Dec 5, 2020
Northeast braces for first significant snowstorm of the winter from possible ‘bomb cyclone’
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: climatology
Some areas west of Interstate 95 could see double-digit snowfall totals and power outages.
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Dec 5, 2020
Why Bitcoin will Overtake the Dollar | The Fall of the Dollar
Posted by TJ Yoo in category: bitcoin
Recently, there has been a lot of talk about the impending collapse of the dollar and the rise of Bitcoin. Unfortunately, today I am here to confirm that much of this talk is accurate.
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Dec 5, 2020
96K Californians could experience another round of PG&E shutoffs
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: energy
Pacific Gas and Electric said it may soon implement another round of Public Safety Power Shutoffs due to forecast high winds.
The latest shutoff would impact about 96,191 customers in 16 counties.
Dec 5, 2020
INeuraLS — Advanced NeuroTech For Rapid Knowledge and Skill Acquisition — US AirForce Research Labs
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, computing, military, neuroscience
Ineurals — advanced neuro-technologies for rapid learning and skill acquisition.
The 711th Human Performance Wing, under the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory leads the development, integration, and delivery of Airman-centric research, education, and consultation enabling the U.S. Air Force to achieve responsive and effective global vigilance, global reach, and global power now and in the future. It’s comprised of the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine and the Airman Systems Directorate, whose science and technology competencies include Training, Adaptive Warfighter Interfaces, Bioeffects, Bioengineering, and Aerospace and Operational Medicine.
Dec 5, 2020
Thread That Can Explore The Brain
Posted by Heather Blevins in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
MIT engineers designed a magnetic thread that will snake its way through your brain’s blood vessels.
Dec 5, 2020
‘We’re Almost There’: Polis Expects 1st COVID-19 Vaccine Doses As Soon As Next Week
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: biotech/medical
At-risk Coloradans might get the first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine as soon as next week.
In an interview with Colorado Matters on Friday, Gov. Jared Polis said the Pfizer vaccine would be made available first, followed a few weeks later by the Moderna vaccine. Both vaccines require two doses with 30 days in between.
“We are only hopefully a week away from the first highly effective vaccine arriving at our state,” he said. “And I would encourage anybody just to look at the data on the efficacy of this vaccine — 90 percent, 94 percent, there’s two of them.”
Dec 5, 2020
Luminar’s 25-year-old founder Austin Russell becomes billionaire after IPO
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: finance, robotics/AI, transportation
The founder of a startup that helps cars drive themselves just became a billionaire — and he’s barely old enough to rent a car on his own.
Luminar Technologies CEO Austin Russell, 25, secured a hefty fortune after his company’s stock market debut this week. The Florida-based firm — which he founded when he was just 17 — makes so-called lidar scanners that use lasers to give autonomous cars a three-dimensional view of the road and what’s around them.
Luminar’s share price surged nearly 28 percent on its Thursday debut to close at $22.98, giving the company a market value of about $7.8 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Dec 5, 2020
The Hayabusa 2 spacecraft is about to deliver asteroid rocks to Earth
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: space
The Japanese Hayabusa 2 spacecraft will drop off samples of dust and rocks from the asteroid Ryugu on 6 December before heading off to visit another asteroid.
Dec 5, 2020
Google discusses partnerships with Japanese media
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
Google has started negotiating with Japanese media companies to sign them up as partners in its new program called Google News Showcase.
The recently launched project involves Google paying news publishers to deliver their stories.
Google has already signed partnerships with about 400 news organizations in 7 countries, including Germany and France. The company has invested more than 1 billion dollars in the project.
Dec 5, 2020
Colorado student, scientist named Time’s ‘Kid of the Year’
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: education, mobile phones, nanotechnology, robotics/AI, sustainability
A 15-year-old Colorado high school student and young scientist who has used artificial intelligence and created apps to tackle contaminated drinking water, cyberbullying, opioid addiction and other social problems has been named Time Magazine’s first-ever “Kid of the Year.”
Gitanjali Rao, a sophomore at STEM School Highlands Ranch in suburban Denver who lives in the city of Lone Tree, was selected from more than 5,000 nominees in a process that culminated with a finalists’ committee of children, drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan, inspired her work to develop a way to detect contaminants and send those results to a mobile phone, she said.
“I was like 10 when I told my parents that I wanted to research carbon nanotube sensor technology at the Denver Water quality research lab, and my mom was like, ” A what?” Rao told Jolie. She said that work ” is going to be in our generation’s hands pretty soon. So if no one else is gonna do it, I’m gonna do it.”
