Lifeboat Foundation

Made using molybdenum disulfide, the processor has over 1,000 transistors but works in two dimensions.

2023 EPFL / Alan Herzog.

Modern-day information technology systems are well known for producing large amounts of heat. Heat reduction is a more efficient way of using energy and will also help the world reduce carbon emissions, as it aims to go greener in the coming few decades. To minimize this unwanted heat, one must go to the root of the problem, the von Neumann architecture.

The impact of the research goes well beyond astronomy and can help increase accuracy of climate models as well.

Joecicak/iStock.

It is common knowledge that the Earth’s rotational axis is not entirely symmetric due to the shape of our planet. However, even the speeds at which the Earth spins are not constant. This is because out world is not completely solid and consists of solid and liquid components.

Continue reading “Researchers make the most accurate measurements of Earth’s rotation yet” »

Those beautiful faces you see in pictures online?

LeoPatrizi/iStock.

This has raised concerns about the potential reinforcement of racial biases online.

Continue reading “New research finds gullible humans to be often tricked by AI faces” »

The device could one day be used for longer durations inside the body and used to power cells cells that target chronic diseases as well.

Ignatiev/iStock.

In 2021, the research team earned a $33 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop an implantable “living pharmacy” to control the sleep and wake cycles inside the body. In this approach, researchers implant living cells inside the body that produce the necessary therapeutics, freeing the individual from taking medicines.

Two major powers are coming together to reach an agreement to limit technology for the greater good of humanity.

Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping are poised to pledge a ban on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in autonomous weaponry.

WhiteHouse/ European Commission.

Continue reading “US and China set to forbid use of AI technology in autonomous weaponry” »

Imagine a house that also turns into a robot 😀 Then you can just move it super easily anywhere: D.

When was the last time you sat down to watch a YouTube video by a real estate company? We’re going to assume never, because who even knew that real estate companies had YouTube accounts?

Japan’s Mitsui Real Estate Residential, however, not only has a YouTube account, but their recently posted video is becoming wildly popular. The company managed to combine their housing expertise with the fail-safe giant robot genre to create a short animated series about apartment buildings that transform into giant robots!

Continue reading “Buildings transform into giant robots in Japanese real estate company’s anime commercial【Video】” »

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is known for its frequent launches, which now dominate the space industry. But the satellites that the rockets send to space are just as important for the company as the launches. Starlink is SpaceX’s answer to providing global, high-speed internet coverage using a network of thousands of satellites buzzing around the planet in a region known as low Earth orbit (LEO), about 342 miles above the Earth’s surface.

SpaceX launched its first batch of Starlink satellites in 2019. Adoption of the service has ballooned since then. The company has said Starlink has more than 2 million active customers and is available on all seven continents and in over 60 countries.

“This growth is uncharacteristic in the sense of its magnitude. Whereas prior satellite service providers have ramped up to anywhere at most between 500,000 to a little bit over a million subscribers. And this has taken, you know, a ten-year period, Starlink’s race to 2 million subscribers has taken only the better part of two years,” says Brent Prokosh, a Senior Affiliate Consultant at Euroconsult.

Billionaire investor and former Facebook exec Chamath Palihapitiya thinks AI will radically change the job of the venture capitalist.

In a Friday episode of the “All-In Podcast,” hosted by Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Sacks, and David Friedberg, the investor said there was a “reasonable case to make” that the VC job could even cease to exist.

Continue reading “Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya suggests VCs could be replaced by ‘an automated system’ as the world adapts to AI” »

Scientists from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT) within the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), along with their partners, have designed a targeted gene therapy approach to mitigate the primary motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease in both rodents and nonhuman primates.

The study was recently published in the journal Cell.

Parkinson’s disease, characterized by the loss of midbrain dopaminergic neurons, is one of the most common neurodegenerative diseases in the elderly population, affecting more than 6 million people worldwide.