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Thanks to @personalroboticsEU, lIllI (said leelee) is an open-source, fully mobile and freely programmable robot framework. The best thing is that you can develop this project with your computer, Arduino, Raspberry Pi or any of the countless mini computers on the market.
Via Virtual Reality, Mother Encounters Deceased Daughter âBut that barrier was going to melt away someday soon. The transhumanists had promisedâŠâ â Stephen Baxter, 2008.
BabyX AI Real Enough For You ââŠwhatâs to keep me from showing face, Man? Iâm showing a voice this instant⊠I can show a face the same way.â â Robert Heinlein, 1966.
This approach can be described as âphysical eschatologyâ â a term coined by the astronomer Martin Rees for using astrophysics to model where the Universe is going. Rees took a cue from theology, in which âeschatologyâ is the study of ultimate things such as the end of the world. And the classic paper on the topic is Freeman Dysonâs 1979 paper on life in open universes, which outlined likely or possible existential catastrophes that could threaten life far into the future, from the death of the Sun to the detachment of stars from galaxies.
How long can civilisation survive? To thrive for billions of years, there will be a few troublesome problems to solve â from the death of the Sun to the decay of matter.
THE Call of Duty Black Ops 5 release date is expected to be announced in the coming months by Activision, but it doesnât appear that it will be stealing the limelight from Modern Warfare.
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Cases of the new virus on the quarantined Diamond Princess reached 135 Monday, including 20 Americans. Conditions below decks could risk further spread.
The spacecraftâs science instruments were turned off by a fault protection routine, which allows the spacecraft to automatically take actions to protect itself.
The Hypersonic Conventional Strike Weapon (HCSW) program has been killed by the US Air Force as the service looks to make budget cuts in the area of hypersonic prototyping in the coming year.
Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek revealed Monday that budget pressure, rather than performance, influenced the serviceâs decision to abandon its HCSW program and continue its development of the Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) â its other hypersonic weapon program.
âWe will continue to work collaboratively with our sister services to see how we can most effectively leverage each otherâs capabilities, ensuring the most prudent use of taxpayer dollars,â she said in a statement emailed to Defense News on February 10.
If youâve ever opened an umbrella or set up a folding chair, youâve used a deployable structureâan object that can transition from a compact state to an expanded one. Youâve probably noticed that such structures usually require rather complicated locking mechanisms to hold them in place. And, if youâve ever tried to open an umbrella in the wind or fold a particularly persnickety folding chair, you know that todayâs deployable structures arenât always reliable or autonomous.
Now, a team of researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have harnessed the domino effect to design deployable systems that expand quickly with a small push and are stable and locked into place after deployment.
The research is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Computer chips use billions of tiny switches, called transistors, to process information. The more transistors on a chip, the faster the computer.
A material shaped like a one-dimensional DNA helix might further push the limits on a transistorâs size. The material comes from a rare earth element called tellurium.
Researchers found that the material, encapsulated in a nanotube made of boron nitride, helps build a field-effect transistor with a diameter of two nanometers. Transistors on the market are made of bulkier silicon and range between 10 and 20 nanometers in scale.
