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Google's 'virtual satellite' AI model can provide a near real-time view of Earth

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-20 02:30:55

Google has introduced a new AI model called AlphaEarth Foundations that it says can function like a "virtual satellite." The model uses a system called "embedding," which works by taking big volumes of pubic information from various sources every day, such as optical satellites, radars and climate simulations, and then combining them all together. It then divides lands and coastal waters into 10x10 meter squares, which it then analyzes and tracks over time. As Wired explains, these squares are c

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Weirdly Hot Rocks in New England Traced to 80-Million-Year-Old Greenland Rift

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-12-20 02:40:31

Roughly 124 miles (200 kilometers) beneath the Appalachian Mountains in New England lies the aptly named Northern Appalachian Anomaly (NAA), a mysterious 218-mile-wide (350-km) region of unusually hot rock. Researchers have long believed that the NAA resulted from the plate tectonic movement that broke North America off northwest Africa 180 million years ago. In a new study published Tuesday in the journal Geology, however, a team of international researchers argue that the hot, subsurface rock

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Google DeepMind says its new AI can map the entire planet with unprecedented accuracy

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-12-22 16:00:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Google DeepMind announced today a breakthrough artificial intelligence system that transforms how organizations analyze Earth’s surface, potentially revolutionizing environmental monitoring and resource management for governments, conservation groups, and businesses worldwide. The system, called AlphaEarth Foundations, addresses a critical

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Kevin Feige Teases a Major ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Location

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-12-25 02:08:53

“The fun of an Avengers movie is introducing people to each other and seeing how very different personalities get along,” says Kevin Feige, the president of Marvel Studios. “In the case of a movie that involves the threat of worlds literally colliding, it’s fun to see them visit each other’s homes.” Feige was speaking to the official Marvel website about The Fantastic Four: First Steps, which is now in theaters. It’s the final piece of the puzzle before Avengers: Doomsday comes out in December

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Startup aims to beam sunlight from space using mirrors

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-12-25 11:56:00

Forward-looking: A California startup is looking to space to solve the limits of ground-based solar power. Reflect Orbital is developing a constellation of satellites with giant Mylar mirrors to beam sunlight back to Earth after dark – an idea that offers bold potential but faces steep engineering hurdles. At the heart of Reflect Orbital's project are its Mylar mirrors. Each satellite will unfurl a 33-by-33-foot sheet of lightweight polyester film known for its durability and reflectivity. The

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Wish you could escape the planet? Too bad life in space would suck

news.ycombinator.com Levi Stallings 2025-12-25 15:38:46

Climate change, war and fascism got you down? Wish you could buy a ticket on the Europa Clipper spacecraft that’s on its way to check if there’s living slime on a Jupiterian moon? Before you decide to leave Earth behind and move to outer space, consider the life of an astronaut on the International Space Station. Imagine cohabitating with eight other people in an enclosed area the size of a large airplane. You live on a strict schedule broken into 15 minute increments, using a red marker on a c

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Rare earths are China’s bargaining chip in the trade war — the U.S. is trying to fix that

cnbc.com Magdalena Petrova Jeniece Pettitt Jason Reginato 2025-12-25 21:00:01

Rare earths refer to 17 elements on the periodic table whose atomic structure gives them special magnetic properties. They're also the most important bargaining chip in the U.S. and China trade war. That's because these rare earth magnets power everything from electric vehicles and wind turbines to defense equipment, data centers and high-tech consumer electronics. The United States used to be an industry leader of rare earth production, but for the last several decades, the U.S. and the rest o

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Google Revises Android Earthquake Alerts After Major Miss in Turkey

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-26 14:45:44

Google says it has updated its Android Earthquake Alerts System after the tool failed to deliver its most urgent warnings to millions of people during the devastating earthquakes in Turkey in 2023. The system, which turns Android phones into "mini seismometers," is designed to detect earthquakes quickly and push alerts to people nearby seconds before strong shaking hits, according to Google. But when two massive quakes struck southern Turkey and Syria in February 2023, the alerts system didn't

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These Are the First FireSat Images for Finding Wildfires From Space

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-28 14:51:00

At Google I/O in May, Google revealed that it's working with the Earth Fire Alliance on FireSat, a program that combines new high-resolution satellites with AI analysis to pinpoint wildfires in their earliest stages and help responders knock them down before they grow. This week the alliance released the first images captured by the initial satellite, showing how fires as small as 5-by-5 meters -- about the size of a classroom -- can be detected from space. FireSat identified this small roadsid

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Google admits Android alert failure during 2023 Turkey earthquake

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-12-29 03:15:00

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust In brief: Google has admitted that its early earthquake alert system failed to inform millions of people about the severity of Turkey's 2023 quake. The highest level "TakeAction" warnings were only sent to 469 Android users for the 7.8 magnitude event. On 6 February 2023, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck near Gaziantep in southern Turkey, close to the Syrian border. It was followed by a second maj

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Google admits Android’s earthquake alerts failed ahead of deadly quake

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-29 03:16:53

Google TL;DR Google has reportedly acknowledged that its Android Earthquake Alerts system did not work accurately during the devastating 2023 Turkey earthquakes. The system issued 500,000 lower-level “Be Aware” notifications when it should have issued 10 million “Take Action” alerts. Google told the BBC that every earthquake early warning system grapples with algorithm tuning challenges. Google has reportedly admitted to the BBC that its Android Earthquake Alerts (AEA) system failed to deliv

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These Are the First FireSat Images for Finding Wildfires from Space

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-29 02:51:03

At Google I/O in May, Google revealed that it's working with the Earth Fire Alliance on FireSat, a program that combines new high-resolution satellites with AI analysis to pinpoint wildfires in their earliest stages and help responders knock them down before they grow. This week the alliance released the first images captured by the initial satellite, showing how fires as small as 5-by-5 meters -- about the size of a classroom -- can be detected from space. FireSat identified this small roadsid

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Google failed to warn 10 million of Turkey earthquake severity

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-28 18:16:50

Google failed to warn 10 million of Turkey earthquake severity 9 hours ago Share Save James Clayton, Anna Foster and Ben Derico BBC News Share Save EPA Google has admitted its earthquake early warning system failed to accurately alert people during Turkey's deadly quake of 2023. Ten million people within 98 miles of the epicentre could have been sent Google's highest level alert - giving up to 35 seconds of warning to find safety. Instead, only 469 "Take Action" warnings were sent out for the

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‘Alien: Earth’ Crashes Into Comic-Con With a Massive Outdoor Experience

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-12-28 16:15:38

The USCSS Maginot, a Weyland Yutani research vessel, crashed into the large lawn next to Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con this weekend. Onlookers remarked they hoped there was nothing dangerous on board, as containers had spilled all over the surrounding area. That’s both the tease for a very cool activation put together by FX for its new show, Alien: Earth, as well as the setup for Alien: Earth itself. The show, which debuts August 12, centers on a crashed ship and all the horrors that it contain

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Purple Earth hypothesis

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 06:43:38

Astrobiological hypothesis regarding early photosynthetic organisms Artist's impression of Earth in the early Archean with a purplish hydrosphere and coastal regions Purple culture of Haloarchaea (left) and isolated purple and red membrane components (right) The Purple Earth Hypothesis (PEH) is an astrobiological hypothesis, first proposed by molecular biologist Shiladitya DasSarma in 2007,[1] that the earliest photosynthetic life forms of Early Earth were based on the simpler molecule retina

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The ‘Alien: Earth’ Premiere Just Blew Away Hall H at Comic-Con

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-12-28 14:00:18

Anyone who has been to a movie recently knows that keeping people quiet to watch something together can be a struggle. Now make that number almost 7,000 people, and what happens is pure captivation as the crowd in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con were wowed by the first episode of Alien: Earth, which comes to FX on August 12. The episode starts in a very familiar way for Alien fans before doing a complete 180 into something totally different. Almost instantly, it’s clear that creator Noah Hawley b

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Earth’s Unusual Rapid Spin Could Prompt First-Ever ‘Negative Leap Second’

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-31 02:20:05

The Earth has been spinning unusually fast recently. Last year on July 4, our planet set a record by completing a full spin 1.66 milliseconds (0.00166 seconds) faster than usual, according to timeanddate.com. One year later, on July 10, 2025, Earth completed a daily rotation that scientists estimate was 1.36 milliseconds faster than usual, giving us another particularly short day. Other shorter (but ever-so-slightly longer) days occurred on July 9 and July 22, although the exact margins have yet

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Humans Counted 8,600 Earthquakes in Yellowstone. AI Says We’re Not Even Close

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2026-01-02 16:25:37

Before the advent of artificial intelligence, experts often detected earthquakes by analyzing seismic data by hand. Unsurprisingly, this approach takes a long time, is cost-intensive, and usually identifies fewer earthquakes. Machine learning has now changed virtually everything. Using artificial intelligence, researchers have retroactively identified and assigned magnitudes to ten times as many seismic events in historical earthquake data from the Yellowstone caldera from 2008 to 2022 as had b

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SpaceX launches a pair of NASA satellites to probe the origins of space weather

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-02 21:12:09

Two NASA satellites rocketed into orbit from California aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday, commencing a $170 million mission to study a phenomenon of space physics that has eluded researchers since the dawn of the Space Age. The twin spacecraft are part of the NASA-funded TRACERS mission, which will spend at least a year measuring plasma conditions in narrow regions of Earth's magnetic field known as polar cusps. As the name suggests, these regions are located over the poles. They play

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New ‘Alien: Earth’ Footage Teases the Creepy Creatures to Come

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2026-01-04 06:00:17

The new series Alien: Earth has more than Xenomorphs killing humans; it’s also got some new extraterrestrials fans of the franchise haven’t seen before. In a new behind-the-scenes look, the cast and creator Noah Hawley offer some insight into the show’s basic plot and what it’ll bring to the larger franchise. Included in the footage are glimpses of unnamed species that range from an eyeball with tentacles to a big, centipede-looking thing, both of which want to get in humans’ faces as much as t

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Android Earthquake Alerts: A global system for early warning

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-07 00:23:14

Earthquakes are a constant threat to communities around the globe. While we’ve gotten good at knowing where they’re likely to strike, we still face devastating consequences when they do. What if we could give people a few precious seconds of warning before the shaking starts? Those seconds can be enough time to get off a ladder, move away from dangerous objects and take cover. For years, that’s been the goal of earthquake early warning (EEW) systems. But the expensive seismic networks on which t

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‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’ Isn’t Quite Fantastic, But It’s Pretty Great

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2026-01-07 16:00:22

The Fantastic Four: First Steps is like an ice-cold drink on a warm summer’s day. A slice of apple pie with a glass of milk. It’s a nice, simple, familiar-feeling movie that will make you feel warm and fuzzy for a while but maybe doesn’t have the lasting power of something stronger. It’s easily the best Fantastic Four movie ever, and yet, falls just short of being fully “fantastic.” Nevertheless, it’s still highly enjoyable. Directed by Matt Shakman (Wandavision), Fantastic Four takes place fou

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How earthquake alerts work on Android - and how to make sure they're enabled on your phone

zdnet.com Elyse Betters Picaro 2026-01-08 23:00:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET The next time you get an alert on your Android phone, it might just be life‑saving information. Google researchers report that since rolling out the Android Earthquake Alerts System in 2021, it has detected and issued warnings for over 2,000 earthquakes, delivering anywhere from 10 to 60 seconds of advance notice before the strongest shaking arrives. In total, about 790 million alerts have been sent to phones worldwide. Also: Storms and bad weather? How to prep yo

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Myanmar’s Devastating Earthquake in March Split the Earth at ‘Supershear Velocity’

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2026-01-10 02:00:27

On March 28, Myanmar was rocked by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that claimed over 5,000 lives and caused damage even in neighboring countries. In a study published July 10 in The Seismic Record, seismologists confirmed previous research indicating that the southern part of the large earthquake’s rupture, or fracture, took place at astounding speeds of up to between 3.1 and 3.7 miles per second (5 to 6 kilometers per second)—at supershear velocity. This likely played a role in the earthquake’s dev

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12 Ways ‘Alien: Earth’ Is Respectfully Reimagining the Franchise

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2026-01-11 02:00:55

Alien: Earth creator Noah Hawley knows the tables are stacked against him. He knows the Alien franchise is a tough one to crack and that the idea of bringing it to televsion might elicit groans from certain fans. But Hawley is also really good at his job. He somehow turned Fargo into a TV show worthy of the incredible film. He made Legion one of the best comic book shows in recent memory. And he knows he’ll never be able to remake or recapture the terror you felt watching the Ridley Scott origin

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U.S. firms scramble to secure rare-earth magnets — imports from China surge 660%

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2026-01-11 18:44:14

Annealed neodymium iron boron magnets sit in a barrel at a Neo Material Technologies Inc. factory in Tianjin, China on June 11, 2010. China's exports of rare-earth magnets to the United States in June surged more than seven times from the prior month, as American firms clamor to get hold of the critical elements following a preliminary Sino-U.S. trade deal. In April, Beijing placed restrictions on several critical magnets, used in advanced tech such as electric vehicles, wind turbines and MRI

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Titan’s Methane Lakes Could Form Bubble-Like Structures Essential to Life, Scientists Say

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2026-01-11 10:00:06

On December 25, 2004, the Huygens probe separated from the Cassini spacecraft and landed on Titan’s sandy surface. The probe survived for 72 hours on Saturn’s largest moon, revealing a world that is chemically complex and more Earth-like than expected. For years, scientists have been intrigued by Titan as an alien world that might have the right conditions to host life, albeit in a very different form than on Earth. New research by NASA reveals that molecular precursors to life could form in Tit

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Scientists Will Melt Some of Earth’s Oldest Ice to Solve Climate Mystery

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2026-01-12 21:06:58

A team of U.K. researchers are planning to melt some of the oldest ice on Earth in an ambitious bid to reconstruct up to 1.5 million years of our planet’s climate history. In doing so, they could also help solve a mystery that has puzzled scientists for over two decades. Over the course of seven weeks, scientists at the British Antarctic Survey plan to gradually melt 1.5-million-year-old Antarctic ice cores at their lab in Cambridge, England, unlocking whatever dust, volcanic ash, and even sing

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Scientists prove Android Earthquake Alerts system actually works pretty well

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-13 06:38:27

Google TL;DR Google’s Android Earthquake Alerts system crowdsources data from smartphone accelerometers to detect seismic activity. The system has detected over 18,000 earthquakes and alerted millions across nearly 100 countries. Users receive crucial seconds of warning, enabling them to take protective action before shaking begins. Google introduced Earthquake Alerts for Android devices back in 2020, and expanded the feature to cover all US states in September 2024. More recently, Google al

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How Android phones became an earthquake warning system

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-14 16:45:36

If you're the owner of an Android phone and live in a seismically active region, there's a chance your phone has popped up an unusual warning. Not one that asks for permission to share personal information, or potential malware, but something far more serious: There's an earthquake nearby, and you have up to a minute or two to get to a safer location. Starting in the US in 2020 and expanding internationally since, the system is called Android Earthquake Alert (AEA), and it's on by default in mo

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Google's 'virtual satellite' AI model can provide a near real-time view of Earth

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12 Ways ‘Alien: Earth’ Is Respectfully Reimagining the Franchise

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Scientists prove Android Earthquake Alerts system actually works pretty well

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