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Mission to Mars! Japanese spacecraft begins epic five-year quest to bring Martian moon samples back to Earth for the first time
A Japanese rocket is set to blast off on an ambitious £262 million mission to swipe soil samples from one of Mars's mysterious moons.
Alibaba’s RISC-V IP powers over 6 billion shipped chips as tech giant targets AI, autos
Alibaba Group Holding’s research arm, Damo Academy, has seen more than 6 billion chips shipped based on its XuanTie RISC-V architecture, marking a milestone as the tech giant doubles down on the open standard in artificial intelligence and automotive systems. Meng Jianyi, chief scientist at Damo Academy, announced the figure on Monday at the annual RISC-V Summit China in Shenzhen. The achievement comes as Chinese companies seek to play a greater role in the global RISC-V ecosystem, an...
Alibaba’s RISC-V IP powers over 6 billion shipped chips as tech giant targets AI, autos
Alibaba Group Holding’s research arm, Damo Academy, has seen more than 6 billion chips shipped based on its XuanTie RISC-V architecture, marking a milestone as the tech giant doubles down on the open standard in artificial intelligence and automotive systems. Meng Jianyi, chief scientist at Damo Academy, announced the figure on Monday at the annual RISC-V Summit China in Shenzhen. The achievement comes as Chinese companies seek to play a greater role in the global RISC-V ecosystem, an...
Russian Satellite Makes a Menacing Approach to Another Craft in Orbit
Although Kosmos 2612 is now backing away, the maneuver raised alarm bells for analysts who see it as part of a pattern of Russian aggression.
Canadian who stole a Las Vegas flamingo after drinking '30 to 40' beers convicted of animal cruelty
A Las Vegas court convicted Ontario man Mitchell Fairbarn of animal cruelty charges Monday for snatching a flamingo named Peachy from its habitat at the Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel and Casino last March in what prosecutors called a drunken and malicious act.
Parks Canada not laying charges after Banff National Park superintendent admits to violating federal law
Parks Canada isn’t pressing charges against Banff National Park superintendent Salman Rasheed after he admitted to violating federal law by having his dog off-leash.
Nscale and Anthropic are reportedly in talks for yet another $45B compute deal
If the deal goes through, it would be the latest in a long string of giant compute deals Anthropic has struck over the past year.
Five ways El Niño is affecting the weather around the world
As the strongest El Niño on record continues to intensify, what impacts on weather patterns are already being felt across the globe? Sarah Keith-Lucas looks at the evidence.
Forgotten particle could answer mystery of why we exist, say physicists
Why we exist is one of the strangest mysteries science has to grapple with, but scientists may have found the answer.
Embedded AI evaluators won’t be an easy solution, Hugging Face’s policy chief says
The idea of embedded evaluators — in which supposedly "neutral" third-party observers are placed inside AI organizations — has been popularized over the last several months, as AI labs grapple with a rash of safety incidents that have spurred concerns over the potential harms of their technology.