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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…

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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

Verizon signs a commercial agreement with AST SpaceMobile to offer satellite-to-phone connectivity in cellular dead zones starting in 2026; ASTS closes up 8.6% (Michael Kan/PCMag)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/forget-starlink-verizon-is-all-in…

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…

Russian-speaking ransomware gang Qilin says it was responsible for an attack on Japan's Asahi and stole ~27GB of data, including financial docs and contracts (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-08/…