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The New Murabba, which will house hundreds of thousands of residents, is one of the many mega projects part of the Saudi Vision 2030 plan.

If you thought NEOM was the most precious brainchild of Saudi Arabia, then you’re wrong. On Thursday, Saudi’s Crown Prince, Mohammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, unveiled plans to supposedly build the world’s largest downtown development in Riyadh called New Murabba, covering over seven square miles.

And that’s not even close. Murabba’s main character will be a ginormous, 400-meter-high, cubed skyscraper called the Mukaab. The Mukaab will be one of the largest structures — large enough to house 20 Empire State buildings.

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An Australian firm has finished its electric VTOL aircraft’s first tethered test flight. AMSL Aero’s offering, christened Vertiia, aims to provide a safe aircraft that will ease the burden of traffic congestion on people’s lives.

Vertiia is one of the newest VTOL industry entrants that has seen recent activity from players like Jetoptera and ARC Aerosystems.

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The man beat the machine by using a flaw uncovered by another computer system.

A human beat a top-ranked AI system in the board game Go, proving that the rise of machines may not be as imminent as previously believed.

This is according to a report by the Financial Times published on Sunday.

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The player was Kellin Pelrine, an American one level below the top amateur ranking. He achieved this victory by taking advantage of a previously unknown weakness that another computer had identified.

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An AI system called “xView2” is helping ground rescue efforts in regions of Turkey devastated by this month’s earthquakes.

The U.S. Department of Defense is using a visual computing artificial intelligence system to aid ongoing disaster response efforts in Turkey and Syria following the devastating earthquake on February 6 that has claimed tens of thousands of lives.

AI system helps disaster response teams in Turkey.

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The AI system, called xView2, is still in the early development phase, but it has already been deployed to help ground rescue missions in Turkey.

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The NEOMIR mission aims to provide advanced warning for asteroids capable of devastating cities.

The European Space Agency (ESA) aims to make the world safer with a spacecraft that can detect asteroids that the sun’s glare would otherwise hide.

The NEOMIR space observatory is designed to give an advanced warning about asteroids in a blindspot caused by intense sunlight.

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It’s mini yet mighty.

An autonomous ground robot was developed by researchers at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. It could help firefighters deal with situations in enclosed spaces.

Undoubtedly, firefighters would profit from the assistance of trustworthy mobile robots in their high-danger duties. Regarding this, researchers led a study called “HelpResponder” in 2021, which aims to reduce accident rates and mission times of intervention teams, as reported by Tech Xplore.

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This method could help firefighters plan interventions more effectively by paving safe access routes to the impacted areas and assisting them during evacuations.

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This innovative startup is revolutionizing architecture — with building panels made out of fastest-growing perennial grass on Earth.

With housing shortages in need of quick fixes, the manufacturing industry is facing a conundrum: how to source materials and build structures while cutting down on emissions. The answer lies with sustainable construction — not only could it help reduce our environmental impact, but it also keeps costs low during implementation.

Recently, a new startup named Plantd achieved a milestone of building ultra-strong building panels out of the fastest-growing perennial grass on Earth — the best sustainable alternative to construction.

Building materials stronger than wood

Plantd recently developed a sustainable solution to capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere – long perennial grass. This rapid-growth plant can reach lengths of 20 — 30 feet in just one year, making it an ideal choice for building materials.

This type of grass does not need replanting every season and can store large amounts more CO2 than trees. Due to this, Plantd believes that these plants could help in reducing the effects caused by global warming faster than traditional methods.

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The observation reveals high-energy X-rays that could help solve a mystery regarding the Sun’s corona.

As a new series of NASA observations show, there’s a lot more to sunlight than meets the eye.

This hidden light could help solve a mystery related to our host star’s incredibly hot outer atmosphere, the corona.

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New observations by NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) revealed patterns of high-energy light from the Sun that are not visible to the human eye.

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Traditionally we’ve been taught the Earth has four primary layers. Though, a distinct change at depth suggests there’s another.

Fresh evidence concerning the possibility that Earth’s inner core has a separate inner core of its own was published in Nature Communications.

In the new study, Thanh-Son Phạm and Hrvoje Tkalčić from the Australian National University collated data from existing probes.

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The latest findings suggest that the ‘innermost inner core’ may be an iron ball with a radius of about 650 kilometers inside the inner core. This could indicate a dramatic event in our planet’s history and improve our understanding of Earth’s genesis and evolution.

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