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Nov 23, 2021

Robot Company Will Pay $200k for Your Face —If It’s Friendly Enough

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

If you don’t like what a robot is doing with your mug, there are no takebacks.

Nov 23, 2021

‘Absolutely extraordinary’: Einstein’s theory of relativity notes fetch $18 million at auction

Posted by in category: futurism

Featuring endless calculations in black ink on wrinkled, lightly yellowed paper, the manuscript challenges Einstein’s popular image as an absolute genius, because it shows that even he made mistakes.

Nov 23, 2021

Reverse-engineering the cortical architecture for controlled semantic cognition

Posted by in categories: computing, engineering

Circa 2021


By varying the presence of different building blocks in a computational model, Jackson et al. reverse-engineer the architecture for controlled semantic cognition and test this model against evidence from anatomy, neuropsychology and functional imaging.

Nov 23, 2021

Hands-on: VR Goes Skydiving at iFLY — The Ultimate Haptic Simulation

Posted by in category: virtual reality

iFLY, a leading provider of indoor skydiving facilities, today launched their iFLY VR initiative which combines the company’s indoor skydiving experience with immersive visuals powered by a Gear VR headset. I got to try to experience for myself at the company’s SF Bay location.

Now available at 28 locations in the US, the iFLY VR experience is an optional $20 add-on to the usual indoor flight experience offered by the company (which starts around $70). After training and getting a feel for stable non-VR flying, customers don a purpose-built helmet which incorporates a Gear VR headset. They can choose between several different skydiving locations—like Dubai, Hawaii, or Switzerland—where iFly has recorded real skydives specifically for use in the iFly VR experience.

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Nov 23, 2021

SpaceX will launch NASA’s DART mission to crash into an asteroid soon and you can watch it live

Posted by in category: space

NASA will launch a mission to crash into an asteroid (on purpose) overnight tonight and you can watch it lift off live online.

The agency’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission will travel millions of miles out into the solar stem to smash into an asteroid, altering its orbit around a larger space rock to practice in the event of a rogue Earth-bound asteroid. The mission is set to lift off from Space Launch Complex-4 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California early Wednesday, Nov. 24, at 1:20 a.m. EST (10:20 p.m. PST on Nov. 23/0620 GMT).

Nov 23, 2021

Are space rockets bad for the Earth? Why the question ignores an important truth

Posted by in category: space travel

SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, and others are launching more rockets than ever. But the environmental impact and carbon emissions are poorly understood.

Nov 23, 2021

South Korea’s Busan to get world’s first floating city by 2025; to house 10,000 residents

Posted by in categories: governance, habitats

Self sustaining floating city for $200 million for 10,000 residents.


The world will soon have its first floating city by 2025 off the coast of South Korea’s Busan and will house 10,000 residents in a 75-hectare area.

Nov 23, 2021

SARS-CoV-2 gene content and COVID-19 mutation impact

Posted by in categories: biological, biotech/medical, genetics

The SARS-CoV-2 gene set remains unresolved, hindering dissection of COVID-19 biology. Comparing 44 Sarbecovirus genomes provides a high-confidence protein-coding gene set. The study characterizes protein-level and nucleotide-level evolutionary constraints, and prioritizes functional mutations from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Nov 23, 2021

Positron Antimatter catalyzed fusion propulsion

Posted by in category: space

O,.o! Circa 2018


We can produce very little antimatter and what we make is very difficult to store. These have been huge obstacles that have made antimatter propulsion many trillions of times beyond technological capabilities.

Positron Dynamics and Ryan Weed get around these issues by using isotopes of Krypton or sodium which naturally produce positrons (anti-electrons). They can use tiny amounts of Krypton isotopes to generation 100 billion to many trillions of positrons. They can also breed more of Krypton 79 isotopes by exposing Krypton 78 to neutrons.

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Nov 23, 2021

Elon Musk Makes Fun of US Officials Who Refuse to Say the Word, Tesla

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation

Elon Musk makes fun of Joe Biden after the latter commented on the electric vehicles without mentioning the leader of this industry, Tesla.