OpenAI top scientist says AI might already be conscious. Researchers respond furiously
It’s a long-standing debate, one that this weekend made headlines: willartificial intelligence (AI) everbe consistent or is it already so?
OpenAI top researcher Ilya Sutskever took to Twitter to declare his view on the matter and saw backlash from many scientists in the field,as first spotted by Futurism .
In a first, EV company builds 1-mile long wireless road in Detroit
Last May, researchers introduced a method that could make charging electric vehicles while driving a reality. This technology is now here and will soon be used on a U.S. road, according to a press release by the Israeli provider of wireless electric vehicle (EV) charging technology Electreon. The development may forever change how electric cars travel, giving them a much-needed boost.
Xiaomi to Open Car Plant in Beijing With Annual Output of 300,000 Vehicles, Government Says
Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi will build a plant that can produce 300,000 vehicles annually in Beijing for its electric vehicle unit, authorities in the capital said on Saturday.The plant will be constructed in two phases and Xiaomi will also built its auto unit’s headquarters, sales, and research offices in the Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone, the government-backed economic development agency Beijing E-Town said on its official WeChat account.
NASA launches spacecraft to test asteroid defense concept
LOS ANGELES (AP) — NASA launched a spacecraft Tuesday night on a mission to smash into an asteroid and test whether it would be possible to knock a speeding space rock off course if one were to threaten Earth.The DART spacecraft, short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in a $330 million project with echoes of the Bruce Willis movie “Armageddon.”
Indian astronomers discover stars hotter than the sun
Pune : It is believed that the sun is the hottest, its surface temperature is about 5000 degree celcius and at the core it is even hotter. But, Indian astronomers have found new stars which are hotter than the sun.These stars, eight in all, belong to a rare class called ‘MRPs’ or Main-sequence Radio Pulse emitters. The Pune-based astronomers have discovered the stars by using Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) located near Pune.
Sending data through human tissue provides medium for the ‘Internet of Bodies’
Scientists have proposed the “Internet of Bodies” (IoB) which uses human body tissue, which is mostly conductive, to power data transmission.According to KAUST researchers, human body communication (HBC) can provide highly secure and power-efficient data transmission among wearable, implanted and ingested medical devices.The findings open the way for the interconnection of long-lasting wireless devices as the foundation for the IoB.
Meta Develops Gloves That Lets You Touch and Feel Virtual Objects in the Metaverse
Meta, formerly known as Facebook, has been continuously working to make its idea of the Metaverse a reality. We have seen the company demo many new technologies in the AR/ VR department, including an AR-based wearable that lets users interact with virtual objects. Now, researchers at the Meta Reality Labs have developed a full-fledged working glove that lets you feel the touch sensation of virtual objects in the Metaverse.
Nike enters Metaverse with Virtual World on Roblox platform
Nike Inc. is opening its own world in the metaverse. The sportswear giant is partnering with video-game platform Roblox on Nikeland, a free-to-play virtual world with games like dodgeball and floor-is-lava, it said Thursday in a statement. It’s designed after the real-life Nike headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon.Players will be able to outfit their characters in digital versions of Nike products like Air Max sneakers. The Nikeland website is promoting exclusive items like caps and backpacks.
Get ready for longest partial lunar eclipse of century
Washington: Skygazers are in for a treat as the longest partial lunar eclipse of the century is going to take place on November 19. It is also the longest such eclipse in nearly 600 years.Lunar eclipses occur when the moon passes into the Earth’s shadow. In this case, the partial eclipse phase will last 3 hours, 28 minutes and 24 seconds, and the full eclipse for 6 hours and 1 minute, making it the longest partial eclipse in 580 years, according to Indiana’s Holcomb Observatory, located on the campus of Butler University in the US.
Strathclyde University will open a nanotechnology facility.
Strathclyde University has been awarded £853,000 to host a bespoke nationwide facility for testing nanotechnologies for healthcare applications.The Multiscale Metrology Suite (MMS) for Next-Generation Health Nanotechnologies will provide UK scientists with access to technology for the analysis of materials, supporting discovery of future diagnostics and therapies.
Tevva, a British company, has revealed a mass-market electric truck
Electric truck pioneer Tevva has unveiled a 7.5-tonne electric truck intended for mass production in the UK.Engineered by a team led by Ken Scott, formerly engineering director at Bentley and Alexander Dennis, and styled by Dale Grewer, former chief designer at Jaguar Land Rover, the Tevva Truck will be manufactured in a brand-new 11,000 m2 facility in the London Thames Freeport area.
UCLA team has created a flexible, self-powered bioelectronic device.
UCLA bioengineers have invented a soft and flexible self-powered bioelectronic device that turns body motions into electricity, leading for wearable and implanted diagnostic sensors in the future.Chen and his team built a small, flexible magnetoelastic generator made of a platinum-catalysed silicone polymer matrix and neodymium-iron-boron nanomagnets.
Footprints discovered in New Mexico are the earliest evidence of human activity in the Americas.
According to recent research, humans arrived in the Americas at least 7,000 years earlier than previously assumed.Many researchers are sceptical of evidence for humans in the North American interior much earlier than 16,000 years ago.Now, a team working in New Mexico has found scores of human footprints dated to between 23,000 and 21,000 years old.
Can Africa’s future be powered by green energy?
While much of the globe is considering how to use more green energy and reduce CO2 emissions in advance of the COP26 climate meeting, the challenge in Africa is quite different.For many across the continent, it’s the challenge of accessing any energy supply at all. Some 600 million people in Africa don’t have access to energy – limiting their ability to start and run businesses.
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