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As she took to the stage to accept the award for Artist Of The Year, the singer, 39, told the cheering crowd that she had to urgently leave before the ceremony was over.

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Rocking a funky 80s-inspired look, the Grammy Award-winning hitmaker, 29, undoubtedly turned heads upon her arrival at the starry event in New York City.

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Somewhere in Houston, four research volunteers "will soon participate in NASA's year-long simulation of a Mars mission," NASA announced this week, saying it will provide "foundational data to inform human exploration of the Moon, Mars, and beyond." The 378-day simulation will take place inside a 3D-printed, 1,700-square-foot habitat at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston — starting on October 19th and continuing until Halloween of 2026: Through a series of Earth-based missions called CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog), NASA aims to evaluate certain human health and performance factors ahead of future Mars missions. The crew will undergo realistic resource limitations, equipment failures, communication delays, isolation and confinement, and other stressors, along with simulated high-tempo extravehicular activities. These scenarios allow NASA to make informed trades between risks and interventions for long-duration exploration missions. "As NASA gears up for crewed Artemis missions, CHAPEA and other ground analogs are helping to determine which capabilities could best support future crews in overcoming the human health and performance challenges of living and operating beyond Earth's resources — all before we send humans to Mars," said Sara Whiting, project scientist with NASA's Human Research Program at NASA Johnson. Crew members will carry out scientific research and operational tasks, including simulated Mars walks, growing a vegetable garden, robotic operations, and more. Technologies specifically designed for Mars and deep space exploration will also be tested, including a potable water dispenser and diagnostic medical equipment... This mission, facilitated by NASA's Human Research Program, is the second one-year Mars surface simulation conducted through CHAPEA. The first mission concluded on July 6, 2024.

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Teachers are twice as worried about misogyny and sexism as they are about plummeting educational standards, a report by the Children's Commissioner has found.

Analyst firm doesn’t rate OpenAI as an enterprise-ready vendor

All work in IT departments will be done with the help of AI by 2030, according to analyst firm Gartner, which thinks massive job losses won’t result.…

War hero Valerii Zaluzhnyi, known as the 'Iron General', warns that her appearance at the Royal Opera House on Thursday is 'a test' by Vladimir Putin of Kyiv 's 'closest and most devoted ally'.

A 36-year-old California woman went missing in Michigan's Pigeon River State Forest during a YouTube survival challenge. She was found 18 hours later by a Michigan Police helicopter.

Police remain tight-lipped about the some wild speculation after New Zealand fugitive Tom Phillips was shot dead by an officer on Monday.

President Donald Trump was far from the only famous face at Sunday's US Open men's final between Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz. Trump critic Bruce Springsteen and others were there too.

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The actress said things started clicking for her following the diagnosis. 'So many little things fell into place and made sense that hadn't made sense before,' the veteran actress shared last week.

The corrupt housing officers allegedly demanded cash for properties before wrongly issuing hundreds of social homes in the east London borough of Barking and Dagenham.

Four years ago a small Microsoft Research team started creating an analog optical computer. They used commercially available parts like sensors from smartphone cameras, optical lenses, and micro-LED lights finer than a human hair. "As the light passes through the sensor at different intensities, the analog optical computer can add and multiply numbers," explains a Microsoft blog post. They envision the technology scaling to a computer that for certain problems is 100X faster and 100X more energy efficient — running AI workloads "with a fraction of the energy needed and at much greater speed than the GPUs running today's large language models." The results are described in a paper published in the scientific journal Nature, according to the blog post: At the same time, Microsoft is publicly sharing its "optimization solver" algorithm and the "digital twin" it developed so that researchers from other organizations can investigate this new computing paradigm and propose new problems to solve and new ways to solve them. Francesca Parmigiani, a Microsoft principal research manager who leads the team developing the AOC, explained that the digital twin is a computer-based model that mimics how the real analog optical computer [or "AOC"] behaves; it simulates the same inputs, processes and outputs, but in a digital environment — like a software version of the hardware. This allowed the Microsoft researchers and collaborators to solve optimization problems at a scale that would be useful in real situations. This digital twin will also allow other users to experiment with how problems, either in optimization or in AI, would be mapped and run on the analog optical computer hardware. "To have the kind of success we are dreaming about, we need other researchers to be experimenting and thinking about how this hardware can be used," Parmigiani said. Hitesh Ballani, who directs research on future AI infrastructure at the Microsoft Research lab in Cambridge, U.K. said he believes the AOC could be a game changer. "We have actually delivered on the hard promise that it can make a big difference in two real-world problems in two domains, banking and healthcare," he said. Further, "we opened up a whole new application domain by showing that exactly the same hardware could serve AI models, too." In the healthcare example described in the Nature paper, the researchers used the digital twin to reconstruct MRI scans with a good degree of accuracy. The research indicates that the device could theoretically cut the time it takes to do those scans from 30 minutes to five. In the banking example, the AOC succeeded in resolving a complex optimization test case with a high degree of accuracy... As researchers refine the AOC, adding more and more micro-LEDs, it could eventually have millions or even more than a billion weights. At the same time, it should get smaller and smaller as parts are miniaturized, researchers say.

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Freddie Flintoff has tried doggedly to change cricket's image in his Field Of Dreams series, inspiring a bunch of lads from his home town Preston to take up the sport.

Piastri did a great job of hiding any anger he may have had over McLaren's team orders at the Italian Grand Prix, but fans did not hold back as they reacted.

The red racing car has been spotted speeding through Czech roads on numerous occasions since 2019, with the driver, dressed in a helmet and full race gear, evading traffic authorities.