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Nanoleaf’s new Sense Plus smart switches and Nanoleaf Skylight ceiling fixture will work with Matter
Nanoleaf is finally bringing its whole-home smart lighting ambitions to fruition with the launch of its first-ever smart switches — and they come with a twist designed to make them smarter than that of the competition. The smart lighting company announced the Sense Plus Smart Light Switch and Sense Plus Smart Wireless Light Switch at CES this week, both with built-in sensors designed to learn your lighting habits. (Think Nest Learning Thermostat but for lighting.)
These Matter-enabled, Thread-powered lighting controls have built-in motion and ambient light sensors. They’re designed to work with another new product, Nanoleaf’s Nala Learning Bridge, which acts as a hub for its smart switches to learn and intelligently adapt your lighting to your household routines. While the concept is exciting, the industrial design is going to be way too techie for most homes — and I don’t know a lot of people who are going to want tiny Nanoleaf logos all over their walls.
“We want to move smart lighting toward intelligence, towards being able to make decisions for you, instead of just remote control.”
On the flip side, Nanoleaf’s stunning new Nanoleaf Skylight will be a big hit in any home. The modular ceiling fixture is comprised of square LED panels and can mimic the presence of a skylight in your roof with tunable white light up to 3,000 lumens or offer up a dynamic lighting scene using some of its 16 million colors.
The skylight is a Matter-compatible Wi-Fi ceiling panel that can sync with sound, and it’ll have the same motion and light sensors as the Sense Plus switches. It’s similar in design to the company’s signature wall panels, but it’s hardwired, so there’s no pesky cable to deal with. Skylight starter kits of two or four packs will arrive in Q3 2023. No pricing has been announced.
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The company also announced a new 4D TV Screen Mirror Camera and Addressable Lightstrip Kit, starting at $100, and confirmed that its Matter-enabled, Thread-powered Essentials light bulbs and light strips will arrive in Q1. Pricing starts at $19.99. The line includes A19, BR30, and GU10 bulbs, a recessed downlight, and a full-color light strip. Existing Nanoleaf Essentials light strips and A19 bulbs will not be upgradable to Matter.
In a reversal, however, Nanoleaf CEO Gimmy Chu said the company will offer a Matter upgrade across its full line of modular light panels and light bars (Shapes, Elements, Canvas, and Lines). “We have decided to upgrade all our panels to Matter. Customers want to know everything is future-proofed,” Chu told The Verge in an interview.
Matter compatibility means the lighting products will work with Apple Home, Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and Samsung SmartThings out of the box as well as any other Matter-compatible product.
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First announced back at CES 2020, Nanoleaf’s Sense Plus Control smart switches have taken over four years to come to fruition. The company started out using Bluetooth mesh but switched to Thread to take advantage of its low power, lower latency, and more reliable mesh, says Chu. But then they had to wait for Matter to roll out. Now that the new smart home interoperability standard is actually here, Nanoleaf is finally able to launch what is an ambitious undertaking designed to overcome the interface challenges of smart lighting.
“Smart lighting isn’t really all that smart,” says Chu, citing voice and app control as somewhat clunky and cumbersome. “What [it] needs to be is lighting that knows what kind of light you need, when you need it, and does it for you. We want to move smart lighting toward intelligence, towards being able to make decisions for you, instead of just remote control.”
“We didn’t want the system to turn off the lights at the wrong time or worse, turn them on at the wrong time.”
Using infrared motion sensors and ambient light sensors built into the hardware and learning algorithms powered by Nala, Nanoleaf’s new intelligent Automations Learning Assistant, Sense Plus is designed to learn how you like your lighting at certain times of day and offer up schedules and suggested settings for you in the Nanoleaf app.
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For example, if you set your home office to full brightness at 9AM every morning and your den to a warm white in the evening, Nala should recognize that and offer to create lighting automations for you that will trigger when you enter the room, giving you the correct light at the correct time of day.
“The more you interact with the switches, the higher confidence level it will have,” says Chu. However, it won’t automatically make these adjustments. Instead, it suggests the settings in the Nanoleaf app, and you can choose to enable them. “You still keep your agency. We didn’t want the system to turn off the lights at the wrong time or worse, turn them on at the wrong time,” says Chu.
This is basically the same thing as setting up automations or routines in a smart home system such as Apple Home or Amazon Alexa with motion sensors and smart lights. But Sense Plus is doing it for you based on what it thinks you want. How effective this will be, we will have to wait and see.
Chu says Sense Plus can also learn your movements throughout your home. If you define neighboring spaces in the app, it will learn when motion sensors are triggered in sequence and offer to turn on the light in the bedroom when you walk through the hall toward that room, for example. “It’s predicting your movement around the house,” says Chu.
The system works with all Nanoleaf lights and will be compatible with all Matter-enabled lights, according to Chu. With the Nanoleaf lights, however, you will be able to use dynamic lighting scenes across Nanoleaf lights and panels, so you could have your bedroom turn various shades of blue in the evening, should you fancy that.
The switches and bridge will be released in Q3 of 2023. Pricing is not set yet, but Chu says they will be “cost-effective.” “We are aiming for around $20 for the button/wireless switch and $50 for the hardwired switch,” he says.
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The hardwired Sense Plus switch does not require a neutral wire and can control both regular dimmable / non-dimmable LED bulbs or Nanoleaf smart bulbs, says Chu. The wireless switch is battery powered, and both devices are Matter compatible so they can control any Matter-enabled bulb or device.
Each switch has an on / off button and a dimmer slider (a tactile wheel on the hardwired switch and an up / down button on the wireless switch). There are also two other buttons that can be set to different functions, such as cycle through preset Nanoleaf scenes or activate a circadian lighting preset, says Chu.
The learning features are optional, and you can use the Sense Plus switches as regular smart switches without a Nala Bridge. But as they are Thread switches, they will need a Thread border router. The bridge is a border router, and the plug-in device also has built-in PIR motion and ambient light sensors and a color-changing night light. Nanoleaf’s Shapes, Elements, and Lines, which are also border routers, will be upgradeable to be a Nala Bridge, too.
Large Hadron Collider switches on at highest ever power level to look for dark matter
The Large Hadron Collider has been turned back on today (July 5) and is set to smash particles together at never-before-seen energy levels.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. Located at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland, the nearly 17-mile-long (27 kilometer) loop was fired up today after spending four years offline for upgrades. With these fixes completed, scientists want to use the gigantic accelerator to smash protons together at record-breaking energies of up to 13.6 trillion electron volts (TeV) — an energy level that should up the odds of the accelerator producing particles not yet observed by science.
The upgrades to the accelerator’s particle beams have done more than spike their energy range; an increased level of compactness, making the beams denser with particles, will increase the probability of a collision so much that the accelerator is expected to capture more particle interactions in its third run than it did in its previous two combined. During the two previous stints, running from 2009 to 2013 and 2015 to 2018, the atom smasher shored up physicists’ understanding of how the basic building blocks of matter interact — called the Standard Model — and led to the discovery of the long-predicted Higgs boson, the elusive particle which gives all matter its mass.
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But, in spite of the accelerator’s experiments, which produced 3,000 scientific papers on many minor discoveries and tantalizing hints of deeper physics, scientists have yet to find conclusive evidence of new particles or brand-new physics. After this upgrade, they’re hoping that will change.
“We will measure the strengths of the Higgs boson interactions with matter and force particles to unprecedented precision, and we will further our searches for Higgs boson decays to dark matter particles as well as searches for additional Higgs bosons,” Andreas Hoecker, a spokesperson of the LHCs ATLAS collaboration, an international project that includes physicists, engineers, technicians, students and support staff, said in a statement (opens in new tab).
Inside the LHC’s 17-mile-long underground ring, protons zip around at near light-speed before slamming into each other. The result? New and sometimes exotic particles are formed. The faster those protons go, the more energy they have. And the more energy they have, the more massive the particles they can produce by smashing together. Atom smashers like the LHC detect possible new particles by looking for telltale decay products, as the heavier particles are generally short-lived and immediately break down into lighter particles.
One of the LHC’s goals is to further scrutinize the Standard Model, the mathematical framework physicists use to describe all of the known fundamental particles in the universe and the forces through which they interact. Though the model has been around in its final form since the mid-1970s, physicists are far from satisfied with it and are constantly looking for new ways to test it and, if they’re lucky, discover new physics that will make it fail.
This is because the model, despite being the most comprehensive and accurate one so far, has enormous gaps, making it totally incapable of explaining where the force of gravity comes from, what dark matter is made up of, or why there is so much more matter than antimatter in the universe.
While physicists want to use the upgraded accelerator to probe the rules of the Standard Model and learn more about the Higgs boson, upgrades to the LHC’s four main detectors also leave it well positioned to search for physics beyond what is already known. The LHCs main detectors — ATLAS and CMS — have been upgraded to collect more than double the data they did before in their new task of looking for particles that can persist across two collisions; and the LHCb detector, which now collects 10 times more data than it used to, will search for breaks in the fundamental symmetries of the universe and for explanations why the cosmos has more matter than antimatter.
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Meanwhile, the ALICE detector will be put to work studying collisions of high-energy ions, of which there will be a 50-fold increase in those recorded compared to prior runs. Upon smashing together, the ions — atomic nuclei given electrical charge by the removal of electrons from their orbital shells — produce a primordial subatomic soup called quark-gluon plasma, a state of matter which only existed during the first microsecond after the Big Bang.
In addition to these research efforts, a slew of smaller groups will probe at the roots of other physics mysteries with experiments that will study the insides of protons; probe the behavior of cosmic rays; and search for the long-theorized magnetic monopole, a hypothetical particle that is an isolated magnet with only one magnetic pole. Added to these are two new experiments, called FASER (Forward Search Experiment) and SND (Scattering and Neutrino Detector), that were made possible by the installation of two new detectors during the accelerator’s recent shutdown. FASER will scan for extremely light and weakly interacting particles, such as neutrinos and dark matter, and SND will exclusively search for neutrinos, ghostly particles which can travel through most matter without interacting with it.
One particle physicists are particularly excited to look for is the long-sought-after axion, a bizarre hypothetical particle that doesn’t emit, absorb or reflect light, and is a key suspect for what dark matter is made up of.
This third run of the LHC is slated to last for four years. After that time, collisions will be halted once more for further upgrades that will push the LHC to even greater levels of power. Once it has been upgraded and begins running again in 2029, the High Luminosity LHC is expected to capture 10 times the data of the previous three runs combined.
Originally published on Live Science.
What You Eat Has The Power to Reprogram Your Genes. An Expert Explains How
People typically think of food as calories, energy, and sustenance. However, the latest evidence suggests that food also “talks” to our genome, which is the genetic blueprint that directs the way the body functions down to the cellular level.
This communication between food and genes may affect your health, physiology, and longevity. The idea that food delivers important messages to an animal’s genome is the focus of a field known as nutrigenomics.
This is a discipline still in its infancy, and many questions remain cloaked in mystery. Yet already, we researchers have learned a great deal about how food components affect the genome.
I am a molecular biologist who researches the interactions among food, genes, and brains in the effort to better understand how food messages affect our biology. The efforts of scientists to decipher this transmission of information could one day result in healthier and happier lives for all of us.
But until then, nutrigenomics has unmasked at least one important fact: Our relationship with food is far more intimate than we ever imagined.
The interaction of food and genes
If the idea that food can drive biological processes by interacting with the genome sounds astonishing, one need look no further than a beehive to find a proven and perfect example of how this happens. Worker bees labor nonstop, are sterile, and live only a few weeks.
The queen bee, sitting deep inside the hive, has a life span that lasts for years and a fecundity so potent she gives birth to an entire colony.
And yet, worker and queen bees are genetically identical organisms. They become two different life forms because of the food they eat. The queen bee feasts on royal jelly; worker bees feed on nectar and pollen.
Both foods provide energy, but royal jelly has an extra feature: its nutrients can unlock the genetic instructions to create the anatomy and physiology of a queen bee.
So how is food translated into biological instructions? Remember that food is composed of macronutrients. These include carbohydrates – or sugars – proteins and fat.
Food also contains micronutrients such as vitamins and minerals. These compounds and their breakdown products can trigger genetic switches that reside in the genome.
Like the switches that control the intensity of the light in your house, genetic switches determine how much of a certain gene product is produced. Royal jelly, for instance, contains compounds that activate genetic controllers to form the queen’s organs and sustain her reproductive ability.
In humans and mice, byproducts of the amino acid methionine, which are abundant in meat and fish, are known to influence genetic dials that are important for cell growth and division.
And vitamin C plays a role in keeping us healthy by protecting the genome from oxidative damage; it also promotes the function of cellular pathways that can repair the genome if it does get damaged.
Depending on the type of nutritional information, the genetic controls activated and the cell that receives them, the messages in food can influence wellness, disease risk, and even life span. But it’s important to note that to date, most of these studies have been conducted in animal models, like bees.
Interestingly, the ability of nutrients to alter the flow of genetic information can span across generations. Studies show that in humans and animals, the diet of grandparents influences the activity of genetic switches and the disease risk and mortality of grandchildren.
Cause and effect
One interesting aspect of thinking of food as a type of biological information is that it gives new meaning to the idea of a food chain. Indeed, if our bodies are influenced by what we have eaten – down to a molecular level – then what the food we consume “ate” also could affect our genome.
For example, compared to milk from grass-fed cows, the milk from grain-fed cattle has different amounts and types of fatty acids and vitamins C and A . So when humans drink these different types of milk, their cells also receive different nutritional messages.
Similarly, a human mother’s diet changes the levels of fatty acids as well as vitamins such as B-6, B-12 and folate that are found in her breast milk. This could alter the type of nutritional messages reaching the baby’s own genetic switches, although whether or not this has an effect on the child’s development is, at the moment, unknown.
And, maybe unbeknownst to us, we too are part of this food chain. The food we eat doesn’t tinker with just the genetic switches in our cells, but also with those of the microorganisms living in our guts, skin, and mucosa.
One striking example: In mice, the breakdown of short-chain fatty acids by gut bacteria alters the levels of serotonin, a brain chemical messenger that regulates mood, anxiety, and depression, among other processes.
Food additives and packaging
Added ingredients in food can also alter the flow of genetic information inside cells. Breads and cereals are enriched with folate to prevent birth defects caused by deficiencies of this nutrient.
But some scientists hypothesize that high levels of folate in the absence of other naturally occurring micronutrients such as vitamin B-12 could contribute to the higher incidence of colon cancer in Western countries, possibly by affecting the genetic pathways that control growth.
This could also be true with chemicals found in food packaging. Bisphenol A, or BPA, a compound found in plastic, turns on genetic dials in mammals that are critical to development, growth, and fertility.
For example, some researchers suspect that, in both humans and animal models, BPA influences the age of sexual differentiation and decreases fertility by making genetic switches more likely to turn on.
All of these examples point to the possibility that the genetic information in food could arise not just from its molecular composition – the amino acids, vitamins and the like – but also from the agricultural, environmental, and economic policies of a country, or the lack of them.
Scientists have only recently begun decoding these genetic food messages and their role in health and disease. We researchers still don’t know precisely how nutrients act on genetic switches, what their rules of communication are and how the diets of past generations influence their progeny.
Many of these studies have so far been done only in animal models, and much remains to be worked out about what the interactions between food and genes mean for humans.
What is clear though, is that unraveling the mysteries of nutrigenomics is likely to empower both present and future societies and generations.
Monica Dus, Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
Sources: Sony switches Twisted Metal reboot developer
PlayStation [4,645 articles]” href=”https://www.videogameschronicle.com/platforms/playstation/”>PlayStation has changed its plans for the in-development Twisted Metal reboot, sources have told VGC.
Last year VGC reported that a new car combat instalment – which by release, would be the series’ first in over a decade – had started early development at the Liverpool, UK-based Destruction All-Stars developer Lucid games.
However, VGC has been told that the project has since ceased development at Lucid and, according to sources, Sony has decided to instead move the series revival to one of its first-party studios in Europe.
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It’s understood Sony still intends to bring back the car combat series in time to coincide with an upcoming TV series in 2023, and early work has begun at the unnamed first-party studio.
Sources did not provide an explanation for the change of developer. However, one person suggested that the poor reception to Lucid’s PlayStation 5 [2,447 articles]” href=”https://www.videogameschronicle.com/platforms/playstation/ps5/”>PS5 title Destruction All-Stars could have contributed to the decision.
Destruction All-Stars released early last year to highly critical reviews. It was originally planned as a full-price PS5 launch game, until Sony delayed its release by three months and announced it was going to be free to PlayStation Plus members for two months, before being sold for $20.
Despite its PS Plus launch, Destruction All-Stars struggled to find an audience and its developer even added AI-controlled drivers to the game to help players find matches when there weren’t enough opponents online.
Sony expressed its commitment to the Twisted Metal franchise just last week, when it reiterated on stage at CES 2022 that a TV series is in development and displayed artwork on screen.
The Twisted Metal television project was officially announced in May 2019 and is in the works at Sony’s PlayStation Productions movie and TV studio.
According to Variety, the live-action adaptation of PlayStation’s vehicular combat series will be an action comedy penned by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, the writers of the Deadpool films and Zombieland.
Avengers star Anthony Mackie will play the lead role in the series. It will focus on an outsider tasked with delivering a mysterious package across a post-apocalyptic wasteland roamed by bandits in deadly vehicles, including the series’ trademark character, Sweet Tooth, a psychotic clown who drives a modified ice cream truck.
Speaking during a live stream discussing earlier rumours about Twisted Metal, original creator David Jaffe had said he believed that Lucid was an unlikely fit for the series due to the poor reception to Destruction All-Stars.
“I enjoyed what I played of Destruction All-Stars. I didn’t absolutely love it, because I didn’t think it was sticky enough… I played about four or five rounds and I was good for a while… I’d like to think they’ll learn from that,” he said.
“You really need a really fucking smart designer to sit down and understand the pros and deficiencies of Twisted Metal, and I haven’t seen anything from any developers including Lucid that suggests that they would know how to solve it. I know I wouldn’t. I would hope a good idea comes, but that’s a tough one.”
These Are the ‘Optimal’ Winter Thermostat Settings for the Lowest Energy Bills
With winter setting in across the country, and the COVID-19 pandemic still going strong, it looks like we’ll be spending a lot of time indoors for the next few months. Though it can be tempting to crank up the thermostat inside your home when it’s cold outside, doing so on a regular basis throughout an entire season can leave you with sky-high energy bills.
But there are strategies for setting your thermostat during the winter that will make sure you stay warm(ish), while still being able to afford your heating bills. Here’s what to know.
Energy-saving winter thermostat settings
For a variety of reasons, people are comfortable at different indoor temperatures. Some prefer keeping it on the cooler side, and then getting cozy under blankets and in warm clothing. Others would rather wear shorts and T-shirts all winter, and keep their home feeling more like a tropical climate.
But if you’re approaching it strictly in terms of keeping your heating costs low, Energy Saver, the U.S. Department of Energy’s consumer resource on saving energy, has some recommendations—starting with setting your thermostat to around 68°F during the daytime in the winter, and a few degrees cooler at night, and when you’re away from home.
If 68°F sounds a bit chilly, there’s a reason for that. According to Energy Saver, the smaller the difference is between the indoor and outdoor temperatures, the lower your energy bill will be:
During winter, the lower the interior temperature, the slower the heat loss. So the longer your house remains at the lower temperature, the more energy you save, because your house has lost less energy than it would have at the higher temperature.
Other cost-saving winter heating tips
In addition to your thermostat settings, here are a few other tips from Energy Saver to help you stay warm this winter, while keeping your heating costs down:
- Clean and/or replace furnace filters once a month, or according to the manufacturer’s instructions.
- Keep heating vents/registers, baseboard heaters, and radiators clean.
- Make sure that heating vents/registers, baseboard heaters, and radiators aren’t not blocked by furniture, carpeting, or drapes.
- Put your window treatments to work, keeping curtains/drapes and shades on your south-facing windows open during the day (to allow the sunlight in) and closed at night to help block out any drafts.
And if keeping your thermostat at 68°F or lower isn’t exactly your idea of comfortable, remember that it is winter, and time to break out the thick sweaters, sweatpants, and blankets.
Position Switches, Notable Weight Changes From Michigan’s Roster Update
Michigan Wolverines football updated its roster ahead of the 2021 season, and we’ve provided some observation on some of the changes. Several players have shedded weight, while others have added some pounds to their frame. Others have transitioned from one position to another, and one Wolverine has switched his jersey number.
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One Michigan Player Not Listed
Defensive back Sammy Faustin, who was set to begin his fourth year with the Wolverines, was left off the roster. At this time, the reason for Faustin’s omission is unknown.
Michigan Football Notes On Position Switches And Updated Weights
• Redshirt junior Joel Honigford came into his Michigan career as an offensive lineman, and remained a member of the position group for his first four years on campus. Last year, he got some run as an extra blocker, and now he’s made the permanent move to tight end. The fact that he was in the tight ends room was revealed in the spring, but now he’s listed at the spot. On top of that, he’s lost a whopping 48 pounds, going from 305 to 257.
• Redshirt freshman defensive tackle Mazi Smith has been the talk of the last few weeks, after earning tons of praise from head coach Jim Harbaugh and his teammates at Big Ten Media Days, and drawing more plaudits from defensive coordinator Mike Macdonald this week. Since the spring, he has gone from 305 pounds to 326, and has his body exactly where the coaches want it.
• Redshirt junior defensive tackle Jess Speight knows that the nose tackle in Macdonald’s 3-4 defense will have to take up a lot of space, and has gained 20 points — going from 290 to 310 — since the spring as he attempts to carve out a role. The same goes for redshirt junior defensive tackle Donovan Jeter, who is up from 318 in the spring to 325 pounds now.
• Freshman interior offensive lineman Zak Zinter, who could potentially be Michigan’s best offensive player according to coordinator Josh Gattis, impressed during his first year on campus in 2020 while playing at 334 pounds, but he’s gotten even more chiseled ahead of the 2021 campaign, now checking in at 320 pounds.
• Redshirt freshman Gabe Newburg began his career as a defensive end, before bulking up from 251 pounds to 265 last season and sliding down to three-technique. Now, he’s back down to 250 pounds and is listed as a defensive end.
• Freshman offensive tackle Giovanni El-Hadi enrolled early in January and came in at 318 pounds, but the in-state product has taken full advantage of the strength and conditioning and nutrition programs and is now down to 305 pounds.
• Freshman running back Donovan Edwards is another early enrollee who has bulked up since the spring. Back then, he was listed at 5-foot-11, 190 pounds, but now he’s slotted in the roster at 6-0, 202 pounds.
• Redshirt freshman quarterback Cade McNamara is up seven pounds since the spring — going from 205 pounds to 212. His bulk comes on the heels of suffering a shoulder injury in his lone start of the 2020 campaign, the last contest of the season against Penn State.
• Redshirt sophomore linebacker Michael Barrett is listed at 227 pounds, the same weight he has resided at each of the last three seasons. While this may not seem significant, Barrett underwent a position change this offseason, transitioning from viper linebacker (safety hybrid) to inside linebacker. Despite his new position being one where he will take on bigger blockers, he has stayed at the same weight.
Michigan Football Jersey Number Change
One new jersey number was revealed during the roster update process — freshman defensive back Andre Seldon has switched from No. 0, the digit he wore last season, to No. 36.
Michigan Football Incoming Transfer Heights, Weights And Jersey Numbers
• Redshirt junior Jackson State graduate transfer wide receiver Daylen Baldwin, who will wear No. 85, is listed at 6-2, 219 pounds, after checking in at 6-3, 210 during JSU’s spring season.
• Redshirt sophomore Texas Tech graduate transfer quarterback Alan Bowman will wear No. 15 – the same digits he donned as a Red Raider — and stands 6-4, 205 pounds. He was listed at 6-3, 215 last season in Lubbock.
• Seventh-year senior Oregon State graduate transfer defensive tackle Jordan Whittley, who will wear No. 93, has lost 10 pounds since last season, when he was listed at 6-1, 358 pounds (he’s still 6-3 but weighs 348, according to Michigan’s roster). He sat out in the spring due to health issues.
Michigan Football Freshmen Heights, Weights And Jersey Numbers
Michigan’s freshman class is all on campus, and the program has provided official heights and weights for each player in the class, including updated information on the early enrollees.
• #1 WR Andrel Anthony — 6-2, 185 pounds
• #52 DE Kechaun Bennett — 6-4, 220 pounds
• #26 DT Rayshaun Benny — 6-5, 292 pounds
• #72 OL Tristan Bounds — 6-8, 282 pounds
• #25 LB Junior Colson — 6-2, 225 pounds
• #51 OL Greg Crippen — 6-4, 290 pounds
• #10 WR Cristian Dixon — 6-2, 197 pounds
• #19 K/P Tommy Doman — 6-5, 190 pounds
• #22 RB Tavierre Dunlap — 6-0, 222 pounds
• #7 RB Donovan Edwards — 6-0, 202 pounds
• #58 OL Giovanni El-Hadi — 6-5, 318 pounds
• #56 DT Dominick Giudice — 6-5, 275 pounds
• #42 DL TJ Guy — 6-5, 251 pounds
• #81 TE Louis Hansen — 6-6, 252 pounds
• #34 LB Jaydon Hood — 6-1, 212 pounds
• #92 DT Ike Iwunnah — 6-3, 306 pounds
• #1 CB Ja’Den McBurrows — 5-11, 197 pounds
• #9 QB J.J. McCarthy — 6-3, 197 pounds
• #27 LB Tyler McLaurin — 6-3, 237 pounds
• #19 S Rod Moore — 6-0, 173 pounds
• #54 DT George Rooks — 6-5, 270 pounds
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At Last! NASA Successfully Switches to Backup Computer on Hubble Space Telescope
Credit: ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser)
NASA has successfully switched to backup hardware on the Hubble Space Telescope, including powering on the backup payload computer, on July 15. The switch was performed to compensate for a problem with the original payload computer that occurred on June 13 when the computer halted, suspending science data collection.
The switch included bringing online the backup Power Control Unit (PCU) and the backup Command Unit/Science Data Formatter (CU/SDF) on the other side of the Science Instrument and Command & Data Handling (SI C&DH) unit. The PCU distributes power to the SI C&DH components, and the CU/SDF sends and formats commands and data. In addition, other pieces of hardware onboard Hubble were switched to their alternate interfaces to connect to this backup side of the SI C&DH. Once these steps were completed, the backup payload computer on this same unit was turned on and loaded with flight software and brought up to normal operations mode.
The Hubble team is now monitoring the hardware to ensure that everything is working properly. The team has also started the process for recovering the science instruments out of their safe mode configuration. This activity is expected to take more than a day as the team runs various procedures and ensures the instruments are at stable temperatures. The team will then conduct some initial calibration of the instruments before resuming normal science operations.