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Sep 17, 2023

NASA shows how human life can be supported on Mars

Posted by in category: space

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has generated oxygen on Mars for the 16th and final time with the agency saying it exceeded expectations.

A device on the rover is known as MOXIE (Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment).

Since Perseverance first landed on Mars in 2021, MOXIE has generated 122 grams of oxygen. According to a NASA blog post about the success of MOXIE’s mission, this is about the amount a small dog breathes in 10 hours. Its 16th run on August 7 saw the microwave-sized device produce 9.8 grams of breathable oxygen.

Sep 17, 2023

Multimedia platform releases ethics statement into generative AI

Posted by in categories: ethics, robotics/AI

A blog by the company’s chief trust officer, Dana Rao, highlighted the importance of ethics while developing new AI tools. Generative AI has come much more into mainstream awareness in recent months with the launch of ChatGPT and DALL-E systems, which can understand written and verbal requests to generate convincingly human-like text and images.

Artists have complained that generative AIs being trained on their work is tantamount to ‘ripping off’ their styles or creating discriminatory or explicit content from harmless inputs. Others have called into question the ease with which humans can pass off AI-generated prose as their own work.

Read more: Schools ban ChatGPT.

Sep 17, 2023

Ruto sells M-Pesa revolution as Adan Mohamed introduced as cabinet secretary in US meeting

Posted by in categories: business, mobile phones

Kenya’s mobile pay platform was probably the first established in 2007. In 4 years it will be two decades. I had PayPal with my old phone line. Now the President of Kenya, there with Tim Cook has said Apple play also will be integrated with MPESA, Kenya’s mobile money platform. Kenyans also were paid about $2 an hour to make ChatGPT safer. Kenya has alot to offer, except leadership. 🙄 President Ruto spoke at the US-Affica Business Roundtable yesterday.


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Sep 17, 2023

Striking actor Stephen Fry says his voice was stolen from the Harry Potter audiobooks and replicated by AI

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

The actor told an audience in London that AI was a “burning issue” for actors.

Sep 17, 2023

New nanotech weapon takes aim at hard-to-treat breast cancer

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry, engineering, nanotechnology

Breast cancer in its various forms affects more than 250,000 Americans a year. One particularly aggressive and hard-to-treat type is triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), which lacks specific receptors targeted by existing treatments. The rapid growth and metastasis of this cancer also make it challenging to manage, leading to limited therapy options and an often poor prognosis for patients.

A promising new approach that uses minuscule tubes to deliver cancer-fighting drugs directly to the tumor site while preserving has been developed by Johns Hopkins engineers. The team’s research appeared in Nanoscale.

“In this paper, we showed that we can use to specifically target both proliferating and senescent TNBC cells with chemotherapeutics and senolytics, killing them without targeting healthy breast cells,” said Efie Kokkoli, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, a core researcher at the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology, and a specialist in engineering targeted nanoparticles for the delivery of cancer therapeutics.

Sep 17, 2023

DNA Breakthrough — How Genetic Shedding Unveils Species Secrets

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

Ecologists have shown that the genetic material that species.

A species is a group of living organisms that share a set of common characteristics and are able to breed and produce fertile offspring. The concept of a species is important in biology as it is used to classify and organize the diversity of life. There are different ways to define a species, but the most widely accepted one is the biological species concept, which defines a species as a group of organisms that can interbreed and produce viable offspring in nature. This definition is widely used in evolutionary biology and ecology to identify and classify living organisms.

Sep 17, 2023

Post-tropical storm Lee hits Canada’s Nova Scotia with heavy rains; one killed and thousands reeling under darkness

Posted by in category: futurism

Storm Lee hits Nova Scotia, bringing high winds, rough surf, and torrential rains to New England and Maritime Canada.

Sep 17, 2023

Vertical farms could take over the world | Hard Reset by Freethink

Posted by in categories: energy, food, space, sustainability

Vertical farming saves water, land, and energy — and it could be how we grow food on Mars.

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Sep 17, 2023

Striking a Balance for Quantum Bits

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

A demonstration that certain electron-transport processes can be tuned in a hybrid semiconductor-superconductor system could be useful for developing quantum computers.

Sep 17, 2023

Graphene Has Topological Phonons

Posted by in category: materials

New experiments reveal graphene’s exotic phonon spectrum with unprecedented detail and completeness.