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Aug 3, 2021
Tesla Now Has More Than 1.25 Million Pre-Orders For The Cybertruck
Posted by Genevieve Klien 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 Genevieve Klien 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 Genevieve Klien 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 Genevieve Klien 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 Genevieve Klien 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 Genevieve Klien 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 Atanas Atanasov 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 Omuterema Akhahenda 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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