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May 31, 2020

Swindon Powertrain Introduces EV ‘Crate’ For Conversions

Posted by in categories: sustainability, transportation

The British company Swindon Powertrain announced market launch of its new, compact and ready to install ‘Crate’ EV powertrain for various EV projects — conversions or new builds.

Swindon encourages that it’s an ideal option for sports, recreation and light commercial applications as well as classic car conversions.

“Suitable for OEMs, niche vehicle manufacturers, electric car conversion companies as well as the enthusiast home mechanic.”

May 31, 2020

AI Startup Combines Mouse Neurons With Silicon Chips To Make Computers Smarter, Faster

Posted by in categories: biological, robotics/AI

There aren’t many computer chips that you have to build a life support system for.

But when you’re combining actual living brain cells with inorganic silicon chips, you can’t feed them just electricity. You actually need to supply everything they would normally get in a fully biological body.

Why bother?

May 31, 2020

High-quality graphene foams are made from organic waste

Posted by in category: materials

Process is cheap and more environmentally friendly, say researchers.

May 31, 2020

Baidu releases quantum machine learning toolkit on GitHub

Posted by in categories: quantum physics, robotics/AI

Chinese tech giant’s Paddle Quantum development toolkit now is available on GitHub, enabling developers to build and train quantum neural network models, and includes quantum computing applications.

Eileen Yu

May 31, 2020

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon successfully docks with the space station

Posted by in category: space travel

This morning, SpaceX’s new Crew Dragon capsule successfully docked with the International Space Station, bringing the company’s first crew to the orbiting outpost. Their arrival marks another major milestone for SpaceX’s first crewed mission of the Crew Dragon, which successfully took off yesterday, May 30th, from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

May 31, 2020

Nashville courthouse vandalized & set on FIRE as riot police try to disperse anti-brutality protesters with tear gas (VIDEOS)

Posted by in category: futurism

Protesters in Nashville, Tennessee broke into Metro Courthouse, setting fires inside, as peaceful anti-police-brutality rallies slip into chaos and rioting all across the US.

Thousands of people marched peacefully through the city and gathered in the Public Square Park, chanting slogans against police brutality in the wake of the death of George Floyd.

#BREAKING: There’s fire inside City Hall. Protestors keep smashing windows. @WPLNpic.twitter.com/uPgLFRCE2W — Sergio Martínez-Beltrán (@SergioMarBel) May 31, 2020

May 31, 2020

Researchers use brain imaging to demonstrate weaker neural suppression for those with autism

Posted by in category: neuroscience

According to the National Autism Association, people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may experience sensory hypersensitivity. A University of Minnesota Medical School researcher recently published an article in Nature Communications that illustrates why that may be true by showing the differences in visual motion perception in ASD are accompanied by weaker neural suppression in the visual cortex of the brain.

May 31, 2020

$3 Million Kavli Prizes Awarded to Scientists for Discoveries in Astrophysics, Nanoscience, Neuroscience

Posted by in categories: nanotechnology, neuroscience

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters today announced the 2020 Kavli Prize Laureates in the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience, and neuroscience. This year’s Kavli Prize honors scientists whose research has transformed our understanding of the very big, the very small and the very complex. The laureates in each field will share USD 1 million.

This year’s Kavli Prize Laureates are:

May 31, 2020

Night Vision uses the ToF camera on the Samsung Galaxy S20+, Note 10+, and S10 5G to let you see in the dark

Posted by in categories: internet, mobile phones

Turn the ToF camera on the Samsung Galaxy S20+, Galaxy Note 10+, and Galaxy S10 5G to a night vision that lets you see in the dark with this app.

May 31, 2020

Discovery of Massive Galaxy Just 1.5 Billion Years After the Big Bang Has Astronomers Questioning Formation Models

Posted by in category: cosmology

Published recently in Nature, an international team of researchers has observed a massive, rotating disk galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang —1.5 billion years earlier in cosmic history than astronomers had expected to find such a galaxy based on previous studies. The research has fueled debate about how galaxies in the early Universe assembled.

The observations were made using one of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile.

“This is an exciting discovery for astronomers because it provides clues as to how large-scale structure began to form in the Universe,” said Dr. Alfred Tiley from the UWA node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR).