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Feb 16, 2024

EV Sales Surge 69 Percent Over Last Year To Over 1 Million Cars In January

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

Plus Waymo issues the first recall of its self-driving cars and BYD could be coming to North America.

Feb 16, 2024

OpenAI’s Video Generator Sora Is Breathtaking, Yet Terrifying

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

OpenAI released its premier AI text-to-video generator, and the results are as incredible as they are concerning.

Feb 16, 2024

TikTok Releases Vision Pro App With ‘Immersive’ Viewing Experience

Posted by in category: futurism

TikTok today announced that it has released an app for Apple’s Vision Pro headset. The app is optimized for visionOS’s spatial design style, with TikTok promising a more “immersive” viewing experience for its short-form videos.

“Experience your For You feed in an entirely new way through this immersive content view,” said TikTok, in a post on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.

The app has a familiar layout on the Vision Pro, with a main “For You” video feed, along with profiles, comments, search, and more. TikTok is available now on the Vision Pro’s App Store, and additional images of the app can be found below.

Feb 16, 2024

NASA Selects Texas A&M as First Approved Exploration Park Facility

Posted by in category: space

Feb. 15, 2024

RELEASE: J24-003

Feb 16, 2024

Are Space Elevators possible? Physicist says they could Transform Humanity into a ‘Spacefaring Civilization’

Posted by in category: space travel

Humanity’s quest to explore—and, perhaps eventually, colonize—outer space has prompted a great many ideas about how precisely to go about it.

While conventional wisdom suggests that space launch via rockets is the best way to send human beings into orbit, other “non-rocket” methods have been proposed, including a futuristic “space elevator.”

The concept of a space elevator—essentially a sky-high cable that would let humans climb into space—has been championed by some industry experts as a way to overcome the astronomical costs associated with sending people and cargo into space by rocket, says Alberto de la Torre, assistant professor of physics at Northeastern.

Feb 16, 2024

CHAI AI: A Top Platform for Conversational Artificial Intelligence

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

A comprehensive analysis of the top conversational artificial intelligence platforms

PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — In the dynamic landscape of AI-powered content generation, OpenAI stands at the forefront of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) research. However, the primary purpose of products such as GPT-4 is to act as a productivity aid, for tasks such as coding. In addition, access to the best such models is often restricted by paywalls. These limitation have led to the growing popularity of other platforms which are primarily focused on providing Generative AI for consumers.

Feb 16, 2024

Hierarchical Li electrochemistry using alloy-type anode for high-energy-density Li metal batteries

Posted by in categories: chemistry, energy

Utilizing an ultra-thin Li anode with a thickness below 50 μm is crucial for enhancing the energy density of batteries. Here, the authors develop a finely tunable, thin alloy-based Li anode that features a hierarchical Li electrochemistry, enabling stable cycling and superior energy density in Li metal batteries.

Feb 16, 2024

A Science Sleuth Accuses a Harvard Medical School Neuroscientist of Research Misconduct

Posted by in category: science

Researchers await the outcome of an ongoing investigation into dozens of instances of alleged image problems spanning 29 publications over a period of 23 years.

Feb 16, 2024

Even if We Can’t See the First Stars, We Could Detect Their Impact on the First Galaxies

Posted by in category: space

Population 3 stars were the Universe’s first stars, and many of them exploded as supernovae. How did they shape the first galaxies?

Feb 16, 2024

Saturn’s ocean moon Titan may not be able to support life after all

Posted by in categories: materials, space

Titan’s ocean has a volume 12 times that of all Earth’s oceans, but it may be barren of life as we know it.