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Sep 2, 2024
This company wants to reinvent the space rocket — as a space plane
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: transportation
US company Radian Aerospace is attempting to build a “single stage to orbit” vehicle, launched from a sled. But can it be done?
Sep 2, 2024
Saturn to be visible in the UK night sky this week — find out when and how
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
This week Brits will be able to see Saturn as enters opposition, find out how and when and stargazing tips.
Sep 2, 2024
Aluminium foil that can clean water: we’ve developed a coating which attracts and traps dangerous microbes
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biological
A specially coated foil removed more than 99% of E. coli bacteria from water in laboratory tests.
Sep 2, 2024
T-Mobile Customers Will Get Starlink Satellite Internet Directly On Their Mobiles First And Others Only Later, Says SpaceX CEO Elon Musk
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, mobile phones, satellites
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Saturday that T-Mobile US Inc. TMUS subscribers in the U.S. will get direct to mobile phone internet with the help of Starlink satellites first and other telecom service providers later.
What Happened: “Starlink direct to mobile phone Internet is exclusively with Tmobile in the US for the first year, then other carriers thereafter,” Musk wrote on X. “We are starting off working with one carrier in each country, but ultimately hope to serve all carriers.”
Musk’s comment comes on the heels of SpaceX launching 26 Starlink satellites with direct-to-cell capabilities to low-Earth orbit on Saturday.
Sep 2, 2024
Memory Breakthrough: Helical Magnets Pave the Way for Next-Gen Storage
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: innovation, sustainability
Researchers have developed a new magnet-based memory device using helical magnets, promising high-density, non-volatile storage without magnetic field crosstalk.
This breakthrough offers a sustainable solution to current challenges in information storage, with potential for large-scale integration and high durability.
A team of scientists has proposed a new concept for magnet-based memory devices, which might revolutionize information storage devices owing to their potential for large-scale integration, non-volatility, and high durability.
Sep 2, 2024
OpenAI plans to build its own AI chips on TSMC’s forthcoming 1.6 nm A16 process node
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: robotics/AI
The report suggests that Broadcom or Marvell will design the chip, but Apple might be a partner, too.
Sep 2, 2024
ChatGPT Went Rogue, Spoke In People’s Voices Without Their Permission
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in category: robotics/AI
Last week, OpenAI published the GPT-4o “scorecard,” a report that details “key areas of risk” for the company’s latest large language model, and how they hope to mitigate them.
In one terrifying instance, OpenAI found that the model’s Advanced Voice Mode — which allows users to speak with ChatGPT — unexpectedly imitated users’ voices without their permission, Ars Technica reports.
“Voice generation can also occur in non-adversarial situations, such as our use of that ability to generate voices for ChatGPT’s advanced voice mode,” OpenAI wrote in its documentation. “During testing, we also observed rare instances where the model would unintentionally generate an output emulating the user’s voice.”
Sep 2, 2024
Cells use alternative splicing to regulate gene expression, research suggests
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: biological, genetics
Alternative splicing is a genetic process where different segments of genes are removed, and the remaining pieces are joined together during transcription to messenger RNA (mRNA). This mechanism increases the diversity of proteins that can be generated from genes, by assembling sections of genetic code into different combinations. This is believed to enhance biological complexity by allowing genes to produce different versions of proteins, or protein isoforms, for many different uses.
Sep 2, 2024
This Mixed Reality Game Turns Your Living Room into Little Town
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: augmented reality, transportation
Watch a cozy city full of miniature people grow right in your living room in Wall Town Wonders, an upcoming mixed reality game by Cyborn.
Help tiny characters expand their world by completing quests and mini-games in the game’s detailed environments and interact with your new neighbors like never before using your hands. You can “touch” the objects and even guide a virtual plane.