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Jan 4, 2022

The Photonic Future of CPU’s and GPU’s — Lightelligence PACE

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

The photonic future of cpu’s and gpu’s — lightelligence PACE.


The new Photonics Hardware company Lightelligence has just announced their Photonics AI Accelerator card PACE that’s eventually supposed to be put into consumers personal computers in conjunction with their regular CPU’s and GPU’s. The crazy speed and efficiency of those Photonic chips are supposed to make Artificial Intelligence model training much faster and keep the heat down.

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 A New Hardware Maker.
02:13 Why are Photonic Chips better?
04:23 How do Photonic Chips work?
06:45 The Future of Photonic Computing.
09:47 Last Words.

#photonics #cpu #lightelligence

Jan 4, 2022

Start-up of 22nd Run at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)

Posted by in category: particle physics

The combination of techniques is now delivering highly polarized proton beams to collide inside STAR.

STAR upgrades.

When they analyze results from these collisions, STAR physicists will be looking for differences in the numbers of certain particles emerging to the left and right of the polarized protons’ upward pointing direction.

Jan 4, 2022

Stanford Researchers Bring “Dead” Lithium Back To Life

Posted by in categories: innovation, sustainability

One of the key problems with lithium-ion batteries is that, over time, they do lose some of their battery life. This is why recycling them is so important. But what if there was a way to bring them back to life? And by this, I mean make them as good as new without recycling them. What if you could not only bring them back to life but extend the battery’s life by up to 30%?

Researchers at Stanford University along with the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory may have done just that. No, this isn’t the beginning of a zombie horror apocalypse type of story, but it is a potentially revolutionary breakthrough.

Green Car Congress reports that the researchers might have found a way to bring rechargeable lithium batteries back to life with an increased boost to the range of battery life for both EVs and next-generation electronic devices. The study on the work has been published in Nature.

Jan 4, 2022

Artworks donated

Posted by in category: space

Space Renaissance is launching the 2022 Membership Campaign!

Space Renaissance Artists **Einar Larsen**, from Norway, and **Priscilla Thomas**, from Alaska, generously donated some of their artworks, and other Space Artists will do the same!

Every **new SRI Members** will receive a link to download a beautiful Visual Space Renaissance ArtWork! ## **CHECK IN TODAY!**.

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Jan 4, 2022

KUKA Innovation Award 2022

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health, robotics/AI

The “Robotics in Healthcare” Challenge is about the interaction of robotic systems with humans in medical applications. For this purpose, we are looking for ideas around the topic of diagnosis, rehabilitation and treatment in the healthcare and nursing sector. We encourage participants to submit a concept that uses a robotic system to improve the ability to monitor health and prevent, detect, treat, and manage disease, as well as to test and demonstrate new models and tools for health and care delivery. We are looking for solutions that will enable new robotic use cases for the future of healthcare. You can win 20,000 Euros.


Call for Participation: Until 7 January 2022 you can apply with your innovative concepts to the Medical Robotics Challenge!

Jan 4, 2022

China’s ‘Artificial Sun’ Has Just Hit a New Nuclear Fusion Milestone

Posted by in category: nuclear energy

China’s “artificial sun”, a nuclear fusion tokamak reactor that could provide almost limitless amounts of emission-free energy, set a new record on Thursday by running for 1,056 seconds at high plasma temperature, according to a report from Xinhua.

The particular tokamak reactor is called EAST, which stands for Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak. It is located in Hefei, China, and it also broke a record in May when i… See more.

Jan 4, 2022

Can The Pharmaceutical Companies Use Basic Aging Biology To Develop Drugs For Age-Related Diseases?

Posted by in categories: finance, life extension

The University of Copenhagen in Denmark is a very unique place. Apart from being one of the oldest universities in Scandinavia, it is also one of the top universities in the world. So far, 39 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with the University and it sports a spectacular center for healthy aging which hosts the Biology of Aging lab. In September 2021 the University of Copenhagen hosted the 8th annual Aging Research and Drug Discovery (ARDD) meeting.

This year’s ARDD meeting, held at the Ceremonial Hall of the University, was the largest conference on aging and biopharma in the world for the second consecutive year.

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Jan 4, 2022

Hovering Moon Rover Concept Uses An Electric Field To Float

Posted by in categories: drones, space

When thinking of the power of the Ingenuity drone on Mars, which has done more than a dozen flights on the Red Planet to scout ahead of the Perseverance rover, imagine what it would be like to fly a similar machine over the moon.

But without a substantial atmosphere to speak of — the moon is essentially “airless” — such a hovering drone needs a completely different way to stay above ground than on Mars. The early-stage design, being developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, proposes using the moon’s static charge to keep the vehicle flying.

The moon’s electrical properties are well-known to science, as it produces such qualities as hovering dust — especially at the line of daylight and darkness. Small rovers on the moon haven’t been used yet at all, although we have seen a few on the Japanese Hayabusa2 mission to asteroid Ryugu.

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Jan 4, 2022

In Photos: Hubble Isn’t Done Yet As Ageing Space Telescope Sends Back Stunning New ‘Galactic Collision’ Images

Posted by in category: life extension

If you thought the Hubble Space Telescope was about to be surpassed by the new James Webb Space Telescope (Webb), think again.

Now on its way to its observing position a million miles from Earth, Webb has a 6.6 meter mirror–compared to the 2.4-meter mirror inside Hubble–so six times more collecting power.

Should we compare Webb with Hubble? No–Webb is an infrared telescope while Hubble deals mainly in optical (visible) light.

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Jan 4, 2022

We’re Losing A Planet: Say Goodbye To Venus, Now A Slim Crescent Sinking In The West

Posted by in category: space travel

Planet-spotting is all about perspective.

From where we stand in our orbit of the Sun the closest planet to us, Venus, will come to what astronomers call inferior conjunction on Sunday, January 9.

After over six months of shining brightly in the west in the post-sunset sky in its apparition as the “Evening Star,” on that day Venus will finally disappear from sight.… See more.