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Mar 19, 2020

‘Uncharted waters:’ Kentucky gas station 1st in the nation to sell at 99 cents/gallon

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LONDON, Ky. — A gas station in London, Kentucky on Thursday, March 19 became the first in the nation to sell a gallon of gas for 99 cents.

GasBuddy officials confirmed via a cashier and GasBuddy users the BP gas station lowered its price to 99 cents per gallon as of about 6:30 a.m. Thursday.

GasBuddy had been anticipating this price could pop up in the Great Lakes states a week or so prior.

Mar 19, 2020

European consortium to develop compact ultraprecise optical clocks using superradiant lasers

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Partners in industry and academia are funded for the next three years for a total of 10 million Euros.

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Mar 19, 2020

Some People Can Detect Earth’s Magnetic Field, Which Sounds Like a Pretty Sweet Party Trick

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Could some humans be able to sense the Earth’s magnetic field? Evidence suggests that in addition to quite a few animal species, humans could be—yes, this is the real term—magnetoreceptors. In a recent study, scientists conducted an experiment that measured how alpha waves interacted with a trace mineral that they believe registers magnetism.

Once upon a time, scientists thought animal magnetoreception was impossible, too. As they started to understand that birds and other animals used magnetoreception to navigate in the world, they still thought there was no way humans could do it.

Mar 19, 2020

Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown Is Coming

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Politicians won’t admit it yet, but it’s time to prepare—physically and psychologically—for a sudden stop to all life outside your home.

Mar 19, 2020

Diemut Strebe

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I hadn’t seen anything about this thing in about 5+ years, and it was pretty bad back then. Now they have it singing, although i’d like to just see it talking or trying to hold a conversation. Anyhow, the Mouth of your future humanoid robot:


The Prayer is presented in the show “Neurons, Simulated Intelligence”, at Centre Pompidou, Paris, curated by Frédéric Migayrou and Camille Lenglois from 26 February — 26 April 2020.
The Prayer is an art-installation that tries to explore the supernatural through artificial intelligence with a long-term experimental set up. A robot — installation operates a talking mouth, that is part of a computer system, creating and voicing prayers, that are generated in every very moment by the self-learning system itself, exploring ‘the divine’ the supernatural or ‘the noumenal’ as the mystery of ‘the unknown’, using deep learning.
How would a divine epiphany appear to an artificial intelligence? The focus of the project could maybe shed light on the difference between humans and AI machines in the debate about mind and matter and allows a speculative stance on the future of humans in the age of AI technology and AGI ambitions.
Above an anticipation of AI Singing with AI generated texts, since singing is a major religious practice.

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Mar 18, 2020

Living on Mars — Making Clean Water on Mars

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:ooooo.


Recent NASA findings show there is a lot of water on Mars — but can future settlers actually drink it? If not, what will be needed for making water on Mars?

Mar 18, 2020

Fine-tuning radiocarbon dating could ‘rewrite’ ancient events

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O.,.o.


Radiocarbon dating, invented in the late 1940s and improved ever since to provide more precise measurements, is the standard method for determining the dates of artifacts in archaeology and other disciplines.

“If it’s organic and old—up to 50,000 years—you date it by radiocarbon,” said Sturt Manning, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Classical Archaeology in the College of Arts and Sciences.

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Mar 18, 2020

‘Infinite Destinies’ Returns the Infinity Stones to the Marvel Universe

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The Infinity Stones have played a key role in some of the Marvel Universe’s most defining moments, and now they’ve returned in the hands of Marvel’s most popular new characters. The chase for the powerful Infinity Stones will play out in INFINITE DESTINIES, launching this summer!

In a series of eight annuals, each installment will pair Marvel’s biggest heroes like Captain America and Iron Man with some of Marvel’s newest heroes and villains including Star, Amulet, and more. These exciting new additions to the Marvel mythos may or may not possess one of the sought after stones — but the real question will be who will be holding them in the end, and what will it mean for the future of the Marvel Universe?

“We’ve had a wave of incredible new characters over the last few years, and INFINITE DESTINIES will shine a light on eight of them,” Editor Nick Lowe said. “We’ll discover new aspects of these heroes and villains in adventures with our the most archetypal Marvel heroes.”

Mar 18, 2020

Podcast #43: The Future of Work 2050, with Jerome Glenn

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“Automation is going to cause unemployment, and we need to prepare for it.”–Mark cuban.

Mar 17, 2020

Amid pandemic, Energy Department labs close to tens of thousands of users

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None has announced a full closure, and some big facilities seem likely to continue to run.

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