Archive for the ‘futurism’ category: Page 96
Feb 21, 2024
Uncle Sam’s On Mars: Frederik Pohl ‘MAN PLUS’ and Beyond (100 Must Read Science Fiction Novels) #sf
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: futurism, space
#booktube #sciencefictionbooks #bookcollecting Steve talks you through his preferred Pohl title and the great man’s career, with some sidebar digressions into the satiric thrust of his collaborator C.M. Kornbluth. Music: Steve Holmes © https://steveholmes.bandcamp.com/
Feb 21, 2024
The Decimal Point Is 150 Years Older than Historians Thought
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
The origin of the decimal point, a powerful calculation tool, has been traced back to a mathematician who lived during the Italian Renaissance.
By Jo Marchant & Nature magazine.
Feb 21, 2024
VideoPrism: A Foundational Visual Encoder for Video Understanding
Posted by Cecile G. Tamura in category: futurism
Google announces VideoPrism.
A foundational visual encoder for video understanding.
Join the discussion on this paper page.
Feb 21, 2024
Microsoft’s Copilot Key Reveals the Future of Windows
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
A new button on your keyboard is just the beginning of major changes coming to Windows in 2024.
Feb 21, 2024
Apple Vision Pro review: Here’s what you need to know
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
Joanna Stern, WSJ, joins ‘Squawk on the Street’ to discuss Apple’s latest large product launch, the Apple Vision Pro.
Feb 20, 2024
‘This is weird’: Experts ‘shocked’ by record-breaking longevity of Death Valley’s phantom lake
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: futurism
A temporary lake at Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park has persisted for more than six months, which is far longer than it has lasted before. And experts say that it could stick around for quite a while yet.
Feb 20, 2024
Study: ancient technique holds thousands of tons of carbon, sequestered over centuries
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: futurism
Archaeologists have dug up mysteriously black and fertile patches of ancient soils in hundreds of sites across the Amazon. 🌎 https://www.freethink.com/science/carbon-dark-earth-ancient-technique
The team’s study appears in Science Advances. Other authors include former MIT postdoc and lead author Morgan Schmidt, anthropologist Michael Heckenberger of the University of Florida, and collaborators from multiple institutions across Brazil.
In their current study, the team synthesized observations and data that Schmidt, Heckenberger, and others had previously gathered, while working with Indigenous communities in the Amazon since the early 2000s, with new data collected in 2018–19. The scientists focused their fieldwork in the Kuikuro Indigenous Territory in the Upper Xingu River basin in the southeastern Amazon. This region is home to modern Kuikuro villages as well as archaeological sites where the ancestors of the Kuikuro are thought to have lived. Over multiple visits to the region, Schmidt, then a graduate student at the University of Florida, was struck by the darker soil around some archaeological sites.
