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Nov 14, 2021

Tesla starts deploying Starlink satellite internet systems at Supercharger stations

Posted by in categories: internet, sustainability

Tesla has started to deploy Starlink antennas at Supercharger stations in an apparent effort to offer satellite-based internet to owners while charging.

The Supercharger network currently undeniably offers the best charging experience for electric cars. Other charging networks are closing the gap, but Tesla’s early investment in offering a great complimentary charging experience has paid off.

With charging, the goal is always to make the charging sessions shorter, but it is still not unusual for Tesla owners to spend over 30 minutes at the stations.

Nov 14, 2021

NIO Installs Its First Battery Swap Station In Norway

Posted by in category: futurism

According to reports from Norway, the first battery swap station was installed and is being tested by NIO to support the launch of the NIO ES8 model.

Nov 14, 2021

The Boring Co Tunnels Are the Future of Transportation

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation

Photo: The Boring Company.

The Boring Company’s tunnels are the future of transportation and while some people don’t think so, those who have had the opportunity to try them are sure of it. Skeptical, West Coast Editor of Autoweek, Mark Vaughn, went downstairs to figure out for himself what The Boring Co tunnels are all about—and whether they are as important as Elon Musk says.

Vaughn admits that he was a little skeptical before using the tunnel. He suggested that there would be long lines and too few cars, so it would be faster and easier to simply walk from the West Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) to the far South Hall. However, after the “critic” descended the escalator into the underground tunnels he was a little surprised to find that the wait was only about a minute. Vaughn said he just walked up to the Tesla Model X, greeted the human driver, and immediately after the door closed, they drove away.

Nov 14, 2021

Peter Thiel: Artificial General Intelligence Isn’t Happening

Posted by in categories: computing, surveillance

There’s no road to computers that think like people that wouldn’t take us through 24/7 computer surveillance first. Thiel says. Is that what we want?

Nov 14, 2021

Scientists Create Artificial Mitochondria That Can Make Energy for Damaged Cells

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry, cybercrime/malcode

And it can be hacked.

The authors of a new study in Nature Catalysis reprogrammed these blobs—called exosomes—into an army of living nanobioreactors. It’s a seemingly simple process of mix and match: each blob is filled with a different chemical that’s involved in a biological reaction. By bringing two together, the blobs merge into a single squishy container, allowing the two chemicals to react.

The results were explosive. The tiny bioreactors pumped out energy molecules, called ATP, inside living cells. The burst of energy saved injured cells, providing them with a boost of power to fight back against dangerous molecules that otherwise lead to cell death.

Nov 14, 2021

Dark Matter Birthed More of Itself From Regular Matter, Claims Wild New Paper

Posted by in categories: cosmology, particle physics

There’s a lot we still don’t know about dark matter – that mysterious, invisible mass that could make up as much as 85 percent of everything around us – but a new paper outlines a rather unusual hypothesis about the very creation of the stuff.

In short: dark matter creates dark matter. The idea is that at some point in the early stages of the Universe, dark matter particles were able to create more dark matter particles out of particles of regular matter, which would go some way to explaining why there’s now so much of the stuff about.

The new research builds on earlier proposals of a ‘thermal bath’, where regular matter in the form of plasma produced the first bits of dark matter – initial particles which could then have had the power to transform heat bath particles into more dark matter.

Nov 14, 2021

Laser-free trapping of heavy molecules opens an alternative route to new physics

Posted by in category: physics

Trap based on electric fields alone boosts the search for a non-zero electron electric dipole moment and other phenomena beyond the Standard Model.

Nov 14, 2021

The Moon Has Enough Oxygen to Keep Billions Alive For 100,000 Years

Posted by in category: space

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Turning it into breathable air is the tricky part.

Nov 14, 2021

Sponge Genes Hint at the Origins of Neurons and Other Cells

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

𝙎𝙥𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙚 𝙂𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙨 𝙃𝙞𝙣𝙩 𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙊𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙉𝙚𝙪𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙊𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝘾𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙨


A new study of gene expression in sponges reveals the complex diversity of their cells as well as some possibly ancient connections between the nervous, immune and digestive systems.

Nov 14, 2021

How COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines Work — Vaccine Makers Project

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, education

Great video of vital biomolecular processes.


COVID-19 mRNA vaccines deliver directions to make a protein that educates our immune system, so it will neutralize the virus in future encounters. The mRNA-containing lipid particles are taken up by specialized immune system cells. See more: COVIDVaccineAnswers.org

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