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Jan 17, 2021

Accelerating AI computing to the speed of light

Posted by in categories: information science, robotics/AI

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are already an integral part of our everyday lives online. For example, search engines such as Google use intelligent ranking algorithms, and video streaming services such as Netflix use machine learning to personalize movie recommendations.

As the demands for AI online continue to grow, so does the need to speed up AI performance and find ways to reduce its energy consumption.

Now a University of Washington-led team has come up with a system that could help: an core prototype that uses phase-change material. This system is fast, energy efficient and capable of accelerating the used in AI and . The technology is also scalable and directly applicable to cloud computing.

Jan 17, 2021

Virgin Orbit set to try and send satellites to space for the first time

Posted by in category: satellites

Virgin Orbit, a sister company of Richard Branson’s space tourism effort, is set to try to send its rocket into orbit for the first time ever on January 17th after failing to do so last year. It will also attempt to send satellites into space for the first time. The four-hour launch window opens at 1PM ET.

Jan 17, 2021

Sharper signals: how machine learning is cleaning up microscopy images

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Computers trained to reduce the noise in micrographs can now tackle fresh data by themselves.

Jan 17, 2021

Science of The Expanse — Could you Survive the Vacuum of Space?

Posted by in category: science

The vacuum of space is no place for a human without a suit, but would it kill you immediately?

#season5 #expanse #spaced

Jan 17, 2021

Scientists Successfully Store Data Inside DNA of Living Bacteria

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

No data degradation, no problem.

Jan 17, 2021

NASA’s Juno has a new mission to explore moons of Jupiter

Posted by in category: space

NASA announced a new mission to Jupiter that would be extended through 2025.

Jan 17, 2021

Xicato extends SSL-engine lumen and color warranty to ten years

Posted by in category: futurism

Cold or remote phosphor techniques enable Xicato to back its LED light engine for ten years even with tight initial photometric specifications.

Jan 17, 2021

Why Goodyear’s Illuminated Tires Were Way Ahead of Their Time

Posted by in category: futurism

Eighteen bulbs were stuffed into the center of the wheel, brightly illuminating the 1950s with brilliant hues for the pure purpose of flair.

Jan 17, 2021

Creating Opportunities through education, technology and empowerment in Africa W/Brenda Ramokoplewa

Posted by in categories: education, futurism

In this edition of Future Discussions Ugochukwu discusses with the Head of TAFFD’s Africa on the vision and strategies for creating opportunities for education, technology and empowerment in Africa using the global channel that TAFFDs Africa is creating.

Brenda talks about why she joined TAFFD’s Inc and the amazing work she and her team has been doing to foster the progress of Africa. She equally talks about the 4th Industrial Revolution, what is means for Africa and the work TAFFD’s Africa is doing to prepare young Africans to leverage the opportunities therein.

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Jan 17, 2021

The Physical Effects of Living in Space Could Create a New Human Species

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, sex

The Moon and Mars are remote and forbidding but it’s fairly easy to turn their soil into construction material and mine it for water to drink and oxygen to breathe.


Several astronauts have spent more than a year in zero gravity, and they experienced muscle loss, brittle bones and difficulties with vision. A space station could be spun up to ameliorate these problems, and for colonists on the Moon and Mars, gravity would be reduced, not absent. Their capillaries and cardiovascular systems would adjust, and muscle mass would be shed.

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