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Spanish scientists are working on an internal combustion engine that does not pollute the environment. Will the new technology change the future of emission-free transport, which until now has been associated with electrification? Two prototypes will soon be presented.

Until recently, it seemed that combustion vehicles, alongside EVs and vehicles that use biofuels, were not participating in the ongoing ‘race’ for sustainable transport. But this has changed, thanks to Spanish scientists from the Technical University of Valencia (Universitat Politècnica de València, UPV) who are working on an emission-free internal combustion engine.

The Spanish scientists have designed a ‘revolutionary’ internal combustion unit that does not generate gases that are harmful to health or carbon dioxide (CO₂), and which also stands out for its high efficiency and complies with the emission regulations planned for 2040. According to the Valencian Innovation Agency, which co-financed the project, the first two prototype engines will come to light in the coming months.

In what they believe is a solution to a 30-year biological mystery, neuroscientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have used genetically engineered mice to address how one mutation in the gene for the light-sensing protein rhodopsin results in congenital stationary night blindness.

The condition, present from birth, causes poor vision in low-light settings.

The findings, published May 14 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, demonstrate that the rhodopsin gene mutation, called G90D, produces an unusual background electrical “noise” that desensitizes the eye’s rods, those cells in the retina at the back of the eye responsible for nighttime vision, thus causing night blindness.

Experiments comparing neutron-rich cadmium with previous data on a neutron-poor version prove that a key parameter in nuclear calculations depends on the neutron-to-proton ratio.

A fungus living in the sea can break down the plastic polyethylene, provided it has first been exposed to UV radiation from sunlight. Researchers from, among others, NIOZ published their results in the journal Science of the Total Environment. They expect that many more plastic degrading fungi are living in deeper parts of the ocean.

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The Transforming AI panel from GTC 2024 features the authors of “Attention Is All You Need,” the groundbreaking paper that introduced the transformer neural network architecture. Transformers have since dominated all areas of AI, revolutionizing the industry. The discussion covers the following topics: ▫️ The development and impact of the Transformer model. ▫️ The evolution of computing and its democratization. ▫️ The future of AI technology and its potential applications. ▫️ The role of accelerated computing. ▫️ The potential for AI to revolutionize various industries. ▫️ The need for new data and learning techniques in AI development. Feature panel host: ▫️ Jensen Huang, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, NVIDIA Panelists: ▫️ Ashish Vaswani, Co-Founder and CEO, Essential AI ▫️ Noam Shazeer, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Character. AI ▫️ Jakob Uszkoreit, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Inceptive ▫️ Llion Jones, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Sakana AI ▫️ Aidan Gomez, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Cohere ▫️ Lukasz Kaiser, Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI ▫️ Illia Polosukhin, Co-Founder, NEAR Protocol Explore more GTC 2024 sessions like this on NVIDIA On-Demand: https://nvda.ws/3U33qo Read and subscribe to the NVIDIA Technical Blog: https://nvda.ws/3XHae9F 00:00 Introduction 11:00 Panelist Discussion #GTC24 #NVIDIA #GTC #AI #GenAI #Generative AI #Transformers #FutureOfAI

Lockheed Martin has opened a new engineering facility, laboratory, and demonstration center in Huntsville, Alabama, to advance US security capabilities.

The $18-million, 122,000-square-foot (11,334 square meters) site will house 500 employees who will take on upgrade, readiness, and sustainment works for the US Army’s Black Hawk helicopters, as well as the Missile Defense Agency’s Command and Control, Battle Management and Communications (C2BMC) system.

It will also be responsible for the modeling and simulation framework for the Ballistic Missile Defense System.

The most powerful active volcanoes known to exist, on Jupiter’s moon Io, have been photographed in exceptional detail by Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona.

The mercurial billionaire said in a subsequent X post that xAI’s pre-money valuation was $18 billion. The financial term refers to the value of a company before any equity investment is made.

Pre-money valuation was $18B— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 27, 2024

Sunday’s announcement marks the first time xAI has talked about its fundraising efforts. Musk had repeatedly denied earlier reports from Bloomberg and the Financial Times about xAI’s outreach to investors.