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Oct 21, 2022

Elon Musk could fire 5,000 employees at Twitter due to ‘bloat’

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, law

Tesla CEO sees Twitter as a ‘bloated’ organization, employing far more people for its revenues.

Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover has entered an interesting stage where he can sit down with the company’s lawyers and iron out a deal. However, the deal could see 5,000 employees facing the axe at Twitter, Washington Post.

Difficult times at Twitter.

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Oct 21, 2022

Behold Musk: China just successfully tested a Hyperloop-like train system

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, transportation

The first in the world to do so.

Researchers at the North University of China have successfully completed the test of a Hyperloop-like train system that runs trains in a low vacuum environment inside a tube, local news outlet, China Daily.

In theory, the system can be used for transporting people as well as goods and consists of long tubes that maintain a low vacuum to allow transport with minimal air resistance.

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Oct 21, 2022

Tesla’s new vehicle platform will be cheaper and less labor intensive, says Musk

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation

That’s what Musk announced during Tesla’s Q3 2022 earnings call.

The third vehicle platform for Tesla, following the big one supporting the Model S and X and the small one supporting the Model 3 and Y, has received new information from company CEO Elon Musk.

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Oct 21, 2022

Is Aging Inevitable?

Posted by in category: life extension

Some animals do not age at all and prove that aging is not inevitable. Scientists are working on ways to slow down and even reverse aging.

Oct 21, 2022

Benjamin Button For Real? Scientists Are Close To Cracking The Code To Reverse Aging

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

The discovery that earned Japan’s Shinya Yamanaka the 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine has paved the way for new research proving that aging is a reversible process. Currently just being tested on lab mice, will the cellular reprogramming soon offer eternal youth?

Oct 21, 2022

Listening to Music Through the Sense of Touch

Posted by in categories: electronics, media & arts

Summary: A pioneering new prototype allows those with hearing loss to “listen” to music through the sense of touch.

Source: University of Malaga.

People with hearing loss will be able to listen to music through the sense of touch thanks to a pioneering prototype that has been devised by researchers of the Department of Electronics of the University of Malaga, members of the R&D group “Electronics for instrumentation and systems”.

Oct 21, 2022

Why do colon cancer tumors grow so fast? Study identifies new gene that may play a role

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

A newly identified colon cancer gene may drive the disease by making the environment in the vicinity of tumors more hospitable to them, researchers say. The…

Oct 21, 2022

Exercise Counters the Age-Related Accumulation of Senescent Cells

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Preclinical and clinical evidence for exercise as a senescence-targeting therapy and areas needing further investigation are discussed.

Oct 21, 2022

Long-Term Deals Help Japan Secure Ample Gas Amid Global Shortfall

Posted by in category: futurism

TOKYO—Japan imports nearly all of its natural gas and, despite the worst energy crisis in many years, it isn’t facing shortages or out-of-control prices.

Its secret is a reliance on long-term contracts for liquefied natural gas, a strategy that had been in decline until recently but now is rebounding in popularity. The world’s largest buyer of LNG is enjoying a moment of validation—at least for now.

Oct 21, 2022

Robotics researchers turn the public’s ideas into ‘robo-fish’ reality

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

A robot fish that filters microplastics has been brought to life after it won the University of Surrey’s public competition—The Natural Robotics Contest.

The robot fish design, which was designed by a student named Eleanor Mackintosh, was selected by an international panel of judges because it could be part of a solution to minimize plastic pollution in our waterways.

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