You know that creepy black sphere used as a floating interrogation droid in Star Wars? It seems like scientists at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) pretty much designed the complete opposite of that, and we want one for our very own.
Called Int-Ball, this adorable little camera drone resembles something Pixar might have come up with, but itâs totally real, and is now a floating companion to astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) â where it helps out by taking photos and recording video, freeing up valuable astronaut time.
Int-Ball was delivered to the ISS in a SpaceX cargo shipment last month â the companyâs first involving a reused Dragon cargo capsule â and is now operational, currently undergoing initial testing.
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For the last few months, Intel and AMD have been playing a bit of one-sided chicken. With AMDâs Ryzen and Epyc initial launch cycles nearly complete, weâve seen the smaller CPU company aggressively take the fight to Intel in CPU pricing. And the market has responded â the Ryzen 7 1700 is now the second-best selling CPU on Amazon. Six of the top 15 CPUs on Amazon are made by AMD (with 5 Ryzen SKUs) and eight of the top 20. Now there are rumors that Intel will respond to AMDâs moves in the consumer space as well, possibly with new Core i7 and i5 offerings that add six-core CPUs to Intelâs desktop lines.
Thereâs already some precedent for this. Intelâs Core X series and the recent Skylake-SP launch are both meant to reposition Santa Clara against its rival, particularly the Core i7-7820X, which has a list price of $589 to $599. Be advised, if you intend to overclock, you need to read about the problems overclockers have encountered with the X299 chipset. But when running at stock speed, you can already buy an eight-core Intel CPU for $600. While thatâs $100 more than what youâll pay for a Ryzen 7 1800X, itâs a heck of a lot cheaper than the Broadwell-based Core i7-6900K, which was an $1,100 chip.
Intel slashed prices on certain competitive SKUs within the new Core X series to bring them more in line with Ryzen, so itâs not surprising to hear that the company might fight back on the core count front. This news, according to CanardPC, claims Intel will introduce two six-core models with its new Coffee Lake CPUs. The Core i7-8700K will have six cores, 12 threads, 12MB of L3, a 95W TDP, and a base clock of 3.7GHz. Meanwhile, the Core i5 8600K would be a six-core chip at 3.6GHz with no Hyper-Threading, 9MB of L3, and the same 95W TDP.
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July 18 (UPI) â Officials at a Washington, D.C., office building patrolled by a security robot they are investigating after workers reported the robot âdrowned itself.â
MRP Realty announced last week there was a ânew sheriff in town,â namely a K5 security robot developed by Silicon Valley startup Knightscope, but Bilal Farooqui, a worker at the office complex, tweeted a photo Monday revealing the mechanical guard had met with a watery end.
âOur D.C. office building got a security robot. It drowned itself,â Farooqui wrote alongside an image of the robot horizontal inside a fountain. âWe were promised flying cars, instead we got suicidal robots.â
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Today Lifespan.io / Life Extension Advocacy Foundation has launched the fifth research project since we began 1.5 years ago. We are working with the Centers for Age Control Inc who plan to develop a multiple aging biomarker system to aid clinical research, healthcare providers and enthusiasts.
For more details check out the press release here: http://www.leafscience.org/introducing-agemeter/
Developing a diagnostic system to measure human functional age in comparison to chronological age, and assist in the assessment of anti-aging therapeutics.
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Tweaking the types of microglia to favour a healing type over an inflammatory type has been the focus of a number of recent studies. This time the tremedous regenerative ability of zebrafish is the focus of research.
The evidence that the immune system, and in particular the various types of tissue resident macrophages play an important role in the regeneration of tissue continues to mount up.
The difference in the behaviour of these macrophages varies between species and may significantly contribute to the differences in regenerative capacity observed between slow regenerative species like mice and humans and species capable of robust rejuvenation such as salamanders and zebrafish. The latter two species being able to regenerate lost limbs and organs and the former two being far more limited.
There has been considerable interest recently in adjusting macrophage populations and types in order to encourage healing which we have talked about in articles here, here and here. Today we are going to have a look at some related research again dealing with altering types of tissue resident macrophages.