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Aug 22, 2020
How to Make the Most of Facebook’s New Redesign
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Old Facebook is going away; long live New Facebook, a redesign that will soon become permanent. Facebook has been taking to, well, Facebook, to warn its users that the old-school look will disappear in September. And unlike the current test of “New Facebook,” there will be no way to switch back if you’re not a fan.
Aug 22, 2020
Southeast Asia Megadrought: Previously Unknown Mid-Holocene Event Led to Major Changes in Human Settlement
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: climatology
Researchers link end of Green Sahara with Southeast Asia megadrought.
Physical evidence found in caves in Laos helps tell a story about a connection between the end of the Green Sahara — when once heavily vegetated Northern Africa became a hyper-arid landscape — and a previously unknown megadrought that crippled Southeast Asia 4,000 to 5,000 years ago.
In a paper published today in Nature Communications, scientists at the University of California, Irvine, the University of Pennsylvania, William Paterson University of New Jersey and other international institutions explain how this major climate transformation led to a shift in human settlement patterns in Southeast Asia, which is now inhabited by more than 600 million people.
Aug 22, 2020
Will Artificial Intelligence Replace Pathologists, Radiologists, Microbiologists?
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI
If artificial intelligence can replace some highly specialized medical doctors, is any job safe? It appears the biomedical profession is ripe for an overhaul.
Aug 22, 2020
Artificial Intelligence is being used to find disease-related genes
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, information science, robotics/AI
“We have for the first time used deep learning to find disease-related genes. This is a very powerful method in the analysis of huge amounts of biological information, or ‘big data’,” said Sanjiv Dwivedi, first author of the newly published research.
Aug 22, 2020
Scientists Extend Quantum States by 22 Milliseconds. That’s an Eternity
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: computing, quantum physics
Molecular engineers at the University of Chicago have found a way to extend the quantum state of a qubit to 22 milliseconds, representing a huge improvement and a window some say will make quantum computers far more feasible. The secret is an alternating magnetic field, which they say is scientifically “intricate” but easy to apply.
🤯 You like quantum. So do we. Let’s nerd out over it together.
Aug 22, 2020
Meet Prosthesis, a massive, 9,000-pound mech suit you can pilot
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: cyborgs, transportation
Aug 22, 2020
Germany is set to trial a Universal Basic Income scheme
Posted by Brent Ellman in category: economics
Germany is about to become the latest country to trial a universal basic income, starting a three-year study of how it affects the economy and recipients’ well-being.
As part of the study, 120 people will receive €1,200, or about $1,430, each month for three years — an amount just above Germany’s poverty line — and researchers will compare their experiences with another group of 1,380 people who will not receive the payments.
The study, conducted by the German Institute for Economic Research, has been funded by 140,000 private donations.
Aug 22, 2020
Glass Buildings May Turn Into Solar Power Plants
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: solar power, sustainability
Window Glass can be coated with organic solar panels and generate electricity. Do we have to start liking them?
Aug 22, 2020
Researchers Just Set a New Record For The Fastest Internet Speed Ever
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: entertainment, internet
The internet has transformed most areas of our lives over the last few decades, and the technology keeps improving: researchers just set a new record for data transmission rates, logging an incredible speed of 178 terabits per second (Tbps).
That’s around a fifth faster than the previous record, set by a team of researchers in Japan, and roughly twice as fast as the best internet available today.
With 4K movies about 15GB in size, you could download about 1,500 of them in a single second at the new speed.