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Feb 23, 2022

A.I. has mastered ‘Gran Turismo’ — and one autonomous car designer is taking note

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

A new artificial intelligence program has beaten the world’s best players in the popular PlayStation racing game Gran Turismo Sport. But the impact could be felt far beyond that.

Feb 23, 2022

What Are the Critical and Emerging Technologies to Watch as Perceived by the White House?

Posted by in category: policy

America’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, the National Science and Technology Council, and the National Security Council prioritize.

Feb 23, 2022

The world’s tiniest battery could power a new generation of wearable sensors

Posted by in categories: particle physics, robotics/AI, wearables

And it’s the size of a grain of dust. Energy storage might have been revolutionized thanks to a common dessert dish.


Advances in microelectronics have enabled the use of miniaturized computers for autonomous intelligence at the size of a dust particle less than one square millimeter across and a few hundred micrometers thick, creating an environment for ubiquitous computing. However, the size mismatch between microbatteries and microelectronics has emerged as a fundamental barrier against the take-off of tiny intelligent systems requiring power anytime anywhere. Mainstream microbattery structures include stacked thin films on the chip or electrode pillars and on-chip interdigitated microelectrodes. Nevertheless, available technologies cannot shrink the footprint area of batteries while maintaining adequate energy storage. Alternatively, the on-chip self-assembly process known as micro-origami is capable of winding stacked thin films into Swiss-roll structures to reduce the footprint area, which exactly mimics the manufacture of the most successful full-sized batteries—cylinder batteries. In addition to discussing in detail the technical difficulties of reducing the size of on-chip microbatteries with various structures and potential solutions, this Perspective highlights the following two basic requirements for eventual integration in microcomputers: minimum energy density of 100 microwatt-hour per square centimeter and monolithic integration with other functional electric circuits on the chip.

Feb 23, 2022

Blockchain is silently transforming every industry that you know

Posted by in categories: blockchains, cryptocurrencies

Feb 23, 2022

China and NASA are developing next-gen Voyager-like spacecraft. But whose is better?

Posted by in category: space

Space Race 2.0 is heating up.

There’s no use denying it: Space Race 2.0 is heating up.

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Feb 23, 2022

China found mysterious glass spheres on the Moon. Are they a window into its past?

Posted by in categories: futurism, space

Glass isn’t uncommon on the Moon. But these spheres are.

China’s Yutu-2 lunar rover on a mission to find out more about the far side of the Moon has made a startling new discovery. It has found mysterious glass spheres that may have captured within them important information about the Moon’s composition and history of its impact events, * Science Alert* reported.

Originally scheduled to be operational on the lunar surface for just three months, the Yutu-2 now holds the record of being the longest operational rover on the Moon. When it landed in 2019, it became the first rover to reach the far side of the Moon and has since been providing us insights about the side we cannot see from Earth. Last month, we learned that the soil on the far side is a lot stickier, and now there is the mystery of the glass spheres on the Moon aren’t a new finding. But the nature of these spheres makes them interesting and possibly a gateway for future missions.

Feb 23, 2022

Bacteria upcycle carbon waste into valuable chemicals

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biological, chemistry, sustainability

Feb 23, 2022

MIT’s new chip could stop hackers from stealing wearable tech data

Posted by in categories: computing, wearables

Feb 23, 2022

From Delivery To Hashing In 15 Minutes: Setting Up The FutureBit Apollo Node And Miner

Posted by in categories: bitcoin, futurism

This guide walks you through setting up the FutureBit Apollo Bitcoin node and miner, letting you mine bitcoin at home within 15 minutes.

Feb 23, 2022

Devious phishing method bypasses MFA using remote access software

Posted by in category: cybercrime/malcode

The researcher also told BleepingComputer that websites, such as LinkedIn, detect man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attacks and deactivate accounts after successful logins.

To overcome this obstacle, mr.d0x came up with a devious new phishing technique that uses the noVNC remote access software and browsers running in kiosk mode to display email login prompts running on the attacker’s server but shown in the victim’s browser.

VNC is a remote access software that allows remote users to connect to and control a logged-in user’s desktop. Most people connect to a VNC server through dedicated VNC clients that open the remote desktop in a similar manner to Windows Remote Desktop.