OpenAI has spent the last few years planting flags across the increasingly difficult terrain in mathematics. This week, it claimed one of its biggest prizes yet: a solution to a legendary Millennium Prize problem. In normal circumstances, this would have been celebrated as a historic achievement. Instead, many mathematicians have watched OpenAI’s relentless advance with … Read more
The natural gas sticking point Compared to the original plan for gas turbines, the deployment of 2.45 gigawatts of fuel cells could reduce nitrogen oxide emissions by more than 90 percent and “substantially” reduce the amount of other air pollutants, like carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide, according to Julia Robin, VP of networking and data … Read more
Protein power Mass spectrometry-based proteomics is a relative newcomer to the field and is capable of providing a thorough and very detailed characterization of any protein residues present in a given sample, as well as any accumulated damage. The technique is so sensitive that less sample material is needed compared to other methods. And unlike, … Read more
Many lawyers have been caught citing fake cases in briefs or inaccurately describing real cases. While Aarons didn’t cite fake cases, he inaccurately described real ones and cited fake testimony. Aarons told the state Supreme Court at a hearing on August 21 that he fed a computer-generated transcript of the murder trial and other documents … Read more
Not the DOE’s job The court spends a fair bit of time analyzing the history and structure of the regulation of the US electric grid. With very little in the way of exceptions, this leaves regulation of generating capacity to the states; the federal government only gets involved when it comes to interstate transmission lines. … Read more
The MRSA strain, called t016-ST22-MRSA-IV, has a unique pattern of antibiotic resistance; it could resist at least four drugs, including flucloxacillin, ciprofloxacin, gentamicin, and trimethoprim. Fortunately, there were others to which it was still susceptible, including clindamycin, tetracycline, fusidic acid, co-trimoxazole, and linezolid. MRSA most often plagues healthcare settings, but it’s also known to spread … Read more
Games may be life with all the hard bits removed, but they provide a way to study why people make the choices they make. Traditional games are usually played against a static background: the rewards per outcome are constant. That limits their relevance to behavior because, in real life, the rewards and consequences of strategic … Read more
Ars: You have another mission working with JAXA, ISSA-J1, to go rendezvous and inspect two decommissioned Japanese satellites. How is that different than inspecting a rocket body? Blackerby: ADRAS-J2 is going to an oblong rocket body. It’s not spinning. ISSA-J1 is going to satellites, and it’s going to have to approach something that has a solar … Read more
Anker’s Soundcore Liberty 5 Pro came out swinging in May with incredible call quality, something that competing ear buds have struggled to get right. They’ve become part of our reviewer John Higgins’ rotation of earbuds for more than just taking calls; The Liberty 5 Pro have fantastic audio once you make some tweaks in their … Read more
On September 6th, YouTuber Nicholas Light posted a video to one of his channels that made it seem like all of his content was about to be removed from the platform. In the video — ominously titled “My Channel will be Deleted Today” — Light alleges that he was on the receiving end of some … Read more