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Google and NASA to Reveal Mysterious New Space Find

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday December 13 2017, @10:24AM   Printer-friendly
from the they-found-Jimmy-Hoffa dept.

AnonTechie writes:

NASA will be hosting a somewhat unusual press conference on Thursday (NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST Thursday, Dec. 14) to announce the latest find from its planet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope. Kepler has found many hundreds of planets beyond our solar system over the years, but this week's announcement will be different because Google will be sharing in the science spotlight.

"The discovery was made by researchers using machine learning from Google," reads a release from the space agency, adding that the breakthrough "demonstrates new ways of analyzing Kepler data."

Exactly what has been discovered won't be revealed until Thursday, but with Kepler there's always a good chance that some new distant planets will be part of the reveal. Expect to hear something about a new era of planet-hunting assisted by artificial intelligence: That would be my guess for Thursday. We'll just have to wait and see if Google's A.I. is also helping to detect signs of alien life on the numerous worlds beyond our solar system as well.

https://www.cnet.com/news/google-nasa-kepler-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning-planets/

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Aiwendil on Wednesday December 13 2017, @01:31PM (2 children)

    by Aiwendil (531) on Wednesday December 13 2017, @01:31PM (#609204) Journal

    I agree - I never got the point of all of those "Announcement: We'll be having an announcement soon"-announcements. First up the first announcement is the one that will get all the attention (the second will drown in the noise and ire of the first one) and secondly just say what the heck you have to say directly instead.

    Or hey, allow me to preempt 2018 - NASA, IBM, Google, Apple, Hitachi, Seagate, Toshiba, Facebook, Twitter, et al. will all make announcements about some new products or discoveries.
    There, can we now skip all such stories since they are already covered?

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 13 2017, @02:14PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 13 2017, @02:14PM (#609208)

    Why stop there? "We announce that we will announce next week when we will announce the date of our announcement of new results."

    • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday December 13 2017, @05:27PM

      by Freeman (732) on Wednesday December 13 2017, @05:27PM (#609281) Journal

      Sounds like an Early Access game.

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