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Dec 16, 2022

AI system can predict a positive or negative COVID-19 test result

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

The study shows that machine-learning models can help predict COVID-19 infections.

Researchers have discovered a new way to predict which features are most useful in determining test results for COVID-19. The research team, from Florida Atlantic University’s (FAU) College of Engineering and Computer Science in the U.S., used AI to predict positive or negative COVID-19 test results.

The most common techniques currently used to detect COVID-19 are blood tests, also called serology tests, and molecular tests. Since the two assessments use different methods, they vary substantially.

Dec 16, 2022

A new water-based switch is thousands of times faster than current semiconductors

Posted by in categories: computing, mobile phones

Water becomes conductive within one trillionth of a second.

Researchers have developed a water-based switch that becomes conductive thousands of times faster than current state-of-art semiconductor-based switches. Such switches are used in computers, smartphones, and wireless communications.

Essentially, a short but powerful laser pulse converts the water into a conductive state within less than a trillionth of a second (10-12 seconds), during which time it behaves almost like a metal.

Dec 16, 2022

Apes can make rational, economic decisions as humans do, research finds

Posted by in category: economics

They love to bet.

The Institute of Biology at the University of Neuchatel (UniNE) in Switzerland discovered that orangutans and gorillas could make rational economic decisions. According to a new study, apes are similar to humans when it comes to making choices.

Led by Penelope Lacombe, Sarah Brocard, Klaus Zuberbühler, and Christoph Dahl, the study was conducted with orangutans and gorillas housed at Switzerland’s Basel Zoo. The results were published in PLOS ONE on December 14.

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Dec 16, 2022

Binance withdrawals surge to $3 billion, CEO CZ calls its ‘business as usual’

Posted by in categories: blockchains, business

A deja-vu in the crypto industry.

Withdrawals at the world’s largest crypto exchange platform, Binance, surged to $3 billion in a period of 24 hours, according to blockchain analytics firm Nansen.

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao called the incident “very normal market behavior,” CNN

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Dec 16, 2022

Elon Musk sells nearly $3.6 billion of Tesla stock this week

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, finance, sustainability, transportation

Making the total amount of sold Tesla stocks nearly $40 billion over the past year.

Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, has been on a selling spree of his company’s stock this year. Earlier this week, Musk sold 22 million shares over a period of three days, a filing with the U.S. financial regulator has revealed, the BBC

Musk, who rose to the top of the world’s wealthiest people list last year riding on Tesla stock price, has spent most of 2022 dealing with this start-again-stop-again campaign to acquire Twitter. Musk, who was quite secretive about acquiring Twitter stock at the beginning of the year, shocked many by declaring his intent to buy out the social media company and take it private.

Dec 16, 2022

Aliens likely haven’t visited because humanity’s technological signature is very limited

Posted by in categories: alien life, existential risks

There are likely many exciting alien worlds for extraterrestrials to visit.

Now that more and more scientists are actively searching for signs of extraterrestrial life, whether in our solar system or in the far reaches of space, more attention has been brought to the Fermi paradox.

A new study in preprint server arXiv suggests that we might not have encountered intelligent extraterrestrials because they may not find humanity very interesting.

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Dec 16, 2022

FTX caught depositing 8 billion dollars of customer money into secret accounts

Posted by in categories: economics, finance

In a move to protect SBFs hedge fund from losing billions software code was altered.

Sam Bankman-Fried owned Alameda Research, a hedge fund heavily invested in FTX. In move to make sure the hedge fund assets were never sold off, when FTX began to have issues, an engineer secretly changed software code in the FTX system. The software would have sold off all Alameda Research assets, just like any other companies that were owned, in the case of FTX filing for bankruptcy.


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Dec 16, 2022

Tim Cook admits that iPhones use Sony camera sensors

Posted by in categories: electronics, mobile phones

It’s a rare confirmation of the components that go into the iPhone. ‘We’ve been partnering with Sony for over a decade,’ Cook said.

Tim Cook has tweeted an admission that Apple uses Sony image sensors in its iPhones as part of the CEO’s supplier tour of Japan. “We’ve been partnering with Sony for over a decade to create the world’s leading camera sensors for iPhone,” Cook tweeted, and thanked Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida for showing him around the Kumamoto facility. A photo shows Cook being shown his company’s own smartphone, which is objectively very funny.


The partnership looks set to continue.

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Dec 16, 2022

HTC will announce a lightweight Meta Quest competitor at CES

Posted by in categories: augmented reality, space, virtual reality

A first look at the unnamed device, which will feature color passthrough mixed reality.

HTC plans to introduce a new flagship AR / VR headset next month that will reestablish its presence in the consumer virtual reality space. The company isn’t planning to release full details until CES on January 5th.


More details are coming next month.

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Dec 16, 2022

World’s biggest free-standing cylindrical aquarium bursts in Berlin

Posted by in category: futurism

Wikimedia Commons.

“The aquarium is damaged, water is leaking. The situation is not clear at the moment,” the Berlin fire brigade further wrote on Twitter.