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Relying on cloud computing can lead to out-of-control costs. In order to solve this problem, researchers from Sky Computing Lab, a laboratory in Berkeley, California, launched an open source framework, SkyPilot, to help users shop around to reduce cloud computing costs. SkyPilot uses an algorithm to determine which cloud service region or provider is the […]

The U.S. Air Force has successfully tested its first hypersonic missile prototype. The missile prototype, known as the AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon or ARRW (Arrow), is expected to be the first hypersonic missile to enter service. The exact speed of the AGM-183A is unknown, but it is rumored to have a maximum speed of

The U.S. Department of Energy will announce a major breakthrough in fusion research Tuesday at 10 a.m. ET. Nuclear fusion energy is believed to provide unlimited clean energy. The breakthrough was made by researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), during a news conference that included Energy Secretary Jennifer M. Granholm, Under Secretary for Nuclear

The open source video editor project OpenShot has released version 3.0. The most notable change in the new version is the improved video preview, the preview is now smoother, and the suspended animation and stuttering during the preview are reduced. To improve video previews, the developers refactored the decoder to be more resilient to packet

The State Cyberspace Administration and other three departments jointly issued the “Regulations on the Administration of Deep Synthesis of Internet Information Services”, which restricts the popular deepfakes (deep synthesis) technology in the past few years. The regulation will come into effect on January 10, 2023. “Management Regulations”: Article 6 No organization or individual may use

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas, the United States has filed criminal charges against him, and the Bahamian government expects the United States to submit an extradition request soon. The sudden collapse of FTX, one of the largest bitcoin exchanges, may have cost its customers billions of dollars. U.S. prosecutors are expected

Researchers at Linkoping University in Sweden have discovered a biological mechanism that increases the strength of fear memory storage in the brain. The research, carried out in mice, was published in the scientific journal Molecular Psychiatry. It provides new insights into the processes underlying anxiety-related disorders and identifies common mechanisms for anxiety and alcohol dependence.

At the TGA (The Game Awards) game awards event held last Friday, Hideo Kojima officially announced the sequel to “Death Stranding”. “Death Stranding” tells the story of a deliveryman delivering goods to different strongholds in a world torn apart by the effects of Death Stranding. During the new crown epidemic, delivery workers are also key

According to a study published in the journal Science, DeepMind’s AlphaCode achieved human-level performance in programming competitions. AlphaCode first used the huge code base on GitHub for training, and was familiar with grammar and coding standards. It then collects thousands of problems from programming competitions and trains it to translate problem descriptions to code. As

SpaceX’s 55th launch of the year was OneWeb Flight #15 on a Falcon 9 rocket. British company OneWeb’s broadband satellites compete with SpaceX’s Starlink, but it has so far launched far fewer satellites into orbit than Starlink. OneWeb previously used Russian rockets to launch satellites, but the United Kingdom banned it from continuing to use

NASA’s Orion spacecraft plunged through the atmosphere and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 9:40 am PST on Sunday, wrapping up its Artemis I test mission orbiting the moon. NASA launched the Orion lunar spacecraft on November 16, and the spacecraft arrived at the moon on November 22, performing a three-week flight around the

Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux 6.1 on the kernel mailing list, which means that the two-week 6.2 merge window opens, and the 6.2 merge closes just in time for the Christmas holidays. In the past, kernel developers like to submit pull requests before the deadline, which is not good news for Torvalds who

Alyssa, 13, was diagnosed with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia last May. T cells are an important part of the body’s immune system, but Alyssa’s T cells became dangerous and out of control. Her cancer was malignant and neither chemotherapy nor a bone marrow transplant could cure it. With no experimental treatments available, Alyssa’s only option