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Vodafone und AST SpaceMobile bauen Satelliten-Betriebszentrum in Deutschland
Der britische Konzern Vodafone und der texanische Satellitenbetreiber ASTS haben Deutschland als Standort für ihr Satelliten-Betriebszentrum ausgewählt.

🔋 Feeding off spent battery waste, a novel bacterium signals a new method for self-sufficient battery recycling
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-spent-battery-bacterium-method-sufficient.html

Feeding off spent battery waste, a novel bacterium signals a new method for self-sufficient battery recycling
A unique bacterium that thrives in highly acidic environments feeds on spent battery "waste," making it a promising new method for self-sufficient battery recycling, according to new research from Boston College chemists.

Vodafone and AST SpaceMobile plan to establish a Europe-led satellite constellation, operated out of Germany, to provide satellite-to-smartphone connectivity (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/vodafone-ast-spacemobile-launch…

SpikingBrain Technical Report: Spiking Brain-inspired Large Models
Yuqi Pan, Yupeng Feng, Jinghao Zhuang, Siyu Ding, Zehao Liu, Bohan Sun, Yuhong Chou, Han Xu, Xuerui Qiu, Anlin Deng, Anjie Hu, Peng Zhou, Man Yao, Jibin Wu, Jian Yang, Guoliang Sun, Bo Xu, Guoqi Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05276

SpikingBrain Technical Report: Spiking Brain-inspired Large Models
Mainstream Transformer-based large language models face major efficiency bottlenecks: training computation scales quadratically with sequence length, and inference memory grows linearly, limiting long-context processing. Building large models on non-NVIDIA platforms also poses challenges for stable and efficient training. To address this, we introduce SpikingBrain, a family of brain-inspired models designed for efficient long-context training and inference. SpikingBrain leverages the MetaX GPU …

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https://stephenshero.bandcamp.com/track/sufjan-stevens-chicago-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1yupbrI7ROhigIHpQBevPh

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How I Built ASR for Endangered Languages with a Spoken Dictionary
Christopher Bartley, Anton Ragni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04832 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

How I Built ASR for Endangered Languages with a Spoken Dictionary
Nearly half of the world's languages are endangered. Speech technologies such as Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) are central to revival efforts, yet most languages remain unsupported because standard pipelines expect utterance-level supervised data. Speech data often exist for endangered languages but rarely match these formats. Manx Gaelic ($\sim$2,200 speakers), for example, has had transcribed speech since 1948, yet remains unsupported by modern systems. In this paper, we explore how litt…

unicodelang: Languages spoken by country (2015)
A bipartite network of languages and the countries in which they are spoken, as estimated by Unicode. Edges are weighted by the proportion of the given country's population that is literate in a particular language.
This network has 868 nodes and 1255 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Weighted

unicodelang: Languages spoken by country (2015)
A bipartite network of languages and the countries in which they are spoken, as estimated by Unicode. Edges are weighted by the proportion of the given country's population that is literate in a particular language.
This network has 868 nodes and 1255 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Weighted

Speaking to shareholders, Elon Musk says Tesla will likely need to build "a gigantic chip fab" for AI chips and "maybe, we'll do something with Intel" (Sayantani Ghosh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/aut…