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Oct 11, 2020

What Elon Musk’s 42,000 Satellites Could Do To Earth

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What Elon Musk’s 42,000 Starlink satellites could do for — and to — earth.

Oct 11, 2020

Meet China’s Elon Musk, who wants to help China lead the space race

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Oct 11, 2020

Elon Musk: From Failures To Success

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The story of Elon Musk will inspire you smile

Oct 11, 2020

SpaceX crew launch delayed to assess Merlin engine concern

Posted by in categories: computing, Elon Musk, space travel

NASA said Saturday that the launch of four astronauts on SpaceX’s first operational Crew Dragon mission to the International Space Station has been delayed from Oct. 31 until “no sooner than early-to-mid November,” allowing time for SpaceX to resolve an issue with Falcon 9 rocket engines that halted a recent launch attempt with a GPS navigation satellite.

The engine concern appeared during an Oct. 2 launch attempt of a Falcon 9 rocket with a GPS satellite at Cape Canaveral, prompting computers controlling the final seconds of the countdown to abort the mission just two seconds prior to liftoff.

Elon Musk, SpaceX’s founder and CEO, tweeted after the abort that the countdown was stopped after an “unexpected pressure rise in the turbomachinery gas generator,” referring to equipment used on the rocket’s Merlin main engines. The gas generators on the Merlin 1D engines drives the engines’ turbopumps.

Oct 11, 2020

Nobel Prize winner develops test that can detect coronavirus in 5 minutes

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, mobile phones

California-based researchers develop a test that can detect the coronavirus using gene-editing technology and a modified mobile phone camera.

Oct 11, 2020

1000X Cheaper, 300X Faster: How Amazon Is Disrupting Robot Intelligence

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

And Amazon eats its own dogfood … training its own 200,000+ robots.

Oct 11, 2020

Astronomers hope UN can help protect dark skies against megaconstellation threat

Posted by in category: satellites

The long-term goal is to get UN guidelines picked up as national licensing regulations.


Astronomers have studied the megaconstellation threat, alerted the public about it and helped satellite operators dim their spacecraft. But some scientists are now taking another step, one that they hope will have even more significant and lasting effects.

Oct 11, 2020

Australia wants AI to handle divorces — here’s why

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, government, robotics/AI

An online app called Amica is now using artificial intelligence to help separating couples make parenting arrangements and divide their assets.

For many people, the coronavirus pandemic has put even the strongest of relationships to the test. A May survey conducted by Relationships Australia found 42% of 739 respondents experienced a negative change in their relationship with their partner under lockdown restrictions.

There has also been a surge in the number of couples seeking separation advice. The Australian government has backed the use of Amica for those in such circumstances. The chatbot uses artificial intelligence (AI) to make suggestions for how splitting couples can divide their money and property based on their circumstances.

Oct 11, 2020

Home-Made Covid Vaccine Appeared to Work, but Questions Remained

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

“Our DIY Covid-19 DNA vaccine showed neutralizing antibodies in all three individuals, Me, David Ishee Dariia Dantseva

That was exciting but our goal was to teach people how to test expression in human cells, perform ELISAs &c. and that was more important.

People wrongly think I am completely against the FDA. I’m not. They are good at what they do i.e. helping drug companies make money by making mass produced drugs that help the most amount of people and hurt the least amount of people.

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Oct 10, 2020

This robot is a more affordable Boston Dynamics Spot look-alike

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

You can buy your own robot dog.


Presenting a (comparatively) more affordable robot dog: the $10,000 Unitree A1.