Новости за 19.12.2024

1. SpaceX will launch Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander to the moon in mid-January with these 10 NASA payloads  Space.com
2. Firefly wins NASA contract for third lunar lander mission  SpaceNews
3. NASA Payload Aims to Probe Moon’s Depths to Study Heat Flow  NASA
4. Firefly Awarded $179 Million NASA Contract for Moon Delivery to Gruithuisen Domes  Firefly Aerospace
5. Private mission to moon to pave way for humanity's return to lunar surface  Sky News

Pentagon Games, a Web3 game company making immersive virtual environments, has teamed with the Tron DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) to create a new digital world on the Tron blockchain. Pentagon Games said it is working with the Tron DAO, a community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet via blockchain technology and decentralized […]

Regis Le Bris was quizzed on reports claiming he's looking to add a new coach to his Sunderland backroom team

Starbucks’ Honey Citrus Mint Tea is a popular choice for sick customers. The comforting drink consists of green tea, chamomile, spearmint, fruit flavor, honey, and lemonade. The drink first went viral as a secret menu item in 2016 and then became a menu item the following year. However, the nickname that customers created for the drink, the medicine ball, stuck. But customers calling the drink by the unofficial name has become a common annoyance for Starbucks workers, as one woman recently learned. Читать дальше...

Chat GPT is not the only AI service in town. Google Gemini is a similar service where you can ask questions and get answers in plain text–no commands required. You can “converse” just as if the AI robot were a real person.

Last Night on Earth – Movie Review

First Reaction – Last Night on Earth is moving and reflective.

Watch Last Night on Earth on Tubi

Director: Marcos Efron

Writer: Marcos Efron (Screenplay)

Cast

• Leven Rambin (The Hunger Games)
• Jake McLaughlin (Warrior)
• Dee Wallace (Cujo)
• Shane West (A Walk to Remember)
• Katie Keene (Bring Him Back Dead)

Plot: Faced with impending doom from a planet-killing asteroid... Читать дальше...

Colby Covington | Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC

Colby Covington finally responded to some jabs from Jon Jones after the UFC heavyweight champion mocked him following a lopsided loss to Joaquin Buckley in the UFC Tampa main event.

TL;DR: This holiday, give someone the gift of a more streamlined workday with 1minAI's collection of almost all the major AI models, now only $39.99 (reg. $234).

NASA and SpaceX are targeting mid-January for the launch of Firefly Aerospace's Ghost Riders in the Sky mission to the lunar surface.

At any given moment I am in the center of a wonderful vortex of skeletons. Bones splash and rattle and burst out of the ground in sharp, horrible spurs. My weakest skeletons, sensing their death coming, explode into fire and shards. My strongest skeletons fight so hard and with such alacrity that upon dying, they drag their spirits together and keep fighting as ghosts for a while. Foul little bone scorpions skitter around on fans of legs made from human hands. Somewhere in the middle, almost invisible among the noise... Читать дальше...

Luthai Group plans for a $385 million factory.

A lot going on here.

New safety data on Waymos, made by the insurer SwissRe, shore up claims of Waymos reducing risk on the road.

Having wrested the federal government away from big government advocates, DOGE should harness the bureaucracy it retains to enforce reform, not simply peremptorily discard it.

In the upcoming episodes of Shrimad Ramayan, Sita embarks on a perilous journey into the forest to find her sons, Luv and Kush. She encounters Sahastra Ravan, who traps her. Sita, invoking Goddess Parvati, transforms into the fierce Maa Chandi, turning blue. Sahastra Ravan, recalling a curse linking his death to Goddess Lakshmi (another form of Sita), fears his end.

Discover the new planets, moons, health advances, and ancient history uncovered in 2024.

1. Apple-Nvidia collaboration triples speed of AI model production  AppleInsider
2. Accelerating LLM Inference on NVIDIA GPUs with ReDrafter  Apple Machine Learning Research
3. NVIDIA and Apple Boost LLM Inference Efficiency with ReDrafter Integration  Yahoo Finance
4. Nvidia, Apple Team Up To Supercharge ChatGPT-Like LLMs With ReDrafter Technique - NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)  Benzinga
5. Apple collaborates with Nvidia to speed up token generation  Seeking Alpha

Mark Cranfield broke down in the dock after being warned that he is likely to be jailed when he returns to court in February.

Leaders of the BJP are making a beeline for Delhi's Ram Manohar Lohia hospital to visit to the two party MPS admitted after they were injured in the brawl outside parliament earlier today.

The end of the year is often a time to reflect and spend time with family — activities that may seem joyful or anxiety-inducing, depending on your circumstances. Psychologist Guy Winch offers actionable advice on how to manage your emotions with confidence during the holidays, from setting boundaries to healing heartache — above all reminding you that emotional health is possible, as long as you're informed and willing to do the work. (This live conversation was hosted by TED's Whitney Pennington Rodgers. Читать дальше...

Bharti Airtel, CtrlS, and Holoware have submitted investment proposals under Bihar's new IT Policy 2024. The state has received proposals totalling over Rs 4,000 crore in the last 11 months. Airtel and CtrlS are in advanced stages, while Holoware plans a Rs 300 crore investment in hardware manufacturing. Bihar offers up to Rs 70 crore in incentives for a Rs 100 crore investment.

Inspired by international dictionaries’ annual selection of their word of the year, we’d like to advocate perhaps the “Word of All Time”, harkening back centuries and still very relevant. The word is the adjective “bullying.” Broadly defined, bullying encompasses the harrying of individuals, peoples, governments and nations by those perceived as dominating, influential, powerful and menacing.