ラーメン二郎の写真から“レンゲだけ”消す技術が意味不明だけどすごい　なぜ消すのか開発者に聞いた

ラーメン二郎のラーメンの写真から、「自動的にレンゲだけを消す」技術が魔法のようだと話題です。レンゲなんか最初からなかったみたいになってる……！ レンゲを消せる仕組みも消す理由もよく分からないけど、とにかくすごい……！ 公開されたデモ映像では、レンゲにかけられたボカシがじわじわ減衰。レンゲが消えるととも…

NASA reveals details about James Webb Space Telescope’s first full-color images

It’s only a few days until NASA and its partners on the James Webb Space Telescope project reveal the first full-color images and spectroscopic data captured by the observatory. The agency has shed a little more light on what to expect by revealing the JWST’s initial list of cosmic targets.

One of them is the Carina Nebula, which is around 7,600 light years away. NASA says it’s one of the biggest and brightest nebulae in the sky and it includes stars that are several times larger than the Sun. Another nebula the telescope captured images from is the Southern Ring. That’s roughly 2,000 light years from Earth and is a planetary nebula — it’s an expanding cloud of gas that surrounds a dying star.

Closer to home is the gas planet WASP-96 b, which is almost 1,150 light years away and has around half the mass of Jupiter. NASA will provide a look at the planet’s light spectrum data. Much further from here is Stephan’s Quintet, which is around 290 million light years away in the Pegasus constellation. This is the first compact galaxy group that was discovered, all the way back in 1877. It comprises five galaxies, four of which “are locked in a cosmic dance of repeated close encounters,” NASA said.

Also on Tuesday, NASA, the European Space Agency and Canadian Space Agency will reveal imagery for SMACS 0723. “Massive foreground galaxy clusters magnify and distort the light of objects behind them, permitting a deep field view into both the extremely distant and intrinsically faint galaxy populations,” NASA explained.

A committee of experts from NASA, ESA, CSA and the Space Telescope Science Institute spent five years determining the first targets for Webb’s instruments. The full-color images and spectroscopic data that JSWT captured will be revealed on July 12th at 10:30AM ET. You’ll be able to view them on NASA’s website.

This marks an important step for JWST as it marks the official beginning of the observatory’s general science operations. The aim is to provide us with more detailed images and information about the earliest stars and galaxies as well as potentially habitable exoplanets. After launch in December, it took several months for the JWST to reach its destination and prepare for full operation. We’re very close to finding out just what the observatory is capable of.

Lemur Pro is a linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life. Rolls on Intel Alder Lake processor.

The small American computer manufacturer System76 has presented a new version of its laptop Lemur Pro, a laptop that comes with linux pre-installed. The new […]

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猫は「ゴハン」としゃべるのか？→本当にしゃべってるっぽい

トッチャンは保護猫（恐らく捨て猫）出身で、甘えん坊でやんちゃ、そして全身いっぱい使って愛情を表現してくるとっても愛情深いやつである。 トッチャンとの出会いは昨年秋。 現在鹿児島にいる義母の家の敷地内で、にゃあにゃあ声がしたそう。ちなみに義母がいるところは鹿児島の中でもかなりの田舎エリアだ。おばあち…

Pressure mounts on FDA to expand pig-to-human organ transplant research

In January, doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine made history by successfully transplanting a pig’s heart into a human. The 57-year-old patient may have died two months later due to complications from the experimental procedure, but the case has inspired scientists throughout the medical field to call on the FDA to expand the scope and scale of human-porcine transplantation research. During a two-day conference in late June, policy advisors to the FDA and medical professionals discussed the future of xenotransplantation and “most attendees agreed that human trials are needed to help answer the most pressing research questions,” according to Nature. 

We’ve been stuffing pig organs into sick people since the early 19th century, but the technology has made rapid strides in recent decades thanks in part to the advent of CRISPR technology and more potent immunosuppressives. In 2017, researchers created the first human-pig hybrid embryo as well as devised a solution to potential inter-species viral infections. As of January, 2022, were implanting genetically modified pig kidneys into brain-dead donor recipients with great success.

“Our goal is not to have a one-off, but to advance the field to help our patients,” Dr. Jayme Locke, lead surgeon of the kidney study and director of UAB’s Incompatible Kidney Transplant Program, told the NYT. “What a wonderful day it will be when I can walk into clinic and know I have a kidney for everyone waiting to see me.”

Humans have also conducted numerous experimental pig-organ transplants into primates like baboons. But in order to safely and consistently do it with humans, researchers will have to test the techniques on humans, Caroline Zeiss, a veterinary specialist at Yale School of Medicine, told Nature. For example, doctors found traces of porcine cytomegalovirus (PCMV) in the heart transplant patient who died earlier this year and believe that it may have played a role in his demise, but they won’t know for sure without further tests that a primate model — ones that can’t be replicated in primates.

Researchers are only looking at “small, focused” clinical trials with “appropriately selected patients,” Allan Kirk, a transplant surgeon at the Duke University School of Medicine, told Nature. Researchers will have to answer a number of fundamental questions before the technology can be widely utilized, as well as determine the right mix of breeding and genetic tinkering needed to ensure that recipients’ bodies won’t reject them.

And while the decisions made during last week’s meeting may not have an immediate impact on the agency’s current stance on xenotransplantation, changes are reportedly afoot. The WSJ spoke to a “person familiar with the matter” at the end of June who asserts the FDA is planning to launch pig-organ transplantation trials in an effort ease the shortage of transplantable human organs (*angrily shakes fist at seatbelts*). There’s no word on when such trials would launch as they are being handled on a case-by-case basis, the source said.