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Mar 3, 2022
AI-generated faces have crossed the uncanny valley and are now more trustworthy than real ones
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: mathematics, robotics/AI
“We were really surprised by this result because our motivation was to find an indirect route to improve performance, and we thought trust would be that—with real faces eliciting that more trustworthy feeling,” Nightingale says.
Farid noted that in order to create more controlled experiments, he and Nightingale had worked to make provenance the only substantial difference between the real and fake faces. For every synthetic image, they used a mathematical model to find a similar one, in terms of expression and ethnicity, from databases of real faces. For every synthetic photo of a young Black woman, for example, there was a real counterpart.
Mar 3, 2022
Rockets set to lift off from Shetland Islands
Posted by Eamon Everall in category: business
The Lamba Ness peninsular in Unst will be home to a new £43m spaceport, with builders set to start work in late March, after Shetland Islands Council gave the project planning permission. On-line soon! Warmongers and profiteers permitting!
Shetland Islands Council has given the £43m project planning permission businessInsider.
Mar 3, 2022
New satellite GOES-T helps track extreme weather on Earth — and in the cosmos
Posted by Atanas Atanasov in category: space
The number 18 just hits different.
NASA and NOAA launch the weather satellite, the third in the GOES-R series to detect Earth and space weather.
Mar 3, 2022
Earthworms can reproduce in Mars soil simulant
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: food, space, sustainability
Space worms.
Two young worms are the first offspring in a Mars soil experiment at Wageningen University & Research. Biologist Wieger Wamelink found them in a Mars soil simulant that he obtained from NASA. At the start he only added adult worms. The experiments are crucial in the study that aims to determine whether people can keep themselves alive at the red planet by growing their own crops on Mars soils.
To feed future humans on Mars a sustainable closed agricultural ecosystem is a necessity. Worms will play a crucial role in this system as they break down and recycle dead organic matter. The poop and pee of the (human) Martian will also have to be used to fertilise the soil, but for practical and safety reasons we are presently using pig slurry. We have since been observing the growth of rucola (rocket) in Mars soil simulant provided by NASA to which worms and slurry have been added. ‘Clearly the manure stimulated growth, especially in the Mars soil simulant, and we saw that the worms were active. However, the best surprise came at the end of the experiment when we found two young worms in the Mars soil simulant’, said Wieger Wamelink of Wageningen University & Research.
‘The positive effect of adding manure was not unexpected’, added Wamelink, ‘but we were surprised that it makes Mars soil simulant outperform Earth silver sand’. We added organic matter from earlier experiments to both sands. We added the manure to a sample of the pots and then, after germination of the rucola, we added the worms. We therefore ended up with pots with all possible combinations with the exception of organic matter which was added to all of the pots.
Mar 3, 2022
Earthworms have the potential to replace use of synthetic fertilisers
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: food
Earthworms could have the potential to replace some high-cost mineral/synthetic fertilizers, new research suggests.
Researchers at University College Dublin have unearth fresh insight into the soil dweller’s importance for crops taking up nutrients.
The findings suggest a shortcut in the soil nitrogen cycle not previously recognized in which earthworms, when they are active, rapidly enrich soil and plants through nitrogen excreted in their mucus.
Mar 3, 2022
When the Dark Web meets the Metaverse
Posted by Len Rosen in categories: energy, futurism
Thomas Frey, Futurist, writes about the Dark Web and Metaverse.
Many people will push the boundaries in the Metaverse and anonymity fuels it.
Mar 3, 2022
Scientists Watch a Memory Form in a Living Brain
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in category: neuroscience
While watching a fearful memory take shape in the brain of a living fish, neuroscientists see an unexpected level of rewiring occur in the synaptic connections.
Mar 3, 2022
Bill Andrews deep research to cure aging explained in 19 minutes (con S/T en Español)
Posted by Andrés Grases in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
In this video Bill Andrews summarizes in 19 minutes his extensive research on telomeres, aging, and his proposal to cure aging. Bill Andrews is an American molecular biologist and gerontologist, founder and CEO of the biotech company Sierra Sciences.
Bill Andrews summarizes in 19 minutes his extensive and prolific research on telomeres, aging, and the cure for aging.
Mar 3, 2022
How will Ukraine keep SpaceX’s Starlink internet service online?
Posted by Jeffrey L. Lee in categories: Elon Musk, government, internet, satellites, solar power, sustainability
Russia’s attacks on Ukraine continue to take lives and destroy infrastructure as the country invades. This infrastructure damage has disrupted internet access in Ukraine, leading a government official to publicly request Starlink satellite internet access for the country from SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. Musk obliged, activating Starlink service in Ukraine and sending additional hardware. But with continued attacks on infrastructure, how will Ukraine stay connected?
Fedorov brings up an important point: Even though Starlink operates without the need for traditional internet infrastructure, the Earth-bound hardware still needs power. And, as Russian attacks bombard the country, Ukraine’s internet access will continue to be threatened.
Fedorov’s statement publicly reached out for help acquiring generators to keep Starlink online for Ukrainians. But Musk responded with an alternative suggestion.
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