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Jun 20, 2023

SaaS in the Real World: How Global Food Chains Can Secure Their Digital Dish

Posted by in category: futurism

Protecting your QSR against SaaS threats requires a comprehensive approach. Learn how an SSPM can help manage data separation, detect misconfiguration.

Jun 20, 2023

Lucky accident shows how immune system can beat MRSA without antibiotics

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Researchers have accidentally found that blocking caspase enzymes can make mouse immune responses more robust.

Jun 20, 2023

Lego Poised to Enter The Quantum Computer Market

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

Disregarding an ever-increasing number of modalities and approaches and indifferent to the intense competition from savvy startups and techno giants, Lego could enter the race to build a quantum computer.

Well, at least one Lego fan designer is readying the Denmark-based toy company for the quantum era.

In a product suggestion, a Lego user pitched creating IBM Quantum Computer System in Lego Ideas, a site that allows users to submit suggestions for future logo sets.

Jun 20, 2023

New Nano-Tattoos Don’t Need Batteries or Wires

Posted by in category: nanotechnology

While it has biosensor potential, the ink could be sprayed on almost anything.

Jun 20, 2023

Astronauts that hibernate on long spaceflights are not just for sci-fi. We could test it in 10 years

Posted by in category: space travel

“Of course, we need to finetune everything before we can apply it to humans. But I would say that 10 years is a realistic timeline,” Ngo-Anh said.

This fine-tuning is already underway. First studies have shown that it’s possible to induce torpor in otherwise non-hibernating animals, such as rats, and bring them safely back to life a few days later. The process of triggering hibernation is rather intricate and involves reduced exposure to daylight and a period of intense feeding followed by a strict fast.

Jun 20, 2023

How to apply for your share of Facebook’s $725 million settlement in privacy suit

Posted by in category: futurism

Facebook users have until August to claim their share of a $725 million class-action settlement of a lawsuit alleging privacy violations by the social media company, a new website reveals.

The lawsuit was prompted in 2018 after Facebook disclosed that the information of 87 million users was improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica.

People who had an active U.S. Facebook account between May 2007 and December 2022 have until Aug. 25 to enter a claim. Individual settlement payments haven’t yet been established because payouts depend on how many users submit claims and how long each user maintained a Facebook account.

Jun 20, 2023

Tiny area of brain may be ‘engine of consciousness’, scientists suggest

Posted by in category: neuroscience

A recent study on monkeys found that stimulating a certain part of the forebrain wakes monkeys from anesthesia.

Jun 20, 2023

Moore’s law: further progress will push hard on the boundaries of physics and economics

Posted by in categories: computing, economics, physics

Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Intel who died earlier this year, is famous for forecasting a continuous rise in the density of transistors that we can pack onto semiconductor chips. James McKenzie looks at how “Moore’s law” is still going strong after almost six decades, but warns that further progress is becoming harder and ever more expensive to sustain.

Jun 20, 2023

Hit or Miss? AI and Brain Waves Tune into Future Hit Songs with 97% Accuracy

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

Neurophysiologic responses to the first minute of songs predicted hits with an 82% success rate, indicating that the early part of a song plays a crucial role in determining its popularity.

Jun 20, 2023

Dark Energy Spectroscopy Instrument Releases First Data

Posted by in categories: cosmology, robotics/AI

This week, a team of over 1,000 scientists from around the globe released to the public the first batch of data collected with the Dark Energy Spectroscopy Instrument (DESI), a telescope that cosmologists hope will help answer open questions on the nature of dark energy and the evolution of the Universe [13]. “The telescope works better than we ever imagined,” says Michael Levi, a cosmologist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), California, and the director of the DESI Collaboration. “We are ready to have everybody look at this [initial] data release and see what they can do with it.”

The goal of the five-year-long DESI survey is to map the Universe deeper in time and higher in detail than any previous telescope (see Feature: Entering a New Era of Dark Energy Cosmology). “We want to go way beyond what was done before and really be able to see the evolution of dark energy over the history of the Universe,” says Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, a cosmologist at LBNL and one of the spokespeople for the DESI Collaboration. To see that evolution, the survey plans to pinpoint the locations of over 40 million galaxies. The key to filling in the cosmic map is the use of robotic technology that automatically alters the placements of light-collecting fibers so that they can retrieve spectroscopic information from targeted bright spots in the sky. The spectral measurements provide information on what an object is and how fast it is moving away from us, which is needed to estimate its distance.

The robotic technology used to target objects had never been tried before, so it was not always clear that DESI would perform as expected, Levi says. But he and other team members have been pleasantly surprised by how smoothly the machine has operated. “DESI has preserved every photon that the Universe gave us,” he says.