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May 13, 2023
A moment’s silence, please, for the death of the Metaverse
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: robotics/AI, virtual reality
And, imagine if every penny sank into this was available for AI research right now.
Meta sank tens of billions into its CEO’s virtual reality dream, but what will he do next?
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May 13, 2023
Apple to open first online shop in Vietnam in a push to emerging market
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: mobile phones
May 12 (Reuters) — Apple (AAPL.O) said on Friday it would open its first online store in Vietnam next week, as the iPhone vendor doubles down on emerging markets to drive growth amid slowing sales in China.
The opening on May 18 comes just weeks after the Cupertino, California-based company opened its first Apple stores in India — Mumbai and Delhi.
Apple CEO Tim Cook is betting that emerging markets will provide more opportunities for growth, with younger populations and relatively few iPhones.
May 13, 2023
Scientists Just Unveiled The World’s First Wooden Electrical Transistor
Posted by Paul Battista in category: computing
Wood is good for a lot of things. Building boxes, boats, and bookcases, for instance. Making tools, or campfires. Feeding termites. And beavers.
You’ll note powering functional electrical appliances isn’t among them.
Researchers at Linköping University and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden clearly never paid much attention to lists of things wood is bad at, so they went ahead and made the world’s first wooden transistor.
May 13, 2023
New Alzheimer’s Drug Shows 35% Reduction in Cognitive Decline in Late-Stage Trial
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
American pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly announced last week that it had seen encouraging clinical trial results of its new Alzheimer’s medication.
According to the company, their experimental drug, donanemab, was shown in a late-stage trial to slow cognitive decline by 35 percent.
While these results do sound promising, the full data is not yet released, so there’s still a lot we don’t know.
May 13, 2023
Particle Beam Breakthrough Achieves “Major Paradigm Shift” With Help From Machine Learning
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: information science, particle physics, robotics/AI
An algorithm that allows more precise forecasts of the positions and velocities of a beam’s distribution of particles as it passes through an accelerator has been developed by researchers with the Department of Energy (DOE) and the University of Chicago.
Traveling at nearly light speed, the linear accelerator at the DOE’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory fires bursts of close to one billion electrons through long metallic pipes to generate its particle beam. Located in Menlo Park, California, the facility, originally called the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, has used its 3.2-kilometer accelerator since its construction in 1962 to propel electrons to energies as great as 50 gigaelectronvolts (GeV).
The powerful particle beam generated by SLAC’s linear accelerator is used in the study of everything from innovative materials to the behavior of molecules on the atomic scale, despite how the beam itself remains somewhat mysterious since researchers have a hard time gauging its appearance as it passes through an accelerator.
May 13, 2023
Advanced Life Should Have Already Peaked Billions of Years Ago
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: alien life, existential risks, information science
Did humanity miss the party? Are SETI, the Drake Equation, and the Fermi Paradox all just artifacts of our ignorance about Advanced Life in the Universe? And if we are wrong, how would we know?
A new study focusing on black holes and their powerful effect on star formation suggests that we, as advanced life, might be relics from a bygone age in the Universe.
Universe Today readers are familiar with SETI, the Drake Equation, and the Fermi Paradox. All three are different ways that humanity grapples with its situation. They’re all related to the Great Question: Are We Alone? We ask these questions as if humanity woke up on this planet, looked around the neighbourhood, and wondered where everyone else was. Which is kind of what has happened.
May 13, 2023
Can We Live Longer than 120? Lecture
Posted by Montie Adkins in categories: biotech/medical, engineering, life extension
Never heard of this fellow before but if you have a spare 50 minutes it’s a good listen. A summary of aging and what we might do about it with the goal (after about 26 minutes) of making an aging vaccine.
Lecture given by Dr. Ronjon Nag at “The Peter Wells Memorial Lecture 2023″ which took place in London on May 3rd, 2023.
https://events.theiet.org/events/the-peter-wells-memorial-lecture-2023/
May 13, 2023
Musk hires new Twitter CEO to start role in roughly 6 weeks
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: Elon Musk, space travel, sustainability
Rumor has it that NBC Universal executive Linda Yaccarino is lined up to take the role.
Elon Musk is finally ready to let go of the CEO role at Twitter as he announced the appointment of a new CEO at the company. Musk will take on the role of the CTO and oversee product, software, and sysops, he said in a tweet.
Musk, who is also the CEO of other companies such as Tesla and SpaceX, has been under pressure to dedicate more time to these companies. The Tesla stock price dropped significantly after Musk took over Twitter in a $44 billion purchase last year.
May 13, 2023
Princeton researchers help a bot tidy up using large language model
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
The team takes AI personalization to a whole new level.
Researchers at the School of Engineering at Princeton University have successfully deployed a large language model (LLM) to help a robotic manipulator make sense of instructions to tidy up a room.
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