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Apr 14, 2023

A task force set up

Posted by in categories: policy, robotics/AI

The agency will look at developing a standard policy for setting privacy rules on artificial intelligence.

AI-enabled language models are becoming commonplace of late, spearheaded by the disruption caused by OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In its wake, we have seen other technological players like Google and Microsoft scrambling to catch up to the competition by introducing their respective models to the public.

As a counterbalance, global authorities are doing due diligence to evolve a common framework to regulate the industry.

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Apr 14, 2023

China’s ‘artificial sun’ sets new world record

Posted by in categories: nuclear energy, physics

Its demonstration nuclear power plant is expected to be ready by 2035.

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), popularly known as China’s “artificial sun”, set a new record on Wednesday by running for 403 seconds in a steady-state high-confinement long plasma operation, Chinese news outlet CGTN

Moving closer to nuclear fusion energy.

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Apr 14, 2023

We now have a better image of black hole M87, thanks to machine learning

Posted by in categories: cosmology, robotics/AI

This has important implications for measuring the mass of the central black hole in M87.

Look at the image on the left and then the image on the right. They are by no means identical. But what if we told you that both the images are of the same object?

The object being a supermassive black hole.

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Apr 14, 2023

StoreDot’s Smaller Fast-Charging Battery Packs May Increase EV Adoption

Posted by in category: futurism

StoreDot has been touting its extreme fast charging batteries for a time. The plan is to reduce pack sizes and speed up charging to make EVs more accessible.

Apr 14, 2023

Astronomers have directly detected a massive exoplanet. The method could transform the search for life beyond Earth

Posted by in category: alien life

Astronomers are hot on the search for new exoplanets – planets that lie beyond our Solar System – which might show potential for sustaining life.

Apr 14, 2023

Scientists Merge Biology and Technology

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical, neuroscience

Finding ways to integrate electronics into living tissue could be crucial for everything from brain implants to new medical technologies. A new approach has shown that it’s possible to 3D print circuits into living worms.

There has been growing interest in finding ways to more closely integrate technology with the human body, in particular when it comes to interfacing electronics with the nervous system. This will be crucial for future brain-machine interfaces and could also be used to treat a host of neurological conditions.

But for the most part, it’s proven difficult to make these kinds of connections in ways that are non-invasive, long-lasting, and effective. The rigid nature of standard electronics means they don’t mix well with the squishy world of biology, and getting them inside the body in the first place can require risky surgical procedures.

Apr 14, 2023

SpaceX to launch Sateliot space base stations to provide satellite communications from smartphones

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, satellites

The Spanish company Sateliot plans to send its first base station into orbit, which will enable satellite communications directly from smartphones. SpaceX will help it do so. A SpaceX rocket will naturally be used to launch the telecom satellite into orbit.

Here’s What We Know

The company from Spain wants to launch five satellites into orbit by the end of this year. According to representatives of the startup, this first phase of the project will be completed. Sateliot wants to have 64 satellites in orbit next year, and the company plans to increase the number to 256 in 2025.

Apr 14, 2023

Life Extension

Posted by in categories: food, life extension, neuroscience

Omega-3 Fish Oil Gummy Bites provide the brain support and heart health benefits of omega-3 EPA & DHA fatty acids—without the need for large softgels or an aftertaste! What’s not to love about our high-potency tropical-flavored, sugar-free* fish oil gummy bites?

*Not a low-calorie food.

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Apr 14, 2023

New map of dark matter supports Einstein’s theory of general relativity

Posted by in categories: cosmology, physics

In the early 1900s, Albert Einstein proposed the theory of general relativity, which challenged everything scientists believed they understood about the universe at the time. Over the years, scientists have questioned whether this theory was true. However, a newly created dark matter map finally gives undeniable proof.

We must first look at Einstein’s original theory to fully understand this new development. Before Einstein proposed the theory of general relativity, scientists believed space to be almost featureless and changeless. Further, they thought that time flowed at its own pace, oblivious to clocks that tried to measure it, as Isaac Newton had suggested two centuries earlier.

However, Einstein proposed that both space and time were one force, spacetime, and that matter within this ever-changing stage was controlled by the curving path that gravity dictated. But to create gravity, we needed mass, a force so strong it could literally curve spacetime around it. This is where dark matter comes into play.

Apr 14, 2023

Quantum circuits with many photons on a programmable nanophotonic chip

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics, robotics/AI

A system for realizing many-photon quantum circuits is presented, comprising a programmable nanophotonic chip operating at room temperature, interfaced with a fully automated control system.