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Trump Proposes $6 Billion Cut to NASAhttps://spacepolicyonline.com/news/trump-proposes-6-billion-cut-to-nasa/President Trump released a “skinny” version of his FY2026 budget request today with top-line numbers for NASA and other parts of the government funded by annual appropriations. The detailed budget […]May 2, 2025 3:22 PM
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ESA unveils longest-ever dataset on forest biomasshttps://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Space_for_our_climate/ESA_unveils_longest-ever_dataset_on_forest_biomassAs the new Biomass satellite settles into life in orbit following its launch on 29 April, ESA has released its most extensive satellite-based maps of above-ground forest carbon to date. Spanning nearly two decades, the dataset offers the clearest global picture yet of how forest carbon stocks have changed over time.May 2, 2025 1:20 PM
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Why Are Young People Everywhere So Unhappy?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d236fa5a648a79db48d728860c7e5&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fideas%2Farchive%2F2025%2F05%2Fyoung-people-global-unhappiness%2F682632%2F&c=17131655128143850522&mkt=en-usWe’ve heard a lot lately about how miserable young Americans are. In the recently released World Happiness Report, the United States dropped to its lowest ranking since that survey began—and that ...May 1, 2025 9:01 AM
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Hubble Visits Glittering Cluster, Capturing Its Ultraviolet Lighthttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/hubble-visits-glittering-cluster-capturing-its-ultraviolet-light/As part of ESA/Hubble’s 35th anniversary celebrations, the European Space Agency (ESA) shared new images that revisited stunning, previously released Hubble targets with the addition of the latest Hubble data and new processing techniques. ESA/Hubble released new images of NGC 346, the Sombrero Galaxy, and the Eagle Nebula earlier in the month. Now they are revisiting the star cluster Messier 72 […]Apr 25, 2025 5:07 PM
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Fuzzy Rings of a Dying Starhttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/fuzzy-rings-of-a-dying-star/In this photo released on April 14, 2025, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope revealed the gas and dust ejected by a dying star at the heart of NGC 1514. Using mid-infrared data showed the “fuzzy” clumps arranged in tangled patterns, and a network of clearer holes close to the central stars shows where faster material […]Apr 21, 2025 5:39 PM
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University Unveils New Logohttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d2b1bfd2840009ad6f475a47cb882&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcornellsun.com%2F2004%2F10%2F28%2Funiversity-unveils-new-logo%2F&c=15463924976295928892&mkt=en-usAfter more than a year of preparation and buildup, the administration released the new University logo today. The new logo is a replacement for the much-disparaged "Big Red Box," oft compared to the ...Apr 19, 2025 5:00 PM
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Hubble Spies Cosmic Pillar in Eagle Nebulahttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/hubble-spies-cosmic-pillar-in-eagle-nebula/This newly reprocessed image released on April 18, 2025, provides a new view of an enormous, 9.5-light-year-tall pillar of cold gas and dust. Despite its size, it’s just one small piece of the greater Eagle Nebula, also called Messier 16. The Eagle Nebula is one of many nebulae in the Milky Way that are known […]Apr 18, 2025 7:31 PM
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Hubble Provides New View of Galactic Favoritehttps://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-provides-new-view-of-galactic-favorite/As part of ESA/Hubble’s 35th anniversary celebrations, the European Space Agency (ESA) is sharing a new image series revisiting stunning, previously released Hubble targets with the addition of the latest Hubble data and new processing techniques. ESA/Hubble published a new image of NGC 346 as the first installment in the series. Now, they are revisiting a fan-favorite galaxy […]Apr 16, 2025 2:00 PM
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Sculpted by Luminous Starshttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/sculpted-by-luminous-stars/This new image, released on April 4, 2025, showcases the dazzling young star cluster NGC 346. Although both the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope have released images of NGC 346 previously, this image includes new data and is the first to combine Hubble observations made at infrared, optical, and ultraviolet wavelengths into an intricately detailed […]Apr 14, 2025 6:23 PM
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Most Played Games in 2025 – Ranked by Average Monthly Playershttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a033ecfc34896b1f1658478025991&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwinfinite.net%2Ffeatures%2Fmost-played-games%2F&c=10380505714933427598&mkt=en-usWhile there’s been no shortage of games released over the past few years, you might be surprised to learn that the majority of the most played games in 2025 are actually much older. Here, we’re ...Apr 14, 2025 7:09 AM
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Ask HN: Is the US losing to China in tech creation and production?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43670478(Post created working with Gemini 2.5 Pro) In the latest tech news for 2025, I'm noticing concerning trends:AI Models: Chinese companies like DeepSeek are gaining significant momentum in the open-source AI space[5]. Their models are becoming competitive with US offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic. Recent benchmarks show Chinese models performing exceptionally well in reasoning tasks[3][5].Smartphones: The OPPO Find N5 released in February 2025 outperforms the iPhone 15 Pro Max in several key specs: larger 8.1" display vs 6.7", 16GB RAM vs 8GB, 5600mAh battery vs 4422mAh, and faster charging (80W)[2][4]. The OPPO Find X7 Ultra's camera system also ranks higher on DXOMark than the iPhone 15 Pro Max[6].AR/VR: Chinese manufacturers are producing more affordable and feature-rich AR/VR glasses than US counterparts.Is this just market competition, or are we witnessing a fundamental shift in tech leadership? What structural advantages does China have in tech creation and production that we shoApr 13, 2025 6:11 AM
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X-ray Clues Reveal Destroyed Planethttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/x-ray-clues-reveal-destroyed-planet/This image of the Helix Nebula, released on March 4, 2025, shows a potentially destructive white dwarf at the nebula’s center: this star may have destroyed a planet. This has never been seen before – and could explain a mysterious X-ray signal that astronomers have detected from the nebula for over 40 years. This view combines X-rays […]Apr 2, 2025 5:09 PM
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Show HN: Acorn.js – Turn GraphQL APIs into Tools for LLMs and Agentshttps://github.com/DataSQRL/acorn.jsWe built a lightweight Typescript library that turns GraphQL APIs into tool definitions for LLMs like GPT, Claude, and others. It also integrates directly with agentic frameworks like LangChain.To build agents and chatbots, we found ourselves building custom tooling and APIs to pull in information, outsource analytics, and trigger external actions. But wiring that up, doing schema validation, data mapping, retry loops, etc entails tedious boilerplate code. We generalized that code into a library, released it under OSS Apache 2.0, and hope that it helps others build GenAI apps that need to connect data sources, trigger actions, or outsource symbolic reasoning.Would love your feedback and thoughts. Happy to share why we settled on GraphQL for the API (validation, semantic annotations, simple mapping, query flexibility) and also curious what you are using and why.Apr 2, 2025 3:30 PM
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Show HN: All Books, All Languages – Read short stories and books in any languagehttps://www.abal.aiI've been working on a modern, web-based, parallel text language-learning application that I've come to call "All Books, All Languages", or ABAL for short.It currently supports 56 languages (including Klingon and Latin!) - which comes out to 3080 permutations - or 3080 unique user profiles as I like to think of it. Both the marketing and application sites are fully internationalized - even response messages in 4xx responses use i18n. A lot of the work went into automating the i18n diff generation system to make sure I can release UI/UX changes quickly.The name All Books, All Languages is intentionally quixotic as it serves to set the amibtious and unreachable goal of hosting all of humanity's written works while making them available to all language learners and readers across the globe!Today, it hosts a number of generated short stories categorized by subject matter and CEFR level. I'm currently working on supporting (private) self-uploaded files, and works in the public domain. Work Apr 1, 2025 9:01 PM
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The Top NSFW Character AI Alternative for AI Roleplay 2025http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d847e203d466eb40d1baa131ed33b&url=https%3A%2F%2Ffinance.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Ftop-nsfw-character-ai-alternative-095500351.html&c=6433300208606649743&mkt=en-usLOS ANGELES, March 31, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CrushOn.AI, a platform established in the AI chat companion industry, announces the release of a new NSFW Character AI feature. This update focuses on ...Mar 31, 2025 2:54 AM
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Boyfriend Sets New Concept Album 'In the Garden' Feat. Billy Porter, Jake Shears & Morehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cff4fd2cb41268a22ca35537c0dae&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.broadwayworld.com%2Fbwwmusic%2Farticle%2FBoyfriend-Sets-New-Concept-Album-In-the-Garden-Feat-Billy-Porter-Jake-Shears-More-20250311&c=3966070405023153876&mkt=en-usSinger-songwriter Boyfriend has announced the release of In The Garden, a visionary new concept album reimagining the biblical story of Adam and Eve through a feminist and queer lens. A radical fusion ...Mar 11, 2025 4:43 AM
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TypeScript 7.0 RC Moves Microsoft's Go Rewrite Into the Mainline Compilerhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d5a742b6f44a0b9553231f6d2fa1b&url=https%3A%2F%2Fvisualstudiomagazine.com%2Farticles%2F2026%2F06%2F22%2Ftypescript-7-0-rc-moves-microsofts-go-rewrite-into-the-mainline-compiler.aspx&c=5309391012584470938&mkt=en-usMicrosoft's year-plus effort to move TypeScript from its JavaScript-based compiler implementation to a Go-based native codebase has reached Release Candidate status, with the new compiler now ...Mar 11, 2025 12:00 AM
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Spartans included in top schools list for elite, 4-star LB Terry Wigginshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d6f55032940f099988ff9a996a753&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsports.yahoo.com%2Farticle%2Fspartans-included-top-schools-list-215657043.html&c=15809180959159344202&mkt=en-usMichigan State football is one of a select group still in the running for an elite linebacker prospect in the 2026 class. Terry Wiggins of Coatesville, Pa. released his top 10 schools list on Friday, ...Mar 8, 2025 1:56 PM
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X-ray Signal Points to Destroyed Planet, Chandra Findshttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/x-ray-signal-points-to-destroyed-planet-chandra-finds/A planet may have been destroyed by a white dwarf at the center of a planetary nebula — the first time this has been seen. As described in our latest press release, this would explain a mysterious X-ray signal that astronomers have detected from the Helix Nebula for over 40 years. The Helix is a […]Mar 4, 2025 4:01 PM
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NASA Marks 110 Years Since Founding of Predecessor Organizationhttps://www.nasa.gov/history/nasa-marks-110-years-since-founding-of-predecessor-organization/To celebrate the 110th anniversary of the organization that ultimately became NASA, the agency released a new collection of videos to highlight the history of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and the ways it transformed flight over four decades. Not long after the beginning of World War I, the United States Congress, concerned […]Mar 3, 2025 2:47 PM
