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Sep 14, 2023

SpaceX’s Starship May Get FAA Clearance to Launch Again Next Month — Elon Musk Sees ‘Higher Chance of Success’

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

SpaceX’s Starship can seemingly get Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) clearance for its second flight test as early as next month.

What Happened: “We’re working well with them and have been in good discussions. Teams are working together and I think we’re optimistic sometime next month,” Acting FAA Administrator Polly Trottenberg said on Wednesday, as reported by Reuters.

Earlier this week, CEO Elon Musk confirmed that SpaceX has implemented all the fixes demanded by the FAA for Starship ahead of its second flight test.

Sep 14, 2023

Chuck Schumer says he asked Musk, Gates and others about whether to regulate AI: ‘Every single person raised their hands’

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Among the ideas discussed was whether there should be an independent agency to oversee certain aspects of the rapidly-developing technology, how companies could be more transparent and how the United States can stay ahead of China and other countries.

“The key point was really that it’s important for us to have a referee,” said Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and X, during a break in the daylong forum. “It was a very civilized discussion, actually, among some of the smartest people in the world.”

Schumer will not necessarily take the tech executives’ advice as he works with colleagues on the politically difficult task of ensuring some oversight of the burgeoning sector. But he invited them to the meeting in hopes that they would give senators some realistic direction for meaningful regulation.

Sep 14, 2023

This nano submarine will explore solar system’s icy moons

Posted by in category: space

Not only that, but the more we comprehend our blue world’s frigid ecosystems, the better equipped we’ll be to locate and recognize how life forms may exist on other celestial worlds in our solar system.

Sep 14, 2023

Bing, Bard, and ChatGPT: How AI is rewriting the internet

Posted by in categories: internet, robotics/AI

Meta is reportedly planning to train a new model that it hopes will be as powerful as OpenAI’s latest and greatest chatbot.

Meta has been snapping up AI training chips and building out data centers in order to create a more powerful new chatbot it hopes will be as sophisticated as OpenAI’s GPT-4, according to * The Wall Street Journal.* The company reportedly plans to begin training the new large language model early in 2024, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg evidently pushing for it to once again be free for companies to create AI tools with.

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Sep 14, 2023

Loukia Papadopoulos Editor at Interesting Engineering

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

The versatile robot will help create a virtual representation of the facilities.

In a first for the UK’s National Trust, Boston Dynamics’ robotic dog Spot is being used to survey two Cold War weapons testing sites located in Orford Ness, Suffolk.

This is according to a report by the *BBC* published on Thursday.

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Sep 14, 2023

Transferring Longevity Adaptations Across Species: Gene from Naked Mole Rat Extends Mouse Lifespan

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, life extension

Naked mole rats are rodents that are about the size of a mouse with a key difference, aside from having no fur — they’re extremely long-lived — reaching ages of around 40 years old. For comparison, lab mice live an average of about three and a half years. To explain their extensive lifespans, researchers have sought to pinpoint how naked mole rats evade the onset of age-related diseases like cancer. In doing so, they’ve identified a form of gelatinous substance called hyaluronan, which has anti-inflammatory and anticancer properties. Now, the question of whether the benefits of the naked mole rat’s abundant levels of this form of hyaluronan — called high molecular mass hyaluronic acid (HMM-HA) — can be exported to other species has recently drawn attention.

Published in Nature, Gorbunova and colleagues from the University of Rochester show that genetically modifying mice to harbor an enzyme that produces HMM-HA extends their lifespan. The researchers go on to show that increasing HMM-HA reduces the prevalence of cancer. Additionally, the nmrHAS2 gene improves the healthspan of mice by countering physiological dysfunction, as measured with a frailty score. These findings provide the first evidence that genes from long-lived species can be exported to other species, perhaps conferring benefits to humans one day.

Sep 14, 2023

Generative AI in Software Development (April 2023)

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

“Here is how Generative AI can help in the Overall Generative AI in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) stages. Overall, we want to treat Generative AI as senior developer/architect with more accessibility.

- Requirements gathering: ChatGPT can significantly simplify the requirements gathering phase by building quick prototypes of complex applications. It also can minimize the risks of miscommunication in the process since the analyst and customer can align on the prototype before proceeding to the build phase.

- Design: DALL-E, another deep learning model developed by OpenAI to generate digital images from natural language descriptions, can contribute to the design of applications. In addition to providing user interface (UI) templates for common use cases, it also may eventually be deployed to ensure that the design of a given application meets regulatory criteria such as accessibility.

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Sep 14, 2023

We hear from some of the people at the centre of these cases

Posted by in category: futurism

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Sep 14, 2023

Ghost In The Shell — Transhuman Identity — CRAMMED!

Posted by in category: transhumanism

A analysis for the 1995 original cyberpunk Anime release, this synopsis will also touch on themes of a post-human existence and the idea if identity. Written by Masamune Shirow and directed by Mamoru Oshii. With the 2017 Ghost In The Shell film starring Scarlett Johansson now out in Japan, visiting the GITS anime and Cramming it down for your pleasure seemed appropriate. I Hope you enjoy!

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Sep 14, 2023

Sony energy harvesting module generates power from electromagnetic wave noise

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation (SSS) has developed an energy harvesting module that uses electromagnetic wave noise energy to power IoT devices.

The new module leverages Sony’s tuner development process to generate power from electromagnetic wave noise from robots inside factories, monitors and lighting in offices, monitors and TVs in stores and homes, etc. in order to provide a stable power supply needed to run low-power IoT sensors and communications equipment.