The so-called Deltacron variant is back this fall, with the potential to be the next big thing in COVID viral evolution, scientists say.
He and his co-authors took four well-established computer vision models, which are commonly used for applications like autonomous driving, and trained them to tackle this problem.
Simulating blobs
To train these models, they created a vast dataset of synthetic video clips that captured the blobs’ random and unpredictable nature.
Recent technological advancements are opening new and exciting opportunities for communicating with others and visiting places remotely. These advancements include telepresence robots, moving robotic systems that allow users to virtually navigate remote environments and interact with people in these environments.
Researchers at Hanyang University and Duksung Women’s University in South Korea have recently developed a promising telepresence system based on a humanoid robot, a head mounted display, a motion transporter, a voice transporter, and a vision transporter system.
This system, introduced in a paper published in the International Journal of Social Robotics, allows users to take full-body ownership of a humanoid robot’s body, thus accessing remote environments and interacting with both humans and objects in these environments as if they were physically there.
The subvariants BQ.1.1 and XBB may somewhat evade prior immunity, however, further research is required.
If it’s been a while since you’ve tackled the art of origami, don’t worry—you don’t need any crafty folding skills to prep the Air.o for use. Squeezing the sides of the flattened Air.o pushes it into its mouse formation, while a small but mighty magnet holds everything together. Dissembling the Air.o is said to be as easy as undoing the magnet and pushing down on the mouse to turn it into a geometric pancake. According to Air.o, the mouse’s vegan leather (AKA plastic) skin will retain its integrity even after being manipulated again and again. It’ll even survive nasty falls onto hard surfaces if Air.o’s Kickstarter page is anything to go off of.
For those who enjoy the “digital nomad” lifestyle but hate using a trackpad, the Air.o could be a game-changer. There are plenty of lightweight Bluetooth computer mice on the market these days, but none of them flatten into something that could pass as a bookmark in a pinch. Air.o’s Kickstarter page says the team elected to make a full-size mouse to avoid the fatigue that comes with using a mini mouse—a tiny (and frankly irritating to use) device that often ends up being added to people’s go bags for lack of better options.
As with any other Kickstarter campaign, there’s no saying whether the Air.o will ever make it to adopters’ bags and pockets (though this campaign in particular has surpassed its fundraising goal by a long shot, so there’s hope). It’s also difficult to say exactly how easy the Air.o is to use for long periods of time; the mouse’s design, though clever, might be uncomfortable for some. At only $49 USD per mouse, however, the Air.o does appear to be worth trying, if only to impress the people sitting near you at a cafe or on your next flight.
𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐬 𝐄𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧’𝐬 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬
𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙖𝙢𝙪𝙨 𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙙𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙚, 𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙖 𝙘𝙞𝙜𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚, 𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙨 𝙖 𝙬𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙚 𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙮𝙨𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝𝙮 𝙬𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩 𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙙.
“We were surprised to see that this effect could be seen even with a single dose of nicotine, equivalent to just one cigarette, showing how powerful the effects of smoking are on a woman ’ s brain.”
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The idea that electricity could be used to jumpstart life doesn’t just come from fiction. Like Dr. Frankenstein, Aldini’s grisly experiments sought to prove that it’s possible to revive the dead.
Watch The Kardashev Scale Type 1: What Would Be Our CIvilization?
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A type 1 civilization on the Kardashev scale manages to take advantage of 100% of the energy produced by its planet, control the climate, move continents and even change its planet’s rotation. In this sense, how long does the human race lack to become a type 1 civilization? Are we close to achieving it, or are we still far away?
Ready, let’s start! “Introduction“
The level of technological development of any civilization can be measured mainly by the amount of energy they need. But, it also encompasses the management of that energy and how they use it to develop and grow on their home planet.
Following Kardashev’s definition, a Type I civilization is capable of storing and using all the energy available on its planet; this includes all known electricity generation methods, as well as those that depend on the elements available on the planet, nuclear fusion and fission, geothermal energy, as well as that which they can collect from their star without leaving the planet.
The human race has not yet reached this level of development, but will we ever reach it? And if so, when will we achieve it?
Previously we already made a series of 3 videos in which we address the three types of civilizations that exist according to the Kardashev scale. “Enter here images of the series on the scale of Kardashev.“
But today, we will focus on analyzing why the human race has not yet managed to become a type 1 civilization and how far we need to become one.
The Great Filter.
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Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are providing researchers with a guide to how to best measure the efficiency of producing hydrogen directly from solar power.
Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water-splitting, which relies on sunlight to split water into its component elements—oxygen and hydrogen—stands out as potentially one of the most sustainable routes to clean energy. Measurements of how efficient the PEC process is on an identical system can vary wildly from different laboratories, however, from a lack of standardized methods. The newly developed best-practices guide published in Frontiers in Energy Research is intended to provide confidence in comparing results obtained at different sites and by different groups.
The publication provides a road map for the PEC community as researchers continue to refine the technology. These best practices were verified by both laboratories via round-robin testing using the same testing hardware, PEC photoelectrodes, and measurement procedures. Research into photovoltaics has allowed a certification of cell efficiencies, but PEC water-splitting efficiency measurements do not yet have a widely accepted protocol.
