’s entrepreneurial landscape would be to foster industries built on intellectual property which can be addressed over the next two decades, Anandan said during a fireside chat with Deepak Dara of Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan at…

An advisory committee, set up by Paytm owner One97 Communications after the Reserve Bank's action on its payments bank business, is yet to have a deeper engagement with the company to identify any issue, head of the panel and former chairman of Sebi M Damodaran said on Sunday. "We are an external advisor. At this point they (Paytm) are dealing with RBI," Damodaran said in response to a question on the impact on Paytm with regard to RBI's January 31 order on Paytm Payments Banks Limited (PPBL). As per the January 31 order,…

New research has identified oceanic transform faults as significant, previously underestimated sinks for CO2, challenging existing notions about the Earth’s geological carbon cycle. This research emphasizes the crucial role of natural geological emissions in shaping Earth’s climate history and highlights the need for a deeper understanding of these processes in the context of addressing contemporary climate change. Above is a cut slice of altered mantle rock. Credit: Solvin ZanklStudying a rock is like reading a book. The…