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Jul 11, 2023

Bill Gates Says AI Is Poised to Destroy Search Engines and Amazon

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates is warning that AI assistants could soon make search engines like Google Search obsolete by profoundly altering the behaviors of users online.

“Whoever wins the personal agent, that’s the big thing, because you will never go to a search site again, you will never go to a productivity site, you’ll never go to Amazon again,” Gates said during a Goldman Sachs event on AI in San Francisco this week, as quoted by CNBC.

These AI assistants could “read the stuff you don’t have time to read,” he said, allowing users to get to information without having to use a search engine like Google.

Jul 11, 2023

Enormous $2 Billion LED Orb in Las Vegas Looks Absolutely Deranged

Posted by in categories: entertainment, media & arts

Sphere Entertainment, the Madison Square Garden-funded venture seeking to “reinvent” live music, has started testing its first — and impressively large — LED-laden, orb-shaped music venue in Las Vegas, which is already being billed as the “world’s largest video screen.”

First impressions: it looks absolutely bonkers, as evidenced by videos of the orb in action.

According to Engadget, the 17,600-seat stadium, which cost over $2 billion to build, is a good 516 feet wide and 366 feet tall. Its LED-powered displays, combined with its 164,000-speaker audio system and added sensory elements — think what you’d get at a 4D movie — are designed to create a completely immersive experience.

Jul 10, 2023

Quantum Physics in a Leaf? Scientists Discover Link Between Photosynthesis and the “Fifth State of Matter”

Posted by in categories: particle physics, quantum physics

Inside a lab, scientists marvel at a strange state that forms when they cool down atoms to nearly absolute zero. Meanwhile, just outside their window, trees are absorbing sunlight and converting it into new leaves. These two scenarios may seem entirely unrelated, but a recent study from the University of Chicago proposes that these processes are not as distinct as they might appear on the surface.

Published in the journal PRX Energy, the study established connections at the atomic level between the process of photosynthesis and exciton condensates, —a strange state of physics that allows energy to flow frictionlessly through a material. According to the authors, this discovery is not only fascinating from a scientific perspective, but it may also offer new perspectives for electronics design.

Jul 10, 2023

New Iceland Tech Shakes Up Global Geothermal Energy

Posted by in category: energy

The conventional wisdom once posited that Iceland’s geothermal-centric energy model could not be exported or studied. New tech is changing that.

Jul 10, 2023

AI, quantum and nuclear technologies are key to Lockheed Martin’s vision for Space 2050

Posted by in categories: business, nuclear energy, quantum physics, robotics/AI, space travel

LOS ANGELES – Artificial intelligence, quantum computing and nuclear power are among the key technologies Lockheed Martin sees as important for future space missions.

Through a project called Destination: Space 2050, Lockheed Martin executives are exploring, for example, how AI could assist scientific exploration of locations where communications with remote sensors would be disrupted by high latency.

In that type of environment, “you really can’t interact with the robotic sensors,” David Lackner, Lockheed Martin senior manager strategy and business development, said during a June 28 webinar. “You have to have something that is super autonomous that can deal with unknown unknowns. We’ve got some really interesting causal autonomy tools that … allow the AI to be super smart about running into something that it hasn’t encountered before.”

Jul 10, 2023

Guide to Colorblindness

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Caused by genes, disease, or medicine color blindness is diagnosed using the Ishiara color test. Learn more about about the gadgets and habits that some people with color deficiency use to live with it and to explore the prospects of various treatments.

Jul 10, 2023

Scientists working on ‘universal’ flu vaccine that could last years

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Wouldn’t it be nice to get a flu shot that could last for years? Researchers are actively working on a so-called “universal” flu vaccine.

Jul 10, 2023

New Study Paves Way For Personalized Medicine For Infections

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Researchers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) say they have identified two key components of the body’s immune response to severe infectious disease, potentially paving the way for personalized and more effective treatments in the field of infectious diseases.

An infectious disease is caused by a microorganism such as a bacterium or a virus entering the body and causing damage to the cells. These cells can also be damaged by the immune system fighting the infection, such as in the case of inflammation.

The body’s reaction to infection has previously been viewed as a monolithic unit, but now the TAU researchers have been able to locate two main markers in the blood that are triggered by infection.

Jul 10, 2023

AI vs. Cyber Threats: The Battle for Cybersecurity Dominance

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, robotics/AI

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Jul 10, 2023

How Similar Are Insect Brains to Human Brains?

Posted by in category: neuroscience

A fly’s brain can tell us a lot about insect intelligence and maybe a thing or two about our own.