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EFFecting Change: Who the Machine Serves
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New AI technique helps robots complete tasks twice as fast by letting them 'think ahead'
Fonte: Live Science
A new AI system lets robots plan their next move while they're in motion — removing reaction delays and doubling task speeds without any extra computing overhea…
'The X-Files' creator Chris Carter says new director's cut of 'I Want to Believe' is 'the horror movie that we really wanted to make' (interview)
Brett Tingley · Space.com
Chris Carter, creator of "The X-Files", is revisiting the 2008 film "The X-Files: I Want to Believe" in an new R-rated director's cut coming to Hulu on Aug. 14.…
MIT Technology Review
The Download: kids’ thoughts on AI, and female clones of male mice
Thomas Macaulay · MIT Technology Review
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How kids feel about AI…
RFC Editor
RFC 9971: Busca de Relação de Perda Múltipla
Fonte: RFC Editor
Este documento descreve uma alternativa ao throughput no "Metodologia de Benchmarking para Dispositivos de Interconexão de Rede" (RFC 2544) ao definir uma nova …
NASA
APOD: 13 de agosto de 2026 - Eclipse Solar Total sobre a Espanha
Fonte: NASA
Todos os dias, uma imagem ou fotografia diferente do nosso fascinante universo é destacada, juntamente com uma breve explicação escrita por um astrônomo profiss…
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James Webb telescope just spotted the oldest, closest pair of black holes in the early universe
Fonte: Live Science
The dual black hole system, dubbed LID-1166, is the first close-separation pair of its kind confirmed this early in the universe. The discovery could help to ex…
How to image the planets with a telescope and camera
Fonte: Space.com
The night sky holds endless wonders, but few experiences match the thrill of photographing planets in vivid detail. With even a modest telescope and camera setu…
MIT Technology Review
What’s behind this summer’s heat, and why 2027 could be worse
Casey Crownhart · MIT Technology Review
This summer has been a scorcher for much of the Northern Hemisphere. June and July marked the hottest two-month stretch in Europe since record-keeping began. Th…
NASA
Vulcões da Cordilheira Cascade envoltos em fumaça
Fonte: NASA
Da Estação Espacial Internacional, os astronautas fotografaram o Monte Hood e o Monte Rainier enquanto a fumaça de incêndio se espalhou pelo Noroeste do Pacífic…
Foodborne illnesses: Is the US really being hit harder this year?
Fonte: Live Science
While parasitic Cyclospora infections have reached record-breaking numbers this year, experts have criticized coverage that has created the appearance of "one m…
Virgin Galactic delays next commercial spaceflight to 2027
Mike Wall · Space.com
Virgin Galactic has pushed the resumption of its commercial flights back by a few months, to February 2027. The company hasn't been to space since June 2024.…
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MIT Technology Review
How kids feel about AI, in their own words
Jen Swetzoff, Keeley McNamara · MIT Technology Review
When we set out to talk to kids about artificial intelligence, we thought we knew what we’d hear. We expected some to tell us they were using it to cheat a litt…
Mars may have been losing its water more than 4 billion years ago, oldest-known Martian meteorite suggests
Fonte: Live Science
An unassuming, brownish stone may be one of the most precious objects on Earth. The rare rock, called Teghaza 001, is a piece of ancient Mars and gives geoscien…
The Perseid meteor shower peak was spectacular: Here are our favorite photos
Fonte: Space.com
The Perseid meteor shower peaked last night in spectacular fashion, dazzling stargazers as countless shooting stars blazed overhead mere hours after a total sol…
Mammal ancestors may have given live birth 90 million years earlier than we thought, rewriting evolutionary timelines
Fonte: Live Science
A dog-sized carnivore and mammal ancestor that lived around 236 million years ago seems to have given birth to live young, a new study suggests. This means the …
On this day in space! Aug. 13, 2014: Game-changing WorldView-3 Earth-observing satellite launches to orbit
Fonte: Space.com
On Aug. 13, 2014, a company called DigitalGlobe launched what was then the sharpest-eyed satellite of all time. WorldView-3 is a high-resolution imaging satelli…
Pigs wearing heated diving suits and diapers reveal a better way to beat 'the bends'
Fonte: Live Science
Deep-sea divers take careful measures to avoid "the bends," a painful condition where gas bubbles form in divers' blood and tissues when they ascend from the de…
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Total solar eclipse stuns skywatchers | Space photo of the day for Aug. 13, 2026
Chelsea Gohd · Space.com
This photo, snapped just as the Aug. 12 solar eclipse was about to enter its totality phase, really captures the drama of the moment.…
Before we ban kids from social media completely, here's what we should try first
Fonte: Live Science
Countries like Australia are banning young users from creating social media accounts. But this may not be the best way to address the potential harms of such pr…
'Strange New Worlds' latest lookalike episode is part of a long line of 'Star Trek' doppelganger stories
Fonte: Space.com
MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD! ANYONE YET TO WATCH "A CASE OF CHIAROSCURO" SHOULD PROCEED WITH CAUTION TO AVOID VIOLATING TEMPORAL PRIME DIRECTIVES.…
How to see and photograph the partial lunar eclipse on August 27-28
Fonte: Live Science
It may not be a 'blood moon' total lunar eclipse, but with more than 96% of the moon immersed in Earth's shadow, it promises a fine lunar observing and photogra…
When is the next solar eclipse? Mark your calendar for an upcoming 'ring of fire' and the 'eclipse of the century'
Daisy Dobrijevic · Space.com
Yesterday (Aug.12), millions of people enjoyed a total solar eclipse as it swept across parts of Greenland, Iceland and Spain, while a partial solar eclipse was…
New 2D memory device stores data on just a single electron
Fonte: Live Science
Researchers build a new memory device following a single-electron storage breakthrough. It could make transferring data faster and more energy-efficient.…
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