Unlike Hubble, which orbits Earth and was visited by NASA astronauts for fixes and upgrades, Webb is going a million miles away to Lagrange Point 2—so Webb almost certainly can’t be fixed if anything goes wrong (though never write-off NASA).
NASA’s $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or “Webb” for short) is due to go skywards—at long, long last—on December 18, 2021.
And he will also be the first space tourist to go to the moon in 2023.
Japanese billionaire and entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa is on his way to the International Space Station (ISS), after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard Russia’s Soyuz MS-20 crew ship today, December 8, at 2:38 am ET (07:38 GMT).
“Dream come true,” the entrepreneur tweeted before boarding the three-seat Soyuz spacecraft that would launch him up into orbit. He is joined by Russian cosmonaut and pilot Alexander Misurkin and film producer Yozo Hirano, who will document the expedition for Maezawa’s YouTube channel.
A ‘dream’ mission for Yuzaku Maezawa.
A new “common-sense” approach to computer vision enables artificial intelligence that interprets scenes more accurately than other systems do.
Computer vision systems sometimes make inferences about a scene that fly in the face of common sense. For example, if a robot were processing a scene of a dinner table, it might completely ignore a bowl that is visible to any human observer, estimate that a plate is floating above the table, or misperceive a fork to be penetrating a bowl rather than leaning against it.
Move that computer vision system to a self-driving car and the stakes become much higher — for example, such systems have failed to detect emergency vehicles and pedestrians crossing the street.
Imagine windows that can easily transform into mirrors, or super high-speed computers that run not on electrons but light. These are just some of the potential applications that could one day emerge from optical engineering, the practice of using lasers to rapidly and temporarily change the properties of materials.
“These tools could let you transform the electronic properties of materials at the flick of a light switch,” says Caltech Professor of Physics David Hsieh. “But the technologies have been limited by the problem of the lasers creating too much heat in the materials.”
In a new study in Nature, Hsieh and his team, including lead author and graduate student Junyi Shan, report success at using lasers to dramatically sculpt the properties of materials without the production of any excess damaging heat.
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0:00 In this issue.
0:23 Robot vacuum cleaner ROIDMI EVE Plus.
1:13 CIRO Solar Robot Robot Kit.
1:46 mBot Robotic Constructors by Makeblock.
2:30 Adeept PiCar Pro Robotics Kit.
2:50 Adeept raspclaw Hexapod Robot Spider.
3:10 Copies of Spot and Unity robots.
3:20 Ultrasonic device for phone disinfection.
3:35 Projector for your phone.
3:54 Wireless Record Player.
4:15 Gadgets to Find Lost Things.
4:31 Compact Smart Security Camera.
4:50 Smart Change Jar.
5:11 Face Tracking Phone Holder.
5:27 Smart Garden.
5:53 Smart ring.
6:28 Smart Mug.
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Beijing is making moves to challenge the dominance of the American military. Reports claim that China wants to establish its first permanent military presence on the Atlantic Ocean in Equatorial Guinea. Palki Sharma tells you more.
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Alphabet’s AI subsidiary DeepMind has built a new AI language model named Gopher. It has 280 billion parameters, making it significantly larger than OpenAI’s GPT-3.
Tesla is allowing drivers — yes, the person behind the wheel who is ideally preoccupied with tasks such as “steering” — to play video games on its vehicles’ massive console touchscreens while driving.
“I only did it for like five seconds and then turned it off,” Tesla owner Vince Patton told The New York Times. “I’m astonished. To me, it just seems inherently dangerous.”
The feature has reportedly been available for some time. Given that the company is already facing fierce scrutiny for rolling out its still unfinished Full Self-Driving beta to customers, it’s not exactly a good look.
The Neuro-Network.
𝐏𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐈𝐬 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐌𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐌𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐁𝐨𝐝𝐲
𝙄 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙗𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙮 𝙙𝙤𝙣’𝙩 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙖𝙮 𝙞𝙩, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙬𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙗𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙮 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙗𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙨𝙩𝙧… See more.
I probably don’t need to say it, but we should probably all be trying to be less stressed.
