The World Journal

11/10/2024

Rubens Barrichello, the F1 legend, is set for an emotional reunion with his past as he joins the GT Open at Monza, reuniting with his 1992 Formula 3000 team after 30 years. Monza holds a special place in Barrichello’s career, being his most successful track in Formula 1 with three of his 11 victories taking place there, including two iconic wins in 2002 and 2004 driving for Ferrari. This return to Monza is a nostalgic journey for one of F1’s most experienced drivers.

03/10/2024

China’s Coast Guard Makes First Entry into the Arctic Ocean 🌊🇨🇳

In a major development, China’s Coast Guard announced its first-ever entry into the Arctic Ocean, marking a significant step in strengthening security ties with Russia. 🇨🇳🤝🇷🇺 This move highlights Beijing’s long-standing ambition to expand its presence in the region.

The statement came just one day after the U.S. Coast Guard reported spotting four Russian and Chinese vessels in the Bering Sea, the furthest north it has ever seen Chinese ships. 🛳️❄️ This increased coordination between China and Russia underscores the growing geopolitical interest in the Arctic, a region of strategic importance for trade routes and natural resources.

15/06/2024

Artificial intelligence resurrects mammoth molecules to create antibiotics

The University of Pennsylvania finds in animals and missing peptides effective against microorganisms that resist current treatments. 🔬🧬

25/05/2024

🔬 Chinese scientists have created an electronic skin that withstands extreme cold and operates at temperatures as low as -78 degrees. ❄️ This technological advancement is an important step in developing more robust and versatile robots for space and polar exploration. 🚀🤖
https://www.elmundo.es/ciencia-y-salud/ciencia/2024/05/24/6650365ce9cf4ada7c8b45b8.html

17/05/2024

Mississippi State’s Jurrangelo Cijntje is a dazzling college baseball pitcher with a rare skill: he throws both right-handed and left-handed. It’s made the 20-year-old ace an intriguing MLB prospect, writes Jason Gay.

09/05/2024

Twin, where have you been?⁣
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Looking for you, obviously. You see the Twin Jet Nebula in shimmering colors visible by . This is not just any planetary nebula; it’s a bipolar nebula. ⁣
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Unlike ordinary nebulas with one star at the center, this nebula has two stars at the center, making it a bipolar nebula. One star is a small white dwarf while the other is approaching the end of its days. The two stars circle one another roughly every 100 years. It is believed that the dying star has ejected its outer layers of gas into space and is being pulled into two lobes instead of a sphere. ⁣
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The rotation around one another causes the shape of the wings for this cosmic butterfly. Within the wings are two faint blue patches, which are violent twin jets streaming out into space in a high speed of one million kilometers (621,400 miles) per hour. ⁣
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Image description: Two-image swipe-through shows two iridescent lobes of material stretch outwards from a central star system. Two stars at the center appearing as one in a white bright beaming color, creating an “x” shaped disc around them. Within these lobes two huge jets of gas are streaming from the star system. A green color takes up the heads of the jets and then a peach color at the center where you can see the lobes, towards the tail of the jets is a slight blue color. The darkness of space takes over the rest of the image with few stars spread throughout the image. ⁣
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Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt⁣
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01/05/2024

Spotted: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope unveiled the weather patterns on a hot gas-giant exoplanet 280 light-years away.

20/04/2024

17/04/2024

David Fincher says MINDHUNTER Season 3 will never happen.

“It's a very expensive show and, in the eyes of Netflix, we didn't attract enough of an audience to justify such an investment.”

29/07/2023

Elon Musk rolled out a new “X” logo on Twitter on Monday after saying its signature blue bird will fly away. How did we get here?

29/07/2023

The GOP front-runner makes a rare appearance alongside a dozen rivals for the party’s 2024 presidential nomination.

29/07/2023

Frustrated by the evolving tipping culture? Here are some suggestions from our readers to keep in mind.

29/07/2023

Henry Cavill officially retires from the role of Geralt in ‘The Witcher’ and will now be replaced by Liam Hemsworth next season.

16/07/2023

Only about a half-dozen companies are responsible for virtually all of the market advance, leading to a lot of investor angst over how precarious the gains feel. But it’s possible to look at the same set of facts and conclude that nothing has changed in the market over the past 18 months.

● The symmetry is weirdly precise: Although the Nasdaq-100 badly trailed the broader market in 2022, plunging 33% while the S&P 500 fell 19%, the two benchmarks are almost exactly even when measured from the start of 2022: down about 7%. In other words, if you hung on to tech stocks through the past 18 months, you had a volatile ride but ended up where you would have in a broad index fund.

● Earnings projections go a long way in explaining the turnaround. After shrinking last year, profits for the five biggest companies in the S&P 500— Apple, Microsoft, Google parent Alphabet, Amazon.com and Nvidia—are projected to rise 16% in the quarter that ended in June and accelerate in each of the next two quarters, according to data compiled by Bloomberg Intelligence.

● Tap the link in our bio for more. (📸: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

12/07/2023

Elon Musk has formally launched xAI, an artificial intelligence company aiming to challenge the dominance of Sam Altman’s OpenAI and ‘understand the true nature of the universe’. ⁠
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The company will be led by Musk and staffed by a team hired from other leading AI research labs, including Igor Babuschkin from DeepMind and researchers from Microsoft and OpenAI.⁠
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Image by Alain Jocard/AFP

06/06/2023

● Troubled regional lenders were leaning on Federal Home Loan Banks — a relic of the Great Depression originally aimed at ensuring financial firms have cash to lend to homebuyers. Yet the banks had little to do with everyday mortgage lending.

● For many, the collapses of Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and others were crystallizing moments for the 90-year-old FHLB system, which has ballooned to more than $1.5 trillion while playing a growing role as a backstop for banks taking all kinds of risks.

● In the days since, people have raised questions about the purpose of FHLBs and why the private institutions enjoy so much government support. Current and former FHLB officials, overseers, borrowers and other market participants have described an environment where loans are made quickly with little due diligence, generating billions of dollars a year in profits for FHLBs and the banks they serve — plus millions of dollars in bonuses and other compensation for their own executives.

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01/06/2023

● XRX, which — after running one of the biggest American knitting events, Stitches, for more than 30 years — has vanished with minimal explanation.

● Its disappearance has shocked the network of small, mostly woman-owned yarn businesses that paid thousands of dollars to register up to a year in advance for shows. Knitting instructors who taught Stitches workshops over Zoom, meanwhile, haven’t been paid for their work.

● The dearth of information from XRX has led to an outpouring of online complaints from people who don’t know when or if they’ll get any of their money back. Knitters are offering support for shops and teachers impacted by XRX’s closing, including Knitty Magazine, which is providing free advertising for affected businesses.

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28/05/2023

● Built inside a giant hangar in Mountain View, California, LTA's Pathfinder 1 is 122 meters long (400 feet) and 20 meters in diameter at its fattest part. It’s a fraction of the size of the vehicles LTA plans to build in the future, and yet no rigid airship of its scale has been constructed since the 1930s.

● The airship business barely exists today. There are blimps that putter around stadiums with ads on their sides, and others that take photos. There are a handful of rigid airships that conduct recreational flights in Germany. And that’s more or less it. This has been an industry in search of a booming, profitable purpose for a very long time.

● Exactly why Sergey Brin wants a fleet of airships remains a partial mystery. But Brin and LTA CEO Alan Weston think they could haul cargo in an environmentally friendly fashion and deliver supplies to disaster zones. One day, luxe versions might appeal to passengers who want to travel in a leisurely, exotic fashion from, say, London to New York over the course of a couple of days.

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