Nov 18, 2021
Intel’s chip recovery plan could restore US manufacturing prowess
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: computing, government
The chipmaker’s come-from-behind strategy is risky and will take years, even with government subsidies.
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Nov 18, 2021
Elon Musk said SpaceX will fly its Starship spaceship into orbit for the first time in January, but warned the first attempt might not be a success
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, space travel
Musk gave a new date for Starship’s first orbital flight. He’d previously predicted it would launch in July, then November.
Nov 18, 2021
Wait what? FDA wants 55 years to process FOIA request over vaccine data
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in categories: biotech/medical, food, government, health
Freedom of Information Act requests are rarely speedy, but when a group of scientists asked the federal government to share the data it relied upon in licensing Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, the response went beyond typical bureaucratic foot-dragging.
55 years and longer.
That’s how long the Food & Drug Administration in court papers this week proposes it should be given to review and release the trove of vaccine-related documents responsive to the request. If a federal judge in Texas agrees, plaintiffs Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency can expect to see the full record in 2076.
Nov 18, 2021
Rolls-Royce gets funding to develop mini nuclear reactors
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in categories: business, employment, government, nuclear energy
The creation of the Rolls-Royce Small Modular Reactor (SMR) business was announced following a £195m cash injection from private firms and a £210m grant from the government.
It is hoped the new company could create up to 40,000 jobs by 2050.
However, critics say the focus should be on renewable power, not new nuclear.
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Nov 18, 2021
What Do Neurons and Snowflakes Have to Teach Us About AI?
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in category: robotics/AI
The fact that no two are alike could be the key to designing AIs that can adapt to change.
Nov 18, 2021
SpaceX Starship 2022: How next year will pave way for Mars City and Artemis
Posted by Atanas Atanasov in categories: Elon Musk, physics, space travel
On Wednesday, CEO Elon Musk outlined how the company’s under-development rocket will deliver a “high fly rate” of a dozen launches in 2022. This will enable the ship to deliver actual payloads in 2023 before moving on to more ambitious goals like sending humans to the Moon and Mars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLydXZOo4eA
The comments, made at the joint meeting of the Space Studies Board and the Board on Physics and Astronomy, outline how the stainless steel rocket taking shape in Texas will move from prototype curiosity to working ship.
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Nov 18, 2021
Fountain’s $15m to “restore youthful resilience to cells”
Posted by Montie Adkins in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
“Fountain is an example of a biotech company emerging as a direct result of basic research, in this case the biology of aging,” said Dr Rando, founder and chairman of Fountain. “The company’s screening and discovery platform is built upon foundational research showing that the age of a cell can be modulated by factors in the cell’s environment. By identifying compounds that work through these pathways, we seek to restore youthful resilience to cells and tissues, leading to therapies that treat or even prevent chronic diseases of aging.”
Longevity funding: Eli Lilly and R42 Group join the party as Khosla-backed biopharma brings total Series A to $26 million.
Nov 18, 2021
The 100-year-old decision that contributed to Abbotsford, B.C., flooding
Posted by Poopeh Morakkabati in category: futurism
More than 100 years ago, a lake outside what is now the Abbotsford, B.C., area was drained to create lucrative farmland. Many say that decision is a big contributor to the devastating flooding.
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Nov 18, 2021
Zipline starts first commercial US drone deliveries with Walmart partnership in Arkansas
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: drones
Parachuting diapers into your backyard.
Drone delivery company Zipline is launching its first commercial service in the US in a partnership with Walmart in Arkansas. The service is extremely limited, though, only operating in a 50-mile radius.
Nov 18, 2021
Sending a Tiny Telescope Past Saturn Could Solve Some of the Biggest Mysteries of the Universe
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
Dozens of space-based telescopes operate near Earth and provide incredible images of the universe. But imagine a telescope far away in the outer solar system, 10 or even 100 times farther from the Sun than Earth. The ability to look back at our solar system or peer into the darkness of the distant cosmos would make this a uniquely powerful scientific tool.
I’m an astrophysicist who studies the formation of structure in the universe. Since the 1960s, scientists like me have been considering the important scientific questions we might be able to answer with a telescope placed in the outer solar system.
So what would such a mission look like? And what science could be done?
