July 24, 2022

Well, that probably won’t improve right away. NASA launched More detailed analysis of damage to the James Webb Space Telescope Found with a delicate meteor, the damage was deemed “irreparable”. Not that any damage to the JWST could be repaired, at least in the sense that the Hubble Space Telescope was able to provide the optics to fix its main mirror that wasn’t needed for Earth. JWST is a long way from the service call, so the fix in this case refers to a combination of what can be achieved by modifying the shape and position of the affected mirror segment and what can be taken care of when processing images. Damage to the C3 segment, as well as damage to other segments in a total of six collisions in the half-year Webb was at the station, is assessed by “wavefront detection,” which looks at how light leaves each stage. mirror piece. The damage looks bad and should certainly hurt the technologists and engineers who built the thing with so much love and care to see it actually explode, but in the long run, that damage shouldn’t get in the way of Webb’s long-term scientific goals.

In other space news we hear o perseverance The probe took the first piece of the ancient river delta at Jezero Crater. The rover was looking for something interesting to prove, but everything I tried with the scraper was too flimsy, hard to find, or scientifically boring. In the end, the rover found a good place to dig and managed to bring back a 6.7 cm sample. This makes it the tenth core sample collected overall and the first from the delta region, which is believed to have the best chance of containing evidence of ancient Martian life.

Close to home, we’ve probably all heard of robotic surgery, but the image it conjures up doesn’t match reality. Robot-assisted surgery is perhaps a better term, as surgical robots are usually just ultra-precise remote maneuvers directed by an experienced surgeon. but if A study on the performance of a surgical robot Any indication, surgeons’ days may be numbered. The study compared the accuracy and speed of a human surgeon controlling a standard Da Vinci surgical robot and an autonomous version of the robot alone, using a depth-sensing camera. Using a standard test of surgical skills, the autonomous system matched human surgeons in terms of failure – luckily, no “surgery” for any of them – but surpassed humans in speed and positional accuracy. It will probably be some time before independent surgeons become a thing, but we wouldn’t bet against it in the long run.

Undoubtedly, most of our readers have heard the exciting news that Supercon will be back this year Like a personal event! Make sure you book the first weekend of November to make a pilgrimage to Pasadena – it would be great to see everyone again after a long absence. But if you can’t wait until November to cheat in real life, consider skipping it. 19X scaleArriving this week in Los Angeles. The Southern California Linux Expo takes place July 28-31 and features a large number of speakers, including a keynote by Vint Cerf. Hackaday readers can save 50% on tickets with promo code HACK.

And finally, as a lover of Easter eggs of all kinds, but mainly for the message hidden in the diversity of programs, we appreciate This is an Easter Egg Poem, the embedded art that has served as a creative outlet for programmers over the years. The article lists some great examples of the art form, along with an explanation of why they are such important artifacts in the tech world and what they are for. We tried a few items listed in the article that we hadn’t heard of before; Some hits, some mistakes, but all are appreciated. Well, most of them are – the corporate rah-rah type that can go straight as far as we’re concerned.

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