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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Nokia launches NASA: Asteroid has ‘modern’ logo ‘small chance’ of hitting Earth in 2046 u JADE GABRIELLE A. GAGARIN
Ready to unleash the exponential potential of the network, Nokia unveiled its redesigned logo during the World Mobile Congress.
The redesigned logo still contains the 5 letters Nokia is recognized with but now “more contemporary and digital.” In a statement released by Nokia, the redesigned look is “emblematic of an energized, dynamic, and modern Nokia.” “Today we share our updated company and technology strategy with a focus on unleashing the exponential potential of networks – pioneering a future where networks meet cloud. To signal this ambition we are refreshing our brand to reflect who we are today – a B2B technology innovation leader. This is Nokia, but not as the world has seen us before,” Nokia President and CEO Pekka Lundmark said in a statement. Moreover, the redesigned
look of Nokia is now being rolled out across all of its sites and assets. Nokia also added that the redesign is about strengtheing its networking, innovation, collaborative partnerships, and technology leadership. Nokia is a business-to-business (B2B) innovation leader with expertise in fixed, mobile and cloud networking technologies. It is also involved in intellectual property and longterm research, led by Nokia Bell Labs. A recent Bloomberg report said that the Finnish company changed its logo to stop being associated with its former business of manufacturing mobile phones.
“Our updated company strategy is supported by our technology strategy, which details how networks will need to evolve to meet the demands of the metaverse era,” it said.
THE COMEBACK OF THE DECADE. Nokia unveils its new, minimalist, and modern logo.
Advancements in cancer treatments saves more lives u DANN ROUJZ M. DELA PEÑA
More modern treatments are discovered, made, and practiced as technology continues to evolve. Such developments also applies greatly in cancer treatment. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported in 2020 that cancer had recorded 10 million deaths worldwide. Developments are made not only in treatments but also in diagnosing such illnesses. For example, precision oncology is a new technology used for diagnosis. It utilizes the detection of genetic sequencing changes which can guide diagnoses and treatment. Such medical operation can
identify cell changes that are predicted to grow and spread, which will then help create individualized treatment compared to the currently available forms of medications such as chemotherapy.
u JACKIE WATTLES & KRISTIN FISHER, CNN
A newly discovered asteroid roughly the size of an Olympic swimming pool has a “small chance” of colliding with Earth in 23 years, with a potential impact on Valentine’s Day in 2046, according to NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office. The asteroid has a 1 in 625 chance of striking Earth, based on data projections from the European Space Agency, though NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Sentry system calculated the odds closer to 1 in 560. The latter tracks potential collisions with celestial objects.
be dramatically altered as more observations of 2023 DW are collected and additional analysis is performed. “Often when new objects are first discovered,” NASA Asteroid Watch noted Tuesday on Twitter, “it takes several weeks of data to reduce the uncertainties and adequately predict their orbits years into the future.” Risk of asteroid impact It’s common for newly discovered asteroids to appear more threatening when first observed.
But the space rock — named 2023 DW — is the only object on NASA’s risk list that ranks 1 out of 10 on the Torino Impact Hazard Scale, a metric for categorizing the projected risk of an object colliding with Earth. All other objects rank at 0 on the Torino scale.
“Because orbits stemming from very limited observation sets are more uncertain it is more likely that such orbits will ‘permit’ future impacts,” the Center for Near Earth Object Studies, located at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, notes on its website.
Though the 2023 DW tops the list, its ranking of 1 means only that “the chance of collision is extremely unlikely with no cause for public attention or public concern,” according to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, while a 0 ranking means the “likelihood of a collision is zero, or is so low as to be effectively zero.”
“However, such early predictions can often be ruled out as we incorporate more observations and reduce the uncertainties in the object’s orbit,” it reads. “Most often, the threat associated with a specific object will decrease as additional observations become available.”
“This object is not particularly concerning,” said Davide Farnocchia, a navigation engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. NASA officials have warned that the odds of impact could
It may be a few days before new data can be collected because of the asteroid’s proximity to the moon, Farnocchia noted in an email to CNN. The last full moon was two days ago, and it still appears bright and large in the sky, likely obscuring 2023 DW from immediate observation, he said.
“But then the object will remain observable for weeks (even months with larger telescopes) so we can get plenty of observations as needed,” he added. The asteroid measures about 160 feet (about 50 meters) in diameter, according to NASA data. As 2023 DW orbits the sun, it has 10 predicted close approaches to Earth, with the nearest landing on February 14, 2046, and nine others between 2047 and 2054. The closest the asteroid is expected to travel to Earth is about 1.1 million miles (1.8 million kilometers), NASA’s Eyes on Asteroids website notes. The space rock was first spotted in our skies on February 2. It’s traveling about 15.5 miles per second (25 kilometers per second) at a distance of more than 11 million miles (18 million kilometers) from Earth, completing one loop around the sun every 271 days. Farnocchia noted the success of NASA’s DART mission, or the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, in September 2022 as evidence that humanity can be prepared to confront space rocks on potentially disastrous courses. DART intentionally collided a spacecraft into an asteroid to change its trajectory. “That’s the very reason why we flew that mission,” he said, “and that mission was a spectacular success.”
Chief Executive Sizhen Wang of Genetron Health, a pioneer of precision oncology, stated that doctors and patients “need more stable and reliable medical solutions with simple, standard operating procedures, shorter turnover times, fewer testing samples, and lower treatment costs.” WHO (2020) indicated that lung cancer was the common cause of cancer death. DeCONTINUE READING AT PAGE 14
SPOTTED! Astronomers recently spotted the 2023 DW asteroid, depicted in a rendering. The space rock is more than 11 million miles from Earth.