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On this day in space! Aug. 5, 2011: NASA's Juno spacecraft launches to Jupiter

On Aug. 5, 2011, NASA launched the Juno spacecraft on a mission to study Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system. The robotic spacecraft lifted off on an Atlas V rocket from what is now Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and spent the next five years making the 1.74-billion-mile trek to Jupiter. Next Stop, Jupiter! Launch Photos of NASA’s Juno Mission Since it…
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Mars dust is toxic. How will future astronauts deal with it?

Planting boots on Mars is hard enough. But getting “breathing room” on the Red Planet without inhaling toxic dust is yet another issue. Given NASA’s plans to eventually put astronauts on the Red Planet, the agency assembled a Martian Dust Limit Working…
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Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startup

Jeff Dean, one of the longest-serving and most influential executives at Google, is stepping down from the search giant to launch his own AI startup. Coming with him as co-founders are several other top researchers at the company, including Sanjay Ghemawat, a top engineer and senior fellow at Google; Quoc Le, a key AI researcher and founding member of Google Brain; and Oriol Vinyals, a senior…
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"We're returning control to the photographer" – Capture One CEO on bringing Hasselblad workflows to professionals

A high-resolution Hasselblad file is only the beginning of the creative process. For professional photographers, the software that interprets those images can be just as important as the camera itself. Now, Capture One is expanding its professional workflow with support for three Hasselblad cameras – the X2D II 100C, the X2D 100C and the CFV 100C digital back – bringing the Swedish…
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Waymo CEO explains why Tesla’s camera-only self-driving falls short

Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov laid out the clearest technical case yet for why cameras alone can’t take a self-driving system to full autonomy, arguing that “weak sensing” hits a safety ceiling long before it reaches superhuman performance. He never said the word Tesla. But camera-only is Tesla’s entire bet, and this was a direct shot at it. The sensor debate, from someone with 220 million…
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