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Nov 10, 2023

How to stop your amygdala from hijacking your emotions

Posted by in category: neuroscience

The amygdala can hijack your brain’s response if it recognizes past trauma in a current situation. To regain control, simply press pause. Big Think.

Nov 10, 2023

Report: Apple Developing Custom Batteries for Launch in 2025

Posted by in categories: materials, sustainability

Apple is developing custom batteries with significantly improved performance that it aims to bring to its devices starting in 2025, ETNews reports.

Apple’s custom battery technology has reportedly been in the works since 2018, with the company actively seeking patents and hiring new personnel related to the project. The company is reportedly seeking to create an “all-new” kind of battery with significantly improved performance by becoming directly involved in its use of materials.

Nov 10, 2023

JPMorgan Switches On Programmable Payments Using Blockchain Tech

Posted by in categories: blockchains, finance

One of the most high-profile blockchain systems in traditional banking has added a new feature that lets companies shift cash automatically.

JPMorgan Chase & Co’s JPM Coin now allows clients to program their accounts by plugging in a set of key conditions, enabling them to move funds to cover overdue payments and margin calls. Further down the line, it may help them seize on differences in exchange rates.

Germany’s Siemens AG used the system this week, configuring its accounts to transfer money to fill potential shortfalls, Naveen Mallela, head of Coin Systems at JPMorgan’s blockchain division Onyx, said in an interview.

Nov 10, 2023

Scientists Create Gene-Hacked Monkey That Glowed Green

Posted by in category: genetics

The lab-born primate, developed by Chinese scientists, made history as the world’s first live-born “chimeric” monkey. And: he glowed! Green!

Nov 10, 2023

In the Age of AI

Posted by in categories: education, robotics/AI

I discovered this service through my public library and the Libby app. It also works through a university if you’re a student. Here is a documentary on AI, one of our favorite subjects or at least mine, and the rivalry been the USA and China.


FRONTLINE examines the promise and perils of artificial intelligence (AI); from fears about work and privacy to rivalry between the US and China.

Nov 10, 2023

Man receives world’s first whole-eye transplant after deadly accident

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health, military

In June 2021, 46-year-old Aaron James of Arkansas miraculously survived a 7,200-volt electric shock.


NYU LANGONE STAFF

The surgical team at NYU Langone Health performed a complex 21-hour procedure to transplant an entire eye along with a part of the face for a military veteran who had experienced a life-altering accident.

Nov 10, 2023

Massive Swedish tidal kite, 1.2MW Dragon 12 tests ready for operation

Posted by in categories: energy, sustainability

Minesto/YouTube.

Aiming to further this mission, Swedish firm Minesto has now completed onshore testing on its 1.2 MW Dragon 12 tidal energy kite system. The system will be directly transferred to the Faroe Islands in Denmark for installation and commissioning.

Nov 10, 2023

Behold! Swedish firm unveils 5G Onion, veg powered by 5G loaded robot

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, internet, robotics/AI

This is not a networking terminology but quite literally the vegetable grown using 5G technology.


Telia.

5G is the latest generation of mobile telephony commercially available and has been touted as a game changer in various fields. This service’s use cases that provide high-speed internet with low latency extend from medicine to gaming and entertainment to manufacturing.

Nov 10, 2023

Scientists create powerful lasers that fit on a fingertip

Posted by in category: computing

“Our goal is to revolutionize the field of ultrafast photonics by transforming large lab-based systems into chip-sized ones that can be mass produced and field deployed.”


On the tip of a fingerprint

However, these lasers are notoriously large and expensive making them impractical for constant use. Now, researchers have made a version of these devices that can fit on the tip of a fingertip or more conveniently on a small chip, more precisely a nanophotonic chip.

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Nov 10, 2023

LAPD’s controversial robot dog helps deescalate standoff with a gunman

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

The robot dog that helped the LAPD end the standoff on Wednesday was one of the controversial devices that the Los Angeles City Council had approved for use by the police department earlier this year.


Boston Dynamics/ ONSCENE TV

The incident began around 3:45 am on Wednesday when a fellow passenger spotted a gun at the feet of a man who seemed to be asleep on the bus, the Los Angeles Police Department said.

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