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Feb 8, 2022
It’s Official. Lucid Air Is the Longest-Range EV Ever
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: energy, sustainability, transportation
And it doubles up as a backup energy unit and a camper.
Norwegian tech startup Fresco Motors just revealed its new Fresco XL, an electric vehicle (EV) that it claims will have a range of 620 miles (1,000 km). If the claim is true, it would make it the longest-range EV in the world.
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Feb 8, 2022
SpaceX’s Starlink helps restore the internet in volcano-hit Tonga
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: internet, space
Feb 8, 2022
Speed breeding is a powerful tool to accelerate crop research and breeding
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
Circa 2018 😀
Fully enclosed, controlled-environment growth chambers can accelerate plant development. Such ‘speed breeding’ reduces generation times to accelerate crop breeding and research programmes, and can integrate with other modern crop breeding technologies.
Feb 8, 2022
NASA Research Launches a New Generation of Indoor Farming
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: food
Feb 8, 2022
New robots—smarter and faster—are taking over warehouses
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: employment, robotics/AI
Feb 8, 2022
Michigan will get a new graphite processing factory to support US EV battery production
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: futurism
There have been almost no capabilities of processing graphite outside of China to date, but this new Michigan factory will change that.
Feb 8, 2022
The Neuroscience of Consciousness
Posted by Nicholi Avery in categories: computing, neuroscience
𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐄𝐧𝐜𝐲𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐲:
The Neuro-Network.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬.
Feb 8, 2022
Polyphony Digital and Sony AI Announce “Breakthrough” Project Collaboration
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: innovation, robotics/AI
An intriguing message has landed on social media from the official Gran Turismo account and the account of Sony AI teasing what’s referred to as a “Gaming Flagship” and “breakthrough project” in AI. The companies, both subsidiary arms of the wider Sony brand, jointly revealed that they’re set to announce the project on Wednesday February 9.
Along with the announcement, Sony AI posted a short, 25-second teaser video. The clip featured something similar to the light traces we’ve been seeing in the Gran Turismo “Find Your Line” video series, as well as short glimpses of double-World Tour champions Igor Fraga and Takuma Miyazono, along with World Tour finalist Emily Jones.
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Feb 8, 2022
SpaceX preparing the ultimate backdrop for Elon Musk’s Starship update
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, space travel
For the third time, SpaceX has installed Super Heavy Booster 4 (B4) on Starbase’s lone orbital launch mount, kicking off preparations for CEO Elon Musk’s upcoming presentation.
In a decision that is difficult to logically explain, however, SpaceX chose to install Super Heavy on the ‘orbital launch mount’ with a crane instead of a complex pair of giant arms explicitly designed to lift, stack, and catch Starship hardware that the company has spent the last several months installing and testing.
This does not make a great deal of sense. One obvious explanation would be that those arms – despite completing multiple lift tests with hundreds of tons of water bags in recent weeks – are not ready for lifting and stacking operations. However, Starbase does not have a crane large enough to lift Starship S20 onto Booster 4, meaning that SpaceX almost certainly intends to use the tower’s arms to do so.
