More than 1,200 new planets discovered through Nasa Kepler space telescope | TheNews Linzer

More than doubling the number of confirmed planets orbiting alien stars, astronomers said that the discovery is a step toward finding Earth-like planets

Nasa added more than 1,200 new planets to the known galaxy on Tuesday, more than doubling the number of confirmed planets orbiting alien stars.

Revealing data from the Kepler space telescope, the astronomers said that the discovery is a step toward finding Earth-like planets. “This gives us hope that somewhere out there, around a star much like ours, we can eventually discover another Earth,” said Ellen Stofan, Nasa’s chief scientist.

Analysis on data from Kepler found that 1,284 candidates have a 99% chance of being a planet, of 4,302 potential planets detected by the telescope. Kepler searches in particular for planets in the “habitable zone” – close enough to a star for water to pool on the surface of a planet. Not so close that the star scorches water out of existence, as on Mercury, and not so far that water only persists as ice, as on Pluto. Continue reading...





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Pictures facilitate reading on facebook

Being dominated by Internet Facebook images is what is in front of them which is the introduction of a system that images can be "read" and can say to the people having vision problems.

The Internet is changing.

In the middle was completely text based Internet now the picture is now in the form. Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook every day, according to an estimate, other social networks, including an 80 billion photos are uploaded.

This is good news for individuals who want to photography, while bad news for people with blind or partial vision, often could not say what is in the picture.

But Facebook is going to introduce a new service Tuesday by which tried to rectify the problem will be.

Blind navigation software to work on the computer screen, called readers. This allows software on the computer screen material is made by the combination of the format of audio or Braille (a system for blind and non-written characters that emerged the name upbeat points). But you can only read the text, the image of "read" the content.

Artificial intelligence (AI) from a use of the Website Facebook now server can read and upload pictures that they bring in a form, and that they can be read easily through the screen reader.

Facebook behind the development of the hand of a person, their name is engineer Matt King Facebook. He had lost sight due to rytynayts pgmntusa. Rytynayts pgmntusa is a disease that destroys the veil the eyes of light sensitive cells.

The King ' Facebook, which is much more visual, and they have been quite alien to feel like a blind man.

He added: "this system is in very early stages, but it is going to take us towards this goal of which is to include each individual wants to take part in the conversation.

Then, the system photographs to explain in simple words: "there are two people in the picture and who are smiling.

However, Facebook says that he is now trained our software ranging from cars to trains, from the food to the mountain, water, swimming and games such as tennis and golf, from sea to 80, including common things can. This includes a further explanation as alternative text in each picture in them. More about software scans the pictures, the more this becomes the newest.

King and would like to take one step further to this system, Facebook and people in a picture to identify the face will be confirmed with the name and it will be with the help of the database users.

This principle is the King. It is said that persons with problems of vision and view vision blind and low should have equal access to material published on the Internet.

You can buy a self-driving car for only $22,000

Google may be testing their autonomous cars and teaching them not to hit on buses, but other automobile manufacturers are already selling vehicles that have to self-driving capabilities. Granted, these are not fully autonomous vehicles and they can only drive under certain conditions. One of these models is the new entry-level Civic LX sedan from Honda, which costs North of $ 22000.

The new Civic will not be anywhere near as complex as Google's self-driving cars, but will pack an advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) that helps you stay on the track and automatically corrects the trajectory of the vehicle and adjusts its speed. In addition to runway markings, the car monitors the traffic in front of him and offers features like automatic braking and adaptive cruise control.

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The Barack Obama administration has promised $ 4 million to accelerate deployment car as in the next decade, and vehicles as the newest Civics are a way to do it. These features of smart cars are supposed to improve road safety and reduce the number of accidents. The paper notes that in 2015, the traffic fatalities jumped from 9% during the 1st nine months for a year, which was an unexpected increase. Meanwhile, the Americans traveled only 4% total miles more than in the previous year, or a total of 3.15 trillion miles.

The Distractions, such for smartphones while driving at high speeds, driving while intoxicated and drowsiness can be responsible for the increase in the number of accidents. That's where the resources ADAS would help like a car would be able to maintain for a some autonomy, even when the driver is not fully concentrating on the road.

The Honda Civic will not be the only smart car available to buyers this year for less than the cost of a Tesla expensive. Other models include the Chevy Cruze and the infinite Q50 but is the Honda and Chevy more affordable options are 41% cheaper than for average price of a new car, according to Kelly Blue Book, even when ADAS packages are added.