Vera Rubin Observatory spots the fastest-spinning large asteroid ever found
The Vera Rubin Observatory has found 19 new "superfast rotator" asteroids, including the fastest-spinning big space rock ever found....
Jan 8Space.comScience
Why There's No Single Best Way to Store Information
Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-theres-no-single-best-way-to-store-information-20260116/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46659219 Points: 7 # Comments: 0...
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The 'Godfather of AI' says he's 'very sad' about what his life's work has become
AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton warned that rapid advances could upend jobs, power, and humanity itself. JORGE UZON/AFP via Getty Images Geoffrey Hinton said he's very sad that the AI he helped create has ...
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The world has entered an era of ‘global water bankruptcy’, UN warns. What does it actually mean?
Decades of human activity have left “irreversible damage” to the planet’s water supply, a new report warns....
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Past nuclear weapon tests linked to 4 million premature deaths globally, report says
Nuclear weapons testing has affected every single human on the planet, causing at least 4 million premature deaths from cancer and other diseases over time, according to a new report delving into the ...
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The US is fast-tracking permits for deep-sea mining
A sample of a polymetallic nodule at the Viridian Biometals lab in Pasadena, California. | Photo: Getty Images The Trump administration took the next step toward unilaterally jumpstarting deep-sea min...
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Show HN: The Hessian of tall-skinny networks is easy to invert
It turns out the inverse of the Hessian of a deep net is easy to apply to a vector. Doing this naively takes cubically many operations in the number of layers (so impractical), but it's possible to do...
Jan 15Hacker NewsTechnologyImpact
An oncologist was shocked to learn she had breast cancer. She had no symptoms and thought she was low-risk.
Dr. Sue Hwang, a radiation oncologist, said her own experience with breast cancer helped her see vulnerability as a strength instead of a weakness. Tim Brown Oncologist Sue Hwang was diagnosed with br...
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