Data

Breakthrough in ‘time-traveling’ quantum sensor allows scientists to collect data from the past – The Debrief

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time traveling quantum

Time travel, widely recognized as a staple of science fiction stories and movies, is at least theoretically possible under certain conditions. These include situations such as extremely fast space travel, and the traveler’s proximity to particularly strong gravitational sources. However, new research suggests that scientists may be getting closer to making the manipulation of time … Read more

Not-So-OpenAI Would Never Have Bothered to Report a 2023 Data Breach

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safety in brief It’s been a week of nasty cybersecurity revelations for OpenAI, after it emerged that the startup failed to report a 2023 breach of its systems to anyone outside the organization and that its ChatGPT app for macOS was coded with no regard for user privacy. According to an exclusive report from the … Read more

Former executives allege fraud at Tether-backed crypto group Northern Data

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Two former executives at Northern Data, a Germany-listed crypto and AI infrastructure company backed by Tether, say they were fired after raising concerns about alleged fraud they say was committed by the CEO and COO. In a complaint filed last month in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Joshua Porter and Gulsen … Read more

The BlackRock private data deal that netted a British billionaire

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In 2002, Mark O’Hare filed a public information request with the Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board, requesting information about the performance of the private equity investments. The state pension fund initially opposed the British entrepreneur’s move, arguing that the data was a trade secret. But a state official sided with O’Hare, helping him overcome … Read more

The fastest data in the world – BBC News

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Image caption, Mission accomplished for Edwin Verheul (left) and Joachim Opdenakker Article information Author, Chris Baraniuk Role, Technology reporter 6 hours ago For IT updates, this was the most nerve-wracking thing there was. In February, deep in a warehouse at Cern, the Swiss home of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)—the world’s largest scientific experiment—two network … Read more

Research intern helps discover new pulsar buried in mountain of data

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VLITE 340 MHz image of GLIMPSE-C01 from February 27, 2021. The clean beam is shown as a white ellipse in the lower left corner and has dimensions of 5 0 × 4 7 with a position angle of 52°. The cross indicates the central position of GLIMPSE-C01. The dashed white circle shows the core radius … Read more

CERN ATLAS experiment releases 65 TB of open data for research

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Open Data at the ATLAS Experiment. Credit: ATLAS Collaboration/CERN The ATLAS Experiment at CERN has made two years of scientific data available to the public for research purposes. The data include recordings of proton-proton collisions from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at a collision energy of 13 TeV. This is the first time ATLAS has … Read more

Mars is a punching bag for asteroids, NASA data shows

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The Red Planet is seen against the darkness of space.

Meteorite impacts on Mars are up to 10 times more common than previously estimated, according to two new research papers. These describe the seismic shock waves from these impacts, which were detected by NASA’s now defunct Mars InSight lander. The new rate is staggering. The findings suggest that between 180 and 260 impacts occur on … Read more

Markets await inflation data as oil prices continue to rise | OilPrice.com

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Oil prices have soared over the past three weeks as geopolitical tensions increased, although economic data in the US could drive prices back down. Friday June 28, 2024 All eyes are on US inflation data as crude oil prices have maintained their hot streak and are expected to end this week with a third weekly … Read more