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Artemis astronauts describe ‘otherworldly’ incident passing behind Moon

Artemis astronauts describe ‘otherworldly’ incident passing behind Moon

Published by Sam Flores

The Artemis II astronauts who recently returned from the far side of the Moon have described their “otherworldly” experience during the record-breaking mission. Speaking at their first news conference since returning home last Friday, the four-person crew revealed they experienced a multitude of overwhelming emotions during the nine-day mission, which took them further from Earth than any human has ever travelled. One profound instance, as told by mission commander Reid Wiseman, occurred during a solar eclipse that only they could see as the Moon passed between their spacecraft and the Sun. “It’s very hard to fully grasp what we just went through,” mission commander Wiseman said. “When the Sun eclipsed behind the Moon… I turned to [Artemis II pilot] Victor and said, ‘I don’t think humanity has evolved to the point of being able to comprehend what we’re looking at right now’.” He added: “It was otherworldly, and it was amazing.” The Moon is backlit by the Sun during a solar eclipse on 6 April, 2026, as seen from the Orion spacecraft (NASA) The Artemis …

Talking robot guide dog uses AI to describe the world as it leads

Talking robot guide dog uses AI to describe the world as it leads

Published by Jenni Sidey

A robot dog that talks back may sound like a novelty. In this case, it is meant to solve a practical problem: guide dogs can lead, but they cannot explain. That gap is what researchers at Binghamton University and State University of New York, set out to address with a robotic guide dog system that uses a large language model to hold spoken conversations with visually impaired users. The machine can suggest routes, explain trade-offs before a trip begins, and describe what is happening during the walk itself. “For this work, we’re demonstrating an aspect of the robotic guide dog that is more advanced than biological guide dogs,” said Shiqi Zhang, an associate professor at the Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science’s School of Computing. “Real dogs can understand around 20 commands at best. But for robotic guide dogs, you can just put GPT-4 with voice commands. Then it has very strong language capabilities.” The project builds on earlier work from Zhang’s team, which trained robotic guide dogs to respond to leash …

Trump to describe risky rescue mission as Iran rebuffs U.S. war demands

Trump to describe risky rescue mission as Iran rebuffs U.S. war demands

Published by Sam Flores

JERUSALEM — As President Donald Trump prepared to hold a White House news conference to celebrate the rescue of the crew of a F-15E fighter shot down in Iran, his escalating threats to bomb power plants and bridges suggested rising frustration that Tehran has shown no willingness to surrender after more than five weeks of an increasingly expensive, dangerous and politically unpopular war. Source link

Critics Have a New Way to Describe the Trump Administration

Critics Have a New Way to Describe the Trump Administration

Published by Sam Flores

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Critics have used many phrases to describe Donald Trump’s presidency, some of them unprintable. Scholars and journalists have debated whether Trump’s approach is “authoritarian,” “white supremacist,” or “fascist.” More recently, however, a growing number of people have begun referring to the “Trump regime.” “The Trump regime has proven over and over,” The New Republic’s Michael Tomasky wrote, that its morality is “the advantage of the stronger.” A fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute complained that oversight tools “were effectively destroyed by the Trump regime last year.” And a writer for The Nation called for Democrats to “launch a ‘Nuremberg Caucus’ to investigate the crimes of the Trump regime.” Google Trends shows that although the phrase was occasionally deployed during Trump’s first term, it has become far more common over the past year. These usages are meant to tell us …

Iranians describe life under bombardment : NPR

Iranians describe life under bombardment : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

Iranians clear the debris from damaged homes following a military strike in Tehran on March 15. Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images A total telecommunications blackout in Iran means most internet and phone lines remain cut, ever since mass anti-government demonstrations broke out last December. Yet NPR has continued to receive some messages from inside Iran. In them, Iranians describe their fear but also defiance, more than two weeks into a joint U.S. and Israeli military campaign against Iran. “The Islamic Republic, which killed hundreds of thousands of people in Iraq and Syria, killed and tortured hundreds of thousands of Iranians in the most brutal way after all these years, and which now wants to have nuclear weapons: we, the Iranian people, who have lived with them for half a century, know how ridiculous their claim to be peaceful was,” said one woman in a series of voice notes to NPR on March 16, explaining why she was angered by images of some Iranians in the diaspora …

Family of seven-year-old British girl missing in Morocco describe ‘unbearable pain’ as search ‘hampered by severe weather’ | World News

Family of seven-year-old British girl missing in Morocco describe ‘unbearable pain’ as search ‘hampered by severe weather’ | World News

Published by Sam Flores

The family of a seven-year-old girl who was swept out to sea in Morocco have described their “unbearable pain” as search and rescue operations have been “hampered by severe weather”. Inaayah Makda, from Blackburn, Lancashire, was sitting on some rocks on a beach in Casablanca when she was hit by a large wave on Wednesday, her family previously told the BBC. On Friday, the independent MP for Blackburn, Adnan Hussain, said search efforts are continuing but “have been hindered due to a storm”. In a statement, Inaayah’s family said their “world has been forever changed” and “every minute since has been filled with unbearable pain, fear, and hope”. Describing Inaayah as “a bright, loving, and gentle little girl”, the family said search and rescue operations had been “hampered by severe weather, rough seas, and the challenging terrain of the coastline”. The family said: “We are also deeply concerned by the limited practical support we have received from UK authorities. “While we have been told that our case is being monitored, this has not translated into …

Detainees describe the horror of Maduro’s ‘torture prisons’

Detainees describe the horror of Maduro’s ‘torture prisons’

Published by Sam Flores

During interrogations, Mr Merino says, guards tried to force him to confess to a “script” they had prepared in advance. “The guards at Tocorón, and the regime they worked for, were malevolent,” he says. “They enjoyed every act of torture they inflicted. They enjoyed the suffering of their Venezuelan brothers and sisters.” Sexual violence, he says, was systematic. “The guards demanded favours in exchange for an extra plate or a glass of water. These weren’t favours of good behaviour; they were sexual favours,” he says. “One of the guards became infatuated with one of the boys, and on the nights he made his rounds, he would grab him and force him to perform oral sex.” Human Rights Watch has documented what it calls “the extensive use of torture” in Venezuelan prisons. “Constant beatings, electric shocks during interrogations, prolonged isolation in dark spaces without access to light,” said Juanita Goebertus Estrada, the group’s Americas director. In March 2025, a United Nations fact-finding mission concluded that the Venezuelan government had committed acts “constituting the crime against humanity …

Trump-Administration Officials Describe an Elementary-School Drop-Off

Trump-Administration Officials Describe an Elementary-School Drop-Off

Published by Sam Flores

Based on how members of the Trump administration rushed to describe Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman who was shot and killed in her minivan while protesting ICE, as a “domestic terrorist,” a “professional agitator,” and an “anti-ICE rioter” behind the wheel of a “thousand-pound missile,” here is how they might describe her dropping off her son at school just before she was killed. The terrorist drove a 4,000-pound guided missile to deliver her small associate to the rendezvous point. She pulled up to where dozens of others just like her were also making their sinister deliveries at “School.” (An ominously short, unpatriotic name for any building. Where is the “Trump”?) Their tiny accomplices climbed out of the rolling weapons, carrying bags on their backs full of scribbled writings—Codes, perhaps? Or manifestos?—in crayon and pencil and Magic Marker. Some of them were armed with Uncrustables, suspicious, round, sandwich-like objects full of jelly and peanut butter. (Deadly biohazards!) Others had juice boxes. Despite the snow on the roads, these terrorists were out in force in their …

Witnesses describe chaos as fire broke out at Swiss bar

Witnesses describe chaos as fire broke out at Swiss bar

Published by Sam Flores

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Fractals describe patterns hidden all around us

Fractals describe patterns hidden all around us

Published by skeptic

3-D: Short for three-dimensional. This term is an adjective for something that has features that can be described in three dimensions — height, width and length.  algebra: A field of mathematics that describes a way to think about certain relationships that will involve numbers. And not just any particular number, usually, but abstract expressions involving numbers. For instance, instead of saying “1 + 2 = 3” or “3 – 1 = 2,” algebra gives each number a letter to take its place. So it now reads something like a “a + b = c” or “c – a = b.” But any number can substitute for those letters as long as the values on each side of the equal sign are still true. In other words, “a” can be 100 and “b” can be 101 — as long as “c” = 201. Such expressions with different things on either side of an equals sign are known as algebraic equations. algorithm: A group of rules or procedures for solving a problem in a series of steps. Algorithms …