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Dec 8, 2021
Tesla Is Now Letting Drivers Play Video Games While the Car Is Moving
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Tesla is allowing drivers — yes, the person behind the wheel who is ideally preoccupied with tasks such as “steering” — to play video games on its vehicles’ massive console touchscreens while driving.
“I only did it for like five seconds and then turned it off,” Tesla owner Vince Patton told The New York Times. “I’m astonished. To me, it just seems inherently dangerous.”
The feature has reportedly been available for some time. Given that the company is already facing fierce scrutiny for rolling out its still unfinished Full Self-Driving beta to customers, it’s not exactly a good look.
Dec 8, 2021
Psychological Resilience Is Linked to How Much Stress Messes With Your Body
Posted by Nicholi Avery in categories: biological, health
The Neuro-Network.
𝐏𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐈𝐬 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐌𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐌𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐁𝐨𝐝𝐲
𝙄 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙗𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙮 𝙙𝙤𝙣’𝙩 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙖𝙮 𝙞𝙩, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙬𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙗𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙮 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙗𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙨𝙩𝙧… See more.
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Dec 8, 2021
New Holland unveils unique Straddle Tractor Concept for narrow vineyards
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: futurism, innovation
The concept offers a glimpse into the future that premium wine growers with narrow vineyards can aspire to.
Dec 8, 2021
Carbon Zero 2030. They Claim The Energy Supply Cannot Be Done. They Are Wrong!
Posted by Mark Parkins in categories: energy, futurism
It is true that renewables have an immense road ahead, but we already know the destination, Net Zero, in all areas of life, so why keep throwing good money after bad with fossil fuels.
I show exactly where we are with renewables and storage, and indeed it is woefully short, but I also show how we could take the initiative and the right decisions to clean our energy supply as early as 2030.
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Dec 8, 2021
AI artist Botto has made its first million
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: media & arts, robotics/AI
AI artist Botto has just made over a million dollars for NFTs of its work.
Botto, which works in collaboration with a human community, hit the million dollar mark within five weeks of putting a batch of NFT-backed artwork up for auction, Euronews reported.
The haul elevates the AI artist into a small-but-growing cohort of synthetic creators, and the designer behind Botto, German artist Mario Klingemann, told Euronews that he believes Botto’s practice could eventually extend to books and music.
Dec 8, 2021
Alethea AI, BeingAI, and Binance NFT launch NFT-based AI game characters
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: bitcoin, entertainment, robotics/AI, security
Alethea AI and BeingAI are collaborating with the Binance NFT marketplace to introduce the AI game characters that are based on nonfungible tokens (NFTs).
Alethea AI creates smart avatars who use AI to hold conversations with people, and it has launched its own NFT collectible AI characters. NFTs use the transparency and security of the digital ledger of blockchain to authenticate unique digital items. The companies see this as the underlying AI infrastructure for iNTFs, or intelligent nonfungible tokens, on the path to the metaverse, the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected, like in novels such as Snow Crash and Ready Player One.
Being AI, meanwhile, is on a quest to create AI characters who can interact and talk in real time with users. Both companies are working with the NFT marketplace of Binance to launch intelligent IGO (Initial Game Offering), featuring a hundred intelligent NFTs characters.
Dec 8, 2021
A COVID vaccine grown in plants measures up
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in category: biotech/medical
A Canadian biotech firm is reporting positive results from a large study of its COVID-19 vaccine. What makes it unusual is that the key ingredient of the vaccine is grown in plants. Medicago has already developed an experimental flu vaccine in Nicotiana benthamian, a plant related to tobacco. When the pandemic struck, the company decided to try to make a COVID-19 vaccine.
Now it appears those efforts have succeeded. “This is an incredible moment for Medicago and for novel vaccine platforms,” Medicago CEO and President Takashi Nagao said in a statement.
A COVID-19 vaccine from a Canadian biotech firm has been found effective at preventing moderate to severe disease. It could soon become the first plant-based vaccine authorized for human use.
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Dec 8, 2021
Atomically thin lasers shine for the first time at room temperature
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: futurism
Coherent light generation from ultrathin semiconductor crystals paves the way for creating novel nanolasers and valleytronic devices.
Dec 8, 2021
Unusual ‘Quadruple Helix’ Structure in DNA May Be Behind Rare Aging Syndrome
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, life extension
The double-helix structure has practically become synonymous with DNA, but it isn’t the only way long strands of genetic information squeeze themselves into a tight space.
When a double-strand of DNA doubles back on itself or attaches to another double-strand, it can actually create a quadruple-stranded knot, known as a G-quadruplex.
Scientists first discovered these ‘double-double-helixes’ in living human cells in 2013, and in the years since, these knots have been found in high concentrations in cancerous cells.
