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Jun 7, 2020

Watch SpaceX launch humans to space

Posted by in category: space travel

SpaceX just launched humans to space for the first time.

Jun 7, 2020

Pentagon Wants Cyborg Implant To Make Soldiers Tougher

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, military

DARPA is developing bioelectronic devices that would dwell in the gut and produce therapeutic drugs on demand.

Jun 7, 2020

World’s Cheapest New Car Is Electric And It Comes In A Box From China

Posted by in category: transportation

This tall and narrow battery-powered vehicle made in China by Changli isn’t really a car, but it will get you places and it’s extremely cheap.

Jun 7, 2020

A look at Tesla battery degradation and replacement after 400,000 miles

Posted by in categories: life extension, sustainability

In this new installment of our series on the highest-mileage Tesla Model X (and one of the highest mileage EVs in the world), we look into battery degradation and replacement on a Tesla with over 400,000 miles.

Earlier this year, I bought one of the cheapest and most high-mileage Tesla Model X vehicles ever.

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Jun 7, 2020

Fiat Introduces All-Electric E-Ducato Van

Posted by in category: transportation

FCA’s commercial vehicle arm Fiat Professional presents the production version of its all-electric Ducato van, the Fiat E-Ducato, a year after the first prototype was shown in mid-2019. It will be the first electric Ducato in the 39-year history of the model.

It’s expected to enter the European market within the next few months, starting from selected countries, and will be available in all body variants, offering a payload of up to 1,950 kg and load volume from 10 to 17 m3.

Jun 7, 2020

Quantum Dots Shift Sunlight’s Spectrum to Speed Plant Growth

Posted by in categories: information science, quantum physics

In the consumer electronics industry, quantum dots are used to dramatically improve color reproduction in TV displays. That’s because LCD TV displays, the kind in most of our living rooms, require a backlight. This light is typically made up of white, or white-ish LEDs. The LCD filters the white light into red, green, and blue pixels; their combinations create the colors that appear on the screen.

Before quantum dots, filtering meant that much of the light didn’t make it to the screen. Putting a layer of quantum dots between the LEDs and the LCD, however, changes that equation. QD TVs use blue LEDs as the light source, then take advantage of the quantum effect to shift some of that light to tightly constrained red and green wavelengths. Because only this purified light reaches the filters—instead of the full spectrum that makes up white light—far less is blocked and wasted.

It turns out that this same approach to making your TV picture better can make plants grow faster, because plants, like LCD filters, are tuned to certain colors of light.

Jun 7, 2020

Richard Dawkins on scientific truth, outgrowing God and life beyond Earth

Posted by in category: biological

Richard Dawkins is one of the world’s most famous atheists. An evolutionary biology at Oxford and best-selling author of The God Delusion — his new book ‘Outgrowing God — A Beginner’s Guide’ aims to inform young people about religion and atheism. He talks to Krishnan about why he wrote it, his passion for scientific truth and whether he thinks there’s life outside of Earth.

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Jun 7, 2020

Fact About Milky Way

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Jun 7, 2020

Six planet system found in almost perfect orbital harmony

Posted by in categories: media & arts, space

Researchers discovered a star system with six planets which orbits in almost perfect rhythm…dubbed HD 158259 star is orbited by a super-Earth and five mini-Neptunes.

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Jun 7, 2020

Slack’s new integration deal with AWS could also be about tweaking Microsoft

Posted by in category: futurism

Slack and Amazon announced a big integration late yesterday afternoon. As part of the deal, Slack will use Amazon Chime for its call feature, while reiterating its commitment to use AWS as its preferred cloud provider to run its infrastructure. At the same time, Amazon has agreed to offer Slack as an option for all internal communications.

“Some parts of Amazon had licensed Slack before, but this is the first time it will be offered as an option to all employees,” an Amazon spokesperson told TechCrunch.

Make no mistake, this is a big deal as the SaaS communications tool increases its ties with AWS, but this agreement could also be about slighting Microsoft and its rival Teams product by making a deal with a cloud rival. In the past, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield has had choice words for Microsoft saying the Redmond technology giant sees his company as an “existential threat.”