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Apr 10, 2022

The Japanese company behind a $777,000 flying motorbike is planning to go public, reports say

Posted by in category: futurism

🚘😏Roads?

â˜ïžđŸ˜‰Where we’re going we don’t NEED roads!


ALI technologies’ president said the XTURISMO, which can reach a top speed of 80km/h, would prove popular in the Middle East.

Apr 10, 2022

Dark matter could be a cosmic relic from extra dimensions

Posted by in categories: cosmology, particle physics

But these particles would interact only weakly with ordinary matter, and only via the force of gravity. This description is eerily similar to what we know about dark matter, which does not interact with light yet has a gravitational influence felt everywhere in the universe. This gravitational influence, for instance, is what prevents galaxies from flying apart.

“The main advantage of massive gravitons as dark matter particles is that they only interact gravitationally, hence they can escape attempts to detect their presence,” Cacciapaglia said.

In contrast, other proposed dark matter candidates — such as weakly interacting massive particles, axions and neutrinos — might also be felt by their very subtle interactions with other forces and fields.

Apr 10, 2022

The first reference charts for the human brain have been completed

Posted by in categories: life extension, neuroscience

They could become a useful tool in tracking healthy (and unhealthy) ageing | Science & technology.

Apr 10, 2022

A Science of Buildings That Can Grow—and Melt Away

Posted by in categories: cyborgs, science

Architect Neri Oxman, creator of “material ecology,” explains how silkworms, shrimp shells and insect exoskeletons could help shape the city of the future.

Apr 10, 2022

The AI in a jar

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Rich Heimann explores how the philosophy of mind and consciousness has affected AI research.

Apr 10, 2022

High potential

Posted by in category: futurism

In 2006, when TomĂĄs Palacios completed his PhD in electrical and computer engineering at the University of California at Santa Barbara, he was torn between taking a job in academia or industry.

“I wanted to make sure that the new ideas that we were generating could find a path toward society,” says Palacios, the newly tenured Emmanuel E. Landsman Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. “In industry, I was sure that would happen; I was not sure how it would work in academia.”

Apr 10, 2022

Psychophysicists: Your Brain Might Not Be as Conscious as You Think

Posted by in category: neuroscience

“Conscious processing is overestimated,” lead author Michael Herzog said in a press release. “You should give more weight to the dark, unconscious processing period. You just believe that you are conscious at each moment of time.”

When we ride a bike, Herzog mused, our bodies automatically make minute adjustments to keep from falling over without consciously thinking about it. But even with his team’s two-step model, some of the secondary questions surrounding the ancient debate remain. Questions about how long these discrete moments of consciousness last, or how they differ among people, don’t have answers.

“The question for what consciousness is needed and what can be done without conscious? We have no idea,” Herzog said.

Apr 10, 2022

Swiss researchers make spin ice supercomputing breakthrough

Posted by in categories: energy, supercomputing

The smallest artificial spin ice ever created could be part of novel low-power HPC.

Apr 10, 2022

Stimulation of the hepatoportal nerve plexus with focused ultrasound restores glucose homoeostasis in diabetic mice, rats and swine

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Selective activation of the hepatoportal nerve plexus via peripheral focused ultrasound stimulation improves glucose homoeostasis and enhances glucose tolerance and utilization in rodent models of diabetes and in swine.

Apr 10, 2022

Warning for Samsung users as pre-installed app could let hacker control phone

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, security

MILLIONS of owners of the Samsung Galaxy smartphone face a security threat.

Those with an Android version 9 through 12 are at risk.

Researchers at Kryptowire published a report detailing how they discovered a serious vulnerability in the pre-installed Phone app across multiple models that could enable a hacker to take control of someone’s phone, Forbes reported.