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From January 2019, Scott Pelley’s interview with “the oracle of AI,” Kai-Fu Lee. From this past April, Pelley’s report on Google’s AI efforts. And from this past March, Lesley Stahl’s story on chatbots like ChatGPT and a world of unknowns. #news #artificialintelligence #technology “60 Minutes” is the most successful television broadcast in history. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast began in 1968 and is still a hit, over 50 seasons later, regularly making Nielsen’s Top 10. Subscribe to the “60 Minutes” YouTube channel: http://bit.ly/1S7CLRu Watch full episodes: http://cbsn.ws/1Qkjo1F Get more “60 Minutes” from “60 Minutes: Overtime”: http://cbsn.ws/1KG3sdr Follow “60 Minutes” on Instagram: http://bit.ly/23Xv8Ry Like “60 Minutes” on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1Xb1Dao Follow “60 Minutes” on Twitter: http://bit.ly/1KxUsqX Subscribe to our newsletter: http://cbsn.ws/1RqHw7T Download the CBS News app: http://cbsn.ws/1Xb1WC8 Try Paramount+ free: https://bit.ly/2OiW1kZ For video licensing inquiries, contact: [email protected] 0:00 Introduction 0:11 The Oracle of AI 12:56 The Revolution (Part 1) 27:33 The Revolution (Part 2) 40:00 Who is minding the chatbots?

Electrons that spin to the right and the left at the same time. Particles that change their states together, even though they are separated by enormous distances. Intriguing phenomena like these are completely commonplace in the world of quantum physics. Researchers at the TUM Garching campus are using them to build quantum computers, high-sensitivity sensors and the internet of the future.

“We cool the chip down to only a few thousandths of a degree above absolute zero—colder than in outer space,” says Rudolf Gross, Professor of Technical Physics and Scientific Director of the Walther Meissner Institute (WMI) at the Garching research campus. He’s standing in front of a delicate-looking device with gold-colored disks connected by cables: The cooling system for a special chip that utilizes the bizarre laws of quantum physics.

For about twenty years now, researchers at WMI have been working on quantum computers, a technology based on a scientific revolution that occurred 100 years ago when quantum physics introduced a new way of looking at physics. Today it serves as the foundation for a “new era of technology,” as Prof. Gross calls it.

Scientists use DNA hacking to create a variety of 3D metallic and semiconductor nanostructures for advanced technologies.

The IVO quantum inertia drive is in orbit now and will be turned on within one to ten weeks and then operated for many weeks or months.

The IVO quantum inertia drive is very controversial because it would go against many theories in physics.

Let us assume the 52 millinewton drive using 1 watt of power from a drive that weighs about 200 grams works.

Untethered micro/nanorobots that can wirelessly control their motion and deformation state have gained enormous interest in remote sensing applications due to their unique motion characteristics in various media and diverse functionalities. Researchers are developing micro/nanorobots as innovative tools to improve sensing performance and miniaturize sensing systems, enabling in situ detection of substances that traditional sensing methods struggle to achieve. Over the past decade of development, significant research progress has been made in designing sensing strategies based on micro/nanorobots, employing various coordinated control and sensing approaches. This review summarizes the latest developments on micro/nanorobots for remote sensing applications by utilizing the self-generated signals of the robots, robot behavior, microrobotic manipulation, and robot-environment interactions.

Patients with takotsubo syndrome in a new study had elevated cardiovascular and noncardiovascular death rates. Inhibitors of the renin-angiotensin system were the only cardiovascular medications associated with reduced risk.

In takotsubo syndrome (TS) — also called stress cardiomyopathy or broken heart syndrome — long-term mortality is elevated, similar to that after acute myocardial infarction (AMI), but for unclear reasons. Additionally, evidence-based therapies are lacking for TS. To explore causes of death and the effects of heterogeneous therapies for TS, investigators in Scotland compared outcomes between 620 patients with TS, 620 matched patients presenting with AMI, and 2,480 matched individuals from the general population. Median follow-up was 5.5 years.

Among patients with TS, all-cause mortality was higher compared with the general population (hazard ratio, 1.8), both for cardiovascular causes (HR, 2.5) and noncardiovascular causes (HR, 1.5), but was lower compared with patients with AMI (HR, 0.8). Patients with TS were prescribed cardiovascular and noncardiovascular medications at similar rates to those with AMI. Use of diuretics, anti-inflammatory agents, and psychotropic agents were associated with higher mortality in patients with TS, as was chronic anti-inflammatory medication use. The only medications associated with lower mortality in patients with TS were inhibitors of the renin-angiotensin system.

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A genetic marker linked to premature aging was reversed in children with obesity during a six-month diet and exercise program, according to a recent study led by the Stanford School of Medicine.

Children’s telomeres—protective molecular “caps” on the chromosomes—were longer during the weight management program, then were shorter again in the year after the program ended, the study found. The research was published last month in Pediatric Obesity.

Like the solid segment at the end of a shoelace, telomeres protect the ends of chromosomes from fraying. In all people, telomeres gradually shorten with aging. Various conditions, including obesity, cause premature shortening of the telomeres.

Astronomers claim to have found structures so large, they shouldn’t exist. With such biased, incomplete observations, perhaps they don’t.