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Sep 29, 2022

NASA, SpaceX to Study Hubble Telescope Reboost Possibility

Posted by in categories: government, space travel

NASA and SpaceX signed an unfunded Space Act Agreement Thursday, Sept. 22, to study the feasibility of a SpaceX and Polaris Program idea to boost the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope into a higher orbit with the Dragon spacecraft, at no cost to the government.

Sep 29, 2022

Look: Hubble and Webb Telescopes joined forces to image NASA’s asteroid hit

Posted by in category: space

The joint observation is a first for Hubble and Webb, and it proves the space telescopes are allies, not rivals.

Sep 29, 2022

Dr. Doris A. Taylor, Ph.D. — CEO, Organamet Bio Inc. — Personalized Bio-Engineered Human Hearts

Posted by in categories: chemistry, engineering, life extension, sex

Personalized Bio-Engineered Human Hearts For All — Dr. Doris A. Taylor, Ph.D., CEO, Organamet Bio Inc.


Dr. Doris A. Taylor, Ph.D. is Chief Executive Officer of Organamet Bio Inc. (https://organametbio.com/) an early phase start-up committed to saving lives and reducing the cost of healthcare for those with heart disease. Organamet has a goal is to make personalized bio-engineered human hearts, available to all who need them, within 5 years, increasing availability and access to hearts, decreasing or eliminating need for immunosuppression, reducing total lifetime transplant costs, and improving quality of life.

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Sep 29, 2022

Amazon’s robots are getting closer to replacing human hands

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

A recent video published on the company’s science blog features a new “pinch-grasping” robot system that could one day do a lot of the work that humans in Amazon warehouses do today. Or, potentially, help workers do their jobs more easily.

The topic of warehouse automation is more relevant than ever in the retail and e-commerce industries, especially for Amazon, which is the largest online retailer and the second-largest private sector employer in the US. Recode reported in June that research conducted inside Amazon predicted that the company could run out of workers to hire in the US by 2024 if it did not execute a series of sweeping changes, including increasing automation in its warehouses.

Sep 29, 2022

DALL·E Now Available Without Waitlist

Posted by in category: futurism

New users can start creating straight away. Lessons learned from deployment and improvements to our safety systems make wider availability possible.

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Starting today, we are removing the waitlist for the DALL·E beta so users can sign up and start using it immediately. More than 1.5M users are now actively creating over 2M images a day with DALL·E—from artists and creative directors to authors and architects—with over 100K users sharing their creations and feedback in our Discord community.

Sep 29, 2022

Google’s New Self-Driving Robot Is Amazing! 🤖

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

❤️ Check out Lambda here and sign up for their GPU Cloud: https://lambdalabs.com/papers.

📝 The paper “LM-Nav: Robotic Navigation with Large Pre-Trained Models of Language, Vision, and Action” is available below. Note that this is a collaboration between UC Berkeley, University of Warsaw, and Robotics at Google.
https://sites.google.com/view/lmnav.

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Sep 29, 2022

Businesses Going Green Can Co-opt and Reward Employees for Doing the Same

Posted by in categories: business, habitats, sustainability

More companies are thinking about ways they can change their business processes to be green and combat global warming. But what about giving employees incentives to also go green?


Practices in the workplace to lower carbon emissions can be carried over to employees’ homes through company incentives and programs.

Sep 29, 2022

When Supercomputers Meet Beer Pong

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, supercomputing

My head is currently swirling and whirling with a cacophony of conceptions. This maelstrom of meditations was triggered by NVIDIA’s recent announcement of their Jetson Orin Nano system-on-modules that deliver up to 80x the performance over the prior generation, which is, in their own words, “setting a new standard for entry-level edge AI and robotics.”

One of my contemplations centers on their use of the “entry level” qualifier in this context. When I was coming up, this bodacious beauty would have qualified as the biggest, baddest supercomputer on the planet.

I’m being serious. In 1975, which was the year I entered university, Cray Research announced their Cray-1 Supercomputer. Conceived by Seymore Cray, this was the first computer to successfully implement a vector processing architecture.

Sep 29, 2022

New 3D printing method promises faster printing with multiple materials

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical, chemistry, engineering

Advancements in 3D printing have made it easier for designers and engineers to customize projects, create physical prototypes at different scales, and produce structures that can’t be made with more traditional manufacturing techniques. But the technology still faces limitations—the process is slow and requires specific materials which, for the most part, must be used one at a time.

Researchers at Stanford have developed a method of 3D printing that promises to create prints faster, using multiple types of in a single object. Their design, published recently in Science Advances, is 5 to 10 times faster than the quickest high-resolution printing method currently available and could potentially allow researchers to use thicker resins with better mechanical and .

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Sep 29, 2022

Bruce Willis has become first Hollywood actor to sell rights to ‘digital twin’

Posted by in category: futurism

Looks like he will be able to do Die Hard 300 and beyond.😄


Earlier this year, Bruce Willis announced he’d be ‘stepping away’ from acting following an aphasia diagnosis.

A disorder that affects how a person communicates, aphasia impacts writing, speech, and how someone understands spoken language.

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