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NASA Study Helps Explain Limit-Breaking Ultra-Luminous X-Ray Sources

Exotic cosmic objects known as ultra-luminous X-ray sources produce about 10 million times more energy than the Sun. They’re so radiant, in fact, that they appear to surpass a physical boundary called the Eddington limit, which puts a cap on how bright an object can be based on its mass. Ultra-luminous X-ray sources (ULXs, for short) regularly exceed this limit by 100 to 500 times, leaving…
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New Interactive Mosaic Uses NASA Imagery to Show Mars in Vivid Detail

Cliffsides, impact craters, and dust devil tracks are captured in mesmerizing detail in a new mosaic of the Red Planet composed of 110,000 images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). Taken by the veteran spacecraft’s black-and-white Context Camera, or CTX, the images cover nearly 270 square feet (25 square meters) of surface per pixel. That makes the Global CTX Mosaic of Mars the…
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Deci’s NLP model clocks 100,000 queries per second in latest MLPerf results

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Deci, a deep-learning software maker that uses AI-powered tools to help teams create and deploy AI models at scale, today announced that a natural language processing (NLP) model generated by its in-house technology has clocked over 100,000 queries per…
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Databricks launches Lakehouse Platform to help manufacturers harness data and AI

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Databricks, a company specializing in data lakehouse technology, announced on Tuesday a new platform designed for the manufacturing industry. Called lakehouse for manufacturing, the platform aims to unify data and artificial intelligence (AI) for various…
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