Новости за 07.07.2023

We talked to former couples who live together after divorce, like former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, say they plan to do.

Hawaii HI (SPX) Jul 03, 2023 - Observing billions of galaxies across more than a third of the sky and building a 3D map of the universe are all part of the Euclid mission that the European Space Agency launched with its Euclid satellite from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Euclid's dataset is getting a big helping hand from observations taken at three observatories in Hawaii.

The Euclid satellite mission will spend more than six years in space and involve more than 2,000 scientists, including astronomers in Hawaii. Читать дальше...

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 04, 2023 - In the midst of space exploration advancements, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed its 16th orbit of the Sun on June 27, 2023, furthering our understanding of the Sun-Earth system and its implications for life and society.

During this orbit, the spacecraft executed a close approach or perihelion on June 22, 2023, approaching within a distance of 5.3 million miles from the solar surface. Throughout this high-speed venture, moving at a speed of 364,610 miles per hour... Читать дальше...

Newcastle upon Tyne UK (SPX) Jul 04, 2023 - Solar scientists are using deepfake AI images to unravel the mysteries of the Sun's atmosphere. The research, being presented at the National Astronomy Meeting this week, was carried out as part of a collaboration between Northumbria University and the University of Bern.

For more than 80 years, solar physicists have been trying to understand how and why the upper reaches of the Sun's atmosphere (the corona) are unexpectedly hotter than the layers closer to the surface. Читать дальше...

Newcastle upon Tyne UK (SPX) Jul 04, 2023 - A team of astronomers from several European institutions led by Northumbria University in Newcastle has discovered 'shooting stars' on the Sun. Observations from the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter (SolO) have revealed never-before-seen 'falling star'-type phenomena or meteor-like fireballs occurring within the spectacular plasma displays known as coronal rain. The work will be presented this week at the National Astronomy Meeting (NAM 2023) by lead author Patrick Antolin... Читать дальше...

Mexico City (AFP) June 21, 2023 - Voice actors around the globe are mobilizing against the unregulated use of artificial intelligence (AI) to generate and clone human voices that they fear poses a threat to their livelihoods.

"We're fighting a very big monster," said Mario Filio, a Mexican artist who has done voiceovers for Hollywood star Will Smith, the Obi-Wan Kenobi character in Star Wars and the party-loving lemur King Julien in the animated movie "Madagascar."

Paris (AFP) June 27, 2023 - The warnings are coming from all angles: artificial intelligence poses an existential risk to humanity and must be shackled before it is too late.

But what are these disaster scenarios and how are machines supposed to wipe out humanity?

Toronto, Canada (AFP) June 28, 2023 - Months after the spectacular launch of ChatGPT, the AI revolution is well underway but hints of caution are emerging, especially over letting one or two companies reign supreme.

The release of the poem-churning app by San Francisco-based OpenAI came at an opportune time for tech, landing just when the US giants were laying off thousands of workers and startups faced a funding winter after the collapse of cryptocurrencies.

London (AFP) June 29, 2023 - The UK government on Thursday hailed a decision by ChatGPT creator OpenAI to open its first office outside the United States in London.

The California-based software firm behind the popular chatbot announced on Wednesday that it had chosen the British capital as part of its expansion plans.

Toronto, Canada (AFP) June 29, 2023 - Geoffrey Hinton, one of the so-called godfathers of artificial intelligence, urged governments on Wednesday to step in and make sure that machines do not take control of society.

Hinton made headlines in May when he announced that he quit Google after a decade of work to speak more freely on the dangers of AI, shortly after the release of ChatGPT captured the imagination of the world.

Geneva (AFP) July 4, 2023 - The United Nations is convening this week a global gathering to try to map out the frontiers of artificial intelligence and to harness its potential for empowering humanity.

The UN hopes to lay out a clear blueprint on the way forward for handling AI, as development of the technology races ahead the capacity to set its boundaries.

Justice Timothy Keene noted that the emoji is a "non-traditional means to 'sign' a document, but nevertheless, under these circumstances, this was a valid way to convey the two purposes of a...

Migrant families from Venezuela rest in the lobby of the 16th District police station in early May. At the time, Mayor Lori Lightfoot signed an emergency order calling on the state to mobilize the National Guard to provide staffing and logistical support to address the emergency in Chicago.

Cyprus-US relations have reached new heights and are no longer viewed solely through the lens of the Cyprus problem, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday. The president was speaking at a reception hosted by United States Ambassador Julie Fisher on the occasion of US Independence Day. At the same time,...

A 5-year swing high represents the highest price a stock has reached within a five-year timeframe. This level acts as a significant resistance point where the price has historically struggled to go beyond.

LAS VEGAS— There are just some tickets that are hard to get in Las Vegas. Like Adele, for example. Or Garth Brooks. Or U2, which starts a residency there this fall. And now, add Wemby to that list. Victor Wembanyama’s debut at NBA Summer League is Friday night — and it’s sold out. All 17,500 […]

Gov. Ron DeSantis’s wife, Casey DeSantis, held her first solo campaign event in Iowa, connecting with fellow moms and casting her husband as a champion of the “parents’ rights” movement.

An unknown foot fetishist broke into a 4.5-star luxury Nevada resort two separate times to cradle unsuspecting women's feet over the holiday weekend.

Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was spotted in St. Petersburg this week after being exiled to Belarus nearly two weeks ago.

One of the main reasons that I became interested in the Sunfish was a YouTube video on the Hampton Sunfish Challenge. Unfortunately that event (and the Connecticut River Challenge) are evidently victims of COVID. Both were very popular, so there is obviously an interest in that sort of relaxed social kind-of-racing events.
The Around Shelter Island Sunfish race is a big time event for serious Sunfish sailors. Would there be any interest in an Around Janes Island “race” for those of us with...
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Here is a list of top news developments from Tamil Nadu on Friday, July 7, 2023

Kim, looking for her second major championship title after winning the Evian Championship in 2019, made a fine start to her round with four birdies before she bogeyed the par-4 ninth. The 29-year-old managed just one more birdie, on the penultimate hole, but was delighted that she avoided bogeys on the back nine. "I was quite concerned about the front nine, but I was able to do a good job," she said. "Then on the back nine I had some risky stretches, but I was able to make par each time, and I'm... Читать дальше...

Swiss 14th seed Belinda Bencic battled from a set and a break down to send American Danielle Collins tumbling out of Wimbledon on Thursday with a 3-6 6-4 7-6(10-2) victory that earned her a third-round meeting with Poland's Magda Linette.