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Jan 22, 2021

Impulse neuro controller reduces PC gaming reaction times

Posted by in categories: cyborgs, entertainment, robotics/AI, transhumanism

Brink Bionics completed a very successful [Indiegogo](https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/impulse-neuro-controller-for-pc-gaming#/) crowdfunding campaign in 2020 and gained the confidence to [take part in the CES](

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Jan 22, 2021

Episode 34 — Why Geology Is Crucial To Unlocking The Mysteries Of Our Solar System

Posted by in categories: evolution, space

Great new episode with University of Arizona planetary geophysicist Erik Asphaug who talks candidly about what we know and don’t know about the structure of our inner solar system. Well worth a listen.


Planetary geophysicist Erik Asphaug of the University of Arizona discusses what we really know about our solar system; its age; its formation; and its evolution. Asphaug also addresses some major puzzles. Is our solar system truly anomalous? Is the composition and spacing of our eight planets also anomalous? And what we need to do to further planetary science.

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Jan 22, 2021

SpaceX’s First Launch of 2021!!

Posted by in category: internet

STARLINK.

Jan 21, 2021

Construction could be revolutionized by a robot that lays 3,000 bricks a day

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Lean, mean bricklaying machine.


Construction is difficult to automate because of the complex, individualized and customized work it requires.

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Jan 21, 2021

Artificial intelligence researchers rank the top A.I. labs worldwide

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI

LONDON — Artificial intelligence researchers don’t like it when you ask them to name the top AI labs in the world, possibly because it’s so hard to answer.

There are some obvious contenders when it comes to commercial AI labs. U.S. Big Tech — Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft — have all set up dedicated AI labs over the last decade. There’s also DeepMind, which is owned by Google parent company Alphabet, and OpenAI, which counts Elon Musk as a founding investor.


DeepMind, OpenAI, and Facebook AI Research are fighting it out to be the top AI research lab in the world.

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Jan 21, 2021

Artificial cornea allows a blind man to regain his eyesight

Posted by in category: futurism

Jan 21, 2021

At-home COVID testing arrives

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

The race is on. Tech startups across the globe are competing to deliver to the rest of us what Google employees already enjoy : regular at-home COVID tests.

At-home medical testing was gaining steam pre-pandemic and is now a red-hot market with more than two dozen companies developing at-home COVID tests.

Jan 21, 2021

Lasers turn pure aluminum … ‘gold’

Posted by in categories: chemistry, physics

The ultimate goal of the Old World alchemist was to turn inexpensive metals into gold. Modern-day physicists at the University of Rochester’s Institute of Optics (Rochester, NY), have turned aluminum and other metals gold—in color if not chemistry. A femtosecond laser processing technique created by professor Chunlei Guo and his assistant Anatoliy Vorobeyv alters the surface properties of aluminum, platinum, titanium, tungsten, silver, and gold to create tints of gold, blue, gray, black, and even multicolored irridescence.

Jan 21, 2021

The Miracle Machine Turns Water Into Wine

Posted by in category: food

How would you like to be able to create your own wine in only a couple of days? A new Kickstarter project called The Miracle Machine does just that.

Jan 21, 2021

Researchers develop new graphene nanochannel water filters

Posted by in categories: materials, nanotechnology

When sheets of two-dimensional nanomaterials like graphene are stacked on top of each other, tiny gaps form between the sheets that have a wide variety of potential uses. In research published in the journal Nature Communications, a team of Brown University researchers has found a way to orient those gaps, called nanochannels, in a way that makes them more useful for filtering water and other liquids of nanoscale contaminants.

“In the last decade, a whole field has sprung up to study these spaces that form between 2-D nanomaterials,” said Robert Hurt, a professor in Brown’s School of Engineering and coauthor of the research. “You can grow things in there, you can store things in there, and there’s this emerging field of nanofluidics where you’re using those channels to filter out some molecules while letting others go through.”

There’s a problem, however, with using these nanochannels for filtration, and it has to do with the way those channels are oriented. Like a notebook made from stacked sheets of paper, graphene stacks are thin in the vertical direction compared to their horizontal length and width. That means that the channels between the sheets are likewise oriented horizontally. That’s not ideal for filtration, because liquid has to travel a relatively long way to get from one end of a to the other. It would be better if the channels were perpendicular to the orientation of the sheets. In that case, liquid would only need to traverse the relatively thin vertical height of the stack rather than the much longer length and width.