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Dec 7, 2022

A strange burst of radiation from space has left scientists baffled

Posted by in category: cosmology

Astronomers are in a state of bewilderment after they discovered strange blasts of radiation from space. Those blasts, known as gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), seem to come from a black hole that is developing slowly after two stars merged. According to NewScientist, gamma-ray bursts come in two categories: short GRBs and gamma-ray explosions: short GRBs and long GRBs.

Dec 7, 2022

Amplifying human creativity: Adobe Stock defines new guidelines for content made with generative AI

Posted by in categories: policy, robotics/AI

The new guidelines provide restrictions and regulations for creators submitting art.

Adobe has now started accepting AI-generated stock images on its platform, but with regulations. The company updated its guidelines.


Image credit: Left: Adobe Stock / Art Master, Middle: Adobe Stock /Robert Kneschke, Right: Adobe Stock / Forest Spirit.

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Dec 7, 2022

Video shows aircraft concept for 2035 that could help industry reach net zero

Posted by in categories: climatology, sustainability

The new concepts are part of the company’s initiative to get the aviation industry to net-zero by 2050.

Brazilian aerospace company Embraer announced new aircraft concepts this week to reduce carbon emissions. The new concepts would also help the aviation industry meet its net-zero climate goals by 2050, a company report explains.

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Dec 7, 2022

An innovative method allows researchers to move objects using ultrasound waves

Posted by in categories: innovation, robotics/AI

It can be specifically useful in the robotics and manufacturing industries.

Researchers from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, use ultrasound waves to move objects hands-free, according to an institutional press release.

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Dec 7, 2022

Apple’s self-driving car debut pushed back and may be less advanced

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, sustainability, transportation

The car will allegedly have less ambitious self-driving capabilities initially and it’s debut date has been pushed back to 2026.

Apple’s ambitious electric vehicle (EV) will allegedly have fewer self-driving capabilities for its launch date, the latter of which has been pushed back by a year, from 2025 to 2026, according to a Bloomberg.

The car is still in the pipeline and is reported to be set up with more conventional car features and designs than other autonomous EVs.

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Dec 7, 2022

ChatGPT; 8 coolest ways to use OpenAI’s viral application

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

The application has registered one million plus downloads since its launch.

Inquiries for OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a dialogue-based AI chatbot, are going through the roof. The rising interest in the application can be attributed to some of its entertaining responses to users’ queries, which has lately created a storm on Twitter.

ChatGPT is not your typical chatbot featured in every customer service portal corner.

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Dec 7, 2022

Europe’s fastest supercomputer just connected to a quantum computer in Finland — here’s why

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

The merged computing power can give rise to faster and more accurate machine learning applications.

Last month, LUMI, the fastest supercomputer in Europe, was connected to HELMI, Finland’s first quantum computer, a five-qubit system operational since 2021. This makes Finland the first country in Europe to have created such a hybrid system — it is one of the few countries worldwide to have done the same.

LUMI is famous — the supercomputer ranks third in the latest Top 500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputer and can carry out 309 petaflops. LUMI, too became operational in 2021.

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Dec 7, 2022

Ethereum’s energy switch saves as much electricity as entire Ireland uses

Posted by in categories: bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, energy

The success of The Merge concept may now serve as a roadmap to enable a switch from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake in Bitcoin.

Ethereum, the world’s second-largest crypto asset by market cap, has drastically changed its energy usage, saving a country-size proportion of power consumption.

This radical update most likely reduced the power consumption of the crypto network by 99.84 percent to 9.99 percent, according to a paper published by peer-reviewed data-science journal Patterns on Tuesday.

Dec 7, 2022

NASA’s Mars Ingenuity helicopter just flew higher than ever before

Posted by in category: space

Many believed Ingenuity would not soar to such heights.

NASA achieved a historic first in April last year when it performed the first-ever controlled flight of an aircraft on Mars. The Ingenuity helicopter, which hitched a ride to Mars aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover, was designed as a proof-of-concept craft that was only expected to fly a total of five times.

Now, the Mars helicopter has achieved flight no. 35, and it has set a new altitude record in the process, reaching a height of 14 meters (46 feet) above the red planet’s surface, NASA announced on Twitter.

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Dec 7, 2022

Discovery of world’s oldest DNA breaks record

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Fragments of the DNA were found in an Ice Age sediment in Northern Greenland.

The discovery of two-million-year-old DNA has changed all the history that has been recorded so far. It revealed that we should go back one million years to understand Earth’s environment.

The results of the 41 usable samples were found hidden in clay and quartz.

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