@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2026-01-07 18:45:52
The fifth #AAS press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dHXMm3pbWU about Asteroids, Low-Mass Stars, and a Mystery from History covered the papers Lightcurves, Rotation Periods, and Colors for Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s First Asteroid Discoveries (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae2a30 with https://rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-record-breaking-asteroid-pre-survey and https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2601/ and https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2026-01-07-nsf-doe-vera-c-rubin-observatory-spots-record-breaking-asteroid-pre-survey), Dearth of Photosynthetically Active Radiation Suggests No Complex Life on Late M-Star Exoplanets (https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02548 with https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LlyzaK1wTk0hnqNGRCEMNe8BZEaMMFde), A Plasma Torus around a Young Low-mass Star (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ade39a with https://carnegiescience.edu/naturally-occurring-space-weather-station-elucidates-new-way-study-habitability-planets-orbiting-m) and Barnard's mysterious star near Venus - a strange interloper noted during a satellite search (https://scicomm.xyz/@cosmos4u/115849624944298844).
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-01-22 02:51:40
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Hemi Hemingway feat. Vera Ellen:
🎵 Oh, My Albertine
#HemiHemingway #VeraEllen
https://hemihemingway.bandcamp.com/track/oh-my-albertine-feat-vera-ellen
https://open.spotify.com/track/5HbfMiUfz4U3ldoO0H0zqh
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-01-08 16:48:00
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-06 03:45:35
Jensen Huang says Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips are in "full production"; Nvidia says Rubin can train some LLMs with roughly one-fourth the chips Blackwell needs (Lauren Goode/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/nvidias-rubin-chips-are-going-into-productio…
@stefan@gardenstate.social2025-12-11 00:45:23
Audrey Hobert on romcoms, songwriting and getting back with exes | Interview | Vera On Track by Vera On Track
#music
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-05 23:15:42
Nvidia launches the Vera Rubin platform, saying it will offer dramatic reductions in inference and training costs compared to Blackwell, across six new chips (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/855412/nvidia-launches-ve…
@@arXiv_physicsatomph_bot@mastoxiv.page@mastoxiv.page2025-12-16 08:53:32
Coulomb crystallization of xenon highly charged ions in a laser-cooled Ca matrix
Leonid Prokhorov, Aaron A. Smith, Mingyao Xu, Kostas Georgiou, Vera Guarrera, Lakshmi P. Kozhiparambil Sajith, Elwin A. Dijck, Christian Warnecke, Malte Wehrheim, Alexander Wilzewski, Laura Blackburn, Matthias Keller, Vincent Boyer, Thomas Pfeifer, Ullrich Schwanke, Cigdem Issever, Steven Worm, Piet O. Schmidt, Jos\'e R. Crespo Lopez-Urrutia, Giovanni Barontini
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-28 17:10:56
Nvidia and HPE plan to build two new Vera Rubin-based supercomputers for Los Alamos National Laboratory, for national security and scientific research (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-10-27 00:34:27
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Cocteau Twins:
🎵 Pitch the Baby
#CocteauTwins
https://teevera.bandcamp.com/track/cocteau-twins-pitch-the-baby-tee-vera-jungle-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1DXD0wVXXHwUYo9AXbcMMI
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-30 18:30:32
An in-depth look at TPUv7 Ironwood, the latest generation of Google's TPU, and how it positions Google as a serious challenger to Nvidia's AI chip dominance (Dylan Patel/SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/tpuv7-google-takes-a-swing-at-the
