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Ghost forests are growing as sea levels rise

Like giant bones planted in the earth, clusters of tree trunks, stripped clean of bark, are appearing along the Chesapeake Bay on the United...

Lichens can survive almost anything, and some might survive Mars

Whether anything ever lived on Mars is unknown. And the present environment, with harsh temperatures, intense radiation, and a sparse atmosphere, isn’t exactly propitious...

Google adds YouTube Music feature to end annoying volume shifts

Google's history with music services is almost as convoluted and frustrating as its history with messaging. However, things have gotten calmer (and slower) ever...

Trump official to Katy Perry and Bezos’ fiancée: “You cannot identify as an astronaut”

Secretary of Transportation weighs in That was pretty much how things stood until Thursday evening, when the Secretary of the US Department of Transportation,...

Microsoft’s “1‑bit” AI model runs on a CPU only, while matching larger systems

Does size matter? Memory requirements are the most obvious advantage of reducing the complexity of a model's internal weights. The BitNet b1.58 model can...

Synology confirms that higher-end NAS products will require its branded drives

Popular NAS-maker Synology has confirmed and slightly clarified a policy that appeared on its German website earlier this week: Its "Plus" tier of devices,...

There’s a secret reason the Space Force is delaying the next Atlas V launch

It wouldn't have been surprising for SpaceX to get priority on the range schedule since it had already reserved the launch window with the...

Resist, eggheads! Universities are not as weak as they have chosen to be.

The wholesale American cannibalism of one of its own crucial appendages—the world-famous university system—has begun in earnest. The campaign is predictably Trumpian, built on...

OpenAI releases new simulated reasoning models with full tool access

On Wednesday, OpenAI announced the release of two new models—o3 and o4-mini—that combine simulated reasoning capabilities with access to functions like web browsing and...

Why are two Texas senators trying to wrest a Space Shuttle from the Smithsonian?

Should the city of Houston, which proudly bills itself as "Space City," have a prized Space Shuttle orbiter on public display? More than a...

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