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Nov 7, 2020

Intel Acquires Cnvrg.io To Lead The Race In The AI Game

Posted by in categories: finance, robotics/AI

Intel, in its latest acquisition spree, has acquired Israel-based Cnvrg.io. The deal, like most of the deals in the past, is aimed at strengthening its machine learning and AI operations. The 2016-founded startup provides a platform for data scientists to build and run machine learning models that can be used to train, run comparisons and recommendations, among others. Co-founded by Yochay Ettun and Leah Forkosh Kolben, Cnvrg was valued at around $17 million in its last round.

According to a statement by Intel spokesperson, Cnvrg will be an independent Intel company and will continue to serve its existing and future customers after the acquisition. However, there is no information on the financial terms of the deal or who will join Intel from the startup.

The deal comes merely a week after Intel’s announcement of acquiring San Francisco-based software optimisation startup SigOpt, which it did to leverage SigOpt’s technologies across its products to accelerate, amplify and scale AI software tools. SigOpt’s software technologies combined with Intel hardware products could give it a major competitive advantage providing differentiated value for data scientists and developers.

Nov 7, 2020

These Drones Have Been Designed To Plant 100,000 Trees Per Day

Posted by in categories: drones, sustainability

What happens when you put two pilots to work flying a drone that has been designed specifically to plant trees at a rapid pace? You could potentially get up to 100,000 trees planted per day. That’s an astounding number compared to an average 11,000 trees that are currently being planted by professional tree planters on a weekly basis.

Nov 7, 2020

Asteroid the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza set to pass Earth tomorrow

Posted by in category: space

An asteroid that could be almost 600 feet wide is set to fly by Earth on Saturday, passing us at a speed of more than 29,000 miles per hour.

The asteroid, named 2020 TY1, was first discovered in October. It is expected to pass at a distance of around 3.5 million miles, which is about 14 times the distance between Earth and the moon, meaning it poses no risk to our planet.

It is one of the largest asteroids to pass Earth in recent weeks, with the last of a similar size passing by on October 22. The space rock is estimated to be between 260 and 590 feet wide, making it around the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza, which is 455 feet tall.

Nov 7, 2020

Pushing the envelope with fusion magnets

Posted by in categories: energy, materials

David Fischer, an MIT Energy Fellow at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center, is observing ways irradiation damages thin high-temperature superconductor tapes in the design of ARC, a fusion pilot plant concept.

Nov 7, 2020

DOE Explains…Stellarators

Posted by in category: futurism

Nov 7, 2020

Drones to descend on Israeli hospitals for new air-drop delivery service

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, drones

The U.S. drone delivery company Zipline is getting ready to begin commercial operations in Israel next year, TheMarker has learned. The company has begun the regulatory process and is in talks with potential customers.

Zipline hopes to begin its pilot program in Israel early next year, delivering blood and medicine to hospitals in the north and south of the country. While the company has drawn up detailed plans for entering the local market, there’s no guarantee that the pilot will develop into a commercial launch of the service.

Founded in 2014, Zipline has raised around 230 million to date and has a valuation of more than $1 billion. It’s considered the most prominent player in the field: The company has operated commercial drone delivery services since 2016 and has carried out more than 70,000 deliveries.

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Nov 7, 2020

The Next Four Years Under President Biden

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, policy, space

Biden has just won the 2020 election. In today’s episode, I will talk about what the next 4 years will look like under a Biden presidency. Topics I will cover include space policy, foreign policy, coronavirus management, immigration, and more!

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Nov 7, 2020

The World’s First 6G Test Satellite ‘Electronics University’ Successfully Launched

Posted by in categories: electronics, satellites

At 11:19 on November 6, the Long March 6 carrier rocket was launched at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center and successfully sent 13 satellites into the predetermined orbit. Among these 13 satellites, there is one – “University of Electronic Science and Technology”. This is the world’s first 6G test satellite.

Nov 7, 2020

Japanese Scientists Create Mind Control Tech for Gundam Robot

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, robotics/AI

Japanese scientists have created a device that allows anyone to control a mini toy Gundam robot, one of anime’s most popular fictional battle robots, with their mind.

The researchers customized a mobile suit Zaku Gundam robot toy available through Bandai’s Zeonic Technics line that allows buyers to manually program their robot using a smartphone app.

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Nov 7, 2020

Our memory comes from an ancient virus, neuroscientists say

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, evolution

Some scientists believe that the ability of animals to store memory came from a virus that infected a common ancestor hundreds of millions of years ago. 😃


This study is radically changing how we view the process of evolution.

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