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Crypto Traders Compete for 600K USDC, Private Island Grand Prize via Deribit Contest

Deribit and Signalplus opened registration for a five-week trading competition offering a prize pool that scales up to 600,000 USDC. Key Takeaways Deribit and Signalplus opened a 600,000 USDC contest running July 6 to August 10, 2026. Coinbase, which bought Deribit for $2.9 billion in 2025, backs the five-week competition. Referral tiers reach Nvidia stock at 1,500 signups and a Rolex at 3,000…
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Want to see Uranus? July 4 could be your best chance in decades

Want to see Uranus for yourself? Independence Day morning offers one of the best opportunities in decades, as the distant ice giant passes extraordinarily close to Mars in the predawn sky. Although we often hear that only five planets are visible to the unaided eye, Uranus can also be seen from Earth under the right conditions. As the seventh planet from the sun, it is very faint — near the…
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America at 500: Where will we be in space in 2276?

The United States has taken some significant steps into the final frontier during its first 250 years. The nation has put people on the moon, helped build and operate a long-running space station in low Earth orbit (LEO) and sent fleets of robotic explorers to many corners…
AI & RoboticsNews

What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor

Following the Trump directive that led Anthropic to pull its latest AI models offline and growing calls for sovereign tech that reduces reliance on the U.S., Mistral AI has been caught in a whirlwind of attention. But the French AI darling is often misunderstood, and the fact that it develops large language models (LLMs) has muddied the picture. Anyone who judges Mistral by how close it is to…
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AI & RoboticsNews

The only AI glossary you’ll need this year

Artificial intelligence is rewriting the world, and simultaneously inventing a whole new language to describe how it’s doing it. Sit in on any product meeting, pitch, or panel these days, and you’ll hear people toss around LLMs, RAG, RLHF, and a dozen other terms…
NewsPhotography

This camera gear was never intended for panoramas – yet you can still shoot a macro panorama with it, and here's how

Macro photography is recognizable by its characteristic shallow depth of field and tight framing. In the majority of close-up images, a single subject is isolated in the frame, with a sharp falloff in focus in front of and behind the subject. This type of composition is fantastic for highlighting details and creating a bug’s-eye perspective. However, there are disadvantages to the macro point of…
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