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Mar 19, 2024

Tesla’s FSD v12.3 Update: Driving Behavior, Safety, and Comfort Improvements

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Questions to inspire discussion.

What improvements does Tesla’s FSD v12.3 update show?
—Tesla’s FSD v12.3 update shows significant improvements in driving behavior, safety, and comfort, but still has some remaining issues to be addressed.

Mar 19, 2024

Tesla FSD v12.3 Review: Improved Smoothness, Confidence, and Safety

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Tesla FSD v12.3 in Austin, Texas demonstrates significant improvements in smoothness, confidence, and assertive driving, with better safety, natural stops, improved navigation, and a sense of understanding, showing promising long-term implications for Tesla.

Questions to inspire discussion.

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Mar 19, 2024

NVIDIA Announces Project GR00T Foundation Model for Humanoid Robots and Major Isaac Robotics Platform Update

Posted by in categories: innovation, robotics/AI

GTC— NVIDIA today announced Project GR00T, a general-purpose foundation model for humanoid robots, designed to further its work driving breakthroughs in robotics and embodied AI.

As part of the initiative, the company also unveiled a new computer, Jetson Thor, for humanoid robots based on the NVIDIA Thor system-on-a-chip (SoC), as well as significant upgrades to the NVIDIA Isaac™ robotics platform, including generative AI foundation models and tools for simulation and AI workflow infrastructure.

“Building foundation models for general humanoid robots is one of the most exciting problems to solve in AI today,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “The enabling technologies are coming together for leading roboticists around the world to take giant leaps towards artificial general robotics.”

Mar 19, 2024

How Ozempic, other weight-loss drugs are “changing medicine”

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

These new medicines actually have a huge impact on the regulation systems of the body for weight loss which is activated by these new weight loss medicines which induce the production of glp1.


GLP-1 class medications reduce cardiovascular risk and treat diabetes. But they also allow people to lose an average of 10–20 percent of their body weight in the first year. What does that mean for the overweight or obese?

Mar 19, 2024

How Blood Sugar Changes Affect Thinking in Folks With Type 1 Diabetes

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

MONDAY, March 18, 2024 (HealthDay News) — In people with type 1 diabetes, fluctuations in blood sugar levels can affect thinking skills in various ways, new research shows.

Researchers looked specifically at what’s known as cognitive processing speed (how fast people process incoming information) and attention.

“Our results demonstrate that people can differ a lot from one another in how their brains are impacted by glucose,” said study co-senior author Laura Germine.

Mar 19, 2024

Lung cancer: New screening test with an inhaler may help diagnose

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Researchers say they are developing a lung cancer screening tool that involves an inhaler and a urine test to help detect the disease earlier.

Mar 19, 2024

Immunotherapy or allergy shots is based on a century-old concept that the immune system can be desensitized to allergens that trigger symptoms

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

Allergy shots can potentially lead to lasting remission of allergy symptoms, and it may play a preventive role in the development of asthma and new allergies.


Immunotherapy treatment (allergy shots) is based on a century-old concept that the immune system can be desensitized to specific allergens that trigger allergy symptoms. These symptoms may be caused by allergic respiratory conditions such as allergic rhinitis (hay fever) and asthma.

While common allergy medications often control symptoms; if you stop taking the medication(s), your allergy symptoms return shortly afterward. Allergy shots can potentially lead to lasting remission of allergy symptoms, and it may play a preventive role in terms of development of asthma and new allergies.

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Mar 19, 2024

CRISPR is helping “de-extinct” the Tasmanian tiger

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, existential risks

Extinction is a regular part of nature. An estimated 99% of all species that have existed on Earth have gone the way of the dodo, sometimes because a fitter competitor came along or their environment changed (often because of humans) and they couldn’t adapt.

While life can go on relatively unchanged after the extinction of some species, the loss of a keystone species — one that plays a significant role in its environment — can upend an ecosystem.

Now, researchers exploring the idea of “de-extinction” believe that science might be able to intervene and restore the balance.

Mar 19, 2024

Advertisers Horrified by Under Armour’s AI-Generated Commercial

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

The Under Armour ad reused footage shot for a previous commercial two years ago, but was not credited when it was shared by the director.

Mar 19, 2024

Researchers Solve Mystery of The Sea Creature That Evolved Eyes All Over Its Shell

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, electronics

Small, shelled, and unassuming, chitons have eyes unlike any other creature in the animal kingdom.

Some of these marine mollusks have thousands of bulbous little peepers embedded in their segmented shells, all with lenses made of a mineral called aragonite. Although tiny and primitive, these sensory organs called ocelli are thought to be capable of true vision, distinguishing shapes as well as light.

Other chiton species, however, sport smaller ‘eyespots’ that function more like individual pixels, much like the components of an insect’s or mantis shrimp’s compound eye, forming a visual sensor distributed over the chiton’s shell.