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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury’s north pole.
The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles (295 kilometers) above Mercury’s night side before passing directly over the planet’s north pole. The European Space Agency released the stunning snapshots Thursday, showing the permanently shadowed craters at the top of of our solar system’s smallest, innermost planet.
Cameras also captured views of neighboring volcanic plains and Mercury’s largest impact crater, which spans more than 930 miles (1,500 kilometers).
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Study predicts an ‘intention economy’ where companies bid for accurate predictions of human behavior
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools could be used to manipulate online audiences into making decisions – ranging from what to buy to who to vote for – according to researchers at the University of Cambridge.
The paper highlights an emerging new marketplace for “digital signals of intent” – known as the “intention economy” – where AI assistants understand, forecast and manipulate human intentions and sell that information on to companies who can profit from it.
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Scientists are reporting what they say is the longest sediment avalanche yet measured in action.
It occurred underwater off West Africa, in a deep canyon leading away from the mouth of the Congo River.
Something in excess of a cubic kilometer of sand and mud descended into the deep.
This colossal flow kept moving for two whole days and ran out for more than 1,100km across the floor of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Some of the citizen sleuths behind the open-source effort to identify the hundreds of Donald Trump-loving rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol have launched an impressive new website that organizes the stunning amount of digital evidence collected about the Jan. 6 insurrection.
The website, Jan6evidence.com, was built by a small team of volunteer software developers, using the work of open-source investigators looking into the deadly Capitol attack. The site features a color-coded timeline that reflects the time of day, and allows users to click around on a map of the Capitol and pull up any video evidence from a particular location and time frame. Users can even track an individual suspect’s movements over the course of Jan. 6.
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A new protein made from air, water and renewable electricity could revolutionize our food system within the next decade.
Developed by the Finnish company Solar Foods in a lab just outside Helsinki, the protein called Solein is made using living microbes that are then grown in a fermenter in a process similar to brewing beer. The microbes are fed with carbon dioxide, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen all taken from the air.
This fermentation process, which takes place in huge vats, produces a liquid that is removed and dried to give the final product a yellow flour-like powder with multiple food uses.
