Archive for the ‘futurism’ category: Page 139
Mar 8, 2024
Travis County announces ‘Declaration of Local Disaster’ ahead of 2024 total solar eclipse
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
The April 8 eclipse is expected to bring an increase in traffic to Central Texas.
Mar 8, 2024
Robot ships: Huge remote controlled vessels are setting sail
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
Ocean-going vessels with no-one on board — a vision of the future that’s coming faster you think.
Mar 8, 2024
Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. But nobody knows exactly why
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: futurism
And that’s a problem. Figuring it out is one of the biggest scientific puzzles of our time and a crucial step towards controlling more powerful future models.
Mar 7, 2024
How open source voting machines could boost trust in US elections
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: finance, futurism
The first was to continue with a legacy vendor. Three companies — Dominion, ES&S, and Hart InterCivic — control roughly 90 percent of the U.S. voting technology market. All three are privately held, meaning they’re required to reveal little about their financial workings and they’re also committed to keeping their source code from becoming fully public.
The second future was to gamble on VotingWorks, a nonprofit with only 17 employees and voting machine contracts in just five small counties, all in Mississippi. The company has taken the opposite approach to the Big Three. Its financial statements are posted on its website, and every line of code powering its machines is published on GitHub, available for anyone to inspect.
Mar 6, 2024
Spatial Protein and RNA Profiling: Seeing the Unseen in the Tumor Microenvironment
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: futurism
Our presenter Jonathan Nowak, will discuss representative multiplexed assays for protein and RNA profiling built in the lab and discuss the necessary elements to operationalize this type of testing in a translational research laboratory. He will also explore the advantages of different assays and key considerations for ensuring consistently high data quality spanning hundreds to thousands of specimens.
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Mar 5, 2024
If you collapse an underwater bubble with a sound wave, light is produced, and nobody knows why.【Video】
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: futurism
The fascinating phenomenon of sonoluminescence, where light is produced when an underwater bubble is collapsed by a sound wave, has sparked a vibrant discussion. Despite being a subject of scientific research and debate, the exact mechanisms behind sonoluminescence are still not fully understood.
One user pointed out that this phenomenon is also known as sonoluminescence, which occurs when a small gas bubble in a liquid is collapsed by intense sound waves, emitting a short burst of light. This can happen in a laboratory setting using a device that generates and focuses sound waves into a liquid.
Several theories have been proposed to explain how the light is produced. The Hot Spot Theory suggests that the bubble’s collapse causes the gas inside to heat up to extremely high temperatures, possibly hot enough to ionize the gas and produce a plasma, which then emits light.
Mar 4, 2024
Measles case count up to 41 across 16 states, CDC reports
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: futurism
That number is up from last week, when the CDC reported 35 cases in 15 states. Michigan is the new addition to the list, with one travel-related case of measles in Oakland County confirmed by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.
Mar 4, 2024
Machines Will Outperform Humans in Five Years
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
Explore how Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen Huang, forecasts a future where AI machines surpass human intelligence within five years.