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We may have found a crater on Jupiter’s moon Io for the first time
This may be the first impact crater spotted on Io NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill, CC BY 2.0 An amateur astronomer may have found the first crater ever spotted on Jupiter’s moon Io. Io is so volcanically active that eruptions tend to wipe away any impact craters, so we have never seen one until now. Jesper Sandberg,…
Google gives Stadia controllers more time to switch to Bluetooth
If you haven’t enabled Bluetooth on your Stadia controller yet, you don’t need to rush. Google has extended the deadline for when its controllers will no longer work wirelessly from the end of this year to December 31st, 2024, as shown on its website (via @wario64). Screenshot by Emma Roth / The Verge Google previously…
Netflix’s Yu Yu Hakusho needed more time in the spirit world
When Netflix’s One Piece launched to generally favorable reviews and fan enthusiasm, it gave me hope that the same quality and care that went into it would go into its other adaptation of a seminal work in shonen anime: Yu Yu Hakusho. With the show finally available, my hope was woefully misplaced. Netflix took one…
Traces of cannabis found in pre-modern human bones for the first time
A femur, one of the bones that held traces of cannabis Gaia Giordano, Mirko Mattia, Michele Boracchi, et al. The first evidence of cannabis discovered in archaeological skeletal remains comes from bones of people buried under a hospital in Milan, Italy, in the 17th century. “Molecules of medicinal plants can be detected by toxicological analysis…
Technique enables AI on edge devices to keep learning over time | MIT News
Personalized deep-learning models can enable artificial intelligence chatbots that adapt to understand a user’s accent or smart keyboards that continuously update to better predict the next word based on someone’s typing history. This customization requires constant fine-tuning of a machine-learning model with new data. Because smartphones and other edge devices lack the memory and computational…
World predicted to break 1.5°C warming limit for first time in 2024
A fire in Tenterfield, New South Wales, Australia, on 1 November – a potential result of extreme weather brought about by climate change Australian Associated Press/Alamy Next year could be the first where the average global surface temperature is more than 1.5°C warmer than the pre-industrial era, according to a forecast by the UK’s Met…
The race to 5G is over — now it’s time to pay the bill
At CES in 2021, 5G was just about everywhere you looked. It was the future of mobile communications that would propel autonomous vehicles, remote surgery, and AR into reality. The low latency! The capacity! It’ll change everything, we were told. Verizon and AT&T wrote massive checks for new spectrum licenses, and T-Mobile swallowed another network…