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Tesla Optimus has taken a step closer to human-like dexterity, showcasing its upgraded hands with impressive capabilities. A recent video highlights the robot catching a tennis ball using its new hands, which now feature 22 degrees of freedom. By comparison, human hands have 27 degrees of freedom, making Optimus’ latest enhancements a significant stride in robotic engineering. In May 2024, Elon Musk hinted at these upgrades, and the results are now visible.

This development aligns closely with Neuralink’s recent milestone—the United States Food and Drug Administration has granted approval for the CONVOY Study. This feasibility trial aims to test the Brain-to-Computer-interface N1 Implant alongside assistive robotic arms, hinting at the possibility of collaboration between Tesla Optimus and Neuralink technologies. During a Neuralink update in July, Elon Musk mentioned the potential for Optimus’ limbs to work in sync with the N1 Implant, emphasizing a vision where human minds control robotic systems seamlessly.

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The demand for electronics has led to a significant increase in e-waste. In 2022, approximately 62 million tons of e-waste were generated, marking an 82% increase from 2010. Projections indicate that this figure could rise to 82 million tons by 2030.

E-waste contains valuable materials such as metals, semiconductors, and rare elements that can be reused. However, in 2022, only 22.3% of e-waste was properly collected and recycled, while the remaining materials, estimated to be worth almost $62 billion, were discarded in landfills.

Although efforts to improve e-waste recycling continue, the process remains labor-intensive, and a significant portion of e-waste is exported to developing countries, where cheap labor supports informal recycling practices involving hazardous chemicals.

Mint’s All About AI Tech4Good Awards recognised impactful AI solutions at the Jio World Centre in Mumbai. The event emphasised purpose-driven innovation, with discussions on ethical AI and community empowerment, showcasing how technology can address pressing social and environmental issues.

NEJM Journal Watch reviews over 250 scientific and medical journals to present important clinical research findings and insightful commentary.

Time moving forwards and backward in plank time intervals? It is a legitimate possibility in physics since matter and anti-matter are identical in every aspect but mirror each other. Electrons, positrons, and other particles oppose each other as matter and anti-matter.

I argue that empty space-time acts as two mirror fields, causing matter to behave like anti-matter. The same matter in the opposite space-time field (reverse time) acts as anti-matter. As time progresses in a Möbius-like shape moves forward, and A 720-degree rotation needs to come back to its original state. These back-and-forth rapid flips cause all matter within our universe to be cut into quanta or packets, Showing packets and wave characters. while in the backward arrow of time, everything flips and is shown as anti-matter.

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The Binary Trees is about computation. Click to read The Binary Trees, by Abhinav Savarna, a Substack publication. Launched 4 months ago.

Two parts of our Universe that seem to be unavoidable are dark matter and dark energy. Could they really be two aspects of the same thing?

New findings suggest our galaxy’s evolutionary history is strikingly different from all the others.

Researchers have found that there’s something highly unusual about the Milky Way that sets it apart from galaxies which, on a surface level, appear similar.

As detailed in three recent papers published in The Astrophysical Journal, a team of researchers examined a mountain of data as part of the Satellites Around Galactic Analogs (SAGA) survey, which was dedicated to comparing the Milky Way to 101 other galaxies that are similar in mass.

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Methods for exploring the geography of molecular-scale processes within tissue samples are transforming cancer research, but the toolbox can be daunting.