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Aug 20, 2022

Microsoft’s New AI: Virtual Humans Became Real! 🤯

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

❤️ Check out Runway and try it for free here: https://runwayml.com/papers/

📝 The paper “3D Face Reconstruction with Dense Landmarks” is available here:
https://microsoft.github.io/DenseLandmarks/

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Aug 20, 2022

Aircraft detection before radar, 1917–1940

Posted by in categories: innovation, transportation

Acoustic location was used from mid-WW1 to the early years of WW2 for the passive detection of aircraft by picking up the noise of the engines.

Passive acoustic location involves the detection of sound or vibration created by the object being detected, which is then analyzed to determine the location of the object in question.

“Imagine how techology we see as innovative today will look to people in the future”

Aug 20, 2022

Deep Brain Stimulation to Brain Area Linked to Reward and Motivation Is Potential Therapy for Depression

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Deep brain stimulation applied to a small brain area associated with reward and motivation resulted in metabolic brain changes over 12 months post-implantation and alleviated some symptoms of depression for those with treatment-resistant depression.

Aug 20, 2022

Tesla driver found the perfect place to keep his car key — implanted in his hand

Posted by in categories: computing, cyborgs, mobile phones, sustainability, transportation

A Tesla driver can now unlock his car without using his smartphone. Thanks to a chip implanted in his hand, he will never lose his keys again.

Aug 20, 2022

New Model for Predicting Belief Change

Posted by in category: futurism

Summary: A new predictive model is able to determine who will change their minds about contentious scientific information when presented with evidence-based research.

Source: Santa Fe Institute.

A new kind of predictive network model could help determine which people will change their minds about contentious scientific issues when presented with evidence-based information.

Aug 20, 2022

AI Could Make Air Conditioners 10x Better

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Hyperganic is using AI to design new heat exchangers that can be 3D-printed in metal.

Aug 20, 2022

Brain — Computer Interface. How this new technology will change the word

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, neuroscience

Discussion panel with:
- Swati Chavda, a science fiction writer and former brain surgeon.
- Ron S. Friedman, a science fiction writer and an Information Technologies Specialist.

August 13th 2022, When Words Collide festival.

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Aug 20, 2022

After quitting the ISS, Russia reveals its next-gen space station

Posted by in categories: climatology, space, sustainability

Meet ROSS, Russia’s new space station.


But unlike the ISS, ROSS won’t have permanent residents year-round. Instead, it will only host cosmonauts “twice a year for extended periods,” according to Reuters.

ROSS is still years out and shrouded in secrecy, so it’s hard to predict exactly how the new space station could surpass the ISS’s capabilities.

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Aug 20, 2022

Instagram: Must have been trolling that maybe forced the Meta chief to post another

Posted by in category: futurism

This Friday, Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg has shared another post on Instagram after being trolled for the previous one. He stated that Meta is actually working on the graphics, which seemed literally “poor” in the first image.

Must have seen all the mockings and the memes about the amateur-looking picture.


Mark Zuckerberg shared a post on Instagram: “Major updates to Horizon and avatar graphics coming soon. I’ll share more at Connect. Also, I know the photo I posted earlier this week was pretty basic — it was taken very quickly to celebrate a launch. The graphics in Horizon are capable of much more — even on headsets — and Horizon is improving very quickly.”. Follow their account to see 239 posts.

Aug 20, 2022

Chinese scientists develop new ‘reversible’ gene-editing technique

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

Cas13 variants with minimal collateral effect are expected to be more competitive for in vivo RNA editing and future therapeutic applications, researchers claim.

Scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have allegedly developed a new “controllable, reversible and safer” gene-editing approach using CRISPR technology.

The system, named Cas13D-N2V8, showed a significant reduction in the number of off-target genes and no detectable collateral damage in cell lines and somatic cells, which indicated its future potential, according to a report published in South China Morning Post newspaper on Wednesday.

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