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Sep 17, 2024

Dr. Hologram will see you now: Virtual specialists visit cancer patients

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, holograms, mobile phones

Back in August 2021, LA-based Portl launched a 7-ft-tall hologram projection box for life-like remote communications. Now renamed Proto, the company has revealed that its Epic technology is allowing cancer patients to consult life-size virtual specialists.

Proto was founded in 2018 by David Nussbaum, who took his experience working on huge holograms for arena gigs, movie premieres and fashion shows to produce a hologram in a box called the Epic. The idea is to plonk the machine in a venue, university, boardroom, medical facility and so on, and allow folks to chat with a life-like 3D hologram of a person who might be thousands of miles away.

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Sep 17, 2024

Intel Is Allegedly Working on a Entirely New x86 Architecture Named Cobra Core

Posted by in category: futurism

Intel is reportedly trying out several new technologies to drastically improve single-core performance in upcoming architectures.

Sep 17, 2024

Intel strikes multibillion-dollar deal with Amazon, boosting New Albany project

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Intel on Monday reaffirmed its commitment to its $28 billion project in New Albany and said it has struck a new multiyear, multibillion-dollar partnership with Amazon, one of its Licking County neighbors.

“We remain committed to our U.S. manufacturing investments and are moving forward with our projects in Arizona, Oregon, New Mexico and Ohio,” Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said in a statement.

The company did not specify how many years or billions of dollars the Amazon partnership was for beyond that the chips will power artificial intelligence applications based on Intel’s most advanced technology.

Sep 17, 2024

NASA Completes Spacecraft to Transport, Support Roman Space Telescope

Posted by in category: space

The spacecraft bus that will deliver NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to its orbit and enable it to function once there is now complete after years of construction, installation, and testing.

Now that the spacecraft is assembled, engineers will begin working to integrate the observatory’s other major components, including the science instruments and the telescope itself.

“They call it a spacecraft bus for a reason — it gets the telescope to where it needs to be in space,” said Jackie Townsend, the Roman deputy project manager at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “But it’s really more like an RV because it has a whole assortment of functions that enable Roman to accomplish its scientific goals while out there too.”

Sep 17, 2024

FDA clears Apple’s sleep apnea detection feature for use. Here’s how it works

Posted by in category: neuroscience

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday cleared Apple’s new sleep apnea detection feature for use.

Sep 17, 2024

Is life a complex computational process?

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry, computing, genetics

However, more recent research suggests there are likely countless other possibilities for how life might emerge through potential chemical combinations. As the British chemist Lee Cronin, the American theoretical physicist Sara Walker and others have recently argued, seeking near-miraculous coincidences of chemistry can narrow our ability to find other processes meaningful to life. In fact, most chemical reactions, whether they take place on Earth or elsewhere in the Universe, are not connected to life. Chemistry alone is not enough to identify whether something is alive, which is why researchers seeking the origin of life must use other methods to make accurate judgments.

Today, ‘adaptive function’ is the primary criterion for identifying the right kinds of biotic chemistry that give rise to life, as the theoretical biologist Michael Lachmann (our colleague at the Santa Fe Institute) likes to point out. In the sciences, adaptive function refers to an organism’s capacity to biologically change, evolve or, put another way, solve problems. ‘Problem-solving’ may seem more closely related to the domains of society, culture and technology than to the domain of biology. We might think of the problem of migrating to new islands, which was solved when humans learned to navigate ocean currents, or the problem of plotting trajectories, which our species solved by learning to calculate angles, or even the problem of shelter, which we solved by building homes. But genetic evolution also involves problem-solving. Insect wings solve the ‘problem’ of flight. Optical lenses that focus light solve the ‘problem’ of vision. And the kidneys solve the ‘problem’ of filtering blood. This kind of biological problem-solving – an outcome of natural selection and genetic drift – is conventionally called ‘adaptation’. Though it is crucial to the evolution of life, new research suggests it may also be crucial to the origins of life.

This problem-solving perspective is radically altering our knowledge of the Universe. Life is starting to look a lot less like an outcome of chemistry and physics, and more like a computational process.

Sep 17, 2024

The Moon was once covered by an Ocean of Molten Rock, data from India’s Space Mission suggests

Posted by in category: space

Data from India’s recent Chandrayaan-3 mission supports the idea that an ocean of molten rock once covered the moon. Scientists from the mission have published their new findings in the journal Nature.

On August 23, 2023, a lander called Vikram successfully touched down on the lunar surface. Controllers then deployed a rover called Pragyan, which had been stowed on Vikram, to explore the landing site.

The location where Vikram touched down was further south than any other landing craft had previously been on the moon. It gave scientists an insight into the geology of the moon that had not yet been sampled.

Sep 17, 2024

Researchers Propose a Smaller, more Noise-Tolerant Quantum Circuit for Cryptography

Posted by in categories: computing, encryption, information science, quantum physics

Researchers Propose a #Smaller, more #Noise-#Tolerant #Quantum #Circuit for #Cryptography.

MIT researchers new algorithm is as fast as Regev’s, requires fewer qubits, and has a higher tolerance to quantum noise, making it more feasible to implement…


The most recent email you sent was likely encrypted using a tried-and-true method that relies on the idea that even the fastest computer would be unable to efficiently break a gigantic number into factors.

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Sep 17, 2024

Physicists Turn Light Into A One-Dimensional Gas With Incredibly Strange Properties

Posted by in category: physics

When you cool light photons to absolute zero, things get really weird.

Sep 17, 2024

Andrey Markov & Claude Shannon Counted Letters to Build the First Language-Generation Models

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

The first language model was invented over 110+ years ago by Andrey Markov of the Markov Chain fame.

#AI #LLM


Shannon’s said: “OCRO HLI RGWR NMIELWIS”

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