I highly recommend checking this fantastic look at Deep Blue and the fascinating role chess has played in the ongoing development of artificial intelligence.
After an electrical engineer enters the field of computer chess, his creation captures the attention of the world as he attempts to defeat the world chess champion.
Researchers from Spain have found a cleaner and cheaper way to extract hydrogen from water.
Could this help make hydrogen the preferred fuel source of the future? đ article from theregister.com.
Itâs really dope. Yep itâs an energy-efficient process kicked off by gadolinium-doped cerium dioxide.
It seems Starlink will give other service providers a run for their money. đ
Managing Expectations
SpaceX made its expectations clear from the beginning: The space company called the public test a âBetter Than Nothing Betaâ and suggested users might see speeds of 50 to 150 Mbps.
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Origami-inspired tissue engineering â using eggshells, plant leaves, marine sponges, and paper as substrates.
Ira Pastor ideaXme life sciences ambassador interviews Dr. Gulden Camci-Unal, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, at the Department Chemical Engineering, Francis College of Engineering, UMass Lowell.
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Weâre all too familiar with the work-play balance we strive to juggle in the 21st century. Itâs virtually impossible, right? Weâre often faced with a long and busy commute to work, using dated public transport or busy highways, only to find ourselves sitting in a dull office all day long. Well Tencent is about to revolutionize the work-play life of 80,000 people in the city of Shenzhen, with a next-century approach!
Following Huaweiâs campus-style city, Chinese technology company Tencent, the driving power behind instant messaging apps WeChat and QQ, has made promises to build an entire mini-city off the banks of the Pearl River in Shenzhen, where the company has its headquarters. Both are located in the Guangdong province of Southern China, near the metropolis of Hong Kong.
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Initial commercial 5G mobile services were rolled out last year in South Korea, the United States, Australia, Britain, Switzerland, Spain and Monaco. Yet the scale of Chinaâs market is likely to dwarf the combined size of those economies, negating any first-mover advantage.
While most people see 5G as a technical upgrade to 4G, the next-generation mobile system is expected to be a major building block of the fourth industrial revolution.
Astronomers at the University of Hawaii issued a statement on October 26, 2020, revealing critical new findings linked to the large near-Earth asteroid 99942 Apophis, which is expected to pass close to Earth in 2029, 2036 and again in 2068. Dave Tholen and collaborators announced they have now detected a Yarkovsky acceleration on asteroid Apophis, arising from a minuscule push imparted by sunlight. This force is particularly important for asteroid Apophis, the scientists in Hawaii said, because it relates to the possibility of an Earth impact in 2068.
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Tholen and colleagues used the 323-inch (8.2-meter) Subaru Telescope at Mauna Kea, Hawaii, to make the new observations. Their work suggests that the huge space rock â whose estimated diameter is between 1,115 and 1,214 feet (340 to 370 meters) â is drifting more than 500 feet (about 170 meters) per year from its expected position in its orbit.
âThere are two critical factors in this world: time and energy. Time is the only limited resource and therefore the most important one in our lives. Energy moves everything â our bodies, our lives and even all the digital revolution that is not physical depends on energy to be shared. We have no more time to cure the world and the Covid-19 is an amazing gift to better understand the important and critical things of our lives. It is a very important wake-up call for everyone.â
As more Israeli companies continue to seek solutions to economic and environmental challenges, weâll see more local investors deploy capital in this space. Lack of acquisitions in this space â as opposed to a vertical like cybersecurity â are one main reason for the initial hesitancy of Israeli VCs.
Regardless of social impact or double bottom line investing, Israel is poised to lead another vertical impacting our global community. This has life-altering ramifications for future generations.
An international team of planetary scientists led by astronomers at AOP have found an asteroid trailing behind Mars with a composition very similar to the moonâs. The asteroid could be an ancient piece of debris, dating back to the gigantic impacts that formed the moon and the other rocky planets in our solar system like Mars and the Earth. The research, which was published in the journal Icarus, also has implications for finding such primordial objects associated with our own planet.
Trojans are a class of asteroid that follows the planets in their orbits as a flock of sheep might follow a shepherd, trapped within gravitational âsafe havensâ 60 degrees in front of, and behind, the planet (Figure 1). They are of great interest to scientists as they represent leftover material from the formation and early evolution of the solar system. Several thousands of those Trojans exist along the orbit of the giant planet Jupiter. Closer to the Sun, astronomers have so far discovered only a handful of Trojans of Mars, the planet next door to Earth.
A team including scientists from Italy, Bulgaria and the US and led by the Armagh Observatory and Planetarium (AOP) in Northern Ireland has been studying the Trojans of Mars to understand what they tell us about the early history of the inner worlds of our solar systemâthe so-called terrestrial planetsâbut also to inform searches for Trojans of the Earth. Ironically, it is much easier to find Trojans of Mars than for our own planet because these Earth Trojans, if they exist, sit always close to the Sun in the sky where it is difficult to point a telescope. An Earth Trojan, named 2010 TK7, was found a decade ago by NASAâs WISE space telescope, but computer modeling showed it is a temporary visitor from the belt of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter rather than a relic planetesimal from the Earthâs formation.
