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Nov 4, 2022

TeraWatt Developing I-10 Electric Corridor, the First Network of Electric Heavy-Duty Charging Centers

Posted by in category: transportation

The I-10 Electric Corridor will consist of multiple facilities, called TeraWatt Charging Centers, that will be spread across California, Arizona, and New Mexico. TeraWatt Charging Centers will be purpose-built to serve heavy-duty and medium-duty electric fleets, featuring dozens of direct current (DC) fast chargers, pull-through charging stalls, on-site driver amenities, and reliable operations including resiliency generation and zero carbon electricity options. TeraWatt will offer access to these sites both for the purposes of long-haul and local electric trucking operations.


SAN FRANCISCO, CA – October 20, 2022 – TeraWatt Infrastructure, a company powering electrified fleets with the most reliable network of charging centers, today announced it is developing the first network of high-powered charging centers for heavy-duty and medium-duty electric trucks along the Interstate 10 (I-10) highway, stretching from the Port of Long Beach – Los Angeles, California to the El Paso, Texas area. By investing in the necessary charging infrastructure, TeraWatt is enabling and accelerating the transition to zero-emission long-haul freight.

Nov 3, 2022

Graphene Membrane Forms a Soft, Stretchable Wearable Heater

Posted by in categories: materials, wearables

Wearable heaters are highly desirable for low-temperature environments. However, the fundamental challenge in achieving such devices is to design electric-heating membranes with flexible, breathable, and stretchable properties.

Study: Large-Scale Preparation of Micro–Nanofibrous and Fluffy Propylene-Based Elastomer/ [email protected] Nanoplatelet Membranes with Breathable and Flexible Characteristics for Wearable Stretchy Heaters. Image Credit: s_maria/Shutterstock.com.

A study published in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces aimed to achieve an electric heating membrane with a nanofibrous fluffy texture and excellent electric-heating features. Here, an electric heating membrane was fabricated by coating a melt-blown propylene-based elastomer (PBE) with polyurethane (PU) and graphene nanoplatelet films via an easy, cost-effective, and large-scale method involving a coating-compression cyclic process.

Nov 3, 2022

AI Helped Design a Clear Window Coating That Can Cool Buildings Without Using Energy

Posted by in categories: climatology, robotics/AI, space, sustainability

Demand is growing for effective new technologies to cool buildings, as climate change intensifies summer heat. Now, scientists have just designed a transparent window coating that could lower the temperature inside buildings, without expending a single watt of energy. They did this with the help of advanced computing technology and artificial intelligence. The researchers report the details today (November 2) in the journal ACS Energy Letters.

Cooling accounts for about 15% of global energy consumption, according to estimates from previous research studies. That demand could be lowered with a window coating that could block the sun’s ultraviolet and near-infrared light. These are parts of the solar spectrum that are not visible to humans, but they typically pass through glass to heat an enclosed room.

Energy use could be even further reduced if the coating radiates heat from the window’s surface at a wavelength that passes through the atmosphere into outer space. However, it’s difficult to design materials that can meet these criteria simultaneously and at the same time can also transmit visible light, This is required so they don’t interfere with the view. Eungkyu Lee, Tengfei Luo, and colleagues set out to design a “transparent radiative cooler” (TRC) that could do just that.

Nov 3, 2022

Introducing Frame Interpolation

Posted by in category: futurism

Generate seamless video from still images with just one click.

Available now: https://bit.ly/3E373m1

Nov 3, 2022

Streamable Video

Posted by in category: futurism

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Nov 3, 2022

Why Continual Learning is the key towards Machine Intelligence

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

The last decade has marked a profound change in how we perceive and talk about Artificial Intelligence. The concept of learning, once confined in the corner of AI, has now become so important some people came up with the new term “Machine Intelligence”[1][2][3] as to make clear the fundamental role of Machine Learning in it and further depart form older symbolic approaches.

Recent Deep Learning (DL) techniques have literally swept away previous AI approaches and have shown how beautiful, end-to-end differentiable functions can be learned to solve incredibly complex tasks involving high-level perception abilities.

Yet, since DL techniques have been proven shining only with a large number of labeled examples, the research community has now shifted his attention towards Unsupervised and Reinforcement Learning, both aiming to solve equivalently complex tasks but without (or less as possible) explicit supervision.

Nov 3, 2022

Google’s ‘Democratic AI’ Is Better at Redistributing Wealth Than America

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Researchers built an AI that gives out money based on who started with less resources—and humans preferred it.

Nov 3, 2022

Glial Cells Eating of Synapses May Enhance Learning and Memory

Posted by in categories: food, neuroscience

Summary: Bergmann glial cell synaptic engulfing in the cerebellum was enhanced during motor learning in mice.

Source: Tohoku University.

Tohoku University researchers have shown that Bergmann glial cells, astrocyte-like cells in the cerebellum, ‘eat’ their neighboring neuronal elements within healthy living brain tissue.

Nov 3, 2022

Nightmares Can Be Silenced With a Single Piano Chord, Scientists Discover

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Using non-invasive techniques to manipulate our emotions, it might be possible to curtail the screaming horrors that plague our sleep.

A study conducted on 36 patients diagnosed with a nightmare disorder showed that a combination of two simple therapies reduced the frequency of their bad dreams.

Scientists invited the volunteers to rewrite their most frequent nightmares in a positive light and then playing sound associated with positive experiences as they slept.

Nov 3, 2022

All aboard the Spaceship Neptune: Flying to the edge of space on a balloon

Posted by in category: space travel

Spaceship Neptune is the latest space tourism venture for a company is planning balloon flights to the edge of space.