Monday - December 4 2023, 08:49 UTC - 11 months ago

The Roscosmos Progress 86 spacecraft, launched from Kazakhstan, successfully docked with the ISS on December 3, 2023, delivering nearly three tons of supplies. The spacecraft is the new Progress MS variant, featuring improved solar panels, enhanced thrusters, a modernized communication system, and upgraded safety features. Progress spacecraft have been essential for resupply missions to space stations, with a total cargo capacity of around 3,000 kilograms, and play a crucial role in the support of the International Space Station.

Monday - December 4 2023, 04:46 UTC - 11 months ago

Google DeepMind has created GNoME, an AI-based materials discovery tool that can generate more than a billion structures, predict the stability of materials accurately, and help scientists discover new materials more quickly and efficiently.

Monday - December 4 2023, 00:28 UTC - 11 months ago

With winter setting in, EV owners must know how weather affects the battery performance of their vehicle. EV range drop up to 12 percent when temperature falls to 20°F (-6°C) or below. Chargers with temperature gauge should be used, and charging should be done when the car has some warmth, for maximum battery performance.

Sunday - December 3 2023, 20:13 UTC - 11 months ago

In their book, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?, Kelly and Zach Weinersmith outline the immense challenges of sending humans to Mars. While rocket technology and determining the power needs of a settlement or the available minerals on different planets or asteroids is the easy part, managing radiation exposure, medicine, reproduction, law, ecology, economics, sociology, and warfare is far more complicated. Additionally, the public typically imagines colonies on Mars as futuristic domed cities, but construction of such structures is presently infeasible.

Sunday - December 3 2023, 15:36 UTC - 11 months ago

Scientists are using research on microRNAs and their potential to treat various diseases, including cancer. Studies have been conducted to identify microRNA's roles in disease, and they have been identified to be involved in blocking tumor cell growth and regulating proteins expression. MicroRNAs have been used to detect differences in patient tumor samples and predict patient outcomes. Research on microRNAs has led to the potential of developing therapeutics to treat cancer and other diseases.

Sunday - December 3 2023, 11:02 UTC - 11 months ago

John Gibb and Dr Scott Walker discussed the classic A* algorithm and OpenAI's potentially game changing Q* algorithm. The A* algorithm is used in many fields of computer science due to its completeness, optimality, and optimal efficiency. OpenAI's Q* algorithm helps AIs navigate large action spaces with significantly more efficiency than A* search, and requires much less computation time and memory, leading to significantly faster solutions.

Sunday - December 3 2023, 06:37 UTC - 11 months ago

People travel from all over the world to see the Aurora Lights, also known as the Northern Lights, which is when charged particles from the Sun collide with the Earth's atmosphere. In early November of this year, people saw the northern lights in places they don't usually appear. This happened because of a solar coronal mass ejection which affects the Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere. Scientists studied a solar storm in1872 and found that similar storms now could cause serious problems with power grids, communication systems, airplanes and satellites in today's world. The study emphasizes the importance of documenting such geomagnetic storm experiences and gathering more data to better understand the potential threat it could pose to modern society.

Sunday - December 3 2023, 01:58 UTC - 11 months ago

AI content generators like ChatGPT are increasingly being used in the legal field to interpret the law, provide access to justice, write contracts and legal documents, offer legal aid, support decision-making, facilitate lawyer-client communications. These applications still need to be controlled responsibly, as AI can provide fake content, and in legal matters lawyers and judges will still be necessary.

Saturday - December 2 2023, 21:45 UTC - 11 months ago

Elon Musk believes that ASI (Artificial Super Intelligence) will be created within about three years and it will be so advanced that it will far surpass human capabilities. Nividia's H100 GPUs have already been sold out until 2024. Current AI tests such as Turing and the Coffee Test have been created to evaluate the development of AI. Mass produced humanoid robots with AI systems will be available in the next few years. Elon believes that Artificial Superintelligence would allow machines to choose their own mission and create their own technology and ideas.

Saturday - December 2 2023, 17:37 UTC - 11 months ago

Researchers at the AI startup Hugging Face and Carnegie Mellon University have found that generating images with an AI model takes as much energy as fully charging your smartphone, while generating text 1,000 times only uses as much energy as 16% of a full smartphone charge. The least carbon-intensive text generation model was found to generate as much CO2 as driving 0.0006 miles in a similar vehicle. The study provides useful insights into AI’s carbon footprint by offering concrete numbers and technology companies are now using generative-AI models billions of times every single day.

Saturday - December 2 2023, 13:03 UTC - 11 months ago

Amazon wanted to use AI algorithms to expedite its recruitment process, but the AI algorithms soon replicated the existing biases, despite attempts to make them gender-neutral. Australia's privacy and data protection laws are lagging behind countries like the UK and the EU, and most cases of AI-based discrimination will not be detected. Discrimination law in Australia relies mostly on individuals making a complaint, with few people doing so.

Saturday - December 2 2023, 08:25 UTC - 11 months ago

ETH Zurich researchers at the Laboratory of Soft and Living Materials, led by former ETH Professor Eric Dufresne, have replicated the feather structure of the Eastern bluebird to create a material for applications such as batteries and water filters. This new material is created by a heat-induced phase separation process and has the potential to replace liquid electrolytes with solid electrolytes in batteries and enhance the removal of contaminants from water.

Saturday - December 2 2023, 03:33 UTC - 11 months ago

Tesla FSD v12 is the update that will mark a major milestone for the company, as it shifts its reliance from hard-coded programming to a more sophisticated neural network system. It is expected to improve braking distance and response time and add various safety features. Model 3 and Model Y will be the earliest models to receive the update, with an anticipated Christmas update featuring the new version. With strong traction and previous updates being strongly received, FSD v12 is set to mark a milestone in autonomous vehicles.

Friday - December 1 2023, 23:14 UTC - 11 months ago

Researchers have developed an experiment to better understand people's ethical judgments in a variety of traffic scenarios. By creating a virtual reality environment, they are able to collect data on how humans perceive and make moral decisions in low-stakes traffic situations. This data can ultimately help inform autonomous vehicle development and public policy.

Friday - December 1 2023, 18:59 UTC - 11 months ago

ChatGPT has revealed the power of a good interface and the perils of hype, the use of ChatGPT has skyrocketed, 100 million people use ChatGPT every week, generative AI systems like ChatGPT are becoming pervasive, its implications for disinformation, fraud, intellectual property and discrimination have been raised, be careful not to get carried away when writing and discussing AI applications.

Friday - December 1 2023, 14:47 UTC - 11 months ago

DeepMind has combined elements of tree search and game-theory approaches to create a model that can beat humans at chess, Go, and poker, which could be a step towards more general AI algorithms. The algorithm, called Student of Games, can switch between perfect and imperfect information games and learns over time to become increasingly sophisticated.

Friday - December 1 2023, 10:19 UTC - 11 months ago

The X Prize Foundation has announced a $101 million global competition for teams to develop a therapeutic intervention that improves muscle, immunity and cognition by 2030, with the aim of turning back the clock in healthy adults aged 65 to 80 by a decade to two decades.

Friday - December 1 2023, 05:53 UTC - 11 months ago

Many people are noticing that their frequent flyer benefits aren’t going as far as they used to. Airlines create profits from bag fees, ticket change fees and frequent flyer programs, which also give customers the ability to board early or access to a lounge. Airlines struggle to design an optimal reward program, as there is a need to strike the right balance between everyone gaining the benefits and customers getting no value. Status requirements may change due to economic conditions.

Friday - December 1 2023, 01:25 UTC - 11 months ago

The Longevity Biotech Fellowship is a group of scientists, entrepreneurs, funders, and institutional allies sponsored by 100 Plus Capital to advance biotechnology to reverse aging and extend healthspan. Led by Cofounder Mark Hamalainen, this group believes that comprehensive organ and cell replacement techniques, along with cryostasis (freezing), could make people healthier and add 10-20 years of life expectancy, with a $125 billion and $2.5 billion program, respectively.