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Oct 1, 2018

Google Maps adds ‘Commute’ tab w/ live traffic info, Spotify, Apple Music integration

Posted by in categories: media & arts, mobile phones

The Commute tab for Maps first popped up in a limited rollout in early September, but starting today it’s rolling out to users on Android and iOS. Google says that this new feature is designed to help you “take control over your commute.” It built the feature with the fact that, in many cities across North America, rush hour traffic can result in a commute that takes up to 60% longer than expected.

With the new Commute tab, Google Maps can provide live data on traffic to help you best manage your daily trip to work. It automatically accounts for accidents or heavy traffic and can help you better budget your time to account for that or provide alternate routes. Android users will have notifications on these updates sent to their device before getting caught in the delay.

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Oct 1, 2018

Watch this humanoid robot install drywall

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

The HRP-5P is a humanoid robot from Japan’s Advanced Industrial Science and Technology institute that can perform common construction tasks including — as we see above — install drywall.

HRP-5P — maybe we can call it Herb? — uses environmental measurement, object detection and motion planning to perform various tasks. In this video we see it use small hooks to grab the wallboard and slide it off onto the floor. Then, with a bit of maneuvering, it’s able to place the board against the joists and drill them in place.

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Oct 1, 2018

The Stellina Smart Telescope Finds The Stars For You

Posted by in category: space

Pick a constellation, and this tiny telescope shows it to you. (Via Seeker)

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Oct 1, 2018

Defects promise quantum communication through standard optical fiber

Posted by in categories: materials, quantum physics

An international team of scientists led by the University of Groningen’s Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials created quantum bits that emit photons that describe their state at wavelengths close to those used by telecom providers. These qubits are based on silicon carbide in which molybdenum impurities create color centers. The results were published in the journal npj Quantum Information on 1 October.

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Oct 1, 2018

Strange Blobs Beneath Earth Could Be Remnants of an Ancient Magma Ocean

Posted by in category: futurism

New research suggests that weird blobs in the deepest part of Earth’s mantle could be leftovers from an ancient magma ocean.

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Oct 1, 2018

2018 Nobel Prize in medicine is for tweaking our immune system to fight cancer

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Cancer is tough to treat because it’s essentially the body’s own cells gone rogue. This year’s laureates found a way to tweak the immune system to attack cancer cells.

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Oct 1, 2018

Scientists Think They’ve Finally Found The Crushing Limits of Gravity Humans Could Survive

Posted by in categories: entertainment, space

They don’t call Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson ‘The Mountain’ for nothing.

In 2015, the strong man and Game of Thrones actor broke a millennium-old record by taking – or more accurately, staggering – five steps with a 650 kilogram (1,430 pound) log on his back.

To most of us, this was simply an extraordinary example of heroic strength. To scientists, this feat marked a crushing limit to the gravitational pull any mortal could ever hope to endure, setting a boundary on the mass of planets we might expect to colonise.

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Oct 1, 2018

Rejuvenation Roundup September 2018

Posted by in category: life extension

LEAF’s Rejuvenation Roundup September 2018 is out!


Happy autumn—or spring, if you live in the southern hemisphere! Be as it may, in a post-aging world, the season of your health would always be summer; let’s see how much closer we got to that world during last September.

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Oct 1, 2018

Genetically engineered viruses discern, destroy E. coli in drinking water

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, genetics, sustainability

To rapidly detect the presence of E. coli in drinking water, Cornell University food scientists now can employ a bacteriophage — a genetically engineered virus — in a test used in hard-to-reach areas around the world.

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Oct 1, 2018

I, holobiont. Are you and your microbes a community or a single entity?

Posted by in category: biological

What’s up with these 2 factions trying to split reality in 2? 🤔.


Are you a multispecies mix of human and microbial bits – or is there a fuzzy boundary between you and your tiny companions?

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