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Apr 1, 2024

Nissan plans 30% cheaper EVs by 2030

Posted by in categories: business, sustainability, transportation

Japanese carmaker Nissan has announced plans to boost its electric vehicle lineup with an additional 34 models, and is aiming for price parity with internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles by 2030.

This week, at a press conference in Atsugi, near Tokyo, Nissan revealed its medium to longer-term business roadmap. The plans, which cover the period from 2024 to 2030, include a dramatic expansion of vehicle electrification, a significant reduction in costs, and a number of technological innovations.

Apr 1, 2024

Artificial Intelligence and the Growing Importance of Chief Digital Officers

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

By Chuck Brooks


The current Chief Digital Officer role integrates artificial intelligence and automation capabilities with data sources to build analytics tiers.

Apr 1, 2024

Vibration-Controlled Transient Elastography in Patients with Steatotic Liver Disease

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

In a large study of patients with metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease, researchers examined clinical outcomes predicted by vibration-controlled transient elastography in combination with several clinical variables.

Apr 1, 2024

Our universe expands by merging with ‘baby universes’, study suggests

Posted by in categories: cosmology, physics

Our universe is getting bigger and bigger really fast — something all the theories about space agree on, but none of them can totally explain. Now, there’s a new idea in town: Maybe our universe is expanding because it keeps bumping into and soaking up “baby” universes.

When scientists look at the afterglow of the Big Bang, known as the cosmic microwave background, they see that our universe is swelling up quicker and quicker. To make sense of this, physicists use something called the Standard Cosmological Model, which says there’s this weird stuff called dark energy pushing the universe to expand.

Apr 1, 2024

Using cryo-shocked tumor cells to fight lung cancer

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

A team of medical researchers at Zhejiang University, in China, has developed a way to use cryo-shocked tumor cells to fight lung cancer. In their study, published in the journal Science Advances, the group used fast liquid nitrogen treatment to modify tumor cells to carry gene-editing tools to fight tumors in mouse models.

Apr 1, 2024

Black Holes Are Accelerating The Expansion Of The Universe, Say Cosmologists

Posted by in category: cosmology

A new theory explains the mysterious expansion of the universe and why it started accelerating soon after the big bang.

Apr 1, 2024

Tesla’s new basic Autopilot video tutorial is clear and focused on safety

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

Tesla seems to be making some serious headway with its Full Self-Driving (FSD) suite with the release of V12.3. But while FSD is currently the company’s flagship advanced driver-assist system, basic Autopilot still plays a huge role in Tesla’s electric cars. With this in mind, Tesla seems to be doubling down on educating drivers about the proper use of basic Autopilot, as well as the system’s limitations.

As could be seen in the company’s Tesla Tutorials channel on YouTube, the company has released a thorough tutorial focused on basic Autopilot’s features and proper use. The video is over four minutes long, and all throughout its duration, Tesla highlighted that the features of basic Autopilot does not make vehicles autonomous. The company also emphasized that basic Autopilot is designed to work with a fully attentive driver.

The video fully discussed the capabilities and limitations of basic Autopilot’s two main features, Traffic-Aware Cruise Control (TACC) and Autosteer (Beta). The Tesla Tutorial video discussed how to engage both features, how to set their specific parameters, and how they are disengaged. Overall, it is quite encouraging to see Tesla publishing a tutorial that’s purely focused on basic Autopilot.

Apr 1, 2024

Elon Musk Makes Grok AI Available to All Paying X Subscribers: What to Know

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI

The Grok AI chatbot that X has been testing is becoming more widely available.

Apr 1, 2024

Meet Sharon Zhou, the AI founder doing just fine without Nvidia’s chips

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Lamini AI CEO and cofounder Sharon Zhou shows it’s possible to build an AI startup without Nvidia’s GPUs by using chips from AMD instead.

Apr 1, 2024

Team develops Fluid Biomarker for Early Detection of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, ALS and Frontotemporal Dementia

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, neuroscience

Two progressively degenerative diseases, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD, recently in the news with the diagnoses of actor Bruce Willis and talk show host Wendy Williams), are linked by more than the fact that they both damage nerve cells critical to normal functioning—the former affecting nerves in the brain and spinal cord leading to loss of movement, the latter eroding the brain regions controlling personality, behavior and language.

Research studies have repeatedly shown that in patients with ALS or FTD, the function of TAR DNA-binding protein 43, more commonly called TDP-43, becomes corrupted. When this happens, pieces of the genetic material called ribonucleic acid (RNA) can no longer be properly spliced together to form the coded instructions needed to direct the manufacture of other proteins required for healthy nerve growth and function.

The RNA strands become riddled with erroneous code sequences called “cryptic exons” that instead affect proteins believed to be associated with increased risk for ALS and FTD development.

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