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May 24, 2022
Elon Musk says he’s testing out SpaceX’s Starlink internet on his private jet
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: Elon Musk, internet, satellites
Elon Musk said on Monday that he’s testing out SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet on his private jet.
“I am testing Starlink on the plane. Some polishing needed, but it’s working quite well,” Musk tweeted. He also wrote in the Twitter post that he works while traveling on the jet.
His tweet was part of a Twitter thread about SpaceX president and COO Gwynne Shotwell defending Musk, following sexual misconduct claims involving a flight attendant working on the billionaire’s plane, which Insider first reported on Thursday.
May 24, 2022
Cathie Wood Sees This Technology Accelerating GDP Growth To 50% Per Year
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: biotech/medical, economics, robotics/AI
Noted fund manager and Ark Invest founder Cathie Wood on Saturday suggested that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) will likely give a strong lift to economic growth.
The fund manager is of the view that a breakthrough in AGI will lead to the acceleration of GDP within the next six to 12 years. The analyst estimates that GDP growth will increase from the 3–5% year-over-year rate currently to 30–50% per year. New DNA will win,’ she added.
May 24, 2022
SpaceX’s Starlink launches $135-a-month internet service for RVs
Posted by Heather Blevins in categories: internet, satellites
SpaceX announced this week that it is launching a Starlink internet service option designed with RV owners in mind.
The company is rolling out an optional $25 monthly fee for customers who want to relocate their satellite dishes, CNBC’s Michael Sheetz first reported. The extra cost will be added on to the Starlink base service price of $110 per month and will be billed in one-month increments. The users will be able to pause and restart their service at any time.
However, the company says that the internet service will not be active while the RV is in motion and will be limited to an “as-needed basis at any destination where Starlink provides active coverage,” according to a press release.
May 24, 2022
New kind of camera can image mini-whirlpools in quantum liquids
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in categories: particle physics, quantum physics
Researchers have built a camera-like device for understanding how vortices form in quantum liquids, where atoms pair up and start to behave like overlapping waves.
May 24, 2022
50 years ago, the U.S. and U.S.S.R. joined forces to ensure astronauts could survive in space
Posted by Atanas Atanasov in category: space travel
Could this happen today?
This document laid the foundation for modern space exploration and research. It is also a testament to a fading world order where nations worked together in space toward shared scientific goals despite their political differences.
Signed by President Richard Nixon and Premier Alexie Kosygin in the U.S.S.R on May 24, 1972, the agreement led to the first international crewed space mission, 1975’s Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.
May 24, 2022
Artificial Intelligence to make roads in India safer to drive
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in category: robotics/AI
Indias Ministry of Science and Technology said that this unique approach uses the predictive power of AI to identify risks on the road, and a collision alert system to communicate timely alerts to drivers, to make several improvements related to road safety
Circa 2010 😀 😍
Molecules that arrange themselves into predictable patterns on silicon chips could lead to microprocessors with much smaller circuit elements.
May 24, 2022
Laser light points toward room-temperature quantum computer
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: computing, quantum physics
May 24, 2022
A squeezed quantum microcomb on a chip
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: computing, quantum physics
Circa 2021 a room temperature scalable quantum computer 😁
Microcombs operating in the deterministic quantum regime could lead to new applications. Here, the authors demonstrate a quantum microcomb consisting of 20 two-mode squeezed comb pairs, in an optical microresonator on a silicon chip.