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The discovery marks the first time water has been found on the surfaces of asteroids. Prior possible water discoveries on asteroids could simply have been hydroxyl mistaken for water. In one plausible explanation, impacts from icy comets and moons from the outer solar system could havebroughtwater here. However, this would have required unstable orbits from outer planets like Jupiter. The recent discovery expands the potential number of places in the inner solar system that harbor water....

Astronomers recently revealed that they’ve found a particularly extreme example. As bright and massive as it is, the new record-holding quasar was hiding in plain sight. Astronomers recentlydetectedwhat is now considered the brightest-known object in the universe. The quasar is so far away that its light takes 12 billion years to reach Earth. Although around one million quasars have been discovered over the last several decades, detecting them has proven challenging....

This error usually means the security rules have blocked your request while you were browsing the internet. This error indicates that your request was blocked by a firewall or a web server for some reason. Sometimes you may getaccess denied error 15when you have a go at access a website or a resource. Access Denied: This request was blocked by the security rules. Contents What causes the Error code 15 or 16?...

Xbox has already revealed that Blizzard’s Diablo 4 will land on Game Pass on March 28. Spencer never specifically mentioned Call of Duty coming to the service on day one, but it was implied. He said work was currently being carried out to add other existing Activision Blizzard titles to Game Pass. Call of Duty was acontentious issueduring Microsoft’s protracted $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard. Elsewhere in the interview, Spencer talked about the industry’s shift toward digital media over physical....

Graphcore refers to itsIPU chipsas the most complex processors in the world. Despite its impressive specifications, IPU chips are not selling as well as expected. They could outperform today’s GPUs while using much less energy at the same time. Featured on TechSpot

It is used in stores to make no-touch purchases with our credit cards or phones. Casinos even use RFID tags to authenticate their chips to prevent counterfeiting. It improved the security of standard RFID authentication by using terahertz radio waves. Instead of using regular adhesive on the tags, the teammixedmicroscopic pieces of metal in with the glue. The sheer number of particles and their random orientation make it virtually impossible to duplicate the pattern....

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However, miniaturized robots and surgeons operating remotely could provide an innovative solution to the problem. The left arm is fitted with a grasper, while the right one includes a pair of scissors. An integrated camera provides ground operators with a video feed during the remote operation. In the not-so-distant future, spaceMIRA could provide a potential alternative for properly treating such emergencies. Featured on TechSpot

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Prepare to be maddened. The benchmark in question was 523.xalancbmk_r / 623.xalancbmk_s. To put it bluntly, Intel cheated. This deception is hardly the first time a company’s integrity around benchmark results has been questioned. Mobile chip suppliers Qualcomm, Samsung, and MediaTek supposedlyfakedAndroid performance results in 2020. Featured on TechSpot

Google is testing a feature that allows technology to take your place for the initial steps of a call. Google unimaginatively calls the feature “Talk to a Live Representative.” It supposedly enables users to skip the lengthy wait times associated with support calls. Customers using the system can continue their other business without staying in the queue for an hour or more. Talk to a Representative is available through Google’s mobile apps and the desktop version of Chrome....

Nvidia calls it an AI factory, an arguably accurate description. It also showcases what Nvidia’s technologies can do when working at scale. Nvidia has given enthusiasts their first look at Eos, a data-center scale supercomputerdesignedfor AI applications. It first introduced Eos at the Supercomputing Conference in November 2023 but didn’t reveal its specs. It also has Nvidia Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking and software. This combination provides a total of 18.4 exaflops of FP8 AI performance....