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Feb 17, 2023

Options for using Windows 11 with Mac® computers with Apple® M1® and M2™ chips

Posted by in category: computing

Windows 11 runs best on a PC designed for Windows. When such an option is not available, here are two different ways to use Windows with Mac.

Feb 17, 2023

The Immune System

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

This video describes the Immune System and explains how it detects and attacks any foreign organism that enters the body.

We learn how the team in the MRC Centre for Transplantation at King’s College London have developed a way to harness the power of the Immune System after a transplant, whilst maintaining the body’s capacity to resist infectious diseases.

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Feb 17, 2023

Passengers Take 16-Hour Flight to Nowhere After Auckland to New York U-Turn

Posted by in categories: computing, Elon Musk, neuroscience

Elon Musk’s company Neuralink wants to put a computer chip in everyone’s brain. But the new tech comes with big risk.

Feb 17, 2023

Hobby Club’s Missing Balloon Feared Shot Down

Posted by in category: futurism

A small, globe-trotting balloon declared “missing in action” by an Illinois-based hobbyist club on Feb. 15 has emerged as a candidate to explain one of the three mystery objects shot down by four heat-seeking missiles launched by U.S. Air Force fighters since Feb. 10.

The club—the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade (NIBBB)—is not pointing fingers yet.

But the circumstantial evidence is at least intriguing. The club’s silver-coated, party-style, “pico balloon” reported its last position on Feb. 10 at 38,910 ft. off the west coast of Alaska, and a popular forecasting tool—the HYSPLIT model provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—projected the cylindrically shaped object would be floating high over the central part of the Yukon Territory on Feb. 11. That is the same day a Lockheed Martin F-22 shot down an unidentified object of a similar description and altitude in the same general area.

Feb 17, 2023

Mars Society Announces Ongoing Partnership with Million on Mars

Posted by in categories: food, space

A message from Mars Society Executive Director James Burk:

I am pleased to announce our partnership with Million on Mars.

Million on Mars is a game where you can explore creating and growing your own settlement on Mars. It is set in the 2070s, and the Ad Astra Unlimited corporation led by fictional character “Lane Dusk” has solved transportation, but the challenge is now on you – the brave settler of Mars – will you go hard on Solar or perhaps Thorium Salt Reactors? Become an agricultural maven, or go hard on mining and smelting? Or perhaps go deep into the Aerospace profession and continue settling the solar system?

Feb 17, 2023

It is already clear that Bing AI is a big a leap over ChatGPT as ChatGPT was over the old GPT-3 model

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

It generated paper ideas based on my previous papers, found gaps in the literature, suggested methods “consistent with your previous methods,” and offered potential data sources”

Feb 17, 2023

System provides cooling with no electricity

Posted by in categories: energy, space

The new system is described today in a paper in the journal Science Advances, by MIT graduate student Arny Leroy, professor of mechanical engineering and department head Evelyn Wang, and seven others at MIT and at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.

Such a system could be used, for example, as a way to keep vegetables and fruit from spoiling, potentially doubling the time the produce could remain fresh, in remote places where reliable power for refrigeration is not available, Leroy explains.

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Feb 16, 2023

This startup can 3D print a battery into any shape you want

Posted by in category: 3D printing

Sakuu has developed a way to 3D print ‘solid state’ batteries, a better alternative to lithium ion batteries.

Feb 16, 2023

Scientists use CRISPR to insert an alligator gene into a catfish

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Farmed catfish are susceptible to disease, and using antibiotics causes resistance. So researchers turned to CRISPR and alligators.

Feb 16, 2023

Microsoft-backed OpenAI to let users customize ChatGPT

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 16 (Reuters) — OpenAI, the startup behind ChatGPT, on Thursday said it is developing an upgrade to its viral chatbot that users can customize, as it works to address concerns about bias in artificial intelligence.

The San Francisco-based startup, which Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) has funded and used to power its latest technology, said it has worked to mitigate political and other biases but also wanted to accommodate more diverse views.

“This will mean allowing system outputs that other people (ourselves included) may strongly disagree with,” it said in a blog post, offering customization as a way forward. Still, there will “always be some bounds on system behavior.”