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Oct 3, 2024

SoftBank’s Son Envisions AI Running Households in Next Few Years

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

SoftBank Group Corp. founder Masayoshi Son sketched out one of the most aggressive timelines for the adoption of artificial intelligence yet, envisioning a near future where the technology would run entire households.

Oct 3, 2024

OpenAI Announces $6.6 Billion in Funding, Nearly Doubling Valuation to $157 Billion

Posted by in categories: business, robotics/AI

Artificial-intelligence tech company OpenAI said it has raised $6.6 billion in new funding, giving it a massive post-money valuation of $157 billion, almost double its previous reported valuation of $80 billion earlier this year.

The new round of funding was led by venture-capital firm Thrive Capital, with additional investors including Microsoft, Nvidia, SoftBank, Fidelity, Khosla Ventures, Altimeter Capital, United Arab Emirates-based MGX and Tiger Global. In 2024, OpenAI is projecting a $5 billion net loss on $3.7 billion in revenue, CNBC reported. Next year, the company is targeting $11.6 billion in revenue, per the report.

“We are making progress on our mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity,” OpenAI said in a statement announcing the funding. “Every week, over 250 million people around the world use ChatGPT to enhance their work, creativity and learning. Across industries, businesses are improving productivity and operations, and developers are leveraging our platform to create a new generation of applications. And we’re only getting started.”

Oct 3, 2024

Wave, wind, solar hybrid energy raft can power 1,000 homes daily

Posted by in categories: solar power, sustainability

NoviOcean’s innovative Hybrid Energy Converter combines wave, wind, and solar power, generating double the energy of wind alone.

Oct 2, 2024

Monumental Proof Settles Geometric Langlands Conjecture

Posted by in category: mathematics

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In work that has been 30 years in the making, mathematicians have proved a major part of a profound mathematical vision called the Langlands program.

Oct 2, 2024

Living with ADHD: how I learned to make distraction work for me

Posted by in category: education

Could better teaching practices make paying attention easier for everyone?

Oct 2, 2024

Denis Noble — Why The Last 80 Years of Biology was Wrong

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

We’re joined by Dr. Denis Noble, Professor Emeritus of Cardiovascular Physiology at the University of Oxford, and the father of ‘systems biology’. He is known for his groundbreaking creation of the first mathematical model of the heart’s electrical activity in the 1960s which radically transformed our understanding of the heart.

Dr. Noble’s contributions have revolutionized our understanding of cardiac function and the broader field of biology. His work continues to challenge long-standing biological concepts, including gene-centric views like Neo-Darwinism.

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Oct 2, 2024

Holographic Dark Energy: A New Model for Understanding the Universe’s Expansion

Posted by in categories: cosmology, holograms, quantum physics

Following the accelerated expansion discovery of the Universe, scientists introduced dark energy concepts, which faced issues like the cosmological constant problem.

Researchers at IKBFU developed a holographic dark energy model based on quantum gravity, which views the Universe as a hologram. This model, initially unstable, was refined to treat dark energy as perturbations, stabilizing it. It is now being tested against observational data for accuracy.

Discovery of Accelerated Universe Expansion.

Oct 2, 2024

Metasurface-enhanced camera performs hyperspectral and polarimetric imaging

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

A team of US-based researchers has developed an inexpensive and ultrathin metasurface that, when paired with a neural network, enables a conventional camera to capture detailed hyperspectral and polarization data from a single snapshot.


Inexpensive metasurface could revolutionize the capabilities of conventional imaging systems.

Oct 2, 2024

Glow in the dark gemstones show the jewellery industry that laboratory-grown crystals can shine bright

Posted by in categories: innovation, materials

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A UWE Bristol researcher hopes to revolutionise the jewellery industry and its supply chains with the creation of unique gemstone and jewellery designs with ground-breaking properties — including the world’s first single stone glow-in-the-dark manmade crystal.

For the last three years, award-winning jewellery designer Sofie Boons, who’s a Crafts Council Research Fellow at the university’s Centre for Print Research (CFPR), has been undertaking tests on the viability, limitations and use of innovative and experimentally grown crystals in the production of contemporary jewellery.

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Oct 2, 2024

Chronic stimulation desensitizes β2‐adrenergic receptor responses in natural killer cells

Posted by in category: futurism

Adrenergic receptors (ARs) are preferentially expressed by innate lymphocytes such as natural killer (NK) cells.

Here, we study the effect of epinephrine-mediated stimulation of the β2-adrenergic receptor (β2AR) on the function of human NK cells.


β2-Adrenergic receptor stimulation inhibits NK cell activation. (A) β2-Adrenergic receptor expression analysis of PBMCs by flow cytometry (n = 8). Subsets were assigned according to the following markers: B cells (CD19+), NK cells (CD56+, CD3), CD56 dim (CD56dim, CD3), CD56 bright (CD56bright, CD3), NK-T cells (CD56+, CD3+), T cells (CD3+), and monocytes (FSC/SSC). (B) Representative β2-adrenergic receptor (β2AR) expression histograms of freshly isolated or cultured NK cells. © IFNγ secretion of fresh NK cells (top) or cultured NK cells (bottom). NK cells were pretreated with epinephrine ± propranolol (each 1 µM) and stimulated for 5 h by plate-bound antibodies as indicated. Supernatant was analyzed by IFNγ ELISA (mean, n = 3). (D) Degranulation of fresh NK cells (top) or cultured NK cells (bottom) was analyzed by CD107a expression. NK cells were pretreated and stimulated (3 h) like in ©, (mean, n = 3). Statistical analysis in © and (D) was performed using two-way ANOVA test, **** p < 0.0001; *** p < 0.001; ** p < 0.01; control set to 100%).

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