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Mar 3, 2022

Berlin Affordable Housing Challenge

Posted by in categories: business, government, habitats

The Berlin Affordable Housing Challenge is part of Bee Breeders’ Affordable Housing competition series. Run in partnership with ARCHHIVE BOOKS, this competition tasked participants with submitting innovative design proposals for tackling Berlin’s housing crisis.

Germany’s new government, formed in 2021, has vowed to make affordable housing a centerpiece of its agenda. Berlin, the capital city and the country’s center of gravity for entrepreneurship and new business, is in particular feeling extreme housing market pressures. According to an article published by NPR during the period of this competition, eight out of 10 city residents are now renters, where rent has increased 42% since 2016, and where an average of 40,000 new residents arrive each year.

Mar 3, 2022

AMD, Intel, TSMC, Microsoft and others establish universal chiplet standard

Posted by in category: futurism

The founding members hope the ratified UCIe 1.0 specification will eventually enable users to customise their SoC construction.

Mar 3, 2022

Log4Shell flaw: Still being used for crypto mining, botnet building… and Rickrolls

Posted by in category: cybercrime/malcode

Log4Shell is still a threat but it’s mostly being used for crypto mining and knocking out websites.

Mar 3, 2022

Comparative analysis of genome code complexity and manufacturability with engineering benchmarks

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, encryption

When knowledge has advanced to a state that includes a predictive understanding of the relationship between genome sequence and organism phenotype it will be possible for future engineers to design and produce synthetic organisms. However, the possibility of synthetic biology does not necessarily guarantee its feasibility, in much the same way that the possibility of a brute force attack fails to ensure the timely breaking of robust encryption. The size and range of natural genomes, from a few million base pairs for bacteria to over 100 billion base pairs for some plants, suggests it is necessary to evaluate the practical limits of designing genomes of similar complexity.

Mar 3, 2022

We Aren’t Sure If (Or When) Artificial Intelligence Will Surpass the Human Mind

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, singularity

Experts say the future of AI is uncertain, but it wouldn’t hurt to prepare for the possibility of singularity.

Mar 3, 2022

Elon Musk Warns That Russia May Be Spying on Starlink Connections

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, internet

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is warning users in Ukraine who have received one of the company’s Starlink dishes that the connection could be targeted by Russian state actors.

“Important warning: Starlink is the only non-Russian communications system still working in some parts of Ukraine, so probability of being targeted is high,” Musk tweeted on Thursday.

“Please use with caution,” he added.

Mar 3, 2022

Scientists Reveal a Multidimensional Universe Inside the Human Brain

Posted by in categories: computing, neuroscience

A study published in Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience has revealed that the human brain’s structures operate in up to 11 dimensions.

The dimensions are not understood as the classic definition of a dimension, which most of us understand, the Blue Brain Project explains.

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Mar 3, 2022

Pulverizing Asteroids Could Be Humanity’s Only Chance to Survive an Incoming Space Rock on Short Notice

Posted by in categories: asteroid/comet impacts, existential risks

A planetary scientist is working on a pulverizing system to destroy asteroids before they hit Earth. Learn more about his technology through this article.

Mar 3, 2022

One piece of good news as energy prices explode in European markets

Posted by in categories: energy, food

With the war in Ukraine raging and gas and energy prices climbing across world markets, there is one piece of good news for European energy markets.

Economists from Poland’s state Pekao bank are reporting a large reduction on the price of CO2 emission certificates. The prices have fallen dramatically from €95 to €62 per ton. This is especially good for countries like Poland, which are forced to pay a premium for energy derived from “dirty” sources like coal. The fall in the price of this “tax” is expected to make the cost of energy especially more bearable for many of Europe’s poorer nations.

The CEO of Poland’s Development Fund, Paweł Borys, also commented on the issue on Twitter. “It is significant how CO2 prices have collapsed, falling by 30 percent since they peaked in February. This is good news, as it means that electricity prices may fall, thereby reducing inflationary pressure that have been exacerbated by hikes in oil and food prices.”

Mar 3, 2022

Physics: Speed of Light Could Be Dropped to Zero Using Crystals

Posted by in categories: mathematics, particle physics

In a vacuum like space, the speed of light is just over 186,280 miles per second. Scientists have now shown it’s possible to slow it down to zero miles per second without sacrificing its brightness, regardless of its frequency or bandwidth.

A team of researchers from the Israel Institute of Technology and the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics in Brazil discovered a method of theoretically bringing the speed of light to a halt by capitalizing on “exceptional points”—coordinates at which two separate light emissions reach each other and merge into a single one, according to Phys.org. A paper describing the research was published in the scientific journal Physical Review Letters.

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