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Feb 2, 2024

Allenai/dolma · Datasets at Hugging Face

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Feb 2, 2024

Can Large Language Models Understand Context?

Posted by in category: futurism

Join the discussion on this paper page.

Feb 2, 2024

Fearsome Prehistoric Penguin Weighed as Much as an Adult Gorilla

Posted by in category: futurism

After unearthing its fossils in 2017, researchers now reveal a new species of penguin called Kumimanu fordycei that weighed over 340 pounds.

Feb 1, 2024

Mapping the Brain: The Largest Neuron Projectome Unveiled

Posted by in categories: information science, mapping, robotics/AI

Researchers mapped over 10,000 mouse hippocampal #neurons, creating the world’s most comprehensive database of single-neuron #connectivity #patterns.


Summary: Researchers unveiled the most extensive single-neuron projectome database to date, featuring over 10,000 mouse hippocampal neurons.

The study provides an unprecedented view of the spatial connectivity patterns at the mesoscopic level, crucial for understanding learning, memory, and emotional processing in the hippocampus. By employing machine learning algorithms for categorizing axonal trajectories and integrating spatial transcriptome data, researchers identified 43 distinct projectome cell types, revealing intricate projection patterns and soma locations’ correspondence to projection targets.

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Feb 1, 2024

The First Apple Vision Pro Reviews Are Here

Posted by in categories: augmented reality, mobile phones

The first reviews for Vision Pro are live, highlighting a ton of great, good and not-so-great things about Apple’s first mixed reality headset.

The $3,500 Vision Pro is set to launch on February 2nd, but it seems the first reviews are already out from a select number of outlets, including CNET, The Verge, The Wall Street Journal, and CNBC.

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Feb 1, 2024

These EVs Hit 60 MPH in Less Than 3.5 Seconds

Posted by in categories: sustainability, transportation

These quick EVs also happen to be among the fastest battery-electric cars out there.

Feb 1, 2024

Elon Musk Fumes as Judge Takes His $55 Billion

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

A Delaware judge has voided Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s gargantuan $55 billion pay package following a lawsuit by shareholders claiming it was far too much wealth to award a single individual.

In a ruling this week, Delaware judge Kathaleen McCormick called the billionaire’s cushy compensation plan “an unfathomable sum,” arguing it was unfair to shareholders.

Uncontested, the decision could leave a massive gap in the net worth of the once richest man in the world, which could have a ripple effect on his other ventures, including SpaceX and his online echo chamber X-formerly-Twitter.

Feb 1, 2024

How Modernity Made Us Allergic

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

Our very old immune systems can’t keep up with modern lifestyles and diets, leading to increases in all sorts of chronic health problems like allergies and obesity.

Feb 1, 2024

The Troubling Mysteries at the Heart of Nuclear Bombs

Posted by in categories: cosmology, military

Plutonium-pit secrets, growing up in parallel universes, the strange aftermath of a fictional wildfire, and more books out now.

Feb 1, 2024

Cancer-causing protein can be altered to stop disease from spreading

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, futurism

In a recent study, researchers found a new way to change the physical properties of a specific protein known to be the culprit of about 75% of all human cancer cases. The researchers say the discovery could pave the way for future cancer treatments.