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Oct 25, 2021

Hertz Orders 100,000 Teslas for Rental Cars

Posted by in categories: sustainability, transportation

It’s the largest purchase of electric cars ever.

Oct 25, 2021

Microsoft reverses controversial.NET change after open source community outcry

Posted by in category: business

Microsoft is reversing a decision to remove a key feature from its upcoming. NET 6 release, after a public outcry from the open source community. Microsoft angered the. NET open source community earlier this week by removing a key part of Hot Reload in the upcoming release of. NET 6 a feature that allows developers to modify source code while an app is running and immediately see the results.

It’s a feature many had been looking forward to using in Visual Studio Code and across multiple platforms, until Microsoft made a controversial last-minute decision to lock it to Visual Studio 2022 which is a mostly paid product that’s limited to Windows. Sources at Microsoft, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Verge that the last-minute change was made by Julia Liuson, the head of Microsoft’s developer division, and was a business-focused move.

Oct 25, 2021

Why Did Elon Musk Create Neurolink?

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, futurism

Oct 25, 2021

Facebook Failed the People Who Tried to Improve It

Posted by in category: futurism

The “badge posts” of the company’s former researchers offer the parting thoughts of the disillusioned.

Oct 25, 2021

Russian Space Agency Head says ‘SpaceX Is Qualified To Fly Russian Cosmonauts’

Posted by in category: space travel

In an interview with RT, the president of the Russian Federation’s national aerospace agency, Roscosmos, expressed satisfaction with the number of trips performed by the Space Exploration Technologies Corporation’s (SpaceX) Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS).

After being developed for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Dragon recently achieved another historic milestone in aerospace history by ferrying a private crew to an orbit higher than the International Space Station (ISS), which serves as a global space laboratory.

Roscosmos uses Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft for its crewed flights, and it plans to stop its ISS missions by 2024. The station includes components from all over the world, and it will have spent 22 years in orbit in November, having been the only destination for travelers to space.

Oct 25, 2021

Cannabis reduces tumor growth in study

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, futurism

Circa 2015


THC, the element of marijuana that provides the drug’s ‘high,’ could also form the basis of future ‘tumor-shrinking’ pharmaceuticals, according to new research.

Oct 25, 2021

Recording Temporal Signals with Minutes Resolution Using Enzymatic DNA Synthesis

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing

This work expands the repertoire of DNA-based recording techniques by developing a novel DNA synthesis-based system that can record temporal environmental signals into DNA with minutes resolution. Employing DNA as a high-density data storage medium has paved the way for next-generation digital storage and biosensing technologies. However, the multipart architecture of current DNA-based recording techniques renders them inherently slow and incapable of recording fluctuating signals with sub-hour frequencies. To address this limitation, we developed a simplified system employing a single enzyme, terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT), to transduce environmental signals into DNA. TdT adds nucleotides to the 3’ ends of single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) in a template-independent manner, selecting bases according to inherent preferences and environmental conditions.

Oct 25, 2021

Estimation of the information contained in the visible matter of the universe

Posted by in category: space

The information catastrophe.

Oct 25, 2021

Secretive Giant TSMC’s $100 Billion Plan To Fix The Chip Shortage

Posted by in categories: military, mobile phones, supercomputing

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company makes 24% of all the world’s chips, and 92% of the most advanced ones found in today’s iPhones, fighter jets and supercomputers. Now TSMC is building America’s first 5-nanometer fabrication plant, hoping to reverse a decades-long trend of the U.S. losing chip manufacturing to Asia. CNBC got an exclusive tour of the $12 billion fab that will start production in 2024.

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Oct 25, 2021

Airless tires get their public test drive

Posted by in category: futurism

Decades in development, Michelin’s airless tires finally hit the road.