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A 'lost planet' may have given Jupiter and Uranus their moons

For years, astronomers have suspected that our solar system may have lost at least one world at some point in its 4.5-billion-year history. And now, new research suggests the moons of Jupiter and Uranus may indeed hint that our planetary neighborhood once had a third ice giant. Evidence has shown that between 3 billion and 4 billion years ago, the solar system’s largest planets likely orbited…
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Xiaomi 17T, Xiaomi 17T Pro Launched with MediaTek Dimensity Chipsets

Xiaomi 17T and Xiaomi 17T Pro have been announced in the global markets, both powered by high-end MediaTek Dimensity processors. The devices also have Leica tuned cameras, LPDDR5x RAM, UFS 4.1 storage, and more. Here’s everything to know about the two devices. Xiaomi 17T: Price, Specifications The Xiaomi 17T comes in Violet, Opal White, Blue, and Black shades and is priced starting at EUR…
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AI & RoboticsNews

This chip startup just raised $135M on a bet that AI’s biggest bottleneck isn’t compute — it’s memory

Every time you ask ChatGPT a question, your request triggers a data relay race. Information leaves memory, passes through a CPU for preprocessing, travels to a GPU for heavy computation, and then makes its way back – and that entire journey repeats for every single word the AI generates. The bottleneck is structural – it means routing through some of the most expensive and power-intensive…
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"Why did I need a photograph? I knew I'd been there" – Edmund Hillary’s purported words after history-making Everest summit seem crazy by today's 'snap everything' standards

I wonder what Sir Edmund Hillary would make of today’s ‘snap everything’ culture, driven by camera phones and social media. I’m sure he would be astounded that millions of people now seem to think their dinner is worthy of a quick JPEG, when he didn’t even consider that becoming the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest – the tallest mountain on Earth, at 8,848m – worthy…
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