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Dec 26, 2019

Watch The Sun Turn Into a Ring of Fire Here Tonight

Posted by in category: space

The last solar eclipse of the decade—and the only annular solar eclipse of the year—will be visible in Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa starting just a few hours after this article’s publication.

Annular solar eclipses, like total solar eclipses, occur when the Moon passes in front of the Sun. However, the Moon doesn’t totally cover the Sun during annular solar eclipses, leaving behind an annulus, or bright ring.

Dec 26, 2019

Newly discovered subatomic particle X17 may shed light on dark matter mystery

Posted by in categories: cosmology, particle physics

A recent experiment with atomic nuclei is hard to square with our current understanding of physics.

Dec 26, 2019

This AI Is Helping Scientists Develop Invisibility Cloaks

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

We’re one step closer to channeling our inner Harry Potters.

Dec 26, 2019

Europe draws up plans for plasma-based particle accelerators

Posted by in category: particle physics

Compact devices would be far cheaper than existing technology.

Dec 26, 2019

Digit v2: Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance

Posted by in category: futurism

One of Digit’s autonomy layers ensures a minimum distance from obstacles, even mobile ones like pesky engineers. In this video, the vision system is active and Digit is operating under full autonomy.

Dec 26, 2019

How Big Tech Manipulates Academia to Avoid Regulation

Posted by in categories: law, robotics/AI

A Silicon Valley lobby enrolled elite academia to avoid legal restrictions on artificial intelligence.

Dec 26, 2019

AirTV Mini adds Prime Video to the Android TV dongle

Posted by in categories: electronics, mobile phones

AirTV Mini is one of the few dongles using Google’s Android TV platform and now, the product has been updated to support Amazon Prime Video.

Dec 26, 2019

1,000 Starships, 20 Years Are Needed to Build Sustainable City on Mars, Says Elon Musk

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel, sustainability

Elon Musk shared an update that building a sustainable city on Mars will take at least two more decades, as the planets align only once every two years.

Dec 26, 2019

500,000-year-old Fossilized Brain Has Totally Changed Our Minds

Posted by in categories: cyborgs, neuroscience

Fossils of just about everything have been unearthed, from ancient feathers to entire dinosaur skeletons preserved in opal, but there is one thing nobody thought could survive hundreds of thousands of years—until now.

Brain matter from a Cambrian arthropod that crawled around 500,000 years ago has proven many paleontologists wrong about brain decay being inevitable. Previous research suggests that no matter what it may be protected by, soft neural matter will break down long before fossilization can even start. Minds have suddenly been changed. Alalcomenaeus may have been a tiny creature, but its exoskeleton was tough enough to ward off decomposition.

Dec 26, 2019

China dreams of becoming an AI utopia – here’s the reality

Posted by in categories: education, food, health, robotics/AI, surveillance

This is the fourth instalment in a four-part series examining the brewing US-China war over the development and deployment of artificial intelligence technology.

China has had success with AI and surveillance, but when it comes to social issues such as education, health care and agriculture, there is still a ways to go.

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