Elliott ratchets up pressure on London Stock Exchange
The feared New York-based activist investor, which is led by billionaire Paul Singer, went public for the first time since it emerged that it has taken a stake in LSEG.
IAG rebound fails to prevent shares slump
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Bend it like Sweeney! Hollywood star shows off football skills during surprise appearance at Portuguese football match
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Politicians take note: Car buyers are NOT ready to go all-electric
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Slippery sales staff biggest turn-off for new car buyers
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I used an online estate agent and they were useless - can I refuse to pay the £2,098 fee?
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Starmer's electoral 'Valley of Death': Farage and Greens eye up hundreds of seats at May's local elections
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Man is charged with criminal damage after Winston Churchill statue was defaced with graffiti
The Metropolitan Police said Caspar San Giorgio, of no fixed address, was arrested shortly after 4am on Friday.
Rubin Observatory Has Started Paging Astronomers 800,000 Times a Night
On February 24th, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory activated its automated alert system, sending out roughly 800,000 real-time notifications flagging asteroids, supernovae, flaring black holes and "other transient celestial events," reports Scientific American. And this is only the beginning -- that number is projected to climb into the millions as it continues scanning the ever-changing sky. From the report: The astronomical observatory equipped with world's largest camera hit a key milestone on February 24, when a complex data-processing system pushed hundreds of thousands of alerts out to scientists eager to pore over its most exciting sightings. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory began operations last year, capturing stunning, panoramic time-lapse views of the cosmos with ease. Rubin's first images, based on just 10 hours of observations, let space fans zoom seemingly forever into an overwhelmingly starry sky. But watchful astronomers were always awaiting the next step: the system that would automatically alert them to the most promising activity in the overhead sky amid the 1,000 or so enormous images that Rubin's telescope captures every night.
"We can detect everything that changes, moves and appears," said Yusra AlSayyad, an astronomer at Princeton University and Rubin's deputy associate director for data management, to Scientific American last summer. "It's way too much for one person to manually sift through and filter and monitor themselves." So even as they were designing and building the Rubin Observatory itself, scientists were also designing an alert system to help astronomers navigate the flood of data. As soon as the telescope began observations, the team started constructing a static reference image of the entire sky in impeccable detail.
Now the data processing systems that support the observatory are starting to automatically compare every new Rubin image to the corresponding section of that background template. The systems identify all of the differences, each of which is individually flagged. The algorithms can also distinguish between a potential supernova and a possible newfound asteroid, for example. Alerting the scientific community is the final, crucial step. Astronomers -- as well as members of the public -- can sign up for notifications based on the type of sighting they're interested in and the brightness of the observation in question. And now that the alerts system has gone live, users receive a tiny, fuzzy image with some astronomical metadata of each observation that fits their criteria -- all just a couple of minutes after Rubin captures the original image.
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Stunned Joe Biden's three-word response as woman confronts him on plane over Gaza deaths
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Lily Allen set for a 'messy showdown' with Nicole Appleton's pals at this year's BRIT Awards after revealing alleged mid-air romp with Nicole's ex Liam Gallagher while they were still married
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One minute new Green MP Hannah Spencer was an aspirational Mrs Thatcher, the next a beardless Jeremy Corbyn: ROBERT HARDMAN
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Hoarse Bill Clinton breaks silence after Epstein deposition as he claims he had 'limited interactions' with pedophile, makes 'personal' defense of wife Hillary and reveals what he said in his testimony
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A taxi driver in Paris charged me €2,990 instead of €29 and now my bank won't refund!
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Revealed: How the 'langoustine lifter' caught on CCTV stealing shellfish and white orchids from outside glitzy London restaurants is a Russian former It-girl living in a £4million flat
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England footballer Kieran Trippier, 35, spotted 'on a date' with X-rated OnlyFans model, 21, after split from wife Charlotte
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Prue Leith, 86, says she 'doesn't have long left' and 'thinks about death a lot' after quitting Great British Bake Off
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'I saw a group of children huddled together. They were all dead': Kids shot trying to escape, teacher executed as she protected her students... 30 years on from Dunblane, the question that still torments survivors and the bereaved
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Benny Blanco defends his personal hygiene after fans begged Selena Gomez to divorce him over 'filthy feet'
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'I'm always considered the dumbest person in the room': Football WAG reveals what life is REALLY like being married to her superstar husband - despite boasting a very successful sporting career herself
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