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Peggy Hollinger / Financial Times: A look at the battle brewing between satellite operators over the use of orbit spectrum, as SpaceX's Starlink, Project Kuiper, and others push for looser rules — A contest between legacy and new operators is brewing over the use of spectrum — There is a battle brewing in space. Peggy Hollinger / Financial Times: A look at the battle brewing between satellite operators over the use of orbit spectrum, as SpaceX's Starlink, Project Kuiper, and…

One good thing you can’t take away from The Marvels? It’s finally got the ball rolling on the Young Avengers, with Iman Vellani’s Kamala Khan now on a mission to round up the “Kid Avengers” (even if nearly all of them are old enough to drink). The Marvel fandom has been (not-so)patiently waiting for this day for ages now, probably ever since Avengers: Endgame wrapped up the OG Avengers’ storyline back in 2019. In actual fact, though, the next generation of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes has been teased since long before that…

Image: Marvel Studios2022’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness was an odd movie in many respects, most of them regarding the way it treated Wanda Maximoff and her character post-WandaVision. A separate part of the film that rankled audiences as its second act digression to an alternate universe home to the Illuminati, which featured some surprise return cameos for Marvel alums like Patrick Stewart’s Professor X and Haley Atwell’s Peggy Carter. The latter was that world’s Captain Britain—a variant first introduced…

Peggy Whitson is America's most experienced astronaut, having spent 675 days in space. She's just returned from her fourth flight to orbit. Axiom Space recently completed its second human spaceflight mission traveling to and from the International Space Station via a SpaceX Dragon Capsule. Whitson, now Axiom's director of human spaceflight, served as Ax-2's mission commander. CNBC's "Manifest Space" podcast sat down with the retired NASA astronaut to discuss her return to space, the commercialization of human spaceflight…

Photo: Sabina Graves/GizmodoThe wonderful worlds of Disney and all of its franchises were well represented at the D23 Expo 2022 by cosplayers donning their fandom best. Check out these amazing looks that covered the various universes of Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars, and Disney, plus some fun mash-ups. Photo: Sabina Graves/GizmodoThe wonderful worlds of Disney and all of its franchises were well represented at the D23 Expo 2022 by cosplayers donning their fandom best. Check out these amazing looks that covered the various…

The best indexing approach for billion-sized vector datasetsPhoto by Paul Talbot on UnsplashWe learned about IVFPQ in the previous article, where the inverted file index (IVF) is combined with product quantization (PQ) to create an effective method for large-scale similarity search.In this article, we will learn about HNSW and how it can be used together with IVFPQ to form the best indexing approach for billion-scale similarity search.We will first introduce NSW and skip list, the two important foundations that HNSW is…