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Feb 22, 2019
This Fast Food Drive-Thru Is Now Using AI to Take Orders
Posted by James Christian Smith in categories: employment, food, robotics/AI
We already had a robot that could make fast food burgers. And now we have an artificial intelligence that can take your order for one. Earlier this month, Colorado-based startup Valyant AI announced the launch of a voice-based AI customer service platform, which is now taking customer orders at the drive-thru at Denver’s Good Times Burgers and Frozen Custard.
The AI is reportedly not taking jobs from humans, either.
Feb 22, 2019
Why It’ll Take Israel’s Lunar Lander 8 Weeks to Get to the Moon
Posted by Alberto Lao in category: space travel
An Israeli lunar lander just launched on a historic moon mission — but touchdown is still eight weeks away.
Feb 22, 2019
Woman with heart and double-lung transplant praises new technology
Posted by Paul Battista in category: biotech/medical
Three years ago Kate Phillips, who has suffered congenital heart disease her whole life, received a heart and lung transplant which saved her life.
But her successful operation isn’t a reality for many patients on vital organ waiting lists.
Out of 381 hearts only 81 were successfully transplanted in Australia last year. Hearts are usually lucky to withstand a transport time of about four hours, with only one in four reaching operating tables.
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Feb 22, 2019
Scientists Discovered a Star That Explodes Every Year
Posted by Michael Lance in category: futurism
Feb 22, 2019
Utilities are starting to invest in big batteries instead of building new power plants
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: energy
Energy storage could prove an inexpensive way for power companies to handle heat waves and other times when consumers use more electricity than usual.
Feb 22, 2019
Science: Talking to Your Dog Means You’re Smart, Not Crazy
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: science
Feb 22, 2019
Navy files for patent on room-temperature superconductor
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: computing, materials
A scientist working for the U.S. Navy has filed for a patent on a room-temperature superconductor, representing a potential paradigm shift in energy transmission and computer systems.
Salvatore Cezar Pais is listed as the inventor on the Navy’s patent application made public by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday.
The application claims that a room-temperature superconductor can be built using a wire with an insulator core and an aluminum PZT (lead zirconate titanate) coating deposited by vacuum evaporation with a thickness of the London penetration depth and polarized after deposition.
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Feb 22, 2019
Virgin Galactic space plane takes first test passenger into space
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space travel
Astronaut trainer Beth Moses joined two pilots on the space tourism company’s latest test flight.
Virgin Galactic’s WhiteKnightTwo at the Mojave Space Port in California on Feb. 22, 2019. Virgin Galactic / AFP — Getty Images.