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Jul 5, 2022

Synthetic memory circuits for stable cell reprogramming in plants

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

Transcriptional activity in plants is controlled with a programmable gene circuit.

Jul 5, 2022

Former SpaceX Rocket Scientist Now Makes High-Tech Pizza

Posted by in categories: information science, robotics/AI, space travel

Making pizza is not rocket science, but for this actual rocket scientist it is now. Benson Tsai is a former SpaceX employee who is now using his skills to launch a new venture: Stellar Pizza, a fully automated, mobile pizza delivery service. When a customer places an order on an app, an algorithm decides when to start making the pizza based on how long it will take to get to the delivery address. Inside Edition Digital’s Mara Montalbano has more.

Jul 5, 2022

Dalle-Mini/Dalle-Mini · Quantum Mechanics

Posted by in categories: quantum physics, robotics/AI

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Jul 5, 2022

Introducing the AOPEN ACE series

Posted by in category: computing

AOPEN ACE series raises the bar with scalable commercial computing, maintaining reliability at an affordable price — without sacrificing quality for quantity.

Jul 4, 2022

Deepmind’s New AI May Be Better at Distributing Society’s Resources Than Humans Are

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, business, robotics/AI

How groups of humans working together collaboratively should redistribute the wealth they create is a problem that has plagued philosophers, economists, and political scientists for years. A new study from DeepMind suggests AI may be able to make better decisions than humans.

AI is proving increasingly adept at solving complex challenges in everything from business to biomedicine, so the idea of using it to help design solutions to social problems is an attractive one. But doing so is tricky, because answering these kinds of questions requires relying on highly subjective ideas like fairness, justice, and responsibility.

For an AI solution to work it needs to align with the values of the society it is dealing with, but the diversity of political ideologies that exists today suggests that these are far from uniform. That makes it hard to work out what should be optimized for and introduces the danger of the developers’ values biasing the outcome of the process.

Jul 4, 2022

In the New Disney Pixar Movie Lightyear, Time Gets Bendy. Is Time Travel Real, or Just Science Fiction?

Posted by in categories: space travel, time travel

One consequence of this is there is no guarantee the clocks will tick at the same rate. In fact, many clocks will tick at different rates.

Even worse, the faster you travel relative to someone else, the slower your clock will tick compared to theirs.

Continue reading “In the New Disney Pixar Movie Lightyear, Time Gets Bendy. Is Time Travel Real, or Just Science Fiction?” »

Jul 4, 2022

New Artificial Photosynthesis Method Grows Food With No Sunshine

Posted by in categories: chemistry, food, solar power, sustainability

Photosynthesis uses a series of chemical reactions to convert carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight into glucose and oxygen. The light-dependent stage comes first, and relies on sunlight to transfer energy to plants, which convert it to chemical energy. The light-independent stage (also called the Calvin Cycle) follows, when this chemical energy and carbon dioxide are used to form carbohydrate molecules (like glucose).

A research team from UC Riverside and the University of Delaware found a way to leapfrog over the light-dependent stage entirely, providing plants with the chemical energy they need to complete the Calvin Cycle in total darkness. They used an electrolysis to convert carbon dioxide and water into acetate, a salt or ester form of acetic acid and a common building block for biosynthesis (it’s also the main component of vinegar). The team fed the acetate to plants in the dark, finding they were able to use it as they would have used the chemical energy they’d get from sunlight.

They tried their method on several varieties of plants and measured the differences in growth efficiency as compared to regular photosynthesis. Green algae grew four times more efficiently, while yeast saw an 18-fold improvement.

Jul 4, 2022

We Asked GPT-3 to Write an Academic Paper about Itself—Then We Tried to Get It Published

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

An artificially intelligent first author presents many ethical questions—and could upend the publishing process.

Jul 4, 2022

Mojo’s Smart Contact Lenses Begin In-Eye Testing

Posted by in category: futurism

CEO Drew Perkins discusses what the first demo was like. By year’s end, I could be next.

Jul 4, 2022

A new breakthrough could turn windows into active solar panels

Posted by in categories: solar power, sustainability

The dream of transforming windows into active power generators has just edged one step closer to realization.

A team of researchers from ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science led by Professor Jacek Jasieniak from Monash University’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering has created perovskite cells with a conversion efficiency of 15.5 percent that allows more than 20 percent of visible light through, a press release states.

This improves the stability of solar windows while allowing more natural light in, which means the amount of visible light passing through the cells is remarkably now reaching glazing levels, increasing their potential for usage in a wide range of real-world applications.