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May 24, 2022

Researchers demonstrate significant energy savings using neuromorphic hardware

Posted by in categories: biological, neuroscience, robotics/AI

For the first time TU Graz’s Institute of Theoretical Computer Science and Intel Labs demonstrated experimentally that a large neural network can process sequences such as sentences while consuming four to sixteen times less energy while running on neuromorphic hardware than non-neuromorphic hardware. The new research based on Intel Labs’ Loihi neuromorphic research chip that draws on insights from neuroscience to create chips that function similar to those in the biological brain.

The research was funded by The Human Brain Project (HBP), one of the largest research projects in the world with more than 500 scientists and engineers across Europe studying the human brain. The results of the research are published in Nature Machine Intelligence (“Memory for AI Applications in Spike-based Neuromorphic Hardware”).

The close-up shows an Intel Nahuku board, each of which contains eight to 32 Intel Loihi neuromorphic research chips. (Image: Tim Herman, Intel Corporation)

May 24, 2022

World’s most powerful rocket SLS to return to launchpad for wet dress rehearsal, says NASA

Posted by in category: space

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May 24, 2022

Here’s the Last Selfie From the Fading InSight Mars Lander

Posted by in category: space

The dust-covered probe will focus on collecting data during its final months on Mars.

May 24, 2022

Elon Musk says he’s testing out SpaceX’s Starlink internet on his private jet

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, internet, satellites

Elon Musk said on Monday that he’s testing out SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet on his private jet.

“I am testing Starlink on the plane. Some polishing needed, but it’s working quite well,” Musk tweeted. He also wrote in the Twitter post that he works while traveling on the jet.

His tweet was part of a Twitter thread about SpaceX president and COO Gwynne Shotwell defending Musk, following sexual misconduct claims involving a flight attendant working on the billionaire’s plane, which Insider first reported on Thursday.

May 24, 2022

Cathie Wood Sees This Technology Accelerating GDP Growth To 50% Per Year

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

Noted fund manager and Ark Invest founder Cathie Wood on Saturday suggested that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) will likely give a strong lift to economic growth.

The fund manager is of the view that a breakthrough in AGI will lead to the acceleration of GDP within the next six to 12 years. The analyst estimates that GDP growth will increase from the 3–5% year-over-year rate currently to 30–50% per year. New DNA will win,’ she added.

May 24, 2022

SpaceX’s Starlink launches $135-a-month internet service for RVs

Posted by in categories: internet, satellites

SpaceX announced this week that it is launching a Starlink internet service option designed with RV owners in mind.

The company is rolling out an optional $25 monthly fee for customers who want to relocate their satellite dishes, CNBC’s Michael Sheetz first reported. The extra cost will be added on to the Starlink base service price of $110 per month and will be billed in one-month increments. The users will be able to pause and restart their service at any time.

However, the company says that the internet service will not be active while the RV is in motion and will be limited to an “as-needed basis at any destination where Starlink provides active coverage,” according to a press release.

May 24, 2022

New kind of camera can image mini-whirlpools in quantum liquids

Posted by in categories: particle physics, quantum physics

Researchers have built a camera-like device for understanding how vortices form in quantum liquids, where atoms pair up and start to behave like overlapping waves.

May 24, 2022

50 years ago, the U.S. and U.S.S.R. joined forces to ensure astronauts could survive in space

Posted by in category: space travel

Could this happen today?


This document laid the foundation for modern space exploration and research. It is also a testament to a fading world order where nations worked together in space toward shared scientific goals despite their political differences.

Signed by President Richard Nixon and Premier Alexie Kosygin in the U.S.S.R on May 24, 1972, the agreement led to the first international crewed space mission, 1975’s Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.

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May 24, 2022

Artificial Intelligence to make roads in India safer to drive

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Indias Ministry of Science and Technology said that this unique approach uses the predictive power of AI to identify risks on the road, and a collision alert system to communicate timely alerts to drivers, to make several improvements related to road safety

May 24, 2022

Self-assembling computer chips

Posted by in category: computing

Circa 2010 😀 😍


Molecules that arrange themselves into predictable patterns on silicon chips could lead to microprocessors with much smaller circuit elements.