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Jan 2, 2021

How to make oxygen from moondust

Posted by in category: futurism

Use lunar regolith.

Jan 2, 2021

BMW’s New MINI Concept Is An Autonomous Living Room On Wheels

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

This could make traffic less stressful! 😃


The MINI Vision Urbanaut concept vehicle is an all-new interpretation of a space focused on enhancing social experiences.

Jan 2, 2021

21 Residents of Retirement Home Get Coronavirus After Receiving Vaccine

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, economics, habitats, health

Some 21 residents of a Bat Yam retirement home tested positive for the coronavirus after they were vaccinated but before they had developed antibodies, according to Ynet.

The other 150 residents of the home will be tested for the virus.


Health officials have stressed that the two-dose Pfizer vaccine regimen means that the vaccine is only fully effective about five weeks after the first dose. This means it could take until sometime in February for enough elderly and high-risk people to be vaccinated to help lower the spread of infection and start reopening the economy.

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Jan 2, 2021

Brains Behind the Brains: Mike Davies and Neuromorphic Computing at Intel Labs | Intel

Posted by in categories: computing, neuroscience

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN3eSMoJcM8

Neuromorphic computing is coming, and it’s based on the way the brain works. In this installment of Brains Behind the Brains, Mike Davies, Director of Neuromorphic Computing at Intel Labs, talks to us about this technology, Intel’s Loihi processors, and how neuromorphic computing will change our world in wonderful ways. https://intel.ly/3hmL0Ip.

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Jan 2, 2021

Engineered bat virus stirs debate over risky research

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical

#JustAReminder why knowing the origin of this disease is so important. Shi Zhengli who ran the lab in Wuhan worked with Ralph Baric on this gain of function research.

Declan Butler.

12 November 2015

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Jan 2, 2021

Elastic diamonds could help quantum computers run at room temperature

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

Scientists put diamonds under strain to improve their mechanical properties. The results suggest they may help quantum computers run at room temperature.

Jan 2, 2021

Hermeus hypersonic jet aims to fly New York to London in 90 minutes

Posted by in category: transportation

US aviation start-up Hermeus reveals plans for a hypersonic jet that would travel at five times the speed of sound. That could whisk passengers from New York to London in 90 minutes or less.

Jan 2, 2021

Scientists: Life on Earth Likely Started in Meteor Craters

Posted by in categories: asteroid/comet impacts, existential risks

A new study is flipping the script on the effects of massive meteor impacts. While an ancient impact is commonly to the extinction event that killed the dinosaurs, scientists are now starting to suspect that an earlier impact could have jumpstarted life on Earth in the first place.

Scientists have long suggested that meteorites carried the ingredients necessary for life to Earth, but new research suggests that meteor impacts also created the ideal conditions for life to emerge as well, The Weather Network reports. Because of that, the scientists suggest that space agencies ought to pay special attention to similar craters when hunting for life on the Moon, Mars, or beyond.

Jan 2, 2021

Ransomware attack cripples NYC DOE’s teacher disciplinary system

Posted by in category: cybercrime/malcode

A ransomware attack has crippled the city’s teacher discipline system, The Post has learned.

A contractor that provides hearing transcripts for the city Department of Education, the Ubiqus Group, said it “was hit by a ransomware-type cybersecurity incident” on Dec. 4.

“As a precautionary measure, we have shut down all our IT systems across all our operating sites,” the company announced on its website.

Jan 2, 2021

Artificial Intelligence Solves Schrödinger’s Equation, a Fundamental Problem in Quantum Chemistry

Posted by in categories: chemistry, information science, particle physics, quantum physics, robotics/AI, space

Scientists at Freie Universität Berlin develop a deep learning method to solve a fundamental problem in quantum chemistry.

A team of scientists at Freie Universität Berlin has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) method for calculating the ground state of the Schrödinger equation in quantum chemistry. The goal of quantum chemistry is to predict chemical and physical properties of molecules based solely on the arrangement of their atoms in space, avoiding the need for resource-intensive and time-consuming laboratory experiments. In principle, this can be achieved by solving the Schrödinger equation, but in practice this is extremely difficult.

Up to now, it has been impossible to find an exact solution for arbitrary molecules that can be efficiently computed. But the team at Freie Universität has developed a deep learning method that can achieve an unprecedented combination of accuracy and computational efficiency. AI has transformed many technological and scientific areas, from computer vision to materials science. “We believe that our approach may significantly impact the future of quantum chemistry,” says Professor Frank Noé, who led the team effort. The results were published in the reputed journal Nature Chemistry.