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Feb 2, 2022

Tesla recalls nearly 54,000 vehicles that may disobey stop signs

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

WASHINGTON, Feb 1 (Reuters) — Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) will recall 53,822 U.S. vehicles with the company’s Full Self-Driving (Beta) software that may allow some models to conduct “rolling stops” and not come to a complete stop at some intersections posing a safety risk.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said the recall covers some 2016–2022 Model S and Model X, 2017–2022 Model 3, and 2020–2022 Model Y vehicles. NHTSA said the feature also known as FSD Beta may allow vehicles to travel through an all-way stop intersection without first coming to a stop.

Tesla will perform an over-the-air software update that disables the “rolling stop” functionality, NHTSA said. The agency added it “maintains regular discussions with all manufacturers to discuss potential safety concerns of these types of systems.”

Feb 2, 2022

How E Ink Developed Full-Color e-Paper

Posted by in category: futurism

The road to color e-paper took two decades.

Feb 2, 2022

NASA Hubble Space Telescope Captures Weird Starball 117 Million Light Years Away

Posted by in categories: solar power, space, sustainability

In addition to the beautiful reddish image seen by the telescope, ESA stated that the data gathered from this sort of observation could aid in deciphering riddles surrounding the Universe’s beginning.

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Feb 2, 2022

Mars meteorite upends when we think life could have began

Posted by in category: space

The Red planet was still getting bombarded after 4.48 billion years.


It is believed to be the second oldest meteorite discovered, about two billion years old, and contains the most water found in any of Mars’ fallen rocks.

Previous studies of Black Beauty have shown that the meteorite lacked signatures of shock deformation, which led scientists to believe that Mars stopped experiencing heavy bombardment from flying space rocks about 4.48 billion years ago. This also suggested that the planet could have developed habitable conditions early on in its history.

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Feb 2, 2022

IAVI and Moderna launch trial of HIV vaccine antigens delivered through mRNA technology

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, government, health

Phase I trial aims to build on response seen in proof-of-concept trial.

NEW YORK AND CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — JANUARY 27, 2022 — IAVI and biotechnology company Moderna announced today that first doses have been administered in a clinical trial of experimental HIV vaccine antigens at George Washington University (GWU) School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, D.C. The Phase I trial, IAVI G002, is designed to test the hypothesis that sequential administration of priming and boosting HIV immunogens delivered by messenger RNA (mRNA) can induce specific classes of B-cell responses and guide their early maturation toward broadly neutralizing antibody (bnAb) development. The induction of bnAbs is widely considered to be a goal of HIV vaccination, and this is the first step in that process. The immunogens being tested in IAVI G002 were developed by scientific teams at IAVI and Scripps Research and will be delivered via Moderna’s mRNA technology.


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Feb 2, 2022

Our Brains Keep Us 15 Seconds ‘in The Past’ to Help Us See a Stable World, Says Study

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Our eyes are continuously bombarded by an enormous amount of visual information – millions of shapes, colors, and ever-changing motion all around us.

For the brain, this is no easy feat.

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Feb 2, 2022

‘Quantum friction’ slows water flow through carbon nanotubes, resolving long-standing fluid dynamics mystery

Posted by in categories: computing, nanotechnology, particle physics, quantum physics

For 15 years, scientists have been baffled by the mysterious way water flows through the tiny passages of carbon nanotubes—pipes with walls that can be just one atom thick. The streams have confounded all theories of fluid dynamics; paradoxically, fluid passes more easily through narrower nanotubes, and in all nanotubes it moves with almost no friction. What friction there is has also defied explanation.

In an unprecedented mashup of fluid dynamics and , researchers report in a new theoretical study published February 2 in Nature that they finally have an answer: ‘quantum .’

The proposed explanation is the first indication of quantum effects at the boundary of a solid and a liquid, says study lead author Nikita Kavokine, a research fellow at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ) in New York City.

Feb 2, 2022

DeepMind AI rivals average human competitive coder

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

After simulating 10 contests, with more than 5,000 participants, AlphaCode has ranks in the top 54%.

Feb 2, 2022

Ethereum-based AR metaverse ecosystem adopts Polygon to address scaling

Posted by in categories: augmented reality, cryptocurrencies, transportation

Peter Nesswhy is he so eager for Biden’s approval? Doesn’t he have parents?

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Peter Ness Biden keeps saying that GM is the U.S. leader in EVs and this ticks off Elon. In fact, the old GM plant in California that Tesla bought for a big $42 million produced more cars than any other U.S. factory last year. (All EVs, of course.)

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Feb 2, 2022

$323 million in ETH stolen from cross-chain protocol Wormhole

Posted by in categories: blockchains, climatology, cosmology, cryptocurrencies, engineering, environmental, finance

Ben RayfieldWeather control tech exists, to some extent. EMP weapons exist. If there was a 477 mile long lightning, it was probably either due to the sun or is a weapon or a terraforming experiment.

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