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Jun 29, 2020

McDonald’s announces plans to introduce ‘rapid charging’ for electric vehicles at new UK drive-thrus

Posted by in categories: sustainability, transportation

Infrastructure will be installed at new drive-thrus “as standard.”

Jun 29, 2020

India’s $18,000 Tata Nexon EV points to global EV affordability

Posted by in category: energy

The Tata Nexon EV’s approach – reduced range, less power, and basic amenities – could bring the price down to $14,000 after incentives.

Jun 29, 2020

China forces birth control on Uighurs to suppress population

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, government

The Chinese government is taking draconian measures to slash birth rates among Uighurs and other minorities as part of a sweeping campaign to curb its Muslim population, even as it encourages some of the country’s Han majority to have more children.

While individual women have spoken out before about forced birth control, the practice is far more widespread and systematic than previously known, according to an AP investigation based on government statistics, state documents and interviews with 30 ex-detainees, family members and a former detention camp instructor. The campaign over the past four years in the far west region of Xinjiang is leading to what some experts are calling a form of “demographic genocide.”

The state regularly subjects minority women to pregnancy checks, and forces intrauterine devices, sterilization and even abortion on hundreds of thousands, the interviews and data show. Even while the use of IUDs and sterilization has fallen nationwide, it is rising sharply in Xinjiang.

Jun 29, 2020

Russia denies its atomic plants are responsible for radiation leak

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Jun 29, 2020

First measurement of spin-orbit alignment on planet Beta Pictoris b

Posted by in categories: innovation, space

Astronomers have made the first measurement of spin-orbit alignment for a distant ‘super-Jupiter’ planet, demonstrating a technique that could enable breakthroughs in the quest to understand how exoplanetary systems form and evolved.

An international team of scientists, led by Professor Stefan Kraus from the University of Exeter, has carried out the measurements for the exoplanet Beta Pictoris b—located 63 light years from Earth.

The planet, found in the Pictor constellation, has a mass of around 11 times that of Jupiter and orbits a young star on a similar as Saturn in our solar system.

Jun 29, 2020

Will the Air Force’s New Stealth Fighter Use AI?

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

There are risks and rewards for any kind of new weapon, and how the Air Force buiilds its next plane is a big question.

By Kris Osborn

Should the Air Force and Navy prioritize the engineering of an entirely new platform with paradigm-changing technologies for a 6th-Generation fighter, or simply keep upgrading the state of the art 5th-Gen aircraft in the near term?

Jun 29, 2020

Austin-based company creates thermal camera that could help detect coronavirus

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, security

The founders of Athena Security told KVUE the thermal imaging camera can scan 1,000 people per hour, letting them know instantly if you have a fever.

Jun 29, 2020

Quantum weirdness gives radar a boost

Posted by in category: quantum physics

Entangled photons can be used to make quantum radar that delivers a target’s location.

Jun 29, 2020

Yale captures first ever video of brain clearing out dead neurons

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

In the average human body, tens of billions of cells die everyday. It’s a natural process, important for keeping the body healthy. Now, for the first time, researchers at Yale School of Medicine have directly imaged the death of neurons in mice, as well as how the body clears them out afterwards.

Although it might seem like brain cells are things you’d definitely want to keep around, it’s better to get rid of the ones that aren’t working. After all, a build-up of dead cells can damage the nervous system and has been implicated in neurodegenerative diseases.

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Jun 29, 2020

IBM donates “Trusted AI” projects to Linux Foundation AI

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

IBM on Monday announced it’s donating a series of open-source toolkits designed to help build trusted AI to a Linux Foundation project, the LF AI Foundation. As real-world AI deployments increase, IBM says the contributions can help ensure they’re fair, secure and trustworthy.