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Mar 28, 2024

World’s first mass-produced 900V EV drive system rolls out with 5 minute fast charge

Posted by in categories: business, transportation

The first mass-produced 900V drive system rolled off the production line Wednesday. Chinese EV maker NIO’s (NIO) “Thunder” 900V electric drive system (EDS) can add over 150 miles (255 km) with five-minute fast charge.

NIO announced the milestone Wednesday after building its one-millionth EDS. NIO’s Porsche-rivaling ET9 premium EV will be the first to feature the new tech.

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Mar 28, 2024

Experimental wireless EV charger is just as fast as a superfast wired plug, scientists say

Posted by in category: futurism

This 14-inch wireless charging device works at a rate of 100 kW, scientists claim, meaning it’s up to 10 times as fast as some of the best commercially available alternatives.

Mar 28, 2024

Research unlocks supernova stardust secrets

Posted by in categories: cosmology, particle physics

By Curtin University

Curtin University-led research has discovered a rare dust particle trapped in an ancient extra-terrestrial meteorite that was formed by a star other than our sun.

Mar 28, 2024

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman defends his $193 million compensation following backlash from unpaid moderators

Posted by in category: futurism

Now, Huffman has defended his pay packet in a Q&A video on the platform.

“Look, I’m glad this question was asked because there’s been a lot of commentary on this topic,” he began, adding that his compensation—which is made up of salary and stock—is set by Reddit’s board depending on his performance.

“If the company does well, I will do well,” the CEO added. “If the company does not do well, I don’t either.”

Mar 28, 2024

People Unexpectedly Getting Pregnant on Ozempic and Wegovy

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

On social media, a bizarre trend seems to be emerging: surprise pregnancies when taking the diabetes drug Ozempic and its sister weight loss shot Wegovy.

As People reports, there are a few reasons why people might be getting pregnant unexpectedly when taking these semaglutide-based injectable drugs.

For one thing, Dr. Iman Saleh — an obstetrician, gynecologist, and obesity medicine doctor at New York’s Northwell Health system — tells People that through a roundabout mechanism, the weight people lose on these drugs may be making them more fertile.

Mar 28, 2024

BioMedLM: A 2.7B Parameter Language Model Trained On Biomedical Text

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

BioMedLM

A 2.7B Parameter Language Model Trained On Biomedical Text https://huggingface.co/papers/2403.

Models such as GPT-4 and Med-PaLM 2 have demonstrated impressive performance on a wide variety of biomedical NLP tasks.

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Mar 28, 2024

1st Detection of ‘Hiccupping’ Black Hole Leads to Surprising Discovery of 2nd Black Hole Orbiting Around it

Posted by in category: cosmology

Scientists found a monster black hole that ‘hiccups’ every 8.5 days, and a smaller black hole that keeps punching through its accretion disk may be to blame.

Mar 28, 2024

CRISPR could disable and cure HIV, suggests promising lab experiment

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

The gene-editing technique CRISPR disabled HIV that lay dormant in immune cells in a lab experiment, raising hopes for an eventual cure.

By Clare Wilson

Mar 27, 2024

Here’s why AI search engines really can’t kill Google

Posted by in categories: internet, robotics/AI

But the thing you have to understand about a search engine is that a search engine is many things. For all the people using Google to find important and hard-to-access scientific information, orders of magnitude more are using it to find their email inbox, get to Walmart’s website, or remember who was president before Hoover. And then there’s my favorite fact of all: that a vast number of people every year go to Google and type “google” into the search box. We mostly talk about Google as a research tool, but in reality, it’s asked to do anything and everything you can think of, billions of times a day.

The real question in front of all these would-be Google killers, then, is not how well they can find information. It’s how well they can do everything Google does. So I decided to put some of the best new AI products to the real test: I grabbed the latest list of most-Googled queries and questions according to the SEO research firm Ahrefs and plugged them into various AI tools. In some instances, I found that these language model-based bots are genuinely more useful than a page of Google results. But in most cases, I discovered exactly how hard it will be for anything — AI or otherwise — to replace Google at the center of the web.

People who work in search always say there are basically three types of queries. First and most popular is navigation, which is just people typing the name of a website to get to that website. Virtually all of the top queries on Google, from “youtube” to “wordle” to “yahoo mail,” are navigation queries. In actual reality, this is a search engine’s primary job: to get you to a website.

Mar 27, 2024

Canva acquires Affinity to fill the Adobe-sized holes in its design suite

Posted by in category: futurism

Affinity integrations with Canva are expected “over time”

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