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Jan 23, 2021
Watch a diver swim right next to a 12-foot giant squid in Japan
Posted by Heather Blevins in category: futurism
Giant squids can grow as long as 43 feet and dwell in the deep sea. Sightings are very rare, but in 2012, a diver swam right next to one in Japan.
Jan 23, 2021
Quebec researchers say they have found an effective drug to fight COVID-19
Posted by Poopeh Morakkabati in category: biotech/medical
MONTREAL — A team of researchers from the Montreal Heart Institute believe they have found an effective weapon against COVID-19: colchicine, an oral tablet already known and used for other diseases.
For Dr. Jean-Claude Tardif, who led the study, this is a “major scientific discovery,” he said. Colchicine is the first “effective oral drug to treat out-of-hospital patients.”
“To be able to offer this, from Quebec, and for the planet, we are very happy,” said Tardif.
Intelligent Design
DNA is already known to be an ideal storage medium. Why not use cells to do the hard work?
Jan 23, 2021
Awesomely weird Alibaba EV of the week: $4,000 electric pickup truck
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: sustainability, transportation
Alibaba is one of the best places around to find the coolest and sometimes weirdest electric vehicles in the world. As part of a new series known as Awesomely weird Alibaba electric vehicle of the week, we’re taking a look at some of our favorites.
This week’s feature is a small-yet-mighty electric pickup truck designed for utility and off-road usage, though it may even be street legal as an NEV in the US.
If the proportions look at bit odd on this electric pickup truck, that’s because they are.
Jan 23, 2021
New Airplanes: Jets, Turboprops, Experimentals & LSAs
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: transportation
We review a selection of new aircraft on the market, including turbine-powered long-range and super midsized offerings, twin and single-engine turboprops, single-engine experimental and tailwheel aircraft, and light sport aircraft.
Jan 23, 2021
How to Use a Motion Sensor with Raspberry Pi Pico
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: electronics
The Raspberry Pi Pico GPIO is our way to connect components and devices which we can use in our experiments, Here we create a motion sensor project using a sensor and an LED.
Jan 23, 2021
AI to the Future
Posted by Kelly Idehen in categories: robotics/AI, singularity, transportation
From self-driving cars, to the many automated production processes we will end up creating; we will allow AI drive us into the next era of human civilization.
We will allow the creation to create, and according to futurist and technologists’ world over, there is only one likely path where this road will lead to — the Singularity (the point where computer intelligence surpasses human intelligence).
- The Above is an excerpt from the book, 2020s & The Future Beyond.
Jan 23, 2021
TikTok Star Sets Up Bed in Tesla to Sleep While Autopilot Drives
Posted by Raphael Ramos in category: robotics/AI
Jan 23, 2021
How Explainable Artificial Intelligence Can Help Humans Innovate
Posted by Raphael Ramos in categories: biological, chemistry, information science, particle physics, robotics/AI, transportation
I like this idea. I don’t want AI to be a black box, I want to know what’s happening and how its doing it.
The field of artificial intelligence has created computers that can drive cars, synthesize chemical compounds, fold proteins, and detect high-energy particles at a superhuman level.
However, these AI algorithms cannot explain the thought processes behind their decisions. A computer that masters protein folding and also tells researchers more about the rules of biology is much more useful than a computer that folds proteins without explanation.
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