GPR-1 under pilot control doing some basic sortation.
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Jul 30, 2021
‘Weird’ fossil from 890 million years ago could be evidence of earliest animal life
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
If confirmed, the finding would push back our earliest evidence of animal life by about 350 million years.
Jul 30, 2021
Hydrogen produced using renewables will be able to travel through existing gas pipelines, Snam CEO says
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Jul 30, 2021
Scientists are zapping clouds with electricity to make rain
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
“There’s been a lot of speculation about what charge might do to cloud droplets, but there’s been very little practical and detailed investigation,” says Keri Nicoll, one of the core investigators on the project. The aim is to determine if the technology can increase rainfall rates in water-stressed regions.
Nicoll’s team started by modelling the behavior of clouds. They found that when cloud droplets have a positive or negative electrical charge, the smaller droplets are more likely to merge and grow to become big raindrops.
The size of the raindrops is important, says Nicoll, because in places like the UAE which has high clouds and high temperatures, droplets often evaporate as they fall.
Jul 30, 2021
New Zealand is best place to survive collapse
Posted by Future Timeline in category: futurism
New research has examined the factors that could lead to the collapse of global civilisation, with New Zealand identified as the country most resilient to future threats.
Jul 29, 2021
Qualcomm, Amazon boost Intel plan to leapfrog chipmaking rivals by 2025
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: futurism, innovation
New CEO Pat Gelsinger says a “torrid” pace of innovation helped convince Amazon and Qualcomm to pay Intel to build future processors.
Jul 28, 2021
Biohackers Want to Save Lives by Making Insulin 98% Cheaper
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: futurism
Insulin prices have risen exponentially over the last decade. Learn about the team of volunteer scientists working to make it affordable again.
Jul 27, 2021
Nanometer no more: Intel changes its process names to match TSMC
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: futurism, innovation
Intel is matching foundry rival, TSMC, node-for-node with its new process naming convention, but has also fired the first shot in the race for sub-nanometer terminology. Below 1nm, we’re moving into what it’s now calling the ‘angstrom era of semiconductors’.
At the Intel Accelerated event CEO, Pat Gelsinger, has unveiled a detailed process roadmap for its future nodes, all tied into a new way to reference them. “We are accelerating our innovation roadmap to ensure we are on a clear path to process performance leadership by 2025,” he says.
Jul 27, 2021
Microsoft closes above $2 trillion market cap for the first time
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
Satya Nadella’s Microsoft has become easier for companies to work with, it hasn’t made deals that went bad, and its Teams and Azure assets are now common.
Researchers can roughly project what autistic children’s lives will look like years down the road. But how good is their crystal ball — and what are its benefits?