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Jan 14, 2022

Coal-hungry Indiana’s largest-capacity solar farm is about to come online

Posted by in categories: energy, sustainability

Houston-headquartered renewables company EDP Renewables North America has completed a 200-megawatt (MW) solar farm in Randolph County, Indiana, northeast of Indianapolis. It’s now the largest-capacity solar farm in Indiana.

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Riverstart Solar Park has a sole 20-year power purchase agreement with electricity supply cooperative Hoosier Energy, which will use the clean energy to power households in central and southern Indiana and southeastern Illinois.

Jan 14, 2022

Ginsburgs Give to Create New Quantum Center and Building at Caltech

Posted by in categories: engineering, quantum physics

The center will unite researchers exploring quantum systems and their potential uses.


In the Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg Center for Quantum Precision Measurement, Caltech researchers will develop tools and concepts with the potential to influence all areas of science and technology through unprecedented sensing, measurement, and engineering capabilities.

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Jan 14, 2022

How This Electricity-Free Fridge Saved An Indian Ceramics Factory | Big Business

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, business, finance, food

In 2001, the founder of Mitticool ceramics learned many of his customers in India don’t have regular access to electricity. So he invented a fridge made out of clay. It keeps food 8 degrees cooler than the outside air, but it doesn’t need any electricity to run. And while other ceramics companies in the region shut down, Mitticool is thriving thanks to the success of the powerless, eco-friendly fridge.

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Jan 14, 2022

Harvard and DeepMind’s “Hidden Agenda” might solve the problem of multi-agent cooperation

Posted by in categories: entertainment, robotics/AI

In social deduction games, groups of players attempt to decipher each others’ hidden roles. They need to observe the other players’ actions to deduce their roles while still hiding their roles. Essentially, to succeed in the game, the player needs to learn about the other agent through various sources while remaining anonymous. This needs players to cooperatively work against the other team.

Hidden Agenda

DeepMind and Harvard’s Hidden Agenda is a social deduction game to train multiple players in two fundamental groups. These teams are ‘Crewmates’ and ‘Imposters’. Crewmates have a numerical advantage with the goal to refuel their ship using energy cells scattered around, and Imposters have an informational advantage with the goal of halting the Crewmates. This means the Crewmates are unaware of the roles of the other players, but the Imposers have this knowledge. An environment is created where each player is randomly assigned a role and colour for their avatar at the start of each episode and initialised to a location on the game map.

Jan 14, 2022

Ultralight Headsets Could Finally Make VR Comfortable

Posted by in categories: computing, virtual reality

Bulky, uncomfortable headsets are hopefully on the way out, with VR companies looking into ways to make ultralight options powered by Qualcomm chips.

Jan 14, 2022

“ALTER 3” robot conducts Android Opera in Japan, exploring the future of human communication

Posted by in categories: media & arts, robotics/AI

Circa 2019


On February 28, at “New National Theater” in Tokyo, Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro of Osaka University announced the new model of the android “Alter” 「オルタ3」. The robot performed a fragment of the “Scary Beauty” android opera by Keiichiro Shibuya.

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Jan 14, 2022

Axiom Space: Launch schedule and timeline for private space station

Posted by in category: space travel

What is the relationship between Axiom Space and SpaceX?


Axiom Space has bold plans to send private citizens into space, as a stepping stone to developing a complete private space station.

Jan 14, 2022

Pfizer seeks approval for oral COVID-19 pill in Japan

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

Pfizer Japan Inc. said Friday it has applied to the health ministry for approval of its COVID-19 pill which, if granted, would make it the second oral drug for mild coronavirus cases available in the country.

The new drug application for Paxlovid, a combination of the antiviral drugs nirmatrelvir and ritonavir, comes as Japan is battling its sixth surge of COVID-19 cases amid a spread of the omicron variant, with the country already agreeing to procure enough of the drug for 2 million people.

Jan 14, 2022

1,000-light-year wide bubble surrounding Earth is source of all nearby, young stars

Posted by in category: space

“This is really an origin story; for the first time we can explain how all nearby star formation began,” says astronomer and data visualization expert Catherine Zucker who completed the work during a fellowship at the CfA.

The paper’s central figure, a 3D spacetime animation, reveals that all young stars and star-forming regions — within 500 light years of Earth — sit on the surface of a giant bubble known as the Local Bubble. While astronomers have known of its existence for decades, scientists can now see and understand the Local Bubble’s beginnings and its impact on the gas around it.

Jan 14, 2022

Mathematicians Clear Hurdle in Quest to Decode Primes

Posted by in category: mathematics

Paul Nelson has solved the subconvexity problem, bringing mathematicians one step closer to understanding the Riemann hypothesis and the distribution of prime numbers.