May 27, 2022
Walmart Announces Drone Deliveries to 4 Million Households
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: drones
Walmart announced an expansion to its drone delivery program that will offer $3.99 deliver fees on shipments of 10 pounds or less.
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May 27, 2022
Play it cool: This company is building a cryogenic gas station in space
Posted by Atanas Atanasov in category: space travel
https://youtube.com/watch?v=sxrNd_Z_cIY
ETA Space is trying to solve one of the biggest problems with space travel. It might just have a solution.
May 27, 2022
Elon Musk Speculates About Storing All Human DNA in Database
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in categories: biotech/medical, computing, Elon Musk
In the early 2000s, scientists from the Human Genome Project announced a breakthrough: they had sequenced the complete human reference genome, including all three billion DNA letter, a scientific undertaking likened at the time to landing astronauts on the Moon.
While the reference genome has come under question as of late, with scientists adding more than two million additional variants, it still doesn’t take a whole lot of space to store the entire sequence on a traditional computer.
And now, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is once again weighing in on an issue outside his expertise, arguing that one could “fit the DNA sequences of all humans alive today in a fairly small data storage system” — a vaguely terrifying thought coming from the richest man in the world, as if he didn’t already have enough fires to put out and problems to solve.
May 27, 2022
What if quantum physics could eradicate illness? | Jim Al-Khalili for Big Think
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in categories: biological, evolution, genetics, information science, particle physics, quantum physics
Can quantum science supercharge genetics? | Jim Al-Khalili for Big Think.
This interview is an episode from The Well, our new publication about ideas that inspire a life well-lived, created with the John Templeton Foundation.
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May 27, 2022
New footage shows the world’s largest plane Antonov An-225 is completely destroyed
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: transportation
May 27, 2022
SpaceX just launched the world’s first ‘crypto satellite’
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: satellites
May 27, 2022
The first Australians ate the giant eggs of huge flightless birds, researchers confirm
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: futurism
May 27, 2022
Ukraine’s crisis: 8 new satellite images reveal the devastation on the ground
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: satellites
War feels ‘a hundred times more irrational’ when viewed from space.
Satellite images taken from space have been vital in reporting on the war in Ukraine. They have even helped to debunk disinformation that has spread since the start of Russia’s invasion in late February.
While satellites — such as those used by Maxar Technologies to help document the war — are equipped with powerful cameras that can zoom into vast regions, it turns out the conflict is also visible to the naked eye from orbital space.
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May 27, 2022
Microsoft’s Code-Writing AI Points to the Future of Computers
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
Today, AI can take control of characters in Minecraft. Soon, it could help you control your whole computer.
May 27, 2022
AI reskilling: A solution to the worker crisis
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: biotech/medical, business, employment, finance, information science, robotics/AI
By 2025, the World Economic Forum estimates that 97 million new jobs may emerge as artificial intelligence (AI) changes the nature of work and influences the new division of labor between humans, machines and algorithms. Specifically in banking, a recent McKinsey survey found that AI technologies could deliver up to $1 trillion of additional value each year. AI is continuing its steady rise and starting to have a sweeping impact on the financial services industry, but its potential is still far from fully realized.
The transformative power of AI is already impacting a range of functions in financial services including risk management, personalization, fraud detection and ESG analytics. The problem is that advances in AI are slowed down by a global shortage of workers with the skills and experience in areas such as deep learning, natural language processing and robotic process automation. So with AI technology opening new opportunities, financial services workers are eager to gain the skills they need in order to leverage AI tools and advance their careers.
Today, 87% of employees consider retraining and upskilling options at workplaces very important, and at the same time, more companies ranked upskilling their workforce as a top-5 business priority now than pre-pandemic. Companies that don’t focus on powering AI training will fall behind in a tight hiring market. Below are some key takeaways for business leaders looking to prioritize reskilling efforts at their organization.
