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May 2, 2023

A Lucid Death: Sparks of Consciousness Detected in Dying Brains

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Upon removal of ventilator support, two of the patients showed an increase in heart rate along with a surge of gamma wave activity, considered the fastest brain activity and associated with consciousness.

Furthermore, the activity was detected in the so-called hot zone of neural correlates of consciousness in the brain, the junction between the temporal, parietal and occipital lobes in the back of the brain. This area has been correlated with dreaming, visual hallucinations in epilepsy, and altered states of consciousness in other brain studies.

May 2, 2023

Watch DARPA’s Maneuverable Sniper Bullet Hit Its Target

Posted by in category: military

In this video, the YouTube channel Dark Footage explains and demonstrates how the small-caliber guided bullet was developed and how accurate it is. As explained in the description box, this system combines a movable bullet with a guidance framework that can alter the bullet’s path after it has been fired. This guarantees the bullet reaches its target no matter what. Yes, this means both experienced and inexperienced shooters can hit a moving target using the technology.

May 2, 2023

‘Raw’ data show AI signals mirror how the brain listens and learns

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

New research from the University of California, Berkeley, shows that artificial intelligence (AI) systems can process signals in a way that is remarkably similar to how the brain interprets speech, a finding scientists say might help explain the black box of how AI systems operate.

Using a system of electrodes placed on participants’ heads, scientists with the Berkeley Speech and Computation Lab measured as participants listened to a single syllable— bah. They then compared that brain activity to the signals produced by an AI system trained to learn English.

“The shapes are remarkably similar,” said Gasper Begus, assistant professor of linguistics at UC Berkeley and lead author on the study published recently in the journal Scientific Reports. “That tells you similar things get encoded, that processing is similar.”

May 2, 2023

ISpace Loses Contact With Lunar Lander During Historic Moon Landing Attempt

Posted by in category: space travel

iSpace, a private space company based in Japan, lost contact with its Hakuto-R spacecraft as it attempted to become the first private mission to land on the moon this morning. “We have to assume that we could not complete the landing on the lunar surface,” iSpace CEO and founder Takeshi Hakamada said during a livestream. “Our engineers will continue to investigate the situation, and we will update you with further information when we finish the investigation.”

Hakuto-R launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket last December. It took a long but efficient route, looping way out past the moon before using several orbital adjustments and the gravity of the Earth, moon, and sun to enter lunar orbit last month. On April 13, after a few more final adjustments, it locked into a circular orbit 100 kilometers above the lunar surface.

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May 2, 2023

Lazareth LMV 496 Flying Motorcycle With Jet Turbines In The Wheels

Posted by in category: drones

The “La Moto Volante” – the Flying Motorcycle is based on his Lazareth LM 847 with a 350kW, 4.7-litre Maserati V8 that was unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2016. At the center of each wheel hub is a powerful jet turbine, exhaust facing downward, similar to a quadcopter drone, but with much more power.

Source/image(PrtSc): Lazareth Auto-Moto

May 2, 2023

SpaceX launches world’s 1st 5G satellite to bring global connectivity to Internet of Things

Posted by in categories: internet, satellites

The Sateliot “GroundBreaker” is the first of a constellation of over 250 spacecraft designed to communicate with terrestrial 5G cell towers worldwide.

May 2, 2023

Ask a Generalized AI What The Greatest Threat Is to Our Planet and You Likely Won’t Like the Answer

Posted by in categories: military, particle physics, robotics/AI

He thinks about Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project that led to the atomic bomb, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, and the current state of mutually assured destruction (MAD). It started with a science experiment to split the atom and soon the genie was released from the bottle.

I think of the arrival of generalized AI like ChatGPT as being equivalent to the revolution brought on by the invention of movable type and the printing press. Would the Reformation in Europe have happened without it? Would Europe’s rise to world dominance in the 18th and 19th centuries have resulted? The printing press genie uncorked led to a generalized knowledge revolution with both good and bad consequences.

The future uncorked AI genie with no guidance from us could, in answering the question I asked at the beginning of this posting, see humanity as the greatest threat to life on the planet and act accordingly if we don’t gain control over it.

May 2, 2023

This Hypersonic Plane Flys From New York To Tokyo In An Hour

Posted by in categories: business, space

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Texas-based Venus Aerospace is working with rotating-detonation propulsion technology to turn the “Stargazer” from sci-concept to Mach-9 business jet that flies at 11110km/h.

By Michael Verdon 02/05/2023

May 2, 2023

Man Gives All His Financial Info to AI and Lets It Make Decisions

Posted by in categories: finance, robotics/AI

Joshua Browder, the CEO of robo-lawyer startup DoNotPay, says that he handed over his entire financial life to OpenAI’s GPT-4 large language model in an attempt to save money.

“I decided to outsource my entire personal financial life to GPT-4 (via the DoNotPay chat we are building),” Browder tweeted. “I gave AutoGPT access to my bank, financial statements, credit report, and email.”

According to the CEO, the AI was able to save him $217.85 by automating tasks that would’ve cost him precious time.

May 2, 2023

Superconductors to enable next-generation transit, energy transmission, and storage

Posted by in categories: energy, materials

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The concept proposed by the team not only promises to reduce the operating cost of each system but also devise a way to store and transport liquified hydrogen, which is widely considered to be one of the primary sources of clean energy in the future. “The liquified hydrogen would be used to cool the superconductor guideway as it is stored and transported, reducing the need for a separate specialized pipeline system capable of cooling the fuel to 20 degrees Kelvin, or minus 424 Fahrenheit,” said a media release.