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Aug 3, 2021

Corvus Robotics’ Autonomous Drones Tackle Warehouses

Posted by in categories: drones, robotics/AI

Flying robots can do warehouse inventory way faster than humans.

Aug 3, 2021

Tesla Now Has More Than 1.25 Million Pre-Orders For The Cybertruck

Posted by in category: futurism

Tesla Cybertruck pre-orders have exceeded 1.25 million according to unofficial data coming from a fan-sourced online reservation tracker.

Aug 3, 2021

Veteran software engineer launches AI startup Hal9 while battling long COVID and pandemic concerns

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

Is there ever really a good time to launch a startup?

That’s the question Javier Luraschi was asking and sort of answering for himself in discussing his effort to “democratize artificial intelligence” through his new company called Hal9.

And while getting a startup off the ground is challenging enough under normal circumstances, Luraschi made his move during the COVID-19 pandemic and while suffering the effects of and searching for answers to long COVID, a condition in which people experience symptoms of the illness for extended periods of time.

Aug 3, 2021

‘God particle’: TAU researchers further understanding of physics at CERN

Posted by in category: particle physics

The scientists found evidence that “beauty” quarks do not decay in the way they should following the Standard Model.

Beauty quarks, particles similar to but heavier than electrons, interact with all forces in the same way, so they should decay into muons and electrons at the same rate.

However, the data collected by the LHCb seems to show that these quarks are decaying into muons less often than they decay into electrons, which should only be possible if unknown particles are interfering and making them more likely to decay into electrons.

Aug 3, 2021

Hackers Hit Las Vegas Hospital, Stealing And Sharing Personal Data

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

The hacker group posted proof of the breach at University Medical Center by sharing images of people’s drivers licenses and more. In other news, a new report says Georgia skipped infection-control inspections of hospitals during the pandemic.

Aug 3, 2021

Airlines like United and American are dedicating billions of dollars to fly a new type of aircraft that won’t require pilots

Posted by in category: transportation

The two airlines aim to be at the forefront of a burgeoning industry but the greatest hurdle might be getting travelers to fly on the new aircraft.

Aug 3, 2021

This 40sqm sustainable tiny home built using repurposed materials features a 30-degree solar-paneled roof!

Posted by in categories: habitats, sustainability

Built with an angled roof, the galvanized clad tiny home accommodates travelers near and far who want to get closer to rural Australia.

Aug 3, 2021

Hubble captures 3 galaxies caught in a gravitational tug of war

Posted by in category: space

A new image hints at the cosmic fate of the Milky Way.


Astronomers on the Hubble Team captured a three-way tug of war between galactic siblings as their gravitational force pulled on one another.

Aug 3, 2021

Israeli doctor uses tiny, robot ‘hands’ to untrap urethra

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

For the first time in Israel, a doctor at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva has used a da Vinci robot to perform the complex surgery of untrapping a man’s ureter from behind his vena cava — the largest vein in the body that carries blood to the heart from other areas.

Last month, a 41-year-old patient checked in to Beilinson suffering from the effects of retrocaval ureter, a ureter that abnormally encircles the inferior vena cava. Only one in 1500 people are born with this deformity, which worsens over decades until eventually it leads to sepsis.

With a retrocaval ureter, the ureter passes behind the large vein instead of in front of it or right by it. The only way to cure the person is to perform a complex operation to move the ureter.

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Aug 3, 2021

Forget Wheels, NASA Seeks University Students’ BIG Ideas for Robots

Posted by in category: robotics/AI