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Dec 16, 2022

Researchers in China create device to directly split seawater to produce hydrogen

Posted by in categories: chemistry, sustainability

The team has successfully tested a sustainable membrane-based seawater electrolyzer.

A research team in China has developed a device to split salty seawater to produce hydrogen directly. The device, a membrane-based seawater electrolyzer, helps address the side-reaction and corrosion problems of traditional methods.

Why traditional methods are not sustainable.

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Dec 16, 2022

Major tech companies join hands to kill Google’s dominance in maps

Posted by in categories: computing, mapping

Powered by Linux, this will be an open-source initiative.


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Other tech companies, such as Microsoft as well as Apple, have attempted to break this dominance but have fallen exceedingly short of user expectations. Even though Google Maps are not 100 percent accurate, it is the best available product out there, and now major technology companies want to take on the beast together.

Dec 16, 2022

DALL-E 2 was the AI art generator we never knew we needed

Posted by in categories: information science, robotics/AI

DALL-E 2 transformed the world of art in 2022.

DALL-E is a system that has been around for years, but its successor, DALL-E 2, was launched this year.


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Dec 16, 2022

Kizilelma ‘Red Apple’: Turkey’s first supersonic jet-powered drone tests combat ready

Posted by in category: drones

The drone is highly maneuverable, with a flight time of five hours and an operational altitude of 35,000 feet, as per the defense company.

Turkey’s first jet-powered uncrewed aerial combat vehicle (UCAV), Kizilelma, “Red Apple,” has completed its inaugural flight, as per the country’s lead defense manufacturer.

The makers of this new combat ariel vehicle, Baykar (a Turkish defense company), posted the test results via social media on Wednesday.

Dec 16, 2022

A world-first project that uses ‘self-healing’ concrete to repair sewage pipes

Posted by in categories: economics, life extension, robotics/AI

This technology will not only extend the lifespan of concrete structures, but also promote a circular economy.

Sewer pipe corrosion, or crown corrosion, occurs when sewage pipe material comes into contact with sulphuric acid. The aging pipe material corrodes, and the pipes crack. Over the past few years, engineers have developed sewer bots to inspect sewage pipes and go to places unsafe for humans.

Professor Yan Zhuge, an engineering expert at the University of South Australia, is trialing a novel solution.

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Dec 16, 2022

Riffusion tweaks Stable Diffusion to make AI text to image spectrograms play audio

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Tweaks to the system have fine-tuned images of spectrograms.

Stable Diffusion has been tweaked to include an update to its AI routines to include a fine-tuning of the images of spectrograms that are paired to text. Now they are able to generate more precise sounds. The team calls their version of the stable diffusion model, Riffusion.

All the Stable Diffusion features remain.

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Dec 16, 2022

A startup is building an in-space manufacturing platform that could attach to Starship

Posted by in categories: military, space travel

“This platform can be for manufacturing, human habitation, military applications, and whatnot.”

In-space manufacturing will form a massive part of the future of space exploration as it massively reduces the cost of launching otherwise fully-built structures to orbit and beyond.

Not only that, one of its co-founders says it could be compatible with SpaceX’s in-development fully reusable Starship rocket, which could eventually take humans to Mars.

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Dec 16, 2022

World’s first attempt to reach orbit with methane-fueled rocket fails

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, satellites

The mission was also China’s first liftoff of a commercially developed liquid propellant rocket.

Chinese launch company LandSpace was touted to be akin to Elon Musk’s SpaceX. They were preparing a satellite launch that could beat Musk’s company with a methane-fueled rocket, reported Bloomberg.

Unfortunately, on Wednesday, the world’s first methane-fueled expendable rocket to be launched toward orbit failed to reach its goal. Hopes were high as the mission was also China’s first liftoff of a commercially developed liquid propellant rocket.

Dec 16, 2022

AI system can predict a positive or negative COVID-19 test result

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

The study shows that machine-learning models can help predict COVID-19 infections.

Researchers have discovered a new way to predict which features are most useful in determining test results for COVID-19. The research team, from Florida Atlantic University’s (FAU) College of Engineering and Computer Science in the U.S., used AI to predict positive or negative COVID-19 test results.

The most common techniques currently used to detect COVID-19 are blood tests, also called serology tests, and molecular tests. Since the two assessments use different methods, they vary substantially.

Dec 16, 2022

A new water-based switch is thousands of times faster than current semiconductors

Posted by in categories: computing, mobile phones

Water becomes conductive within one trillionth of a second.

Researchers have developed a water-based switch that becomes conductive thousands of times faster than current state-of-art semiconductor-based switches. Such switches are used in computers, smartphones, and wireless communications.

Essentially, a short but powerful laser pulse converts the water into a conductive state within less than a trillionth of a second (10-12 seconds), during which time it behaves almost like a metal.