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Mar 23
2021

Google Chrome’s new Live Caption feature will transcribe speech in videos

First introduced in 2019, Google Chrome’s Live Caption accessibility feature offers real-time captions for audio playing on both Pixel and non-Pixel phones, including the Galaxy S20 series, OnePlus 8 series, OnePlus Nord and beyond.

The main benefits of this feature arise for hearing impaired users as well as users who simply wish to watch a video without audio. Furthermore, not only does the tool allow users to view videos without sound for their own convenience, it also permits the viewer to avoid disturbing others nearby with audio.

Until recently, this tool has only been available on Android phones, but Google is now releasing Live Caption for its Chrome browser. So far, Google aims to implement this feature on both Chrome desktop as well as Chrome 89. Now, users can access Live Caption for Chrome 89 by navigating to Settings Advanced Accessibility. Chrome 89 users who don’t automatically see the Live Caption toggle can try restarting Chrome.

Mar 22
2021

Mars 360: 1.2 billion pixel panorama of Mars — Sol 3060 (360video 8K)

1.2 billion pixel panorama of Mars by Curiosity rover at Sol 3060 (March 152021)

🎬 360VR video 8K: 🔎 360VR photo 85K: http://bit.ly/sol3060

NASA’s Mars Exploration Program Source images credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS Stitching and retouching: Andrew Bodrov / 360pano.eu.

Music in video Song: Gates Of Orion Artist: Dreamstate Logic (http://www.dreamstatelogic.com)

#Mars360 #Video360 #360VR #Mars #Sol3060 #Gigapixel

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Mar 22
2021

How Did NASA Broadcast Live TV From The Moon?

This special camera included classified technology.

Mar 22
2021

ICON and NASA bring lunar infrastructure closer with world’s first 3D printed rocket pad

Texas-based construction company ICON has delivered what it hails as the “world’s first” 3D printed lunar launch and landing pad to NASA, bringing its goal of creating an off-world construction system for the moon a step closer.

Working with a team of students from 10 colleges and universities across the US, ICON used its proprietary technology to 3D print a reusable landing pad using materials found on the moon. The partners recently conducted a static fire test of the rocket pad with a rocket motor at Camp Swift, a Texas Military Department location just outside of Austin.

“This is the first milestone on the journey to making off-world construction a reality, which will allow humanity to stay – not just visit the stars,” said Michael McDaniel, Head of Design at ICON.

Mar 21
2021

Perseverance dropped Mars Helicopter Ingenuity’s debris shield and started deployment sequence

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mSXH_3hnr6M

On March 212021 NASA’s Perseverance Rover send images of Mars Helicopter Ingenuity deployment started from Debris Shield Dropping. For the first flight, the helicopter will take off a few feet from the ground, hover in the air for about 20 to 30 seconds, and land. That will be a major milestone: the very first powered flight in the extremely thin atmosphere of Mars. After that, the team will attempt additional experimental flights of incrementally farther distance and greater altitude. After the helicopter completes its technology demonstration, Perseverance will continue its scientific mission. Ingenuity hitched a ride on the Perseverance rover’s belly, covered by a shield to protect it during the descent and landing. Once at a suitable spot on Mars, the shield covering beneath the rover will drop. Then, the team will release the helicopter in several steps to get it safely onto the surface.

Credit: nasa.gov, NASA/JPL-Caltech, NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

Source for NASA’s Mars Helicopter Ingenuity page: https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/

#mars #helicopter #ingenuity

Mar 21
2021

How the Ingenuity helicopter will deploy on Mars

NASA systems engineer Dr. Farah Alibay from JPL talks about the Ingenuity helicopter and how it will separate from the Perseverance rover and then land on the Red Planet.

Mar 21
2021

NASA’s Hubble Telescope Captures a Rare Metal Asteroid Worth 70,000 Times the Global Economy

NASA’s Hubble Telescope Captures a Rare Metal Asteroid Worth 70000 Times the Global Economy.

The metallic rarity is valued at $10000, 000000, 000000, 000.

Mar 20
2021

NASA’s Secret Weapon

Without Guppy the airplane, NASA wouldn’t have landed on the Moon in time.

Mar 20
2021

Mission to clean up space debris around Earth is poised for launch

Astroscale’s ELSA-d mission is set to launch into orbit to demonstrate technologies that could help clean up space debris around Earth.

Mar 20
2021

Tiny Gravitational-Wave Detector Could Search Anywhere in the Sky

One of the biggest challenges will be to create superpositions of diamonds that can remain stable over distances of a meter. More than four years ago researchers at Stanford University managed to separate a superposition consisting of 10000 atoms by about half a meter—the current record. “But we’re talking about doing it with diamonds that would have a billion or 10 billion atoms, and that is way more difficult,” Mazumdar says.

Many of the other technologies needed for the device—high vacuums, ultralow temperatures, precisely controlled magnetic fields—have all been achieved separately by various groups. But bringing them together will not be easy. “Just because you can juggle and ride a bike doesn’t mean you can do both at once,” Morley says.

If the device is ever built, it could transform gravitational-wave astronomy. The world’s current gravitational-wave detectors are all firmly anchored to the ground. “The only orientation LIGO can have is due to Earth’s rotation,” Bose says. A small detector such as MIMAC, on the other hand, could be pointed at any direction in the sky. And any physics lab in the world could house it. “The challenge is to get one of them working,” Bose says. “If one of them works, it would be very easy to make several more.”