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Feb 15, 2022

Elon Musk gave 5 million Tesla shares to charity after teasing possible donation to fight world hunger

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, food, sustainability

Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk donated more than 5 million Tesla shares in November, days after the U.N. World Food Program outlined a plan to potentially use a $6 billion donation from the world’s richest man.

A filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission made public Monday showed the donation, but not the recipient. The Tesla TSLA, +4.48% shares were transferred in batches between Nov. 19 and Nov. 29, as Musk was also selling Tesla stock in preparation for a large tax bill.

Feb 15, 2022

Fraudsters are using bots to drain cryptocurrency accounts

Posted by in categories: cryptocurrencies, robotics/AI

A new type of bot is being sold to criminals who program it to make robocalls that drain cryptocurrency accounts.

Feb 15, 2022

Tesla’s Elon Musk donates over 5 million TSLA shares to charity, reveals SEC filings

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation

Tesla CEO Elon Musk donated over 5 million TSLA shares to an undisclosed charity, according to a SEC Form 5 filed on Monday, February 14, 2022.

The filing reveals that Elon Musk donated approximately 5,044,000 TSLA shares worth about $4.42 billion, considering that Tesla stock is priced at $875.76 as of this writing. Based on the SEC filing, Elon Musk started donating the stocks on November 19, 2021, a time when over 5 million TSLA shares were worth roughly $5.74 billion.

The transaction code for the stock was filed under “G,” which stands for “Gift of securities by or to the insider” or “Bonafide gift.” Under “Explanation of Responses,” the filing reads: “Represent a bona fide gift of the Issuer’s common stock by the Reporting Person to charity.” The charity Elon Musk donated to was not revealed.

Feb 15, 2022

Physicists Just Achieved a New Smallest Measurement of a Ghost Particle’s Mass

Posted by in category: particle physics

Decaying isotopes of hydrogen have just given us the smallest measurement yet of the mass of a neutrino.

By measuring the energy distribution of electrons released during the beta decay of tritium, physicists have determined that the upper limit for the mass of the electron antineutrino is just 0.8 electronvolts. That’s 1.6 × 10–36 kilograms in metric mass, and very, very freaking small in imperial.

Although we still don’t have a precise measurement, narrowing it down brings us closer to understanding these strange particles, the role they play in the Universe, and the impact they could have on our current theories of physics. The achievement was made at the Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Experiment (KATRIN) in Germany.

Feb 15, 2022

Dominican Republik: A picture-perfekt solar park

Posted by in categories: solar power, sustainability

The Dominican Republic is home to the largest solar park in the Caribbean. It was built by F&S Solar. The company based in Euskirchen, Germany, has relied exclusively on Lapp for many years.

Feb 15, 2022

Scientists seek new monitoring systems as Washington volcano is at ‘very high’ threat of eruption

Posted by in category: electronics

Glacier Peak in Snohomish County is currently at a “very high” threat for eruption — the top classification of threat levels, according to federal scientists.

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Feb 15, 2022

Some People think Life Extension is “Just a Fear of Death”

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Sometimes those working in the field of rejuvenation biotechnology face the accusation that what they are doing is just a fear of death, like not being scared of age-related diseases is somehow brave.

War used to be fashionable but now it isn’t

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Feb 15, 2022

Quantum errors made more tolerable

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

ETH physicists have modified one of the major schemes for quantum error correction and put it into practice, demonstrating that they can substantially prolong the lifetime of quantum states—a crucial ingredient for future large-scale quantum computers.

In modern computing devices, literally billions of transistors work restlessly in almost perfect harmony. The keys to producing near-perfect computation from devices made from imperfect components are the use of digitisation and error correction, with the latter encompassing procedures to detect and rectify inaccuracies as they occur. The challenge of preventing errors from accumulating is one that future quantum computers have to face as well—in fact it forms the main barrier to realizing useful computations. Alas, the tools that have been perfected for classical computers cannot be applied directly to quantum computers, which play by another set of rules, those of quantum mechanics. Ingenious solutions for quantum error correction have been proposed over the past couple of decades, and recently there has been encouraging progress towards implementing such methods in state-of-the-art quantum computers. Writing in Nature Physics, the group of Prof.

Feb 15, 2022

New Advanced Light Tractor Beam Moving Atoms

Posted by in categories: particle physics, tractor beam

Researchers manage to build a light beam able to attract and repel particles about 100 times further than has been previously achieved.

Feb 15, 2022

First gene therapy for Tay-Sachs disease successfully given to two children

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

About 1 in 300 people in the general population carry the Tay-Sachs disease gene. Ray Kachatorian/Stone via Getty ImagesTwo babies have received the first-ever gene therapy for Tay-Sachs disease after over 14 years of development. Tay-Sachs is a severe neurological disease caused by a deficiency in an enzyme called HexA. This enzyme breaks down a fatlike substance that normally exists in very small, harmless amounts in the brain. Without HexA, however, this fatlike substance can accumulate to toxic levels that damage and kill neurons.