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Watch: Neura’s 4NE-1 multi-chore capable humanoid robot in action
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Neura’s 4NE-1 is a humanoid robot capable of carrying out multiple daily and industrial chores, according to the company.
California city unveils nation’s first all electric vehicle police fleet
A city in Southern California has become the first in the nation to replace its police patrol cars with electric vehicles, officials announced Monday, unveiling a fleet of 20 new Teslas.
South Pasadena on the edge of Los Angeles will replace its gas-guzzling police cruisers with the Teslas to help protect public health and fight climate change through reducing emissions. The Teslas will use new electric vehicle chargers installed at City Hall, officials said.
Research team designs biomimetic vision system based on praying mantis eyes
Self-driving cars occasionally crash because their visual systems can’t always process static or slow-moving objects in 3D space. In that regard, they’re like the monocular vision of many insects, whose compound eyes provide great motion-tracking and a wide field of view but poor depth perception.
Except for the praying mantis.
A praying mantis’s field of view also overlaps between its left and right eyes, creating binocular vision with depth perception in 3D space.
RAADfest 2024: An Early Preview
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RAADfest is the largest and most immersive event in the world focused on super-longevity for a general audience. Bringing together cutting-edge science, inspiration, entertainment and fun, RAADfest is more than just a conference – it’s a celebration of life. From brain longevity and sexual health, to senolytics, personalized medicine and helping your pets live longer too, RAADfest provides the information and inspiration to enable people to take charge of their longevity.
For more info, visit: https://www.raadfest.com/
Produced by the Coalition for Radical Life Extension, RAADfest also includes RAADcity, the international product expo. RAADcity features leading brands sharing demos and deals on their longevity products and services with the people who want and need them the most.
When: Sept 5th to 8th, 2024
Mapping AI’s Rapid Advance
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt weighs in on where AI is headed, when to “pull the plug” and how to cope with China.
Quantum computers could slash the energy use of cryptocurrencies
Mining cryptocurrencies like bitcoin could be done using quantum computers, cutting their electricity use by 90 per cent.
By Alex Wilkins
Meta plans to use 10 times more compute to train its next-generation Llama 4 AI model
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes open-source language models like Llama are the future of AI. The company is investing heavily in computing power for its next-generation model and expects AI chatbots to become ubiquitous on websites soon.
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“I think we’ll look back on Llama 3.1 as a turning point in the industry, where open-source AI started to become the industry standard, like Linux,” Zuckerberg said during the latest earnings call.