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Feb 18, 2021

Brewery Produces Six-Pack Rings That Turtles Can Eat

Posted by in category: futurism

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Feb 18, 2021

Scientists Achieve Real-Time Communication With Lucid Dreamers In Breakthrough

Posted by in category: innovation

International scientists have unlocked a new and exciting avenue to explore the world of dreams.

Feb 18, 2021

A system that automatically generates comic books from movies and other videos

Posted by in categories: computing, entertainment

Over the past few years, computer scientists have created numerous computational techniques that can automatically generate texts, images and other types of data. These models are highly advantageous, particularly for creating data or creative works that are demanding and time-consuming for humans to produce manually.

Feb 18, 2021

Samsung announces high bandwidth memory, processing-in-memory architecture

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Samsung Electronics has announced on its Newsroom webpage the development of a new kind of memory chip architecture called high-bandwidth memory, processing-in-memory—HBM-PIM. The architecture adds artificial intelligence processing to high-bandwidth memory chips. The new chips will be marketed as a way to speed up data centers, boost speed in high performance computers and to further enable AI applications.

Feb 18, 2021

New metamaterials for studying the oldest light in the universe

Posted by in categories: cosmology, mapping, particle physics

The cosmic microwave background, or CMB, is the electromagnetic echo of the Big Bang, radiation that has been traveling through space and time since the very first atoms were born 380000 years after our universe began. Mapping minuscule variations in the CMB tells scientists about how our universe came to be and what it’s made of.

Feb 18, 2021

How We Chose the 2021 TIME100 Next

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, futurism

As we assembled our second annual TIME100 Next list—an expansion of our flagship TIME100 franchise that highlights 100 emerging leaders who are shaping the future—what struck me most was how its members are coping with crisis.

Amid a global pandemic, deepening inequality, systemic injustice and existential questions about truth, democracy and the planet itself, the individuals on this year’s list provide “clear-eyed hope,” as actor, composer and director Lin-Manuel Miranda puts it in his tribute to poet and TIME100 Next honoree Amanda Gorman. They are doctors and scientists fighting COVID-19, advocates pushing for equality and justice, journalists standing up for truth, and artists sharing their visions of present and future.

Feb 18, 2021

Quebec invests in Telesat Lightspeed constellation

Posted by in categories: government, satellites

The Quebec government will invest 400 million Canadian dollars ($315.5 million) in Telesat’s Lightspeed low-Earth orbit communications network, MDA will produce the constellation’s phased array antennas and prime contractor Thales Alenia Space will manufacture the satellites in Quebec.

Feb 18, 2021

Mimicking a Chronic Immune Response Changes the Brain

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Chronic increases of the cytokine IL-17a circulating in the blood of mice reduced microglia activity in one region of the hippocampus, an area of the brain critical for memory and learning.

Feb 18, 2021

IBM proposes AI chip with benchmark-beating power efficiency

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

IBM claims to have developed an AI accelerator chip for training and inferencing that beats other leading chips on benchmarks.

Feb 18, 2021

Meet Elizabeth Ann, the First Cloned Black-Footed Ferret

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

Her birth represents the first cloning of an endangered species native to North America, and may bring needed genetic diversity to the species.