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Aug 31, 2023
NASA Shares First Images from US Pollution-Monitoring Instrument
Posted by Arthur Brown in categories: mapping, space
On Thursday, NASA released the first data maps from its new instrument launched to space earlier this year, which now is successfully transmitting information about major air pollutants over North America.
Aug 31, 2023
India’s Chandrayaan-3 rover confirms sulphur on moon’s south pole
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: space
Spacecraft finds sulphur and other elements as it looks for signs of frozen water nearly a week after historic landing.
Aug 31, 2023
German Bionic debuts Apogee+ powered exoskeleton
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: cyborgs, robotics/AI, space, transhumanism
The Apogee+ exoskeleton aims to help support caregivers in healthcare settings. | Source: German Bionic.
German Bionic has unveiled the Apogee+, a powered exoskeleton for the North American healthcare market. Apogee+ aims to merge cutting-edge robots with research-backed, data-driven insights to better support caregivers.
Apogee+ is designed to provide personal lift assistance to caregivers, and it specifically addresses concerns with care worker safety and job satisfaction. This is German Bionic’s first foray into the healthcare space, and the mover underscores its success in industrial settings.
Aug 30, 2023
Waves of Entanglement Seen Rippling Through a Quantum Magnet For The First Time
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: quantum physics, space
Crafting organic molecules into a bizarre kind of magnet, physicists from Aalto University and the University of Jyväskylä in Finland have created the perfect space for observing the elusive activity of an electronic state called a triplon.
Where a garden variety magnet is typically best described as having two poles surrounded by a nest of field lines, the curious construct known as a quantum magnet defies such a simple description.
As is the case any time the word ‘quantum’ appears, you can imagine a landscape where nothing is certain. Like spinning roulette wheels in a dimly lit casino, all states are a maybe until the croupier says “no more bets”.
Aug 30, 2023
Nineteen researchers say AI is not sentient—not yet
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in categories: robotics/AI, space
There is a joke about the daughter who asks her dad why he speaks so quietly around the house. “Because there is artificial intelligence everywhere that is listening to what we say,” the dad replies. The daughter laughs, the father laughs. And Alexa laughs.
Artificial intelligence does seem to be injecting itself into more and more aspects of our lives. And as AI brains earn the equivalent of a million doctoral degrees while absorbing trillions of bits of data and in turn generate responses with an engaging tone and demeanor that sound as simple and humanlike as your favorite old college professor, some feel compelled to ask: Are computers becoming sentient?
A cynic would respond, “Of course not. Computers may solve problems in seconds that would take humankind generations to solve, but they can’t feel love and pain, can’t see and appreciate the moon and the stars, can’t smell the coffee we spill on the keyboard.”
Aug 30, 2023
Scientists Have Made a Discovery That Could Change Our Understanding of the Universe
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in categories: biological, chemistry, physics, space
Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have made a discovery that could change our understanding of the universe. In their study published on August 23 in the journal Science Advances.
<em>Science Advances</em> is a peer-reviewed, open-access scientific journal that is published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). It was launched in 2015 and covers a wide range of topics in the natural sciences, including biology, chemistry, earth and environmental sciences, materials science, and physics.
Aug 30, 2023
Semiconductor supplier Schunk Xycarb plans big expansion to keep up with Samsung, other chipmakers
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: business, robotics/AI, space
Construction is set to break ground by the end of this year, and the company expects to move into the new space by the end of 2024. The production facility for semiconductor quartz will include a clean room, high-purity cleaning system and allow them to expand an automation component of their business that they’ve been capitalizing on for years.
“We knew that our customers all over the world were expanding at a rate we couldn’t keep up with,” said Scott Lingren, SXT’s managing director and U.S. chairman. “As you see all these expansions from Samsung in Taylor to Texas Instruments Inc. in the Dallas area to all over the world … we just have to keep up.”
SXT – which is headquartered in the Netherlands and owned by the privately-held Schunk Group in Germany – supplies semiconductor manufacturers around the world, like Samsung, which has had a presence in Central Texas for decades and is potentially adding to its existing Austin campus and its new site in Taylor. Other major players in the industry include Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., which is expanding in Arizona, and Intel Corp., which is expanding to Ohio.
Aug 30, 2023
Meteor fragments came from another solar system, says Avi Loeb
Posted by Paul Battista in category: space
When the meteor that Avi Loeb, director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at Harvard University calls IM1 streaked across the sky on 8 January 2014, it was nothing special.
Yes, at half a meter in diameter, it was big enough to put on a nice show for people on the ground, ending in a rapid series of explosions high in the atmosphere.
“There were some reports of flashes in the sky, and there was probably a boom, although I’ve never heard anyone say that,” says Loeb’s colleague, Rob McCallum of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Aug 30, 2023
Gravitas: Chandrayaan-3’s big milestone: Sulphur on moon’s south pole confirmed
Posted by Alberto Lao in category: space
In a major milestone, Chandrayaan-3’s Pragyan rover has confirmed the presence of sulphur & other elements on the moon’s south pole. Molly Gambhir brings you a report.
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