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Jan 24, 2022

If launched by 2028, a spacecraft could catch up with ‘Oumuamua in 26 years

Posted by in categories: innovation, space

In October 2017, the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua passed through our solar system, leaving many questions in its wake. Not only was it the first object of its kind ever observed, but the limited data astronomers obtained as it shot out of our solar system left them all scratching their heads. Even today, almost five years after this interstellar visitor made its flyby, scientists are still uncertain about its true nature and origins. In the end, the only way to get real answers from ‘Oumuamua is to catch up with it.

Interestingly enough, there are many proposals on the table for missions that could do just that. Consider Project Lyra, a proposal by the Institute for Interstellar Studies (i4is), which would rely on advanced propulsions technology to rendezvous with interstellar objects (ISOs) and study them. According to their latest study, if their mission concept launched in 2028 and performed a complex Jupiter Oberth maneuver (JOM), it would be able to catch up to ‘Oumuamua in 26 years.

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Jan 24, 2022

New VR Boots Allow Users to ‘Physically’ Explore Virtual Spaces

Posted by in categories: space, virtual reality

Ekto VR’s new ‘moon boots’ could solve the ‘infinite walking’ problem of Virtual Reality via an array of motorized wheels.

Jan 24, 2022

Researchers develop an AI light-field Camera that reads 3D Facial Expressions

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, robotics/AI

Researchers from Korea’s one of the best science and technology universities, KAIST’s Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, have developed a new artificial intelligence-powered light field camera that can read 3D facial expressions.

The highly capable camera uses a technique that uses infrared light to read facial expressions. Professors Ki-Hun Jeong and Doheon Lee led the research team which developed this artificial intelligence-enabled technology.

The newly developed light-field camera comes with micro-lens arrays in front of the image sensor, allowing it to capture the spatial and directional information of light in a single shot, making it tiny enough to fit into a smartphone.

Jan 24, 2022

Facebook is building ‘the most powerful AI computer in the world’

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, supercomputing

Meta says it wants to build the most powerful artificial intelligence supercomputer in the world.

The Facebook owner has already designed and built what it calls the AI Research SuperCluster, or RSC, which it says is among the fastest AI supercomputers in the world.

It hopes to top that league by mid-2022, it said, in what would be a major step towards increasing its artificial intelligence capabilities.

Jan 24, 2022

A Fight Over Rooftop Solar Threatens California’s Climate Goals

Posted by in categories: climatology, solar power, sustainability

Utility regulators have proposed slashing the incentives homeowners receive to install solar panels, a long-sought goal of utilities and labor unions.

Jan 24, 2022

Google Unveils the Coral Dev Board Micro, Its First Microcontroller-Based TinyML Edge AI Board

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

The latest entry in the Coral range of low-power edge AI development boards is also Google’s first microcontroller board — “coming soon.”

Jan 24, 2022

Meta says its new AI supercomputer will be the world’s fastest

Posted by in categories: augmented reality, robotics/AI, supercomputing

Has the first phase of a new AI. Once the AI Research SuperCluster (RSC) is fully built out later this year, the company believes it will be the fastest AI supercomputer on the planet, capable of “performing at nearly 5 exaflops of mixed precision compute.”

The company says RSC will help researchers develop better AI models that can learn from trillions of examples. Among other things, the models will be able to build better augmented reality tools and “seamlessly analyze text, images and video together,” according to Meta. Much of this work is in service of its vision for the metaverse, in which it says AI-powered apps and products will have a key role.

“We hope RSC will help us build entirely new AI systems that can, for example, power real-time voice translations to large groups of people, each speaking a different language, so they can seamlessly collaborate on a research project or play an AR game together,” technical program manager Kevin Lee and software engineer Shubho Sengupta wrote.

Jan 24, 2022

Cities are using beets to deice streets this winter

Posted by in categories: chemistry, transportation

In an attempt to clear the winter roads (and make deicing easier on the environment, vehicles, and infrastructure), cities across the U.S. are exploring rock salt alternatives — and beet juice is one of the most promising.

Ice breaker: Adding salt to water can drop its freezing point below 32 degrees Fahrenheit.

That little quirk of chemistry has proven incredibly useful for driving in winter weather — by dumping rock salt on roads when it snows, we can prevent water on them from freezing (or melt ice that’s formed) until temperatures sink below 15 degrees Fahrenheit.

Jan 24, 2022

Nuclear Bomb Simulation Shows How Devastating Nukes Can Be in a Major City

Posted by in categories: engineering, military

What would happen if a nuclear bomb 100 times the size of the one dropped on Hiroshima hit a city of 4 million people?

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Jan 24, 2022

New humanoid robot Tocabi | Elon Musk’s Mechazilla SpaceX Tower | High Tech News

Posted by in categories: drones, Elon Musk, media & arts, military, robotics/AI, space travel

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