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Oct 8, 2022

Utah Bionic Leg: The most advanced AI-powered prosthetics ‘ever created’

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, transhumanism

The users can effectively manipulate the prosthetics exactly like they would with an intact limb.

University of Utah researchers have developed the most advanced AI-powered prosthetics “ever created,” prompting Ottobock, the world’s largest prosthetic manufacturer, to collaborate with them to launch the project globally.

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Oct 8, 2022

The Crew-5 Astronauts Dock to the Space Station

Posted by in category: space travel

Crew-5 includes a Russian astronaut and the first Native American woman in space.

SpaceX’s latest crewed launch has reached the International Space Station (ISS). The Crew-5 astronaut mission launched at noon local time.

SpaceX used a Falcon 9 rocket to lift a crew of four astronauts — including a Russian astronaut and the first Native American woman to go to space — aboard Crew Dragon capsule Endurance. They docked and are now aboard the ISS after a 29-hour flight, as per a NASA report.

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Oct 8, 2022

New AI-powered helmet could give firefighters ‘superpower’ to rescue victims faster

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

The device weighs less than 3 lbs.

Researchers from Edinburgh’s National Robotarium have developed an AI helmet to help firefighters navigate a smoke-filled environment and rescue victims more quickly. The team created the device using sensors, thermal cameras, and radar technologies, according to a press release published by Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, last week.

Firefighters are heroes. Everyone knows that.

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Oct 8, 2022

Mystery of the Sun to be investigated

Posted by in category: space

The tool will look into how the Sun’s magnetic field creates coronal mass ejections and other eruptions.

This Sunday China is set to launch its first dedicated solar observatory into space in order to help investigate the mysteries of the Sun, according to a report by published Nature.

The Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S) will be equipped with three instruments that will provide information on how the Sun’s magnetic field causes coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and other eruptions.

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Oct 8, 2022

US-China tech war: DJI, world’s largest drone manufacturer blacklisted

Posted by in categories: drones, military

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DJI is one of the 13 companies put on the Pentagon’s blacklist on Wednesday, reported Al Jazeera.

Oct 8, 2022

The world’s biggest crypto exchange Binance lost $100 million in hack

Posted by in categories: cryptocurrencies, cybercrime/malcode

The hackers have not yet been identified.

Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, was hacked, and around $100 million of Binance Coins (BNB) were stolen, the CEO of Binance, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, tweeted Friday morning.


The CEO of Binance, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, took to Twitter on Friday morning to announce that his platform had been hacked and that $100 million in Binance Coins had been stolen. The hackers have yet to be identified.

Oct 8, 2022

Musk says Tesla to deliver its first Semi truck to Pepsi on December 1

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation

Musk hasn’t specified how many trucks, the company can roll out.

The long wait for Tesla’s Semi Trucks may have finally come to an end after CEO Elon Musk tweeted that the company would begin deliveries to Pepsi Co starting December this year.

Tesla and its investors must be hopeful that the Semi Truck will herald a new age in electric trucking just as the company’s sedans did for the passenger vehicle segment. Owning a Tesla has been a matter of pride for many who took the plunge into electric vehicles way before governments could even think of electric vehicle sale mandates.

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Oct 8, 2022

Amazon begins buying electric semis from Volvo Trucks

Posted by in category: transportation

Amazon has announced that it will purchase 20 electric semi-trucks from Volvo Trucks to be used in its German delivery network.

Volvo Trucks has been producing electric semis since 2019, and they are continuing to expand their sales by now selling 20 electric semi-trucks to Amazon for use in Germany. The Volvo FH electric semis will be used by Amazon to complete large domestic deliveries and are expected to travel over 1 million kilometers annually.

Amazon has high expectations for its new fleet of electric-semis. Each Volvo will be expected to travel 500 kilometers daily, nearly double the Volvo FH’s 300-kilometer range. Furthermore, they will replace diesel tracks and be expected to perform well in the same role. Spokesmen from Amazon and Volvo are optimistic and see the new fleet as critical to Amazon’s efforts to decarbonize their transport system.

Oct 8, 2022

Ransomware attack delays patient care at hospitals across the U.S.

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

While CommonSpirit declined to share specifics, a person familiar with its remediation efforts confirmed to NBC News that it had sustained a ransomware attack.

CommonSpirit, which has more than 140 hospitals in the U.S., also declined to share information on how many of its facilities were experiencing delays. Multiple hospitals, however, including CHI Memorial Hospital in Tennessee, some St. Luke’s hospitals in Texas, and Virginia Mason Franciscan Health in Seattle all have announced they were affected.

Oct 8, 2022

See the moon visit Jupiter Saturday evening (Oct. 8)

Posted by in category: space

On Saturday evening (Oct. 8), should local weather conditions permit, you’ll be able to enjoy a view of a waxing gibbous moon hovering near to the “king of the planets,” Jupiter.

Both will be posed about one-quarter up in the east-southeast part of the sky as darkness begins to fall. The moon, which will be less than 24 hours from full phase — 99-percent illuminated by the sun — will be situated just below and to the left of Jupiter, a distance measuring roughly 4 degrees.