Perspecta has secured a four-year, $29.9M contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to research hardware components.
An internal attainability report proposes the organization maybe, or possibly that going through collapsed space is a piece of the NASA interstellar spaceflight menu.
In the report, propelled impetus physicist Harold “Sonny” White clarifies the thoughts of a hypothetical physicist (and companion) Miguel Alcubierre. He at that point portrays an “oddity” in Alcubierre’s work, and how that Catch 22 may be set out to make a working model.
The conversational term “twist drive” has originated from sci-fi, and it alludes to sub-luminal (not exactly the speed of light) head out that complies with Einstein’s hypothesis of general relativity yet at the same time pushes speed to total most extreme that is hypothetically conceivable. In the Star Trek canon, dynamic structures come consistently nearer to a theoretical obstruction—the manner in which genuine researchers keep on slashing ever nearer to supreme zero. In actuality, light speed is the hindrance.
In the week of April 12–18, the top 10 search terms on Amazon.com were: toilet paper, face mask, hand sanitizer, paper towels, Lysol spray, Clorox wipes, mask, Lysol, masks for germ protection, and N95 mask. People weren’t just searching, they were buying too —and in bulk. The majority of people looking for masks ended up buying the new Amazon #1 Best Seller, “Face Mask, Pack of 50”.
When covid-19 hit, we started buying things we’d never bought before. The shift was sudden: the mainstays of Amazon’s top ten—phone cases, phone chargers, Lego—were knocked off the charts in just a few days. Nozzle, a London-based consultancy specializing in algorithmic advertising for Amazon sellers, captured the rapid change in this simple graph.
It took less than a week at the end of February for the top 10 Amazon search terms in multiple countries to fill up with products related to covid-19. You can track the spread of the pandemic by what we shopped for: the items peaked first in Italy, followed by Spain, France, Canada, and the US. The UK and Germany lag slightly behind. “It’s an incredible transition in the space of five days,” says Rael Cline, Nozzle’s CEO. The ripple effects have been seen across retail supply chains.
Deep reinforcement learning has trained AIs to beat humans at complex games like Go and StarCraft. Could it also do a better job at running the economy?
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A deep learning-based model estimates attenuation maps directly from emission data, enhancing myocardial perfusion imaging on SPECT-only scanners.
WASHINGTON — Planet announced that its next six SkySat satellites will fly to low Earth orbit on SpaceX Starlink missions scheduled later this summer.
The six SkySats will be evenly split across two launches on SpaceX’s Falcon 9, Planet said May 13 in a news release. Planet’s spacecraft will be rideshare payloads on the Starlink launches.
The first three — SkySats 16–18 — will launch on SpaceX’s ninth Starlink mission expected to launch in June. The next three — SkySats 19–21 — will launch later this summer. Both missions will lift off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
An AI trained to spot objects hidden against a background is able to see through camouflage and outperforms existing algorithms at the task.
Scientists at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology in the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences have discovered a new way for T cells to attack cells infected by viruses or deranged by cancer.
Published online by the journal Science on Thursday 7 May 2020, the new research from the Dustin Group describes the structure and composition of supramolecular attack particles (SMAPs) and their role in killing targeted cells.
Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) are essential components in the immune response against viruses and cancer. CTLs are known to recognise infected or damaged cells and release soluble protein molecules, which create perforations in the membrane of the targeted cell. These holes allow toxic enzymes to enter and initiate a self-destruct program, killing the targeted cell (cytotoxicity).
If you think tracking apps will keep people safe as economies reopen, look to South Korea, Singapore, and Australia to see why you’re mistaken.
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