Facebook Tweet Email Link Reuters — Chinese artificial intelligence developer DeepSeek spent just $294,000 on training its R1 model, much less than reported for US rivals, it said in a paper that is likely to reignite debate over Beijing’s place in the AI race. The rare update from the Hangzhou-based company – the first estimate it has released of R1’s …
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Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh said after watching the tape of the Week One win over the Chiefs that he couldn’t be prouder of quarterback Justin Herbert. “Incredible game by Justin Herbert,” Harbaugh said. “Tremendous play by the quarterback.” Harbaugh specifically singled out the toughness of Herbert in shaking off a brutal hit when he was sacked by Kansas City’s Drue …
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Back in September 2023, scientists monitoring seismic activity across the world were all met with a mysterious signal making its way throughout the whole of the planet. “We were baffled – the signal was unlike any previously recorded,” Stephen Hicks, Research Fellow in Computational Seismology at UCL, and Kristian Svennevig, Senior Researcher at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, …
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Residents in central Victoria have reported seeing a large meteor streaking across the night sky on Sunday, with some people describing an extremely bright fireball and a loud sound as the object passed overhead. Dozens of clips and witness accounts were shared in the Facebook group Australian Meteor Reports. Saskia Reus-Smit, from Fryerstown, posted to the group that they had …
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Facebook Tweet Email Link The next batch of inflation data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics was already shaping up to be a high-profile affair due to the expected impact of President Donald Trump’s hefty tariffs. But after Trump fired the agency’s top statistician, Tuesday’s report now comes with some other, unexpected baggage. July’s Consumer Price Index is set to …
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A newly discovered 16-million-year-old fossil of an elusive “dirt ant” preserved in Dominican amber has stunned scientists and reshaped our understanding of ant evolution. The study, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, provides the first direct evidence that the Basiceros lineage once lived in the Caribbean before mysteriously vanishing during the Miocene epoch. A Discovery Buried in …
Read More »A relatively mild, 3.0 magnitude earthquake shook the New York metropolitan area Saturday night. Here’s what to know. What happened? The earthquake hit in the New Jersey suburb of Hasbrouck Heights at about 10:18 p.m. Eastern time at a depth of about 6.2 miles (10 kilometers). It was felt fairly widely in northern parts of the state, southern New York …
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Pete DeJoy, Astronomer’s interim CEO, spoke out after taking over for Andy Byron, the ex-tech CEO at the center of an internet controversy and affair allegations, and underscored his commitment to employees and customers alike. Astronomer’s interim CEO addressed the public for the first time since taking over for his scandal-laden predecessor Andy Byron. Pete DeJoy, who co-founded the tech …
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Subaru Telescope has made an exciting discovery: a small body beyond Pluto, with implications for the formation, evolution, and current structure of the outer Solar System. The object was found as part of the survey project FOSSIL (Formation of the Outer Solar System: An Icy Legacy), which takes advantage of the Subaru Telescope’s wide field of view. The object was …
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It is 50 years since the last hurrah of the Apollo program, with a mission that saw the final launch of an Apollo vehicle, and a subsequent docking with a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft in orbit. The mission was the first and only spaceflight of Deke Slayton, one of the original Mercury 7 group of astronauts, who had been disqualified from …
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