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NASA May Shrink Boeing’s Moon-Mission Role While Handing SpaceX Core Rocket Responsibilities

NASA May Shrink Boeing’s Moon-Mission Role While Handing SpaceX Core Rocket Responsibilities

Published by Jenni Sidey

President Donald Trump’s NASA chief could soon announce Boeing’s diminishing role in returning astronauts to the Moon, while leaning heavily on Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket company to do the heavy lifting. Boeing’s Space Launch System (SLS), originally the rocket backbone of the Artemis mission, would no longer carry the Lockheed Martin-built Orion crew capsule to the Moon. Under the new plan, SpaceX’s Starship would take the lead. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman plans to meet with the companies working on the Artemis program next Tuesday, including Boeing, SpaceX, and Blue Origin, to discuss progress and current paths forward. Sources close to the program said any significant changes could face immediate Congressional scrutiny. “NASA is committed to using the SLS architecture through at least Artemis V, which is necessary to support both human landing system providers, and their associated acceleration plans to return American astronauts to the Moon,” Isaacman said in a statement. “We’re incredibly supportive of both our HLS providers and their plans to accelerate America’s path forward to the moon,” Isaacman added. SpaceX will ultimately …

Nvidia says it can shrink LLM memory 20x without changing model weights

Nvidia says it can shrink LLM memory 20x without changing model weights

Published by skeptic

Nvidia researchers have introduced a new technique that dramatically reduces how much memory large language models need to track conversation history — by as much as 20x — without modifying the model itself. The method, called KV Cache Transform Coding (KVTC), applies ideas from media compression formats like JPEG to shrink the key-value cache behind multi-turn AI systems, lowering GPU memory demands and speeding up time-to-first-token by up to 8x. For enterprise AI applications that rely on agents and long contexts, this translates to reduced GPU memory costs, better prompt reuse, and up to an 8x reduction in latency by avoiding the need to recompute dropped KV cache values. Serving large language models at scale requires managing a massive amount of data, especially for multi-turn conversations and long coding sessions. Every time a user adds to a prompt, the system relies on stored memory to avoid recomputing the entire conversation history from scratch. However, this memory footprint grows rapidly, creating a severe bottleneck for latency and infrastructure costs. Why KV cache becomes a bottleneck at …

NBC’s ‘Access Hollywood’ is canceled as daytime TV audiences shrink

NBC’s ‘Access Hollywood’ is canceled as daytime TV audiences shrink

Published by Sam Flores

NBCUniversal is cutting “Access Hollywood” and several other of its daytime talk shows, effectively ending its first-run syndication business as daytime television atrophies. The company confirmed that “Access Hollywood,” and its counterpart “Access Live,” will be coming to an end in September. The shows, produced in Los Angeles, are currently hosted by Mario Lopez, Kit Hoover, Scott Evans and Zuri Hall. Talk shows “Karamo” and “The Steve Wilkos Show,” produced out of NBC’s facility in Stamford, Conn., are also shutting down. The programs have already completed their production for the season and will run through the summer. NBC previously announced that “The Kelly Clarkson Show” is also ending later this year after seven seasons. “The Steve Wilkos Show” ran for 19 seasons. The host is a former bouncer for “The Jerry Springer Show.” Francis Berwick, chairman of Bravo and Peacock unscripted, said in a statement that the company will continue to distribute library episodes of its talk programs and network shows such as “Law & Order.” But NBCU’s days of launching series for daytime and …

Tony’s Chocolonely: Chocolate bar favourite says it will not shrink size to weather cocoa crisis

Tony’s Chocolonely: Chocolate bar favourite says it will not shrink size to weather cocoa crisis

Published by Daniella Wilson

Sign up to IndyEat’s free newsletter for weekly recipes, foodie features and cookbook releases Get our food and drink newsletter for free Get our food and drink newsletter for free A chocolate brand has vowed not to reduce the size or distinctive ‘chunkiness’ of its chocolate bars, even after raising prices due to escalating cocoa costs. Dutch chocolatier, Tony’s Chocolonely, has consistently spoken out about the challenges facing West African cocoa farming amidst rising expenses for chocolate producers. The brand is known for its chunky chocolate bars in innovative flavours, such as milk chocolate rice crisp caramel and the “everything” bar, currently retailing at £4 for a 180 gram bar. Douglas Lamont, Tony’s Chocolonely’s chief executive, said “everyone has paid the price” for the problems, which were worsened by poor harvests as a result of extreme weather conditions. “It was such a big economic shock in terms of the change; when your core commodity, the thing that makes up 50% of your cost, goes up five times, you have to respond and that has to …

Chocolate bar favourite says it will not shrink size to weather cocoa crisis

Chocolate bar favourite says it will not shrink size to weather cocoa crisis

Published by Daniella Wilson

Sign up to IndyEat’s free newsletter for weekly recipes, foodie features and cookbook releases Get our food and drink newsletter for free Get our food and drink newsletter for free A chocolate brand has vowed not to reduce the size or distinctive ‘chunkiness’ of its chocolate bars, even after raising prices due to escalating cocoa costs. Dutch chocolatier, Tony’s Chocolonely, has consistently spoken out about the challenges facing West African cocoa farming amidst rising expenses for chocolate producers. The brand is known for its chunky chocolate bars in innovative flavours, such as milk chocolate rice crisp caramel and the “everything” bar, currently retailing at £4 for a 180 gram bar. Douglas Lamont, Tony’s Chocolonely’s chief executive, said “everyone has paid the price” for the problems, which were worsened by poor harvests as a result of extreme weather conditions. “It was such a big economic shock in terms of the change; when your core commodity, the thing that makes up 50% of your cost, goes up five times, you have to respond and that has to …

Scientists shrink a lab-grade spectrometer down to the size of a grain of sand

Scientists shrink a lab-grade spectrometer down to the size of a grain of sand

Published by Jenni Sidey

For decades, bulky spectrometers have been the main tools for understanding how things are made of chemicals (a thing called composition). Spectrometers are a type of lab equipment that uses prisms or gratings to break down light into its component colours in order to analyse what is in something. Spectrometers require a lot of space, which has kept them from becoming smaller and cheaper. Now, researchers at the University of California, Davis have found a way to get around this limitation of size (physical limitation). Researchers at UC Davis have published their work in the journal Advanced Photonics describing the development of a chip that can measure light spectra that is small enough to fit onto the top of a pin head; that is, only 0.4 mm² in area and capable of providing the same functionality that typically requires laboratory-scale instruments. The UC Davis study was conducted by a group of scientists who took their knowledge of silicon engineering and then applied it to artificial intelligence (AI). They did not want to limit their research …

Scientists shrink 3-D printing so it can work inside cells

Scientists shrink 3-D printing so it can work inside cells

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3-D printing: The creation of a three-dimensional object with a machine that follows instructions from a computer program. The computer tells the printer where to lay down successive layers of some raw material, which can be plastic, metals, food or even living cells. 3-D printing is also called additive manufacturing. cell: (in biology) The smallest structural and functional unit of an organism. Typically too small to see with the unaided eye, it consists of a watery fluid surrounded by a membrane or wall. Depending on their size, animals are made of anywhere from thousands to trillions of cells. cell membrane: A structure that separates the inside of a cell from what is outside of it. Some particles are permitted to pass through the membrane. dissolve: To turn a solid into a liquid and disperse it into that starting liquid. (For instance, sugar or salt crystals, which are solids, will dissolve into water. Now the crystals are gone and the solution is a fully dispersed mix of the liquid form of the sugar or salt in water.) …