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Feb 15, 2024

Startup emerges from stealth with $25 million for robots that lay bricks as fast as humans—and fill the huge shortage of laborers

Posted by in categories: habitats, robotics/AI

Plural and Hummingbird are leading the funding round for the startup that aims to address a major contributor to housing shortfalls in Europe.

Feb 15, 2024

AI May Be Atrophying Our Brains, Professor Warns

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, robotics/AI, transportation

Just like smartphone GPS has harmed our sense of spatial cognition and memory, artificial intelligence may soon impair our ability to make decisions for ourselves — an outcome that would be, one expert warns, “catastrophic.”

In an interview with PsyPost, neuropsychology expert Umberto León Domínguez of the University of Monterrey in Mexico said that his new research shows that AI chatbots may end up not just mimicking our speech patterns, but significantly harming our cognitive functioning in general.

Like many other educators, Domínguez said he’s concerned about how his students are using tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Spurred by those concerns, he told PsyPost, he began to explore ways AI chatbots “could interfere with higher-order executive functions to understand how to also train these skills.”

Feb 15, 2024

Earth Has Received Power Beamed From A Satellite In Space For The First Time

Posted by in category: energy

This may have posted but it’s interesting as a start. Beaming energy from space to the ground is a great idea. One thing I always need is energy.


The experimental system could be used to send energy anywhere on Earth.

Feb 15, 2024

Nanomedicine paves the way for new treatments for spinal cord injury

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, evolution, nanotechnology, neuroscience

In a study published in Advanced Materials, researchers have demonstrated that an innovative nano-vector (nanogel), which they developed, is able to deliver anti-inflammatory drugs in a targeted manner into glial cells actively involved in the evolution of spinal cord injury, a condition that leads to paraplegia or quadriplegia.

Treatments currently available to modulate the mediated by the component that controls the brain’s internal environment after acute spinal cord injury showed limited efficacy. This is also due to the lack of a therapeutic approach that can selectively act on microglial and astrocytic cells.

The nanovectors developed by Politecnico di Milano, called nanogels, consist of polymers that can bind to specific target molecules. In this case, the nanogels were designed to bind to , which are crucial in the inflammatory response following acute spinal cord injury. The collaboration between Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS and Politecnico di Milano showed that nanogels, loaded with a drug with anti-inflammatory action (rolipram), were able to convert glial cells from a damaging to a protective state, actively contributing to the recovery of injured tissue.

Feb 15, 2024

Lian Li’s Gaming Desk Features Built-In, Transparent OLED Display

Posted by in category: electronics

The case vendor shows off a new prototype DK-07 desk with a transparent OLED screen that can display images atop your PC components.

Feb 15, 2024

‘μkiss’: A new method for precision delivery of nanoparticles and small molecules to individual cells

Posted by in categories: biological, nanotechnology

The delivery of experimental materials to individual cells with exactness and exclusivity has long been an elusive and much sought-after ability in biology. With it comes the promise of deciphering many longstanding secrets of the cell.

A research team at the Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin, Erlangen led by Professor Vahid Sandoghdar has now successfully shown how and single nanoparticles can be applied directly onto the surface of cells.

In the study, which was published in Nature Methods, the scientists describe their technique as a “μkiss” (microkiss)—an easy and cost-effective new method, unlocking new possibilities in single-cell science with a view to-wards next generation therapeutic applications.

Feb 15, 2024

Best Dog Longevity Diet

Posted by in category: life extension

Like in many other species, it seems caloric restriction may be the most effective dog longevity diet:


What’s the best dog longevity diet? We read the science behind raw feeding, dried kibble, and caloric restriction and found a clear winner.

Feb 15, 2024

Premise Order Matters in Reasoning with Large Language Models

Posted by in category: futurism

Google presents Premise Order Matters in Reasoning with Large Language Models.


Join the discussion on this paper page.

Feb 15, 2024

Scientists discover a new type of magnetism never noticed before

Posted by in category: futurism

Altermagnets display characteristics of both ferromagnets and antiferromagnetic and can be used to develop new types of information storage systems.

Feb 15, 2024

The future is here whether you want it or not as AI briefly makes Nvidia the 4th most valuable corporation on Earth with a $1.83 trillion market cap

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

I think it’s finally time to change the N in FAANG to Nvidia, rather than Netflix.