The race is on to engineer alternatives to traditional building materials that either perform better or tread more lightly on the planet. From super-strong plastics to fungus columns, we’ve rounded up 10 materials that could be the future of construction.
Summary: Researchers unveiled the most comprehensive connectome of the adult fruit fly nerve cord, analogous to the human spinal cord, providing an exceptional resource for the scientific community.
The connectome, constructed from about 23,000 neurons, reveals the intricate network controlling the fly’s motor functions. New insights have already emerged from the data, challenging previous theories on fly movement.
This achievement not only advances understanding of fruit fly neurology, but also serves as a model for similar future projects.
Proof that there are still important things that humans can do but AIs can’t!
He might not be running on Dunkin’ anytime soon, but Australia’s James Webb set a new world record after devouring 59 and a half donuts in eight minutes at a competition in San Diego on Friday.
The event was part of National Donut Day World Donut Eating Championship on the USS Midway and a sanctioned Major League Eating event.
The previous standing world record was a mere 55 donuts in eight minutes, which Webb smashed through. The next closest competitor, Nick Wehry, could only manage 54.75 donuts.
LONDON, June 6 (Reuters) — Investors have pulled around $780 million from crypto exchange Binance in the last 24 hours, data firm Nansen said on Tuesday, a day after the world’s biggest crypto exchange was sued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Binance’s U.S. affiliate exchange registered net outflows of $13 million in the same period, Nansen said. Neither Binance nor Binance. US immediately responded to a request for comment.
Nanofabricators could create the Star Trek version of the future. Though they are physically plausible, can they actually be created?
Hallucination!
Can “hallucinations” generate an alternate world, prophesying falsehood?
As I write this article, NVIDIA(• is surpassing Wall Street’s expectations. The company, headquartered in Santa Clara, California, has just joined the exclusive club of only five companies in the world valued at over a trillion dollars [Apple (2.7T), Microsoft (2.4T), Saudi Aramco (2T), Alphabet/Google (1.5T), and Amazon (1.2T)], as its shares rose nearly 25% in a single day! A clear sign of how the widespread use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) can dramatically reshape the technology sector.
Intel has announced an ambitious plan to develop scientific generative AIs designed with one trillion parameters. These models will be trained on various types of data, including general texts, code, and scientific information. In comparison, OpenAI’s GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters (the size of GPT-4 has not yet been disclosed by OpenAI). The semiconductor company’s main focus is to apply these AIs in the study of areas such as biology, medicine, climate, cosmology, chemistry, and the development of new materials. To achieve this goal, Intel plans to launch a new supercomputer called Aurora, with processing capacity exceeding two EXAFLOPS(*•, later this year.
PROOF THAT EVERYTHING — IS A SIMULATION (Including God)
Is this reality? Well, we’re experiencing… something right now so maybe the better question is: *what* is reality?
Could everything we see, everything we experience, everything that exists in our entire universe — be artificial?
Supporters of Simulation Theory believe that not only is it *possible* that we’re living in a simulation; it’s likely.
And the more we look for evidence, the more we find.
Philip K Dick believed deja vu was the simulation adjusting to new code. Many people experience The Mandela Effect, a or “false memory” shared by a large number of people.
Eye-catching new hotel in Scotland bears resemblance to the widely known emoji; ‘really hard to see anything else’
Nikola Tesla’s “valvular conduit” design, also known today as the “Tesla valve”, was patented in 1920. The design, essentially a series of interconnected keychain-shaped loops, was created to enable fluid to pass in only one direction with no moving parts.
What does the future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) look like and how will it impact democracy and society?
This question was explored by Prof. Yoshua Bengio, pioneer AI developer and Turing Award winner, and Prof. Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author and historian – in a live discussion moderated by political journalist Vassy Kapelos.
Recorded on May 24 2023, as part of the C2 Montreal conference, presented by Mila — Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute. Professor Yoshua Bengio is recognized as one of the leading pioneers in AI research and development — known for his prestigious work in the field of deep learning.
