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Judge Holds Off on Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Settlement Ruling

Araceli Martinez-Olguin ordered the parties to respond to concerns from Sen. Corey Booker by Monday The post Judge Holds Off on Paramount-Warner Bros.

  • Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin delays ruling on Paramount-Warner Bros. merger settlement
  • Further input requested from parties, The Block, and LULAC
  • Paramount commits $300M/year to U.S. production and release minimum films

AI

PrismML brings its tiny LLMs to Qualcomm-powered smart glasses

Prism's larger goal is open-weight AI that runs on devices and makes better use of the computing power they already have.

  • PrismML develops 1-bit Bonsai LLM for smart glasses
  • Model reduces larger AI models by 4x while maintaining performance
  • 2-billion-parameter vision and language model for real-time object recognition

Science

Introduction

Visual Distortions Near a Neutron Star and Black Hole Robert J. NemiroffNASA / Goddard Space Flight CenterCode 668.1Greenbelt, MD 20771 Published in The American Journal of Physics, 61, 619 (1993)…

Science

Great Debates in Astronomy

Following in the footsteps of the famous April 1920 ‘Great Debate’ between Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis, this series of debates among leaders in the astronomical community highlight major quests in…

Science

Great Debates of Astronomy: The Scale of the Universe

The Scale of the Universe What the Great Debate was, how it was resolved, and why it was important. A subjective abstract in three short paragraphs.

  • Great Debate of 1920 centered on scale of Universe between Shapley and Curtis
  • Shapley argued Sun far from Galaxy center, Curtis claimed spiral nebulae were separate galaxies
  • Hubble's 1920s discovery proved Andromeda Galaxy vast, disproving both Shapley and Curtis

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Lactose-intolerant consumers pay more for lactose-free ice cream in study

With an estimated 36% of people in the United States having some degree of lactose intolerance, there may be an expanded market for lactose-free or reduced-lactose ice cream—especially if those with lactose intolerance are willing to pay more for such products, according to a study led by researchers at Penn State and the University of…

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