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Nintendo can't wait for its own E3 press conference, schedules pre-E3 broadcast for tomorrow

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Remember that wall of coverage Nintendo promised for next week's E3 festivities? Yeah, well, apparently that extends to scooping itself a bit with a Pre-E3 event, two days ahead of its official, real deal Tuesday press conference. Tomorrow, the company's president Satoru Iwata will be hosting a web broadcast with information about the Wii U. According to Nintendo, the early bird event will offer up some more info with regards to games for the much awaited next generation console -- and we'll be liveblogging the news, for your reading pleasure at 6PM ET, so get those plumber caps ready.

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US hiring likely modest for 3rd straight month

In this May 30, 2012 photo, members of DeVry University and Keller Graduate School of Management speak to attendee's seeking to further their education during a career expo sponsored by Jobs Direct USA in Orlando, Fla. The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits rose last week to a five-week high, evidence that the job market remains sluggish. The Labor Department said Thursday, May 31, 2012 that weekly applications for unemployment aid rose 10,000 to a seasonally adjusted 383,000. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

In this May 30, 2012 photo, members of DeVry University and Keller Graduate School of Management speak to attendee's seeking to further their education during a career expo sponsored by Jobs Direct USA in Orlando, Fla. The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits rose last week to a five-week high, evidence that the job market remains sluggish. The Labor Department said Thursday, May 31, 2012 that weekly applications for unemployment aid rose 10,000 to a seasonally adjusted 383,000. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

(AP) ? U.S. companies likely hired at a modest pace in May for the third straight month, underscoring the slow but steady nature of the recovery.

Economists forecast that employers added 158,000 jobs, according to a survey by FactSet. The unemployment rate is projected to remain 8.1 percent. The Labor Department will release the May employment report Friday at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time.

Job gains at that pace would be an improvement from the average 135,000 jobs per month added in April and March. But it would be slower than the pace set from December through February, when the economy added an average of 252,000 jobs per month.

Several reports Thursday suggested that hiring could be weaker than forecast. The number of people seeking unemployment benefits rose to a five-week high, a sign layoffs may have ticked up. And businesses added 133,000 jobs in May, according to a survey by payroll provider ADP. That was better than April's figure but not by much.

"Greater anxiety about the outlook likely tempered firms' willingness to hire in May," Ellen Zentner, an economist at Nomura Securities, said.

The threat from Europe's financial crisis has grown in recent weeks. The crisis is driving up borrowing costs for Spain and Italy and spreading to the banking system. Greece could be forced to exit the euro, which would likely push the region into a recession. That could limit U.S. growth.

Business confidence may be waning. Companies have cut their spending on capital goods such as computers and machinery for two straight months. And some regional surveys suggest the manufacturing sector is expanding at a slower pace.

Worries about Europe have weighed heavily on the stock market. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 820 points in May. It was the first losing month since September and the biggest monthly point loss since May 2010.

Surveys show the economy is the top issue on voters' minds. Weaker growth and only modest job gains could give momentum to Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential challenger. Romney has made President Barack Obama's handling of the economy the central theme in his campaign.

There are some signs that hiring may improve. Employers advertised 3.74 million job openings in March, the most since July 2008.

And the hiring numbers often end up better than what's initially reported. The government revises the monthly figures twice. It has revised previous hiring gains higher by an average of 30,000 each month in the past year, according to economists at Deutsche Bank.

Other recent data have painted a mixed picture of the job market and economic growth.

The economy expanded at an annual rate of 1.9 percent in the first three months of this year, the Commerce Department said Thursday. That's a slower pace than first estimated a month ago. Governments and consumers spent less and businesses rebuilt their stockpiles more slowly.

Economists expect growth may pick up a bit in the current quarter, to between 2 percent and 2.5 percent. Steady hiring and lower gas prices should give consumers more money to spend. Companies may also order more goods in order to rebuild their stockpiles.

Still, growth of 2.5 percent typically generates only enough jobs to keep pace with population changes. Most economists say it takes almost twice as much growth to boost hiring enough to lower the unemployment rate by 1 percentage point over a year.

The housing market looks to be slowly improving. Home prices rose in March from the previous month in most major U.S. cities for the first time in seven months, according to the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home price index.

And in April, sales of both previously occupied homes and new homes rose near two-year highs. Fixed mortgage rates have dropped to record lows, making many optimistic that home sales will climb further. Builders are gaining more confidence in the market as traffic from potential buyers rises, according to an industry survey.

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Facebook Divorce: Will Facebook IPO Create Surge Of Silicon Valley Divorces?

The idea that Facebook "causes" divorce has been widely reported, with fear-mongering research decrying that 20 percent of splits in the United States -- and roughly 33 percent in the United Kingdom -- involve the social network.

Now, Facebook may be driving divorce in a new way, and it has nothing to do with flirtatious wall postings, secret messaging of high school flames or even using the site itself. The new potential trigger for marital discord? Facebook's IPO.

When it went public on May 18, Facebook reportedly created 850 new millionaires, 600 of whom are current Facebook employees. According to Palo Alto, Calif.-based family lawyer Steve Cone, these tech professionals might find themselves heading for divorce court. "I expect a similar wave shortly after Facebook goes public," he told the Financial Times before the initial public offering, noting that a slew of splits followed other tech IPOs -- specifically, Cisco's and Google's.

The tie between not enough money and marriage troubles has been explored extensively over the years ?- researchers have shown that finances are the biggest source of couples' stress and that fights about money can increase the odds of divorce -- but can an influx of cash also push a couple apart?

Because experts disagree, the answer is -- like Facebook's relationship status option -- complicated.

Cone told HuffPost Divorce that his assertion about IPO-sparked splits was based on his experiences in Silicon Valley. Now with the law firm Di Maria & Cone, he said he has handled approximately 600 dot-com divorces since the mid-1990s and has consulted with numerous people who were considering divorce or preparing premarital and post-marital agreements. Overall, people tend to split when they have the means to do so, he said. "It's usually a sign of better economic times when divorces pick up."

This idea is certainly supported by what happened in 2007, when the then-booming New York real estate market produced a string of divorces, The New York Times reported. Those couples could split without compromising their lifestyles; they could sell their home for top value and walk away with sizable chunks of change.

Nobel Prize-winning economist Dr. Gary Becker told the Times that married couples "who make more money than they ever expected are vulnerable to divorce [because] they realize that they are less financially dependent on each other and that they might have chosen different spouses if they had more choices at the time."

Whether it's a positive event, like instant wealth, or a negative one, like the death of a child, "any sudden drastic change in a person's life tends to disrupt the normalcy of a relationship," said Ken Altshuler, president of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. "I do think we see a lot of cases where people are going along just fine until, all of a sudden, they have a lot of money." Altshuler, who practices at Portland, Maine's Childs, Rundlett, Fifield, Shumway & Altshuler, is also a HuffPost blogger.

Cone agreed, noting how money can be transformative. "Somebody else can look awfully appealing when you're in the flush of success," he said. "Especially for the person who is getting the wealth, there are also more opportunities to cheat and find a new love."

In fact, Cone saw this unfold firsthand when a client sold an invention and made $40 million. "He got a divorce because he met a woman in an escort service when he was in France at a seminar," Cone recalled. "This guy was willing to give up $20 million to be able to wake up to somebody new in the morning."

Altshuler confirmed that, as a lawyer, he, too, has witnessed the stereotype of an instantly wealthy man "trading up" for a younger, prettier spouse.

'MONEY SOLVES A LOT OF PROBLEMS'

Unlike Altshuler, Cone and Becker, other divorce and financial experts don't think that a monetary bonus can cause a divorce. Rather, they see new money as the catalyst for taking action to end an already crumbling marriage.

Divorce attorney Robert S. Cohen, who has handled high-profile cases for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and model-actress Christie Brinkley, among others, said the main reason that couples split -- other than infidelity -- is financial struggles, not too much money.

While Cohen acknowledged that new challenges might befall a couple who comes into unexpected wealth (in terms of how the money is spent or what lifestyle changes it inspires), he has seen that an "infusion of money" -- from, say, an IPO -- can help a marriage.

"Money solves a lot of problems," said Cohen, who practices with New York-based Morrison Cohen. "People with windfalls can get rid of the nagging issues that they have. They can afford a marriage therapist. They can do all sorts of things to make their lives better, like get a bigger house where they don't have to share a bathroom."

Robert Kamin, a partner at San Francisco's Heath-Newton who has been practicing family law exclusively for the past five years, agreed with Cohen on the role that money typically plays in divorce. "If spouses want to remain married and believe in their marriage, they can often work through their financial issues," he said. "In my experience, money is not the main reason married couples decide to divorce. It is when spouses are already in the process of dissolving their marriage -- that's when the claws really come out around the issue of money."

Kamin said he's seen IPO management become a greater issue over the past two years among his clients, some of whom are employees at tech companies or married to them. But he doesn't credit the IPOs themselves with sparking a wave of divorces.

"In fact, an IPO has the potential to create great joy in a marriage as material wealth is realized," he said.

CAPTURING THE WINDFALL

Scott Hankins, an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky's College of Public Health who has studied the effects of income shocks (such as lottery winnings) on marriage, said that when looking at the possibility of IPO-induced divorce, it's important to consider not only the divorce rate after an IPO, but also the divorce rate just before a company goes public -- which he thinks would be quite low, as couples would intentionally delay the proceedings for financial reasons.

"It is hard for me to imagine that a financial windfall would make someone unhappy and therefore cause a divorce," Hankins said. "Facebook spouses likely predicted that an IPO would occur. Forward-looking spouses might wait [to file for divorce] until after the IPO to capture some of the windfall."

Timing can be especially important for people in the tech world because of the role IPOs play in determining their net worth.

"Because of the large number of California residents who are, one, employed by tech companies that have yet to go public and, two, receive a significant portion of their compensation in the form of a stock interest -- that is often made real only upon the IPO -- IPOs are incredibly significant to the accumulation of marital assets in California, and thus to community-property law and divorce," Kamin said.

Under California divorce law, assets acquired between the date of marriage and the date of separation are typically considered community property. Before an IPO, Kamin said, it's far more difficult to assess the value of the stock that company employees receive and thus how much wealth there is to divide.

Couples contemplating a split could thus benefit from waiting until after a company in which they've invested goes public as the financial aspects of the divorce should proceed more smoothly. (In theory, waiting might also be detrimental if a stock price plummets post-IPO and the couple is left splitting far less money than they thought they had.)

Because an IPO clarifies a couple's financial situation, "proactively delaying settlement until an IPO occurs is a common strategic move for either the employee spouse or non-employee spouse, depending on the company in question and the predicted value of the stock upon the IPO event," Kamin said.

While Steve Cone's prediction in the Financial Times -- that we'll see a slew of post-Facebook-IPO divorces -- could indeed come true, money itself won't necessarily be the culprit. No matter a couple's financial situation, the bottom line is this, said Robert Cohen: "People who don't like each other don't stay married."

Click through the slideshow below to see five high-profile divorce cases involving tech millionaires.

  • Charles And Karen Phillips

    Oracle Corp. co-president Charles Phillips was called out for his indiscretions by his former mistress, YaVaughnie Wilkins, who hung <a href="http://articles.marketwatch.com/2010-01-26/commentary/30757629_1_safra-catz-oracle-silicon-valley" target="_hplink">billboards of the two of them</a> in New York, Atlanta and San Francisco. According to <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/billboard_mistress_was_duped_kin_PxgTfbjyYz5hHj1Ull86JN" target="_hplink">the <em>New York Post</em></a>, Wilkins believed that Phillips would marry her and was angry to discover that he was still married to his wife, Karen. Phillips released a statement to <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/billboard-charles-phillips-mistress-yavaughnie-wilkins-yanked-times-square-article-1.459788#ixzz1vo1D08p8" target="_hplink"> the <em>New York Daily News</em></a> in response to the billboards: "I had an 8 1/2-year serious relationship with YaVaughnie Wilkins. My divorce proceedings began in 2008. The relationship with Ms. Wilkins has since ended and we both wish each other well."

  • Susan Decker And Michael Dovey

    Though former Yahoo president Susan Decker and her husband, Michael Dovey, split in 2007, <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/story/2012-04-23/ex-yahoo-president-decker-divorce/54491732/1" target="_hplink">their reported $71 million settlement</a> wasn't finalized until April 2012. According to <a href="http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_20450999/former-yahoo-president-heads-trial-belvedere-divorce-war" target="_hplink">the <em>Marin Independent Journal</em></a>, the couple's divorce was complicated by Decker's alleged illicit conduct, which was detailed in a letter from Dovey's lawyers that became public. The letter alleged that "she had extramarital affairs, bugged the couple's condo in Laguna Beach and used illegal drugs," <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/story/2012-04-23/ex-yahoo-president-decker-divorce/54491732/1" target="_hplink">reported <em>USA Today</em></a>.

  • Elon And Justine Musk

    In 2008, PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX co-founder Elon Musk <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/29/divorce-wars-justine-musk_n_841761.html" target="_hplink">filed for divorce</a> from novelist Justine Musk, his wife of eight years. Six weeks later, <a href="http://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/relationship-issues/millionaire-starter-wife" target="_hplink">he was engaged</a> to <em>Pride & Prejudice</em> actress Talulah Riley. Musk <a href="http://jezebel.com/elon-musk-divorce/" target="_hplink"> revealed in a blog post</a> that he paid his ex-wife's legal fees -- which totaled $4 million -- and provided funds for child care and household expenses, as well as a $20,000 monthly stipend for "clothing, shoes and other discretionary items." <a href="http://www.seymourphoto.co.uk/talulah-riley-elon-musk-skibo-castle/" target="_hplink">Riley and Musk wed</a> in September 2010 but <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/19/elon-musk-divorce_n_1216394.htm" target="_hplink">split less than two years later</a> in January 2012. Musk <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/hannahelliott/2012/01/18/elon-musk-to-divorce-wife-talulah-riley/" target="_hplink">took to Twitter post-split</a>: "@rileytalulah It was an amazing four years. I will love you forever. You will make someone very happy one day."

  • Eric And Wendy Schmidt

    Reports of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's split from his wife, Wendy, <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/divorce_prep_google_style_DKPiNhGlJloeC5TsCWUNlK" target="_hplink">surfaced in February 2012</a>. Theirs could be the "second most-expensive divorce in history," <a href="http://www.nbcbayarea.com/blogs/press-here/Priced-Break-Google-Chairman-Eric-Schmidts-15-Billion-Divorce-140207473.html" target="_hplink">according to NBC News</a>. The Google CEO reportedly sold $1.5 billion worth of shares to fund the divorce, but even more of his personal fortune could be at stake if he and his wife don't have a pre-nup.

  • David Cheriton And Iris Fraser

    Silicon Valley millionaire David Cheriton and his ex-wife, Iris Fraser, split in 1994. It took four years to finalize their divorce, in part because Cheriton became a millionaire in 1996 when the company he co-founded, Granite Systems, <a href="http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/1996/corp_090396.html" target="_hplink">was purchased by tech giant Cisco</a>, the <a href="http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2000-09-11/article/1194?headline=Possessions-make-Silicon-Valley-divorces-messy--The-Associated-Press" target="_hplink">Associated Press reported</a>. According to AP, Cheriton established a trust for each child and gave 3 percent of his stock options to Fraser, yet even as late as 2000, the couple was "still battling over whether Cheriton must exercise his stock options in Cisco Systems and share even more money with his children and ex-wife."

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Life with Little Sidekicks: Priorities

Life with Little Sidekicks: Priorities

Priorities

Ever since Brooklyn was born just over five years ago, my priorities in life have changed very drastically. I was 21 years old when Brooke was born. Up until I got pregnant, my idea of a fun weekend was going out (wearing a brand new outfit bought just for the occasion) to a bar, club, or house party to drink, dance and act carefree. Money wasn't an issue; neither was sleep. I could easily stay up until the wee hours, get 3-4 hours of sleep and get up and go to work. I worked full-time at daycare center, part-time as a manager at McDonald's, and went to school two evenings a week. My energy was endless. Even with little sleep, I excelled at each of my jobs and at school. I have no idea how I did it, but I did. And yeah, it was a lot of fun. And I have no regrets whatsoever.






But now, my priorities are so different. My idea of a fun weekend is spending time with my family. Playing board games, doing puzzles, building Lego creations with the girls. Running around in the back yard, taking the girls for bike rides, going on hikes, or to the park. Eating dinner together around our tiny kitchen table. Having pajama dance parties in the living room. Turning on Hockey Night in Canada and cheering for the Leafs even though we know they'll probably lose. Watching a movie and maybe?probably having a drink or two with Chris after the girls have gone to bed. Passing out half-way through the movie and never having a clue how it ends. Sure, I still go out on occasion to let loose with my friends... but not very often, probably only a few times a year. I am entitled to that. About 6 years ago, I really never would have imagined how much my life would change after having kids. But it is a lot of fun. And I have no regrets whatsoever.






When pregnant with Brooklyn, I told myself I wouldn't let being a Mom define me. I would keep the same friends, I would still go out on the weekends when I could. That first little while as a Mom I probably spent more time going out with friends on the weekend than I should have, and I regret it a little bit. But that's okay. You live, you learn. Soon I realized that I would much rather stay home and hang out with my beautiful baby and her Daddy, and get lots more sleep! After that I learned pretty quickly that when you have kids and your friends don't (or, sometimes they do), and you start turning down invitations to the bar, often times you drift apart and talk much less. Some may stop talking to you entirely. This used to keep me awake at night but I have come to realize that many people are not meant to be in your life forever; friendships come and go. Some last a long time, and many don't. And that's okay too. The important and meaningful ones are usually the ones that last.










As much as I told myself it would never happen, having kids has entirely changed my life. But I am so, so happy with how it has changed.?Some people I know that have kids are still going out nearly every weekend, drinking, dancing, doing appalling and shameful things that a grown adult really shouldn't be doing... but whatever. It doesn't really make sense to me, but who am I to judge how others waste?spend their time? I just do my best to separate myself and my family from people that are obviously negative influences.?


All I know is this: Chris is out of the house for 11 hours a day five days (and sometimes six days) a week; our time together is precious. Never, ever in our lives will we regret spending too much time with each other or with our kids. We absolutely love spending time together as family. It is so fulfilling and so satisfying... I can't even describe how happy it makes us.?Yes, sometimes I feel like I need a break from my kids - I am with them nearly all day every day, and it can be really hard on me (and them!).?Usually even just going out for a half hour to pick up milk and bread is enough to get myself out of a funk... especially when I walk in the door and two brown-haired, blue-eyed beauties come running to greet me with toothy grins and open arms. It makes it all worth it.






My family is my number one priority. I am so, so thankful for the life I have. I may not have a huge house or lots of expensive things. I may be able to count the friends I can depend on and trust with one hand. I may only spend my time and energy on a few people who return that same compassion, caring and honesty with me. But all of this is a trade-off because I am so rich in love. And I wouldn't have it any other way.




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Hunting planets with laser rulers

ScienceDaily (May 31, 2012) ? Laser frequency combs can be used for the calibration of astronomical spectrographs. This will help to find extra-solar planets, i.e. planets that are orbiting a star outside our solar-system. By refining this technology it might become possible to directly measure even very small changes in the expansion velocity of the universe.

Since their invention some ten years ago, laser frequency combs have proven to be a vital tool in many laser laboratories around the world. Originally developed for the investigation of the quantum world, they are now making their way into astronomy and astrophysics. A team of scientists from the Laser Spectroscopy Division of Professor Theodor W. H?nsch at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (Garching), in collaboration with the European Southern Observatory (ESO), the Instituto de Astrof?sica de Canarias, and the Menlo Systems GmbH (Martinsried), has now modified the frequency comb technique in a way that it can be applied for the calibration of astronomical spectrographs (Nature, 31 May 2012, DOI:10.1038/nature11092). The new instrument has been tested successfully with the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS), a spectrograph at the 3.6-metre-telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. A ten fold improvement of precision was obtained as compared with traditional spectral lamp calibrators. This will greatly enhance the chances to find earth-like planets outside our solar system. Ultimately, the search for extra-solar planets shall answer the question whether our solar system is the only place in the universe that provides the conditions for life as we know it.

These planets cannot be imaged directly, even with the largest telescopes. One of the most successful detection methods is the measurement of the tiny Doppler shifts in the spectrum of the parent star which is due to the recoiling motion caused by the planet. The light which reaches us from distant stars is composed of numerous spectral lines that are characteristic of the different chemical elements in the star's gas atmosphere. When the star is moving towards the observer or away from her, these lines are shifted to slightly higher or lower frequencies. Vice versa, the measurement of the Doppler shifts gives information about the star's movement. This provides a very promising way to find extra-solar planets which reveal their identity only indirectly: while travelling around their central star they push and pull it a little bit, causing a relatively small change of its velocity. (For comparison: While the sun orbits the galactic centre with a speed of 220 kilometres per second, the recoil on the sun caused by Earth amounts to 9 centimetres per second.)

Hence, the amount of Doppler shift in the star's spectrum is very small and can be detected only with the help of high precision measurement tools. "Measuring" a physical parameter is equivalent to comparing it with a calibrated standard. So far the precision in frequency measurements was limited by slow drifts like aging of the calibration source, e.g. a thorium spectral lamp. The laser-frequency combs invented in the late nineties -- for which Theodor W. H?nsch and John Hall were awarded the Nobel Prize in 2005 -- have greatly improved the precision of frequency measurements. In 2005 MPQ and ESO decided to cooperate on the development of frequency combs for the calibration of astronomical spectrographs. As the first test measurements carried out at the VTT in Tenerife in 2008 turned out to be very promising, the scientists began to work on a frequency comb for the HARPS-spectrograph at the La Silla Observatory.

A frequency comb is emitted by a laser delivering light with a spectrum composed of many lines at constant intervals. By electronic feedback circuits each line is defined in reference to an atomic clock. By comparing the spectral lines of a star with the lines of this laser ruler, which does not change over time, it is possible to observe even very small variations of the star light, caused e.g. by an orbiting planet.

The adaption of the laser-frequency comb for its application in astronomical spectroscopy posed a few major technical challenges. Even precision spectrographs like HARPS provide a limited frequency resolution, typically of 105. Hence the lines of the frequency comb to be developed have to be spaced at intervals of more than 10 GHz, otherwise the spectrograph would not be able to resolve them. Furthermore, astronomical spectrographs operate in the visible spectral region.

In order to ensure robust and stable operation fibre-laser systems were chosen as the basis of the frequency comb. Fibre-laser systems, however, emit light in the infrared region, with spectral distances of a few 100 MHz. The scientists were able to change these properties by implementing a cascade of several spectral filters and using advanced fibres (developed by Philip Russell from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen). This resulted in a frequency comb with the desired mode spacing and a broad spectrum in the visible region. The calibration of the HARPS spectrograph with this frequency comb resulted in a sensitivity for velocity changes of 2.5 cm/s. This was demonstrated in a series of measurements in November 2010 and January 2011. By observing a star with a well known planet for a couple of nights the team could prove the high stability of the system over time.

For the near future the scientists pursue a task that is even more demanding than looking for planets. Astronomical observations have clearly shown that the universe is not static but instead expanding continuously. New results on the microwave background radiation and the observation of supernovae suggest that this expansion is accelerating over time. However, the change of the velocity is expected to be very small, of the order of annually one centimetre per second. Such precision is to be delivered by the next ESO-project, the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) which is planned to be constructed in Chile in the next decade. High precision frequency combs will be at the heart of its CODEX spectrograph, providing a calibration precision of one part per 300 billion -- a feat equivalent to measuring the circumference of Earth to half a millimetre.?

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