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  NASA and ESA Exploring New Joint Satellite Mission Concepts About the NASA      NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) have worked together on multiple missions to advance our understanding of the Sun and its effect on Earth. To continue this collaboration, the two agencies formed the ESA/NASA Lower Thermosphere-Ionosphere Science, or ENLoTIS, working group in May 2022.       In this working group, the agencies are exploring future lower thermosphere-ionosphere (LTI) satellite mission concepts. The aim is to improve our understanding of ion-neutral interactions in the “transition region” between Earth’s atmosphere and space, at altitudes from approximately 60 to 125 miles (or from about 100 to 200 km) altitude, while complementing other missions in development, including the Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC) and the Dynamical Neutral Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling (DYNAMIC) mission.           The working group enables coope...

  WhatsApp Chat GPT Integration via GitHub Project Lets Users Add AI to Conversations: Details WhatsApp is arguably the world's most popular messaging service, and the Meta-owned messaging service also offers a version of the app for businesses that supports basic automated responses. On the other hand, Chat GPT, the wildly popular chatbot from San Francisco startup Open AI has seen users cross the 100 million mark in record time. Developer Daniel Gross has developed an open source integration called WhatsApp-GPT, which is  hosted  on GitHub. Written in Python and the Go programming language (Golang), the service must be run via the terminal (command line) and requires a  WhatsApp  account registered with a phone number. The chatbot will be run in a separate browser window in order to respond to chats, according to the developer.  The readme file for the project states that users must run two scripts, one in Golang and a sever script in Python. They wi...

      Chat GPT Has Colleges in Emergency Mode to Shield Academic Integrity Colleges around the country have been holding emergency meetings of their honor code councils or other committees that govern student cheating. The reason: a whole new kind of cheating that is suddenly possible, thanks to a new AI tool called Chat GPT. The technology , which emerged just a couple of months ago, can answer just about any question you type into it, and can adapt those answers into a different style or tone on command. At Texas State University, for instance, professors across the campus began emailing the honor code council with cries for help. “So many professors right now are struggling with burnout and disengagement and so many  other things already, that even those that embrace paradigm shifts are at minimum sighing—ugh, this is another thing for me to pay attention to,” says Rachel Davenport, a senior lecturer in biology at the university who serves as v...