Lifeboat Foundation

Now, that’s a superpower!What if you could speak every language on Earth? You would travel around the globe with ease making new friends everywhere.

The firm is working on building an A.I.-focused universal instantaneous speech translator and it could forever change how we communicate.

A powerful translating A.I.

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The U.S. is pinning its hopes in the race for energy supremacy in a low-carbon world on startups like Ion Storage Systems, which is aiming to build a better battery.

A new therapy called CINDELA (Cancer-Specific InDel Attacker) is reported by scientists in South Korea, which uses CRISPR-Cas9 to kill cancer cells without harming normal tissues.

The thousands of defunct satellites and tons of orbiting space debris necessitate a low-Earth orbit cleanup starting this decade.

Are we alone in the Universe? Billions of dollars are being spent trying to answer that simple question. The implications of finding evidence for life beyond Earth are staggering. The “before and after” mark would punctuate human history.

Mars is currently the most popular exploration target to search for evidence of life elsewhere. Yet little is known about its early history. Our research on a Martian meteorite provides new clues about early surface conditions on the red planet.

Today Mars is cold and inhospitable. But it may have been more Earth-like and habitable in a bygone era. Landforms on Mars record the action of liquid surface water, perhaps as early as 3.9 billion years ago.

After a few dubious claims from Model Y reservation holders that they had received a VIN from Giga Texas, it looks like the first legitimate Austin VIN has been assigned today.

The lucky reservation holder is Jared Wolny, who shared a screenshot from his mobile app on Facebook showing a VIN from Giga Texas – 7SAYGDEF9NA000137.

The important digit in the VIN is the A in the 11th position, which signifies it comes from Austin, and not Fremont (F).