Adobe is preparing for a future where users increasingly interact with its software through AI assistants, rather than always going directly to its applications. That’s the idea behind its expanded integration with Anthropic’s Claude, as well as the first connector for Google’s Gemini, announced Thursday. The updated Claude integration addsContinue Reading
Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine, trying to refute corruption allegations, may have just proven them. Earlier this week, ProPublica exposed Collins’s involvement in an alleged illegal pay-to-pay scheme with a defense contractor. Collins has denied the allegations. “The Biden-led Justice Department and FBI totally cleared my office, my campaignContinue Reading
Dozens of southern right whale calves have been found dead on Argentina’s Patagonian coast. Scientists are probing a possible bacterial infection after an unusually deadly season.Continue Reading
Iran’s foreign minister has proposed a seven-day roadmap to Washington by which Iran would reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days if the US lifts its naval blockade, together with other conditions aimed at ending the war.Continue Reading
Thousands gather in Paris as the pope warns against a ‘paradise of machines’ at the Elysee Palace., Thousands gather in Paris as the pope warns against a ‘paradise of machines’ at the Elysee Palace. Pope Leo XIV has warned that artificial intelligence, which he referred to as a “paradise ofContinue Reading
Iran says it has given the US a seven-day plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, with the choice to accept now up to them, NewsFeed Iran will reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days, but the choice now rests with the US, says Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas AraqchiContinue Reading
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a half-empty chamber at the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, after dozens of delegations walked out in protest at the start of his speech. Netanyahu assailed his critics as “antisemites,” defended his country’s conduct in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria, andContinue Reading
APOD Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss You currently sit at the black hole’s photon sphere, where light can travel endlessly in a circle due to the star’s great gravitational pull. The apparent position of the photon sphere is always easy to spot – itContinue Reading
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft that launched NASA’s Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station is pictured docked to the Harmony module’s forward port. Credit: NASA During a news conference at 3 p.m. EDT on Monday, Sept. 28, NASA and Boeing leadership will discuss Starliner’sContinue Reading
APOD Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss As before, from this orientation, the black hole’s enormous gravity bends light to make two discernible images of the constellation Orion. You now descend to the photon sphere. A photon sphere is a location where gravity is soContinue Reading
Mary Peltola’s campaign is pushing back against allegations that the Alaska Democrat used an anti-gay slur and physically confronted a staffer, saying recent reporting exaggerated her behavior during one of the most difficult periods of her life. The allegations come from a New York Times investigation published Sept. 23 thatContinue Reading
APOD Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss The first frame is dark as you peer into the black hole itself. You begin to look up and stars come back into view. Now the stars are more blue than ever before as starlight that has fallenContinue Reading
APOD Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss The first frame shows a background sky highly distorted by the black hole in the center. The gravity of the black hole is so great that it actually deflects the background starlight. Large light bending effects cause theContinue Reading