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Sep 6, 2022

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving now costs $15,000, but lawmakers argue it doesn’t live up to its name

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI, transportation

The price has increased by $3,000, but Tesla’s FSD is still a work-in-progress.

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Beta option now costs a hefty $15,000. Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced on Twitter late last month that it would increase the option’s price by $3,000.

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Sep 6, 2022

Survival of the most informed: The journey to innovation begins with data

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, business

Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! Watch here.

While business transformation has always been critical to staying relevant and competitive, global disruptions brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic created an urgency to accelerate innovation to keep pace with market conditions and changes in customer demand. In fact, many digitally transformed companies have not only survived — they’ve thrived.

According to a 2021 McKinsey Survey, top-performing companies now obtain a larger share of their sales from products or services that didn’t exist just one year ago. These companies are making more aggressive plans to differentiate themselves with technology, and some are preparing to reinvent their value proposition altogether.

Sep 6, 2022

Photosynthesis copycat may improve solar cells

Posted by in categories: chemistry, computing, engineering, solar power, sustainability

A relatively new kind of semiconductor, layered atop a mirror-like structure, can mimic the way that leaves move energy from the sun over relatively long distances before using it to fuel chemical reactions. The approach may one day improve the efficiency of solar cells.

“Energy transport is one of the crucial steps for and conversion in solar cells,” said Bin Liu, a postdoctoral researcher in electrical and computer engineering and first author of the study in the journal Optica.

“We created a structure that can support hybrid light-matter mixture states, enabling efficient and exceptionally long-range .”

Sep 6, 2022

SpaceX Starlink user who took $600 internet dish on Greek sailing vacation says the service was ‘surprisingly good’ despite outages

Posted by in categories: internet, space

Starlink user says Starlink’s connectivity was “surprisingly good” despite some outages when the yacht turned or surrounded by masts in a harbor.

Sep 6, 2022

Solar Probe Hit by Massive Plasma Blast on Its Way to the Sun

Posted by in category: futurism

Solar Orbiter was hit by a coronal mass ejection from the Sun, and it has the receipts to prove it.

Sep 6, 2022

When Was the Last Time You Had a Really Good Strawberry Grown by a Robot?

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, sustainability

No fields, tractors or back-breaking work: This may be how fruits and vegetables are sustainable in the future.

Sep 6, 2022

Jeff Bezos Says Most People Won’t Be Able to Live on Earth

Posted by in categories: habitats, space travel

Jeff Bezos thinks the Earth will be like a protected national park in the future — and maybe even a hot cosmic tourist attraction.

The Amazon and Blue Origin founder spoke at the 2021 Ignatius Forum last Wednesday about the future of space travel. During the discussion, he made the eyebrow-raising comment that most people won’t even be born on Earth one day and that it might even turn into a tourist destination for space colonizers, according to RealClearPolitics.

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Sep 6, 2022

Cyborgs, Futurists, & Transhumanism: A Conversation

Posted by in categories: cyborgs, life extension, transhumanism

Cyborgs transhumanist and futurists.


Museum of Science | Boston, MA
March 28th, 2018

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Sep 6, 2022

SENS4 — Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical

Tissue engineering and stem cells.


A series of talks on stem cells and tissue engineering.

Sep 6, 2022

How Our World Emerges from Quantum Physics — Where Did The Universe Come From?

Posted by in categories: quantum physics, space

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6GsRjzSBb9g

Quantum Physics is the bedrock of physical reality, as far as we know, but things behave very differently at the quantum level than they do in the world as we know it. Today, we learn how large number probability turns a probabilistic world into a deterministic one.