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The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was a NASA space mission aimed at testing a method of planetary defense against near-Earth objects. The target object, Dimorphos, is a 160-meter-long (525-foot) minor-planet moon of the asteroid Didymos. DART was launched on 24November 2021 and successfully collided with Dimorphos on 26September 2022 while about 11million kilometers (6.8million miles) from Earth. The collision shortened Dimorphos's orbit by 32 minutes and was mostly achieved by the momentum transfer associated with the recoil of the ejected debris, which was larger than the impact. This video is a timelapse of DART's final five and a half minutes before impacting Dimorphos, and was compiled from photographs captured by the Didymos Reconnaissance and Asteroid Camera for Optical navigation (DRACO), the spacecraft's 20-centimeter-aperture (7.9-inch) camera, and transmitted to Earth in real time. The replay is ten times faster than reality, except for the last six images, which are shown at the same rate at which the spacecraft returned them. Both Didymos and Dimorphos are visible at the start of the video, and the final frame shows a patch of Dimorphos's surface 16 meters (51 feet) across. DART's impact occurred during transmission of the final image, resulting in a partial frame.Video credit: NASA /Johns Hopkins APLRecently featured: Finding in the TempleWait for Me, DaddyRed-lored whistlerArchiveMore featured pictures

November 24: Feast day of the Vietnamese Martyrs (Catholicism)Hibiscus Rising1542 Anglo-Scottish Wars: English forces captured about 1,200 Scots at the Battle of Solway Moss.1859 British naturalist Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was first published, and sold out its initial print run on the first day.1976 A magnitude-7.3 earthquake struck eastern Turkey, destroying 80 per cent of buildings in the region and causing at least 4,000 casualties.2009 The Avdhela Project, an Aromanian digital library and cultural initiative, was launched in Bucharest, Romania.2023 Hibiscus Rising (pictured), a sculpture commemorating the life of David Oluwale, was unveiled in Leeds.Zachary Taylor (b.1784)Eileen Barton (b.1924)Tar Yamamoto (b.1974)Goo Hara (d.2019)More anniversaries: November 23November 24November 25ArchiveBy emailList of days of the yearAbout

Freddie Mercury of Queen, 1982 Tour at the Various Locations in Oakland, California Photo by Steve Jennings / WireImage via Getty ImagesAs midnight reached West London and Friday night passed into the first minutes of Saturday, November 23, 1991, rock band Queens press officer released a statement on behalf of frontman Freddie Mercury.Following the enormous conjecture in the press over the last two weeks, Mercury announced, I wish to confirm that I have been tested HIV-positive and have AIDS.Even as he lay isolated in Garden Lodge, his Kensington home, he could see paparazzis cigarette smoke over his garden wall. I felt it correct to keep this information private to date in order to protect the privacy of those around me, he continued. However, the time has now come for my friends and fans around the world to know the truth, and I hope that everyone will join with me, my doctors and all those worldwide in the fight against this terrible disease.Mercury closed his letter with a final plea for privacy, a commodity that had proved elusive in recent years: My privacy has always been very special to me, and I am famous for my lack of interviews. Please understand this policy will continue.Failing health had kept him out of the limelight since his last concert with Queen in 1986, and Mercury and Queens press team publicly denied that he had HIV/AIDS even after his 1987 diagnosis. That didnt stop British tabloids from hounding him about his sexuality and health: In 1990, for instance, the Sun ran a special storycalled The Sad Face of Freddie Mercury with a picture of him leaving a doctors office looking haggard and gaunt.After recording new music with his bandmates in Montreux, Switzerland, Mercury had returned home to London for the last time. He languished in bed as doctors and visitors like Elton John, his bandmates, former fiance and longtime friend Mary Austin, and his partner Jim Hutton kept him company during his shaky last days. A statue of Fredddie Mercury in Montreux, Switzerland. Queen recorded seven studio albums in Montreux, including Freddie Mercury's final studio recording for Queen's 1991 album "Innuendo." Exploratorium efimeros via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 4.0 On the day his groundbreaking statement was released, Mercurys condition was severe. By now Freddie had lost his sight, could barely move his muscles, had given up all solids and was surviving on the bare minimum of liquids, biographers Matt Richards and Mark Langthorne wrote in Somebody to Love: The Life, Death and Legacy of Freddie Mercury. He was drifting in and out of consciousness.It was clear that death was near. By releasing a statement, Mercury and his inner circle hoped to end the aggressive media speculation that had plagued the singer as much as his illnessto provide relief in his last moments and encourage openness about the still-stigmatized disease.He only lasted a day longer. Mercury was pronounced dead at 6:48 p.m. on November 24. The official cause of death was bronchial pneumonia resulting from AIDS.Writing in Rolling Stone, journalist Jeffrey Ressner noted that Mercurythe man born as Farrokh Bulsara to a Parsi Indian immigrant family in Zanzibarwas the first major rock star to die of AIDS.We have lost the greatest and most beloved member of our family, the band later wrotein a statement. We feel overwhelming grief that he has gone, sadness that he should be cut down at the height of his creativity, but above all great pride in the courageous way he lived and died.Get the latest stories in your inbox every weekday.Filed Under: AIDS, Death, LGBTQI History, Music, Musicians, On This Day in History, Rock and Roll, Rock Musicians

Gus, the Young Emperor Penguin Who Made a Surprise Appearance in Australia, Is Now Heading HomeWildlife caretakers released the bird into the Southern Ocean after hed put on some weight and regained his strength Gus did not hesitate to belly flop into the ocean. DBCA / Miles BrothersonThe emperor penguin that made global headlines after waddling ashore on a beach in Australia has been released back into the wild.Surfers spotted the out-of-place bird on Ocean Beach in Denmark, Western Australia, on November 1. Somehow, the juvenile male had ended up more than 2,100 miles from his home in Antarctica.Carol Biddulph, a registered wildlife caretaker, took the black-and-white bird to her home, where she has a dedicated penguin enclosure. The three-foot-tall penguin was malnourished and weighed just 47 pounds, which is well below the average weight of around 88 pounds for the species.Emperor penguin released at sea 20 days after waddling onto Australian beachWatch on For the last three weeks, Biddulph and her husband, Graham, have been carefully nursing the bird back to health, according to a statement from Australias Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA).At first, Biddulph didnt know what to call the penguinor whether to name him at all.I really didnt know whether he was going to make it to begin with because he was so undernourished, she says in a video shared with media outletsby the DBCA.But once it seemed like the juvenile would recover, Biddulph started brainstorming. She thought about historical emperorsand her brain landed on Roman emperor Augustus for some crazy reason, she adds.[The] shortened version of Gus just seemed to suit him. So thats what it is, she says in the video. By the end of his recovery, Gus was eatingroughly 20 pilchard fish three times each day. DBCA / Miles BrothersonBiddulph helped Gus regain weight through a gentle process of refeeding him, not too fast, not too slow, just right, she says. She and her husband started by giving him fluids, then moved on to a slurry. Eventually, they began feeding him whole fish.Once hed made a full recovery, Gus was eating roughly 20 pilchard fish, also known as mulies, three times each day. Before his release, he weighed about 55 pounds and was in a much chunkier shape, Biddulph says.As he was regaining his strength, Gus enjoyed standing next to the big mirror in his enclosure. Since penguins are social birds, he might have thought his reflection was a fellow emperor penguin.I find for other species of penguin that I have in care, the mirror is a must-have, especially when Ive only got one in at a time, says Biddulph in the video. When theres two or three [penguins], its great, they can bounce off each other, but when youve just got one, they just need that comfort of knowing theyve got a buddy. The emperor penguin liked to stand next to a big mirror in his enclosure. DBCA / Miles BrothersonOn the day of Gus release, he was placed into a ventilated pet carrier with an ice pack and loaded onto a small DBCA vessel. With Biddulph, her husband, a veterinarian and a wildlife officer on board, the boat sailed out of King George Sound in Albany, Western Australia.Once they reached an undisclosed location in the open Southern Ocean, the caretakers placed the carrier on the edge of the boat and opened one side. Without hesitating, Gus belly flopped into the water below with a splash, took a drink and began swimming.Magnificent. He just knew where he was supposed to be, didnt give a backward glance and just disappeared, says Biddulph in DBCA footage captured on the boat. Its just amazing. He was ready for it. After jumping into the water, Gus took a drink and swam off without looking back. DBCA / Miles BrothersonFor her part, Biddulph says she enjoyed taking care of Gus and will miss him. But at the end of the day, shes thrilled to see him back where he belongs.I got into wildlife care not to make these birds my pets, she says. I want birds to be free, and every one that we care for that goes back to its natural environment means that weve done our job well.Its still a mystery as to how and why Gus ended up so far from home in the first place. Experts believe he may have been looking for food, then got caught up in a current.To ornithologists, Gus is whats known as a vagrant. Especially during the spring and fall migrations, its fairly common for birds to end up in unusual placesand their appearances are always a treat for birdwatchers.Some vagrants get blown off course by storms, while others have been known to catch rides on boats. Since birds use Earths magnetic field to navigate, its also possible that disruptions to that field due to space weather might cause them to lose their bearings. But vagrancy largely remains a mystery to scientists.If a species showed up all the time, wed just consider that to be part of their range, says Casey Youngflesh, a biologist at Clemson University, to National Geographics Tatyana Woodall. Truthfully, we still dont understand a lot about the marine environment and dont have a good idea where many animals spend their time.Get the latest stories in your inbox every weekday.Filed Under: Animals, Antarctica, Australia, Biology, Birds, Conservation, Good News, Oceans, Penguins, Sea Birds, Water, wildlife

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn MoreA modern-day AI agent consists of, at least, a large language model (LLM) that has been enabled to call some tools. Given the right set of tools for coding, it would start by generating the code, be able to run it in a container, observe the results, modify the code and therefore have a better chance of producing useful code.By contrast, a generative AI model takes some input and, through the process of predicting expectations, produces an output. For example, we give it a coding task, it produces some code, and, depending on the complexity of the task, the code may be usable as is.As they take on different tasks, agents should be allowed to talk to each other. For example, imagine your company intranet with its useful search box directing you to the apps and resources you need. If you are a large enough company, these apps owned by different departments each have their own search boxes. It makes a lot of sense to create agents, maybe by using techniques like retrieval augmented generation (RAG), to augment the search boxes. What does not make sense is to force the user to repeat their query once the search box has identified it as useful given the initial query. Rather, we would prefer the top agent to coordinate with other agents representing various apps and present a consolidated and unified chat interface to you, the user. A multi-agent system representing software or an organizations various workflows can have several interesting advantages, including improved productivity and robustness, operational resilience and the ability ability to perform faster upgrades of different modules. Hopefully, this article will help you see how this is achieved.But first, how should we go about building these multi-agent systems?Capturing the organization and rolesFirst we should capture the processes, roles, responsible nodes and connections of various actors in the organization. By actors, I mean individuals and/or software apps that act as knowledge workers within the organization.An organizational chart might be a good place to start, but I would suggest starting with workflows, as the same people within an organization tend to act with different processes and people depending on workflows. There are available tools that use AI to help identify workflows, or you can build your own gen AI model. Ive built one as a GPT which takes the description of a domain or a company name and produces an agent network definition. Because Im utilizing a multi-agent framework built in-house at my company, the GPT produces the network as a Hocon file, but it should be clear from the generated files what the roles and responsibilities of each agent are and what other agents it is connected to.Note that we want to make sure that the agent network is a directed acyclic graph (DAG). This means that no agent can simultaneously become down-chain and up-chain to any other agent, whether directly or indirectly. This greatly reduces the chances that queries in the agent network fall into a tailspin.In the examples outlined here, all agents are LLM-based. If a node in the multi-agent organization can have zero autonomy, then that agent paired with its human counterpart, should run everything by the human. We will need all processing nodes, be they apps, humans or existing agents, to be represented as agents.Lately there have been many announcements by companies offering specialized agents. We would, of course, want to make use of such agents, if available. We can pull in a preexisting agent and wrap its API into one of our agents so we can make use of our inter-agent communication protocols. This means that such third-party agents will need to have their API available for us to use.How to define agentsVarious agent architectures have been proposed in the past. For instance, a blackboard architecture requires a centralized point of communication where various agents declare their roles and capabilities, and the blackboard calls them depending on how it plans to fulfill a request (see OAA).I prefer a more distributed architecture that respects the encapsulation of responsibilities. Each agent, having received a request, decides whether it can process it or not, and what it requires to do to process the request, then returns its list of requirements to its requesting up-chain agent. If the agent has down-chains, it asks them if they can help fulfill all or part of the request. If it receives any requirements from the contacted down-chains, it checks with other agents to see if they can fulfill them; if not, it sends them up-chain so that they can ask the human user. This architecture is called the AAOSA architecture and fun fact was the architecture used in early versions of Siri.Here is a sample system prompt that can be used to turn an agent into an AAOSA agent. When you receive an inquiry, you will: Call your tools to determine which down-chain agents in your tools are responsible for all or part of itAsk down-chain agents what they need to handle their part of the inquiry. Once requirements are gathered, you will delegate the inquiry and the fulfilled requirements to the appropriate down-chain agents.Once all down-chain agents respond, you will compile their responses and return the final response.You may, in turn, be called by other agents in the system and have to act as a down-chain to them.In addition to the set of roles and responsibilities defined in natural language in each agents system prompt, agents may or may not include tools that they can call, with various arguments being passed to the tools. For instance, a product manager agent may need to be able to process various tickets on a virtual Kanban board, or an alerts agent may need to call a tool to issue alerts in an alerting system.Current multi-agent systems such as Microsoft AutoGen have elaborate and often hardcoded agent coordination mechanisms and architectures. I prefer a more robust setup where agents treat their immediate down-chain agents as tools, with loosely defined arguments that can be typed, and the semantics decided by the agents at the time of need.In this setup, a down-chain agent can be defined as a function call:aaosa_call: {description: Depending on the mode, returns a natural language string in response.,parameters: {type: object,properties: {inquiry: {type: string,description: The inquiry},mode: {type: string,description: indicates whether the agent is being asked to determine if the inquiry belongs to itin its entirety or in part. or if it is being asked to provide requirements to fulfillthe inquiry, if any. or if it is being asked to respond to the inquiry.},},required: [inquiry,mode]}}AI agents in practiceAn agent network for a companys intranet. Lets explore an HR agent scenario. A user might inform the main search box agent of a life-changing event, such as my significant other passed away, trigger legal and HR agents that have a role to play in serving the user. This is because they, in turn, received information from some of their down-chain agents, namely legal advice, payroll and benefits agents. The resulting consolidated response that the user receives from the main search box agent will look like this:HR aspects:The benefits agent can the user help understand how the passing might impact benefits, health insurance, and retirement plans. Youll need to provide information about the types of plans involved and whether your significant other was a dependent.The payroll agent can help manage tasks such as updating tax deductions or handling bereavement leave pay. This requires information about company policies on bereavement leave and current payroll setup.Legal aspects:Legal agents can offer general guidance as to how this passing should it relate to company affairs.Each department requires specific information to offer tailored support.An agent network for a telco with a B2B business.In an IT scenario, meanwhile, the single-entry point is the customer support rep agent that can handle complex multi-faceted requests such as: Our network is slow. I think it is overloaded since we recently added personnel to our office. I will also need a quote for an upgrade.An example response will outline the steps: Network performance assessment: Thenetwork ops center specialistcan help address the slowness and potential overload issues. They need access to network performance data, details about the current network infrastructure, information about the number of personnel added and their network usage patterns.An upgraded quote: Thesales engineerandfield techniciancan help provide a quote for an upgrade. To do this they need:Specific information about the current network setup, including equipment and bandwidth requirements.Desired performance improvements.Budgetary constraints and any specific preferences or requirements.The scale of the upgrade and any specific performance goals.I hope this gave you a good idea of what is required to set up a multi-agent network. In the second installment, I will discuss the importance of implementing safeguards when creating multi-agent systems and outline how to build in controls to allow for human intervention and uncertainty checks. I will also detail required steps to create a safe-guard agent to oversee the agent network and dive deeper into challenges of developing multi-agent networks such as tailspins and overloads and how to mitigate them using timeouts, task division and redundancy.Babak Hodjat is CTO for AI at Cognizant. DataDecisionMakersWelcome to the VentureBeat community!DataDecisionMakers is where experts, including the technical people doing data work, can share data-related insights and innovation.If you want to read about cutting-edge ideas and up-to-date information, best practices, and the future of data and data tech, join us at DataDecisionMakers.You might even considercontributing an articleof your own!Read More From DataDecisionMakers

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Microsoft has stopped offering updates to Windows 11 version 24H2 on PCs that have certain Ubisoft games installed, Bleeping Computer reports. The company made the move after complaints that Star Wars Outlaws and games in the Assassins Creed series were crashing after installing the new Windows update.Microsoft confirmed the compatibility hold in a status update yesterday evening, and says its working with Ubisoft to find a fix. In the meantime, the company recommends against installing the Windows 11 24H2 update manually. Here is Microsofts description of the issue and games affected:After installing Windows 11, version 24H2, you might encounter issues with some Ubisoft games. These games might become unresponsive while starting, loading or during active gameplay. In some cases, users might receive a black screen. The affected games are: Assassins Creed Valhalla Assassins Creed Origins Assassins Creed Odyssey Star Wars Outlaws Avatar: Frontiers of PandoraMicrosoft writes that Ubisoft has released a temporary hotfix to address crashing issues in Star Wars Outlaws, but says that players might still experience some performance issues.