It's issue #199 of DNT Weekly and as per usual the week has been eventful. Here's what we've been reading of late.
The Gaganyaan mission aims to send three astronauts to an orbit of 400km and bring them back after three days. India has unveiled four Air Force pilots who have been shortlisted to travel on the country's maiden space flight scheduled for next year. Read about it here.
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Google's next-generation model: Gemini 1.5
The model delivers dramatically enhanced performance, with a breakthrough in long-context understanding across modalities.
The anatomy of a Super Bowl ad
How learning app Duolingo’s cheeky five-second spot beat the odds in a crowded field.
This tiny, tamper-proof ID tag can authenticate almost anything
MIT engineers developed a tag that can reveal with near-perfect accuracy whether an item is real or fake. The key is in the glue on the back of the tag.
The search for extraterrestrial life is targeting Jupiter’s icy moon Europa
NASA’s Europa Clipper mission will travel to one of Jupiter's largest moons to look for evidence of conditions that could support life.
Newly spotted black hole has mass of 17 billion Suns, adding another daily
An accretion disk 7 light-years across powers an exceptionally bright galaxy.
Why are farmers annoyed with the government and whether their demand for a Minimum Support Price is economically viable.
How ‘pace layers’ can help designers understand complex systems.
Inside the hunt for new physics at the world’s largest particle collider
The Large Hadron Collider hasn’t seen any new particles since the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012. Here’s what researchers are trying to do about it.
Honorary mentions
Android 15’s first developer preview
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