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Yesterday was the third time this year that an ad stating Chelsea Clinton lives in a beautiful Virginia home popped up on my laptop. My computer did not warn me this was a dangerous site, so this time, I clicked on the link.

Chelsea Clinton is rumored to be living in Virginia but probably still in NYC

Indy100

Professor Brian Cox has come up with a hilarious reason as to why aliens haven't yet made contact with Earth.It all started when Cox turned to X/Twitter with his bemusement at how the 1977 interstellar probe Voyager could be fixed remotely from Earth. His tweet was met with some comedic responses, comparing it to modern-day problems. "Meanwhile, the printer that's 3 feet from my laptop won't connect," one person humoured, while another chimed in: "It is amazing, and with a tiny amount of power. If we could get that comms team working on train wifi." However, the physicist and musician...

Professor Brian Cox believes this is the reason we haven't yet heard from aliens

Chicago, IL

Foodie in Chicago

Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

Did You Feel the Earthquake?

New Orleans, LA

NASA rolled out the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket’s core stage for the Artemis II test flight from its manufacturing facility in New Orleans on Tuesday for shipment to the agency’s spaceport in Florida. The rollout is key progress on the path to NASA’s first crewed mission to the Moon under the Artemis campaign.

NASA’s SLS rocket stage set for transportation to Kennedy Space Center for Artemis II mission

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed mysterious objects in the early universe that challenge current theories of galaxy and supermassive black hole evolution. These objects contain old stars and massive black holes, much larger than expected, suggesting a rapid and unconventional form of early galaxy formation. The findings highlight significant discrepancies with existing models, and the objects’ unique properties indicate a complex early cosmic history.

Scientists Baffled: Webb Uncovers Ancient Galaxies That Defy Explanation

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. What just happened? In 2019, Google's Sycamore quantum computer achieved a so-called quantum supremacy record by completing a specific task in 200 seconds that would have taken a classical supercomputer 10,000 years to finish. There was a bit of controversy around this achievement, but by and large, Google's claim has withstood the test of time – until now. Last month, a company called Quantinuum said it reached an error correction performance threshold that many believed was years away.

A new quantum computer breaks Google's quantum supremacy record by 100-fold

Quantum computing has the potential to provide insights into profound questions about the universe, such as how space-time emerges from fundamental quantum processes. This capability is particularly valuable because many of these processes are currently beyond our reach with classical computational methods. The concept of emergent space-time suggests that our...

Quantum Physicist John Preskill Explores Information as Fundamental Reality

Researchers say they've used cutting-edge gravitational wave research to shed new light on a nearly 2,000-year-old mystery. In 1901, researchers discovered what's now known as the Antikythera mechanism in a sunken shipwreck, an ancient artifact that dates back to the second century BC, making it the world's "oldest computer." There's...

Researchers Make Breakthrough in Study of Mysterious 2000-Year-Old Computer Found in Shipwreck

In the realm of quantum physics, energy is not a continuous quantity but rather comes in discrete packets, known as quanta. This fundamental discreteness is rooted in wave-particle duality and the quantization of physical properties, hallmarks of quantum mechanics. The concept of a “quantum of energy” has far-reaching implications for our understanding of the physical world, challenging classical notions of energy and introducing a new level of precision and certainty.

What is a Quantum Of Energy?

Space.com

Newly released images from NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope capture a cloud complex called Rho Ophiuchi, the Orion Nebula, a spiral galaxy named NGC 3627 and a galaxy cluster known as MACS J0416.

Road trip! Tour the universe with these gorgeous images from NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope

ESA and the Delft University of Technology are training neural-network AI systems to race drones in preparation for complicated spacecraft maneuvers.

Drone racing is helping train AI to autonomously drive spacecraft

Nearby Exoplanet May Have Life-Sustaining Ocean, Say Scientists. An exoplanet relatively close to Earth may be the first ever detected with a potentially life-sustaining liquid ocean outside our Solar System, according to scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. While more than 5,000 exoplanets have been discovered, only a handful are in the “Goldilocks zone”—neither too hot nor too cold—where liquid water, a key ingredient for life, could exist.

Nearby exoplanet could be the first known ocean world, says NASA’s Webb Telescope

Talker

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James Webb Space Telescope captures stunning ‘cosmic penguin’

BOISE, Idaho, July 16, 2024 — Micron Technology, Inc. today announced it is now sampling its multiplexed rank dual inline memory module (MRDIMMs). The MRDIMMs will enable Micron customers to run increasingly demanding workloads and obtain maximum value out of their compute infrastructure. For applications requiring more than 128GB...

Micron Introduces MRDIMMs to Future-Proof Compute Systems with DDR5 Tech

The Independent

Scientists have found an elusive massive black hole that they believe is the closest to Earth.The black hole was found after researchers spotted fast-moving stars that are being pulled around as if they are close to an extreme object.It appears to be sheltering an “intermediate-mass” black hole. Researchers have been looking for such an object for decades, and it is the “missing link” in our understanding of black holes.So far, scientists have found examples of supermassive black holes that can have masses of billions of suns, and they have found solar-mass black holes that can only be as massive as...

Astronomers find nearby black hole that changes our understanding of space

California State

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The HD Post

CALIFORNIA – Starting July 1, landlords will only be allowed to collect one month’s rent for the security deposit on a rental property. Assembly Bill 12, signed into law last October, says regardless of whether the residential property is unfurnished or furnished, only one month’s rent can be charged in addition to any rent for the first month paid on or before initial occupancy.

Law limiting security deposits goes into effect July 1

Idaho State

July 15, 2024 — If you’ve ever driven to a remote area, you may have noticed that the drive time is much longer on dirt roads. But once those roads are paved, you can get where you need to go much more quickly. The path to deploying advanced nuclear reactors isn’t a straight line, but a new supercomputer named Bitterroot being installed at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is helping to speed the journey through improved access to modeling and simulation tools.

Idaho National Laboratory’s Bitterroot Supercomputer to Support Advanced Nuclear Reactors

Michigan State

New York Post

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected what could be distinct signs of life on a “potentially habitable” world nearly 50 million lightyears away.

Researchers from the Universities of Michigan and Montreal analyzed late 2023 data sent from the high-powered JWST optical. They flagged potential oceans and air sources on the exoplanet dubbed LHS 1140 b, situated within the constellation Cetus in our night sky.



Although the name isn’t so moving, its potential is. 

“Of all currently known temperate exoplanets, LHS 1140 b could well be our best bet to one day indirectly confirm liquid water on the surface of an alien...

Exoplanet is first detected with potentially life-supporting atmosphere: NASA

LiveScience

Scientists observed record-breaking electron mobility — seven times higher than in conventional semiconductors — with a material made from the same elements as quartz and gold.

Razor-thin crystalline film 'built atom-by-atom' gets electrons moving 7 times faster than in semiconductors

NASA and its partners, the European and Canadian space agencies, are celebrating the second year since the James Webb Telescope started sending back photos of the universe by releasing an image of the Penguin and the Egg galaxies. These are interacting galaxies collectively known as Arp 142 located 326 million light-years from Earth, captured by the James Webb in interactive light.

James Webb telescope marks second anniversary with an image of the Penguin and the Egg galaxies

NewsBreak

Peter Shor Wins IEEE 2025 Shannon Award

Peter Shor, the MIT mathematician whose ‘Shor’s algorithm’ sent shivers of fear through the encryption community and helped galvanize ongoing efforts to build quantum computers, has...

Peter Shor Wins IEEE 2025 Shannon Award

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