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Starlink is faster than ever but is it enough for rural internet users?

While Starlink’s download speeds have increased, Ookla’s Speedtest Intelligence shows that upload speeds decreased by almost 33 percent from 16.29 Mbps during the first quarter of last year to 9.33 Mbps in Q1 2022. At the same time, Starlink’s median latency increased from 40 ms to 43 ms in the U.S. and from 51 ms to 55ms in Canada though these changes are likely negligible for most users.

The U.S. and Canada aren’t the only places Starlink adoption has increased while the service’s speeds have improved as Ookla highlights in its report.

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A network of 1,600 video cameras surveils Marseille residents in the name of public safety, but this type of policing tool is rarely useful in solving crimes. Digital rights activists are fighting back.

For Nano the creep of increased surveillance has personal resonance. She grew up in Albania as it lurched between different political regimes in the 1990s. Her father, a politician, opposed the party that was in power for part of that time. “It was a very difficult period for us, because we were all being watched,” she says. Her family suspected that the authorities had installed bugs in the walls of their home. But even in France, freedoms are fragile. “These past five years France has lived for much of the time in a state of emergency,” she says. “I’ve seen more and more constraints put on our liberty.”

Concerns have been raised throughout the country. But the surveillance rollout has met special resistance in Marseille, France’s second-biggest city. The boisterous, rebellious Mediterranean town sits on some of the fault lines that run through modern France. Known for hip bars, artist studios, and startup hubs, it is also notorious for drugs, poverty, and criminal activity. It has one of the most ethnically diverse populations in Europe but is stranded in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, a region that leans far right. The city pushes back. Its attitude could be summed up by graffiti you might pass as you drive in on the A7 motorway: “La vie est (re)belle.”

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Artificial Intelligence is outgrowing the current pace of Hardware Improvements and requires a new kind of technology to keep up and enable future AI Applications. Scientists seem to have found that creating artificial brains out of nanowire can mimic the human brain and power the biggest and smartest AI models ever made at relatively low energy consumption.

Today’s deep neural networks already mimic one aspect of the brain: its highly interconnected network of neurons. But artificial neurons behave very differently than biological ones, as they only carry out computations. In the brain, neurons are also able to remember their previous activity, which then influences their future behavior. This in-built memory is a crucial aspect of how the brain processes information, and a major strand in neuromorphic engineering focuses on trying to recreate this functionality. This has resulted in a wide range of designs for so-called “memristors”: electrical components whose response depends on the previous signals they have been exposed to.
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Earlier I posted results. Those posts did not include info here concerning topical E5 human trials to start in a month or so and if the results are good they will start up a U.S. factory. So far, 3 treated rats have a 13% longer lifespan than the max for a lab rat and 3 of them are still alive.

In this video we report on the June 2022 update from Dr. Katcher’s experiment with E5, where he is testing to see how long the rats will stay alive if they are given an E5 injection every 90 days. The experiment appears to be coming to an end with only 3 treated rats still alive. But a new experiment has started as well as a human trial of E5 used topically being planned.

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Greg SwartzThat’s great, but trees and less emissions are the best bet, IMHO.

Shahab Baradaran DilmaghaniThat’s about amount of CO₂ world produces in 30 seconds!😂🤦‍♂️

Is silicon-based life possible? This and some other (very speculative) ideas posted at Big Think. Direct weblink at.

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One possible future perhaps.

The science-fiction short story “The Last Question”, written by Asimov and read by Nimoy.

Our ability to create nano scale products is getting better fast, and these breakthroughs could transform every industry from manufacturing to healthcare and beyond.

Hear from NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, @Siemens CEO Roland Busch, and @BMW AG board member Milan Nedeljković as they discuss the next stage of industrial automation. Learn how groundbreaking technologies like Siemens Xcelerator and @NVIDIA Omniverse enable companies of all sizes to build closed-loop, truly real-time, full-design-fidelity immersive digital twins.

Deep dive into the announcements at https://nvda.ws/3npbpdJ.

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