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Nov 10, 2022

Jeff Bezos’ Amazon becomes the first public company to lose $1 trillion in market value

Posted by in category: economics

Other tech companies are not far behind.

Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com Inc., has achieved the unenviable milestone of being the first public company to lose a trillion dollars in market valuation, Bloomberg.

How has Amazon stock fared in 2022?

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Nov 10, 2022

70-YO Potter Makes Fridge that Needs No Electricity; Keeps Veggies, Curd Fresh for Days

Posted by in category: futurism

Coimbatore-based potter M Sivasamy has built an eco-friendly clay fridge that needs zero electricity to keep vegetables, fruits, curd, etc fresh for upto four days. Watch this video to see how his brilliant device works.

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Nov 10, 2022

Artificial intelligence means anyone can cast Hollywood stars in their own films

Posted by in categories: entertainment, robotics/AI

Free AI software is primed to strip away the control of studios and actors who appears in films.

Nov 10, 2022

IBM unveils quantum supercomputer which could reach 4,000 qubits by 2025

Posted by in categories: quantum physics, supercomputing

IBM plans to move into a more modular design for future quantum computers to allow for more flexibility and rapid scale-up of qubits.

Nov 10, 2022

Amazon introduces Sparrow—a state-of-the-art robot that handles millions of diverse products

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Sparrow is Amazon’s new intelligent robotic system that streamlines the fulfillment process by moving individual products before they get packaged—a major technological advancement to support our employees.

Nov 10, 2022

‘Economic Picture Ahead Is Dire,’ Elon Musk Tells Twitter Employees

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, economics, Elon Musk, finance, policy

SAN FRANCISCO — Two weeks after closing a $44 billion deal to buy Twitter, Elon Musk painted a bleak financial picture for the social media company and outlined a series of changes for employees in his first companywide emails to staff.

In two emails sent to workers late on Wednesday, Mr. Musk said the economy was challenging. He added that he planned to end Twitter’s remote work policy and wanted employees to renew their focus on generating revenue and fighting spam.

“Sorry that this is my first email to the company, but there is no way to sugarcoat the message,” Mr. Musk, 51, wrote in one email. “The economic picture ahead is dire.” Twitter was too heavily dependent on advertising and vulnerable to pullbacks in brand spending, he added, and would need to bolster the revenue it gets from subscriptions.

Nov 10, 2022

A Day In The Life Of One Of The Busiest Neuromodulation Clinics On The Planet

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

This past Monday (Nov. 7th) I was given a behind the scenes look at Dr. Alfonso Fasano’s neuromodulation clinic, one of the busiest of its kind in the world.

On his schedule for that day were about 25 patients, which is fairly typical for him. But these were not exactly 25 patients that a typical doctor might see in a given day. They were patients whom the Canadian medical system had funneled to him, individuals who not even most movement disorder specialists, let alone neurologists or general practitioners, could properly treat. For him and his team though, it was just another Monday.

Nov 10, 2022

Scientists Create Crystals That Generate Electricity From Heat

Posted by in category: materials

In the effort to efficiently convert heat into electricity, easily accessible materials from harmless raw materials open up new perspectives in the development of safe and inexpensive so-called thermoelectric materials. A synthetic copper mineral acquires a complex structure and microstructure through simple changes in its composition, thereby laying the foundation for the desired properties, according to a study published recently in the journal Angewandte Chemie.

The novel synthetic material is composed of copper, manganese, germanium, and sulfur, and it is produced in a rather simple process, explains materials scientist Emmanuel Guilmeau, CNRS researcher at CRISMAT laboratory, Caen, France, who is the corresponding author of the study. The powders are simply mechanically alloyed by ball-milling to form a precrystallized phase, which is then densified by 600 degrees Celsius.

The Celsius scale, also known as the centigrade scale, is a temperature scale named after the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius. In the Celsius scale, 0 °C is the freezing point of water and 100 °C is the boiling point of water at 1 atm pressure.

Nov 10, 2022

Sentience review: Inside a controversial new idea about consciousness

Posted by in category: neuroscience

We are still struggling to account for consciousness. A new hypothesis by psychologist Nicholas Humphrey challenges the basis of the discussion and argues sentience isn’t what we think.

Nov 10, 2022

Novel production process for solar-grade silicon

Posted by in category: sustainability

The SisAl Pilot project produces solar-grade silicon from Spanish quartz without using coal and with zero CO2 emissions. The company behind the project claims that the process is cheaper and more sustainable.