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Jul 2, 2020

China completes new mega-airport

Posted by in category: transportation

Construction is complete on Beijing’s new mega-airport. This is what it looks like.

Jul 2, 2020

French company develops self-cleaning fabric that kills viruses

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

What if your seat on the subway could fight off coronavirus? A French company has designed a new type of ‘decontaminating’ fabric, which is already equipping local metro trains.

Jul 2, 2020

Zynq UltraScale+ Arm FPGA FZ3 Deep Learning Accelerator Card Supports Baidu Brain AI Tools

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

MYIR’s FZ3 card is a deep learning accelerator board powered by Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ ZU3EG Arm FPGA MPSoC delivering up to 1.2TOPS for artificial intelligence products based on Baidu Brain AI open platform.

The FZ3 card also features 4GB RAM, 8GB eMMC flash, USB 2.0 & USB 3.0 ports, Gigabit Ethernet, DisplayPort (DP) output, PCIe interface, MIPI-CSI and more.

MYIR FZ3 card specifications:

Jul 2, 2020

Why the Virus Stimulus Is Renewing the Universal Basic Income Debate | WSJ

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, economics

Do the stimulus checks being sent to individuals to help in the coronavirus crisis count as a form of universal basic income? Andrew Yang thinks so. But, as WSJ’s Jason Bellini reports, others believe the intention behind UBI is misguided. Photo: Tom Brenner/Getty Images.

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Jul 2, 2020

Beyond Meat Is Soaring Because China’s Retail Market Is a Big Deal

Posted by in category: food

News that the company’s faux-meat products will be available in retail stores in China helps answer concern that the highflying startup is too dependent on restaurant sales.

Jul 2, 2020

Tesla chief Elon Musk teams up with Covid-19 player CureVac to build ‘RNA microfactories’

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, Elon Musk

Thank you my hero.


Elon Musk has joined the global tech crusade now underway to revolutionize vaccine manufacturing — now aimed at delivering billions of doses of a new mRNA vaccine to fight Covid-19. And he’s cutting right to the front.

In a late-night tweet Wednesday, the Tesla chief announced:

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Jul 2, 2020

Tesla to Build Mobile RNA Microfactories for CureVac’s COVID-19 Vaccine

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, Elon Musk, robotics/AI

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Tesla, the electric car company founded and run by Elon Musk, is building mobile molecular printers to assist Germany’s CureVac in manufacturing its experimental COVID-19 vaccine. Musk tweeted the information on Wednesday, July 1.

The “printers” are portable, automated messenger RNA (mRNA) production units, which Musk referred to as “RNA microfactories.”

Jul 2, 2020

Artist uses AI to create stunning realistic portraits of historical figures

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Is this artificial intelligence or a time machine?

Bas Uterwijk, an Amsterdam-based artist, is using AI to create extremely lifelike photographs of historical figures and monuments such as the Statue of Liberty, artist Vincent van Gogh, George Washington and Queen Elizabeth I.

Using a program called Artbreeder, which is described as “deep learning software,” Uterwijk builds his photographs based on a compilation of portraits, reports the Daily Mail. The program pinpoints common facial features and photograph qualities to produce an image.

Jul 2, 2020

The Key Device Needed for a Quantum Internet

Posted by in categories: internet, quantum physics

As researchers worldwide work toward a potential quantum internet, a major roadblock remains: How to build a device called a quantum repeater.

Jul 2, 2020

First asteroid found within Venus’s orbit could be a clue to missing ‘mantle’ asteroids

Posted by in category: space

2020 AV2 has a composition similar to Earth’s mantle.