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Aug 30, 2021

AI won’t rise up and kill us. It’ll erase our minds and steal our bodies

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

If you’re worried about killer robots, we’ve got some good news for you: Future evil AI overlords are more likely to steal your body than murder you! Yay! property= description.

Aug 30, 2021

Mars’ scenic sands star in Chinese rover’s sweeping red planet panorama

Posted by in category: space

The Zhurong rover has quite an eye for landscape photography.

Aug 30, 2021

MIT’s trillion-frames-per-second camera can capture light as it travels

Posted by in category: electronics

“There’s nothing in the universe that looks fast to this camera.”

Aug 30, 2021

From Starhopper to Dragon: 3 years of SpaceX in 12 images

Posted by in category: space travel

SpaceX has come a long way in the three years since Starhopper’s debut. Here’s the progress being made on the Starship and Dragon spacecraft today.

Aug 30, 2021

Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 888 Plus with 3 GHz CPU, better AI engine

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

The chip also comes with improved AI performance.

Aug 30, 2021

As Delta cases surge, hospitals fill up across the U.S.

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

COVID cases across the country rose by nearly 18% this week.

Aug 30, 2021

McDonald’s considers closing indoor seating amid surge of delta variant

Posted by in category: materials

“We have a much deeper sense of what actions make a difference for the safety of our restaurant teams and crew,” McDonald’s USA President Joe Erlinger said during a Wednesday meeting, according to the materials.

In Wednesday’s conference call, McDonald’s executives recommended franchisees consider closing indoor seating in counties where Covid cases exceed 250 per 100,000 people on a rolling three-week average.

Aug 30, 2021

400-Million-Year-Old Fossils Reveal How the First Roots Evolved

Posted by in categories: biological, climatology, evolution, sustainability

A plant fossil from a geological formation in Scotland sheds light on the development of the earliest known form of roots. A team led by researchers at GMI – the Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Oxford realize the first 3D reconstruction of a Devonian plant based exclusively on fossil evidence. The findings demonstrate that the appearance of different axis types at branching points resulted in the evolution complexity soon after land plants evolved sometime before 400 million years ago. The results are published in eLife.

New research demonstrates how the oldest known root axed developed more than 400 million years ago. The evolution of roots at this time was a dramatic event that impacted our planet and atmosphere and resulted in transformative ecological and climate change.

Aug 30, 2021

Metallic Nanostructures for Generating Exotic Forms of Light

Posted by in categories: nanotechnology, particle physics, quantum physics

LSU Quantum researchers rearrange photon distribution to create different light sources.

For decades, scholars have believed that the quantum statistical properties of bosons are preserved in plasmonic systems, and therefore will not create different form of light.

This rapidly growing field of research focuses on quantum properties of light and its interaction with matter at the nanoscale level. Stimulated by experimental work in the possibility of preserving nonclassical correlations in light-matter interactions mediated by scattering of photons and plasmons, it has been assumed that similar dynamics underlie the conservation of the quantum fluctuations that define the nature of light sources. The possibility of using nanoscale system to create exotic forms of light could pave the way for next-generation quantum devices. It could also constitute a novel platform for exploring novel quantum phenomena.

Aug 30, 2021

Google’s New AI Photo Upscaling Tech is Jaw-Dropping

Posted by in categories: innovation, robotics/AI

Google shares its latest breakthroughs in the area of using artificial intelligence to upscale low-res photos, and the results are amazing.