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Jan 23, 2024

Blazerye/DrugAssist

Posted by in category: futurism

Drugassist: a large language model for molecule optimization.


Contribute to blazerye/DrugAssist development by creating an account on GitHub.

Jan 23, 2024

Google to begin testing its Tensor G5 chip ahead of TSMC switch for Pixel 10

Posted by in category: computing

Testing will begin in Taiwan as Google looks to drop Samsung’s Exynos foundation.

Jan 23, 2024

What Are Extracellular RNAs Doing Outside of Their Comfort Zone?

Posted by in category: futurism

In recent years scientists have been surprised to find RNAs outside of their cellular comfort zone. A Yale study offers insight into what they’re doing there.

Jan 23, 2024

10 Space Startups to Keep an Eye on in 2024

Posted by in categories: innovation, space travel

In-development space innovations from the private space industry include space cannons, modular space station units, and 3D-printed rockets.

Jan 23, 2024

$2 Million Supercar Runs on Hydrogen And Exhales Drinkable Water Through Its Exhausts

Posted by in category: futurism

Powered by hydrogen and emitting nothing but water, the Hyperion XP-1 hypercar is a true game changer, but it won’t come cheap.

Jan 23, 2024

Canoo gets real as deliveries of its electric commercial van begin

Posted by in categories: military, sustainability

Walmart-backed EV startup Canoo has announced that deliveries of its all-electric commercial van have officially begun – and the first production Canoo LDV 130 vans are already hard at work.

The first batch of Canoo’s electric vans are reportedly in service now at Kingbee, a national work-ready van rental provider. The company says the delivery of vans to Kingbee is consistent with its previously announced “phased ramp-up manufacturing approach,” and asserts that additional customer deliveries will continue throughout 2024.

Canoo had previously delivered vehicles to NASA, the US military, and the State of Oklahoma (its home state) for testing. The vans delivered to Kingbee, however, seem to be the first that will be accessible to “the public.”

Jan 23, 2024

Google makes breakthrough in one of the hardest tests for AI

Posted by in categories: education, mathematics, robotics/AI

Google Deepmind says that a new artificial intelligence system has made a major breakthrough in one of the most difficult tests for AI.

The company says that it has created a new AI system that can solve geometry problems at the level of the very top high-school students.

Geometry is one of the oldest branches of mathematics, but has proven particularly difficult for AI systems to work with. It has been difficult to train them because of a lack of data, and succeeding requires building a system that can take on difficult logical challenges.

Jan 23, 2024

Windows 11 squeezed into a mere 100MB using text-only trick — Tiny11 maker NTDEV takes Windows install image challenge to the extreme

Posted by in category: computing

Should we colloquially call this ‘MS-DOS 11.0’?

Jan 23, 2024

Electric Car Maintenance: Everything You Need to Know

Posted by in categories: climatology, sustainability

This includes familiar tasks such as rotating the tires, replacing various fluids, and changing out cabin air filters. There are also a number of EV-specific services that drivers of these battery-electric vehicles need to keep on top of.

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory of the United States predicts today’s EV batteries will have service lives between 12 and 15 years if used in moderate climates. This falls to between 8 and 12 years if regular use occurs in extreme environments.

Jan 23, 2024

Chemists tie a knot using only 54 atoms

Posted by in categories: chemistry, particle physics

A trio of chemists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, working with a colleague from the University of Western Ontario, has tied the smallest knot ever, using just 54 atoms. In their study, published in the journal Nature Communications, Zhiwen Li, Jingjing Zhang, Gao Li and Richard Puddephatt accidentally tied the knot while trying to create metal acetylides in their lab.

The researchers were attempting to create types of alkynes called metal acetylides as a means to conduct other types of organic reactions. More specifically, they were attempting to connect carbon structures to gold acetylides—typically, such work results in the creation of simple chains of gold known as caternames.

But, unexpectedly, the result of one reaction created a chain that knotted itself into a trefoil knot with no loose ends. Trefoil knots are used in making pretzels and play a major role in . The researchers noted that the knot had a backbone crossing ratio (BCR) of 23. Knot BCRs are a measure of the strength of the knot. Most organic knots, the team notes, have a BCR somewhere between 27 and 33.

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