Jun 14, 2021
NOAA discovers a new, beautifully weird sea creature
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: biotech/medical
Exceptionally high-quality videos allow scientists to formally introduce a remarkable new comb jelly.
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Jun 14, 2021
Astronomers discover largest known spinning structures in the universe
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: space
Tendrils of galaxies up to hundreds of millions of light-years long may be the largest spinning objects in the universe, a new study finds.
Jun 14, 2021
Tanzania Considers Crypto—And Boosts Bitcoin—As Nations Line Up Behind El Salvador To Embrace Decentralized Finance
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: bitcoin, finance, law
Tanzania considers crypto—and boosts bitcoin—as nations line up behind el salvador to embrace decentralized finance.
El Salvador voted to adopt bitcoin as legal tender last week.
Jun 14, 2021
Qualcomm reportedly offers to invest in Arm as regulators threaten to block Nvidias $40 billion acquisition
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: computing, finance
U.S. chip goliath Qualcomm has said it is open to the idea of investing in U.K. chip designer Arm if the company’s $40 billion sale to Nvidia is blocked by regulators, according to The Telegraph newspaper.
Qualcomm’s incoming CEO, Cristiano Amon, said Qualcomm would be willing to buy a stake in Arm alongside other industry investors if SoftBank, Arm’s current owner, listed the company on the stock market instead of selling it to Nvidia, the newspaper reported Sunday.
“If Arm has an independent future, I think you will find there is a lot of interest from a lot of the companies within the ecosystem, including Qualcomm, to invest in Arm,” Amon said. “If it moves out of SoftBank and it goes into a process of becoming a publicly-traded company, [with] a consortium of companies that invest, including many of its customers, I think those are great possibilities.”
Jun 14, 2021
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs Intel Core i7-11700K
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: computing
Eight-core vs. eight-core, fight!
We put Intel’s Core i7-11700K up against AMD’s Ryzen 7 5800X in a six-round battle of eight-core CPUs.
Jun 14, 2021
Goodbye Kepler: NVIDIA announces that GeForce GTX 600 and 700 series cards will stop receiving new Game Ready Drivers from August 2021
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
NVIDIA released a low-key update on its plans for end-of-lifing cards based on the Kepler architecture. According to a new post on NVIDIA’s support site, Kepler cards like the GeForce GTX 780 Ti will no longer receive driver updates from August 2021 onwards.
Jun 14, 2021
Tesla CEO Elon Musk Says He Is Selling His Last Home In A Week, Heres Why
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation
The Tesla chief’s tweets about his homes come only a week after news outlet ProPublica reported that billionaires like Musk, along with Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Berkshire Hathway CEO Warren Buffett paid little income tax relative to their outsize wealth.
Jun 14, 2021
Guys!
Posted by Alex Vikoulov in categories: education, evolution, media & arts, neuroscience
I’m so thrilled to present to you my debut work in documentary filmmaking! You can now watch my new film Consciousness: Evolution of the Mind in its entirety on major networks, such as Vimeo on demand, worldwide.
*Based on my recent book The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind’s Evolution. Enjoy!
Jun 14, 2021
Mayflower AI sea drone readies maiden transatlantic voyage
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: drones, robotics/AI
Mayflower will make the two-week trip from the UK to the US guided by an AI-powered captain and without humans on board.
Jun 14, 2021
Optical cryostat proves a game-changer in quantum communication studies
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: nanotechnology, quantum physics
German nanotechnology specialist attocube says its attoDRY800 cryostat enables quantum scientists to “reclaim the optical table” and focus on their research not the experimental set-up.
Twin-track innovations in cryogenic cooling and optical table design are “creating the space” for fundamental scientific breakthroughs in quantum communications, allowing researchers to optimize the performance of secure, long-distance quantum key distribution (QKD) using engineered single-photon-emitting light sources.
In a proof-of-concept study last year, Tobias Heindel and colleagues in the Institute of Solid State Physics at the Technische Universität (TU) Berlin, Germany, implemented a basic QKD testbed in their laboratory. The experimental set-up uses a semiconductor quantum-dot emitter to send single-photon pulses along an optical fibre to a four-port receiver that analyses the polarization state of the transmitted qubits.
