There are a few things that came out of the U.S. airstrikes on Iran
The US Air Force on Tuesday said it had carried out air strikes on Iran’s Natanz nuclear site in response to Israel’s strike on Iran’s Fordow nuclear site last week. “The objective was to…debilitate the facility, prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon and minimise the risk of miscalculation,” it added. Israel had launched the attack on the Fordow site.
The first images from the world’s largest camera leave us in awe
The Rubin Observatory, the largest telescope in the world, has made its first image, which it said is the first-ever image of the southern sky. “It’s a very special telescope,” said Scott Sheppard, an astronomer with Carnegie Science. “Since we take images of the night sky so quickly… we’ll detect millions of changing objects literally every night,” an astronomer said.
Satellites show damage to Iran’s nuclear program but experts say it isn’t destroyed
Satellite imagery shows that Iran’s nuclear facilities are not destroyed, but have significant amounts of uranium that could be moved to another site within a few minutes, David Albright, the president of the Institute for Science and International Security, said. “I think you have to assume…significant amounts of this enriched uranium still exist,” he added.
Ancestra talks a lot about the current state of artificial intelligence
British computer scientist Paul Broad, who made AI work for ‘Blade Runner’, has said that he didn’t train the AI on any data at all. “Agenerative adversarial network is just a statistical model of data that just imitates the data it’s been trained on,” he said. Broad further said that he had to find other ways of framing the question.
Another ban extension has been granted by Trump
Three US lawmakers have written to US President Donald Trump urging him to extend TikTok’s ban in the country. “It’d be unacceptable and unworkable for your administration to continue ignoring the requirements in the law,” they said. They added, “Any further extensions of the TikTok deadline will require Oracle, Apple, Google, and other companies to continue risking ruinous legal liability.”
Open and transparent cooperation is vital to science in the new era
China will remain behind the United States as long as it does not have an NIH equivalent. If the administration of US President Donald Trump keeps cutting funds for the NIH and NIH-supported institutions including Harvard University in Cambridge and Columbia University in New York City, then China will catch up or surpass the US soon, said Rao Yi, a leading Chinese scientist.
The North Koreans fighting for Russia have become skilled in drone warfare
North Korea has up to 1.5 lakh additional troops to fight with the Russians against Ukraine, Ukraine’s military intelligence chief said. Russia has agreed to supply technology and know-how to the North Koreans on how to build long-range Shahed-style drones and improve the accuracy of short-range ballistic missiles, Kyrylo Budanov added. In early January, Ukraine captured two North Korean soldiers in Kursk.
The keyboard obsessed got a review about a $3,600 keyboard
German startup Norbauer & Co’s new keyboard, Seneca, has been tested by technology website The Verge and has received a five-star rating. The keyboard is made of Topre’s ‘capacitive dome’ design and uses Lemo connectors to provide a secure connection. The keyboard is priced at $3,600 (over 23,000) and it can be configured to allow up to three different keyboard configurations.
Israel says it killed 9 Iranian nuclear scientists
Israel expanded its airstrikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities in the country after two days of bombardment. The Israeli military said that it carried out strikes on Iran’s Natanz and Fordow enrichment facilities. In response, Iran fired missiles at Israel, killing at least three people and injuring dozens more. Israel has accused Iran of violating the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
There were crashes on the Air India flight bound for London
An Air India flight carrying 242 people crashed near Ahmedabad in Gujarat on Thursday after overshooting the runway, the Civil Aviation Department said. At least 22 people were injured in the incident and are being treated at a hospital, an official said. The Boeing 737-400 aircraft had taken off from Mumbai at around 10:15 am and was approaching Ahmedabad when the crash took place.