Webb’s Jupiter Images Showcase Auroras, Hazes
With giant storms, powerful winds, auroras, and extreme temperature and pressure conditions, Jupiter has a lot going on. Now, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured new images of the planet. Webb’s Jupiter observations will give scientists even more clues to Jupiter’s inner life.
![Stable Diffusion Public Release
It is our pleasure to announce the public release of stable diffusion following our release for researchers [https://stability.ai/blog/stable-diffusion-announcement]
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Stable Diffusion Public Release
It is our pleasure to announce the public release of stable diffusion following our release for researchers [https://stability.ai/blog/stable-diffusion-announcement]
Over the last few weeks we all have been overwhelmed by the response and have been working hard to ensure a safe and ethical release, incorporating data from our beta model tests and community for the developers to act on.
QuakeCon 2022 has been a blast; in order:
more generating images with DALL-E
from a 1997 David Letterman appearance
A pristine record of outer Solar System materials from asteroid Ryugu’s returned sample
Volatile and organic-rich C-type asteroids may have been one of the main sources of Earth’s water. Our best insight into their chemistry is currently provided by carbonaceous chondritic meteorites, but the meteorite record is biased: only the strongest types survive atmospheric entry and are then modified by interaction with the terrestrial environment. Here we present the results of a detailed bulk and microanalytical study of pristine Ryugu particles, brought to Earth by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft. Ryugu particles display a close compositional match with the chemically unfractionated, but aqueously altered, CI (Ivuna-type) chondrites, which are widely used as a proxy for the bulk Solar System composition. The sample shows an intricate spatial relationship between aliphatic-rich organics and phyllosilicates and indicates maximum temperatures of ~30 °C during aqueous alteration. We find that heavy hydrogen and nitrogen abundances are consistent with an outer Solar System origin. Ryugu particles are the most uncontaminated and unfractionated extraterrestrial materials studied so far, and provide the best available match to the bulk Solar System composition.
U.S. Streaming Tops Cable TV Viewing for First Time, Nielsen Says
Americans now watch more stuff on TV from streaming services than either broadcast or cable TV.
Streaming platforms, led by Netflix, in July 2022 for the first time surpassed cable networks to claim the largest share of U.S. TV viewing for the month, according to new data from Nielsen. It was only a matter of time before the milestone was reached, as streaming usage has continued to climb while traditional TV declines amid the steady drip-drip-drip of cord-cutting losses.
For the month of July, streaming among American TV households represented a record 34.8% share of total consumption, while cable and broadcast came in at 34.4% and 21.6%, respectively. Streaming usage has surpassed that of broadcast before, but this is the first time it has also exceeded cable viewing.
A Janet Jackson song had an uncanny power to crash laptops
In the days of Windows XP, Microsoft’s Raymond Chen says, a manufacturer discovered that playing Rhythm Nation—and apparently only Rhythm Nation—could crash some of their laptops. It was able to crash some of their competitors laptops too. But this was nothing to do with a virus or corrupted file or anything, it was all about the music.
“The weirdest thing was if you played this song, it not only crashed the laptop playing it, it also crashed a laptop that was sitting next to it, that wasn’t playing the song at all,” Chen explained in a video. “The reason was that this song contained a frequency that matched the natural resonant frequency of the hard drive that these laptops were using.”
holy shit have i missed quake deathmatch
i’m solo queueing to try and be not terrible
Voxel Doom making the original sprites 3D while maintaining the 2D art’s charm feels like a magic trick; very impressed
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