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Nov 8, 2021
Neuroscience Behind an Artificial General Intelligence
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: holograms, neuroscience, robotics/AI
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1_Mcp-YjPmQ
This video gives and overview of human neuroscience and applies it to the design of an artificial general intelligence named Eta.
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Nov 8, 2021
The Next Big Thing for RNA? Fixing Moldy Food
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry, food
Covid vaccines alerted to the world to RNA’s potential. Now the technology is being used as an alternative to pesticides.
Our addiction to chemical pesticides comes with a bunch of downsides. New sprays made from RNA might offer a smarter, cleaner way to wage war on pests.
Nov 8, 2021
Walmart is using driverless trucks to complete a seven-mile delivery loop
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
As promised, Walmart has started doing fully driverless box truck deliveries in partnership with startup Gatik between its own locations on a fixed 7-mile loop, the companies announced. Despite those limitations, the route in Bentonville, Arkansas involves “intersections, traffic lights and merging on dense urban roads,” the companies said. It’s another shot of good news for the progress of self-driving vehicles after GM’s cruise launched its self-driving taxis into testing last week.
The Gatik trucks are bringing grocery orders from a Walmart fulfilment center (dark store) to a nearby Walmart Neighborhood Market grocery store in Bentonville, the host city of the company’s headquarters. The route covers the “middle mile” transportation of goods between warehouses and stores. The program effectively got launched following the December 2020 approval by the Arkansas State Highway Commission, and has been driverless since this summer.
Nov 8, 2021
Robotruck Startup Gatik Making Delivery Runs For Walmart Without Humans At The Wheel
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Gatik, a Silicon Valley-based developer of robotic technology to handle “middle-mile” deliveries from distribution centers to stores, has begun hauling goods for Walmart in autonomous trucks without a human backup at the wheel for the first time.
Gatik, which has been making delivery runs for Walmart since 2019 in the retail giant’s Bentonville, Arkansas, hometown, is operating two fully autonomous trucks that are hauling goods on a fixed, 7.1-mile route between an e-commerce distribution facility there to a Walmart Neighborhood Market store. This new phase started in August and is the first time any autonomous trucking company has operated commercial delivery routes without a human backup, the companies said.
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Nov 8, 2021
Astronomers Want to Build an $11BN Telescope That Would Outclass Hubble
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: biotech/medical, engineering
The proposed telescope would be powerful enough to detect distant planets 10 billion times fainter than their hosting star.
Astronomers have proposed a telescope that would far exceed the capabilities of Hubble.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine just released its Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics, also known as Astro 2020. The report outlines plans for the next decade of investment in astronomical equipment and projects in the U.S.
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Nov 8, 2021
The US Wants to Remove Billions of Tons of CO2 From the Air Every Year
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: climatology, sustainability
Cutting the price of CO2 removal to under $100 per ton.
Reducing global carbon emissions can go a long way in reducing the impact of climate change, though it may not be enough.
In a bid to turn the tide around amid dire scientific predictions, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced ambitious new plans to accelerate the development of carbon capture technologies, a report from The Verge explains.
Nov 8, 2021
If Female Condors Can Reproduce Without An Assist From Males, Why Can’t Humans And All Other Animals? 15 Points That Help Explain ‘Parthenogenesis.’
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: biotech/medical, genetics
1. In a paper published on October 28 2021, in the peer-reviewed Journal of Heredity, scientists from the San Diego Zoo revealed that at least two California condors born over the last 40 years or so are biologically fatherless. A genetic database maintained since the 1980s showed no trace whatsoever of paternal genes in their DNA.
2. No one knows whether reproducing asexually is a new talent for California condors. Maybe the species has always been capable of it. California condors almost went extinct in the 1980s, and they are still endangered. Because of this, the number of animals in the genetic database is too small for anyone to address the question reasonably.
Nov 8, 2021
Biomanufacturing Better Materials For A Post-Petroleum Future
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: biological, computing
Consider the room you are sitting in: From the injection-molded plastic of a computer mouse to the synthetic carpet fibers on the floor, you are surrounded by petroleum-derived products in your daily life. But what if there is a better way to produce the products we depend on with cleaner and greener materials? Biomanufacturing offers a way to use materials from nature to create the items we use every day.
Checkerspot, a materials innovation company, is rethinking products from a molecular level. It is optimizing microbes to biomanufacture unique structural oils found in nature. The company has taken the technology it has built and turned it into a platform to bring us closer to a post-petroleum future.
Nov 8, 2021
DARPA Successfully Recovered a Gremlins Drone Mid-Air For the First Time
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: drones, military, robotics/AI
A milestone achievement for the army.
After multiple attempts, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — commonly known as DARPA — has confirmed that it has successfully completed a mid-air recovery of the X-61 drone, Gremlins. While details of the test were not revealed, DARPA said that the mission was accomplished last month at the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah.
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