Dec 11, 2020
Apple is now building the chip it needs to ditch Qualcomm like it ditched Intel
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: computing
Apple modems are coming.
Would an Apple modem be better, or just less reliance on Qualcomm?
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Dec 11, 2020
AI can now train on tiny 4-bit computers
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: mobile phones, robotics/AI
Powerful neural networks could soon train on smartphones with dramatically faster speeds and less energy.
Dec 11, 2020
Reversing Senescence Through The Skin — Dr. Carolina Reis, CEO & Co-Founder, OneSkin Technologies
Posted by Nicolas Chernavsky in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry, food, information science, life extension
Dr. Carolina Reis Oliveria, is the CEO and Co-Founder of OneSkin Technologies, a biotechnology platform dedicated to exploring longevity science.
Carolina holds her Ph.D. in Immunology at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, in collaboration with the Rutgers University, where she conducted research with pluripotent stem cells as a source of retinal pigmented epithelium (RPE) cells, as well as the potential of RPE-stem cells derived as toxicological models for screening of new drugs with intra-ocular applications.
Dec 11, 2020
Toyota to unveil electric car with solid-state battery with 10-min fast-charging next year
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: sustainability, transportation
A new report suggests that Toyota is going to unveil an electric car with a new solid-state battery that enables 10-minute fast-charging capacity next year.
Toyota started working on solid-state batteries back in 2017 with plans to commercialize the batteries inside electric vehicles in the early 2020s.
Dec 11, 2020
Early Earth Was No Inviting Blue Planet—It Was More Like Venus
Posted by Dirk Schulze-Makuch in category: alien life
How early Earth became the habitable and life-friendly planet that it is today.
New insights on how, and when, terrestrial planets become habitable.
Dec 11, 2020
Military-grade camera shows risks of airborne coronavirus spread
Posted by Poopeh Morakkabati in categories: biotech/medical, engineering, military
To visually illustrate the risk of airborne transmission in real time, The Washington Post used a military-grade infrared camera capable of detecting exhaled breath. Numerous experts — epidemiologists, virologists and engineers — supported the notion of using exhalation as a conservative proxy to show potential transmission risk in various settings.
“The images are very, very telling,” said Rajat Mittal, a professor of mechanical engineering in Johns Hopkins University’s medical and engineering schools and an expert on virus transmission. “Getting two people and actually visualizing what’s happening between them, that’s very invaluable.”
Dec 11, 2020
Astronomers Just Found Cosmic ‘Superhighways’ For Fast Travel Through The Solar System
Posted by Jim Brownfield in category: space
Invisible structures generated by gravitational interactions in the Solar System have created a “space superhighway” network, astronomers have discovered.
These channels enable the fast travel of objects through space, and could be harnessed for our own space exploration purposes, as well as the study of comets and asteroids.
By applying analyses to both observational and simulation data, a team of researchers led by Nataša Todorović of Belgrade Astronomical Observatory in Serbia observed that these superhighways consist of a series of connected arches inside these invisible structures, called space manifolds — and each planet generates its own manifolds, together creating what the researchers have called “a true celestial autobahn”.
Dec 11, 2020
WebConference on Space Safety — Space Renaissance Congress 2021 “Civilian Space Development”
Posted by Adriano Autino in categories: government, space
**2021 Space Renaissance [Webinar Series “SPACE SAFETY”](https://spacerenaissance.space/event/webconference-on-space-…elopment/)**
Sunday December 13th 16:00 UTC
Live streaming on [Facebook Space Renaissance Initiative Group](https://www.facebook.com/events/3842711565750385/)
Dec 11, 2020
Stretchable sensor gives robots and VR a human touch
Posted by John Gallagher in categories: augmented reality, robotics/AI, virtual reality
It’s not a stretch to say that stretchable sensors could change the way soft robots function and feel. In fact, they will be able to feel quite a lot.
Cornell researchers have created a fiber-optic sensor that combines low-cost LEDs and dyes, resulting in a stretchable “skin” that detects deformations such as pressure, bending and strain. This sensor could give soft robotic systems – and anyone using augmented reality technology – the ability to feel the same rich, tactile sensations that mammals depend on to navigate the natural world.
