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Jan 25, 2023

Germany’s new chip factory is a boost to Europe’s semiconductor plans

Posted by in category: computing

US semiconductor maker Wolfspeed plans to build a chip factory in Germany, which could benefit domestic EV production and the EU chip sector.

Jan 25, 2023

StyleGAN-T: Unlocking the Power of GANs for Fast Large-Scale Text-to-Image Synthesis

Posted by in category: futurism

Project page: https://sites.google.com/view/stylegan-t/

Jan 25, 2023

Scientists may have come up with a way to study the smallest form of matter

Posted by in category: particle physics

Quarks are the smallest form of matter that we know of. So small, in fact, that studying it in any meaningful way has proven nearly impossible over the past several decades. That’s because quarks and their counterpart gluons are the small pieces of the puzzle that make up the nucleons in an atom.

Jan 24, 2023

PRESS RELEASE: Doomsday Clock set at 90 seconds to midnight

Posted by in categories: existential risks, government, military, nuclear energy

Rachel Bronson, PhD, president and CEO, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, said: “We are living in a time of unprecedented danger, and the Doomsday Clock time reflects that reality. 90 seconds to midnight is the closest the Clock has ever been set to midnight, and it’s a decision our experts do not take lightly. The US government, its NATO allies and Ukraine have a multitude of channels for dialogue; we urge leaders to explore all of them to their fullest ability to turn back the Clock.”

The Doomsday Clock’s time is set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Board with the support of the Bulletin’s Board of Sponsors, which includes 10 Nobel Laureates. Previously, the Doomsday Clock had been set at 100 seconds to midnight since 2020.

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Jan 24, 2023

How Much Does The Internet Cost To Run?

Posted by in categories: internet, quantum physics, robotics/AI

Year 2012 The dwave quantum computers could essentially host the entire internet with low cost and even photonic room temperature quantum computers could eventually host the internet for even cheaper even down to pennies. Also if starling had casimir energy generators and casimir propulsion systems it could be even free for satellite operation costs with full automation we could essentially have low cost of pennies for the full system operation. At least some ideas for future operation costs.


This question was originally answered by Greg Price on Quora.

Jan 24, 2023

Humanity May Reach Singularity Within Just 7 Years, Trend Shows

Posted by in category: singularity

By one major metric, artificial general intelligence is much closer than you think.

Jan 24, 2023

ChatGPT is ‘not particularly innovative,’ and ‘nothing revolutionary’, says Meta’s chief AI scientist

Posted by in categories: innovation, robotics/AI

The public perceives OpenAI’s ChatGPT as revolutionary, but the same techniques are being used and the same kind of work is going on at many research labs, says the deep learning pioneer.

Jan 24, 2023

Researchers Find Way To Reverse Aging

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

Recent experiments conducted in Boston labs have shown reverse aging results among mice and could show similar results in people.

The combined experiments — which were conducted during a span of 13 years — published Thursday (January 12) in the scientific journal Cell reported that old, blind mice regained eyesight, developed smarter brains and built healthier muscle and kidney tissue, challenging the theory that DNA was the only cause of aging, as it proved that chemical and structural changes to chromatin played a factor without altering genetic code.

The research showed that a breakdown in epigenetic information caused the mice to age and the restoration of the epigenome reversed aging effects.

Jan 24, 2023

Margaret Hamilton: Pioneering Software Engineer Who Saved the Moon Landing

Posted by in categories: engineering, space travel

We might all have been in a situation where we had to put our trust in our work to hold up and do what it needed to do, but Margaret Hamilton’s work was particularly important — it was responsible for putting Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon in July 1969.

When warning lights started going off in the middle of the Eagle module’s descent toward the lunar surface, NASA faced a tough decision: continue with the landing or abort.

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Jan 24, 2023

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. airline accidentally exposes ‘No Fly List’ on unsecured server

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, government, internet

An unsecured server discovered by a security researcher last week contained the identities of hundreds of thousands of individuals from the U.S. government’s Terrorist Screening Database and “No Fly List.”

Located by the Swiss hacker known as maia arson crimew, the server, run by the U.S. national airline CommuteAir, was left exposed on the public internet. It revealed a vast amount of company data, including private information on almost 1,000 CommuteAir employees.


CommuteAir also confirmed the legitimacy of the data, stating that it was a version of the “federal no-fly list” from roughly four years prior.

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