Forwarded from Gadget and device News 🗞️
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Alphabet is putting its prototype robots to work cleaning up around Google’s offices
The company announced today that its Everyday Robots Project — a team within its experimental X labs dedicated to creating “a general-purpose learning robot” — has moved some of its prototype machines out of the lab and into Google’s Bay Area campuses to carry out some light custodial tasks.
“We are now operating a fleet of more than 100 robot prototypes that are autonomously performing a range of useful tasks around our offices,” said Everyday Robot’s chief robot officer Hans Peter Brøndmo
The company announced today that its Everyday Robots Project — a team within its experimental X labs dedicated to creating “a general-purpose learning robot” — has moved some of its prototype machines out of the lab and into Google’s Bay Area campuses to carry out some light custodial tasks.
“We are now operating a fleet of more than 100 robot prototypes that are autonomously performing a range of useful tasks around our offices,” said Everyday Robot’s chief robot officer Hans Peter Brøndmo
👍3
ScienceAlert - Latest
A Mass Extinction 250 Million Years Ago Seems to Have Had Multiple Causes
➖ @sciencetoall ➖
A Mass Extinction 250 Million Years Ago Seems to Have Had Multiple Causes
➖ @sciencetoall ➖
ScienceAlert
A Mass Extinction 250 Million Years Ago Seems to Have Had Multiple Causes
The end-Permian mass extinction (EPME) was quite the mass extinction event, wiping out 80-90 percent of land and sea species – and researchers have now identified a new contributing factor to this period of devastation.
🔥1🤩1
ScienceAlert - Latest
Do Babies Cry in The Womb? Ultrasounds Show Something Strange Going On
➖ @sciencetoall ➖
Do Babies Cry in The Womb? Ultrasounds Show Something Strange Going On
➖ @sciencetoall ➖
ScienceAlert
Do Babies Cry in The Womb? Ultrasounds Show Something Strange Going On
Beginning in the second trimester of pregnancy, an expecting parent may feel their unborn baby kicking, rolling over, and even hiccupping. But is it known whether babies can start crying before they're born?
👍5
Meta AI + Google AI create a unified model for understanding all human languages.
In 2021, this is no longer a fantasy, but a purely engineering challenge.
XLS-R is a neural network for speech recognition, language detection and translation. It uses 2 billion parameters and nearly half a million hours of public available speech audio in 128 languages, nearly 10 times more than the previous Facebook system. The result is already impressive - a decrease in the error rate by an average of 14-34%.
The business goal of the planned breakthrough:
• The final solution for the simultaneous translation of human speech using mobile gadgets (the dream of science fiction writers of the 20th century)
• Voice communication of human-machine entities in the virtual environments (Metaverse, science fiction writers did not have enough imagination for that, but BigTech has)
In 2021, this is no longer a fantasy, but a purely engineering challenge.
XLS-R is a neural network for speech recognition, language detection and translation. It uses 2 billion parameters and nearly half a million hours of public available speech audio in 128 languages, nearly 10 times more than the previous Facebook system. The result is already impressive - a decrease in the error rate by an average of 14-34%.
The business goal of the planned breakthrough:
• The final solution for the simultaneous translation of human speech using mobile gadgets (the dream of science fiction writers of the 20th century)
• Voice communication of human-machine entities in the virtual environments (Metaverse, science fiction writers did not have enough imagination for that, but BigTech has)
Facebook
XLS-R: Self-supervised speech processing for 128 languages
We are releasing XLS-R, a new self-supervised multilingual model trained on 128 languages for a variety of speech tasks. XLS-R sets a new state of the art on several speech recognition benchmarks, foreign-to-English speech translation, and language identification.
👍3
Cancer: Key factor sustaining malignant tumor state identified
In a study published in Nature Cancer, researchers led by Prof. Cedric Blanpain, WELBIO investigator, Director of the Laboratory of Stem Cells and Cancer and Professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium, demonstrated that NR2F2 is an essential regulator of malignant tumor state by controlling cancer stem cell and tumor maintenance in mouse and human cancers.
In a study published in Nature Cancer, researchers led by Prof. Cedric Blanpain, WELBIO investigator, Director of the Laboratory of Stem Cells and Cancer and Professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium, demonstrated that NR2F2 is an essential regulator of malignant tumor state by controlling cancer stem cell and tumor maintenance in mouse and human cancers.
EurekAlert!
Cancer: Key factor sustaining malignant tumor state identified
Publication in Nature cancer: researchers at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) uncovers the essential role of NR2F2 to promote malignant transition and to sustain tumor growth, providing evidence that NR2F2 could be a promising target for the development…
It seems that in the future people will be able to control their dreams. Researchers at the MIT conducted several studies on this topic. For example, they created a "smart" sleep glove. When you wear it while sleeping sensors record your muscle movements, heartbeat and electrical activity in your skin.
Then this device analyzes all the incoming data and accurately determines which sleeping phase you are in. At the right moment, the device emits a quiet sound signal - for example, the word "bunny"... And a bunny will suddenly appear in your dream. And it really works! The glove has been tested on 50 volunteers.
Is it good or not? Time will tell. Just imagine how they'll use that technology in an advertisement industry. The companies will get a chance to interfere your dream with «drive only BMW» - and you will.
https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/targeted-dream-incubation/publications/
And don't forget to share @science
Then this device analyzes all the incoming data and accurately determines which sleeping phase you are in. At the right moment, the device emits a quiet sound signal - for example, the word "bunny"... And a bunny will suddenly appear in your dream. And it really works! The glove has been tested on 50 volunteers.
Is it good or not? Time will tell. Just imagine how they'll use that technology in an advertisement industry. The companies will get a chance to interfere your dream with «drive only BMW» - and you will.
https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/targeted-dream-incubation/publications/
And don't forget to share @science
MIT Media Lab
Project Publications ‹ Targeted Dream Incubation – MIT Media Lab
Targeted dream incubation (TDI) is a methodology for guiding (or “incubating”) dreams towards specific themes. Please read the FAQ below to learn more about TD…
👍4❤2🔥1
ScienceAlert - Latest
This Ancient Human Relative 'Walked Like a Human, But Climbed Like an Ape'
➖ @sciencetoall ➖
This Ancient Human Relative 'Walked Like a Human, But Climbed Like an Ape'
➖ @sciencetoall ➖
ScienceAlert
This Ancient Human Relative 'Walked Like a Human, But Climbed Like an Ape'
Sometime between 7-6 million years ago, our primate ancestors stood up and began to walk on two legs.
👍5🔥4
ScienceAlert - Latest
We All Nearly Missed The Largest Underwater Volcano Eruption Ever Detected
➖ @sciencetoall ➖
We All Nearly Missed The Largest Underwater Volcano Eruption Ever Detected
➖ @sciencetoall ➖
ScienceAlert
We All Nearly Missed The Largest Underwater Volcano Eruption Ever Detected
She was flying home from a holiday in Samoa when she saw it through the airplane window: a "peculiar large mass" floating on the ocean, hundreds of kilometres off the north coast of New Zealand.
👍3
ScienceAlert - Latest
Mysterious Vanishing of Advanced Chinese Civilization 4,000 Years Ago Finally Solved
➖ @sciencetoall ➖
Mysterious Vanishing of Advanced Chinese Civilization 4,000 Years Ago Finally Solved
➖ @sciencetoall ➖
ScienceAlert
Mysterious Vanishing of Advanced Chinese Civilization 4,000 Years Ago Finally Solved
About 5,300 years ago, an ancient civilization emerged in the east of China, building a brilliant city the likes of which had perhaps never been seen before in all of Asia – nor possibly even the whole world.
👍4
ScienceAlert - Latest
Bizarre Creatures Are World's First Self-Replicating 'Living Robots', Scientists Say
➖ @sciencetoall ➖
Bizarre Creatures Are World's First Self-Replicating 'Living Robots', Scientists Say
➖ @sciencetoall ➖
ScienceAlert
Bizarre Creatures Are World's First Self-Replicating 'Living Robots', Scientists Say
Scientists have engineered what they say are the first self-replicating 'robots' ever made from living cells.
🤩2
ScienceAlert - Latest
Scientists Discovered a Way to Read The Minds of Jellyfish, And It's Phenomenal
➖ @sciencetoall ➖
Scientists Discovered a Way to Read The Minds of Jellyfish, And It's Phenomenal
➖ @sciencetoall ➖
ScienceAlert
Scientists Discovered a Way to Read The Minds of Jellyfish, And It's Phenomenal
Even though jellyfish don't have brains, scientists have figured out a way to read their minds – in a manner of speaking.
🔥1🎉1🤩1
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
To better understand the coronavirus’s journey from one person to another, a team of 50 scientists has for the first time created an atomic simulation of the coronavirus nestled in a tiny airborne drop of water.
To create the model, the researchers needed one of the world’s biggest supercomputers to assemble 1.3 billion atoms and track all their movements down to less than a millionth of a second. This computational tour de force is offering an unprecedented glimpse at how the virus survives in the open air as it spreads to a new host.
To create the model, the researchers needed one of the world’s biggest supercomputers to assemble 1.3 billion atoms and track all their movements down to less than a millionth of a second. This computational tour de force is offering an unprecedented glimpse at how the virus survives in the open air as it spreads to a new host.
👍4
Media is too big
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Robots from https://www.engineeredarts.co.uk/
you can rent them for your event... Looks.. creepy?
just immagine combination of AI and this appearance
- @science -
you can rent them for your event... Looks.. creepy?
just immagine combination of AI and this appearance
- @science -
👍2⚡1
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Telemedicine achievements: a surgeon from London remotely performed an operation on a banana in California.
This is just a demonstration of the remote surgery possibilities; thanks to 5G communication, which works with minimal delays, such operations will become a reality for surgeons
- @science -
This is just a demonstration of the remote surgery possibilities; thanks to 5G communication, which works with minimal delays, such operations will become a reality for surgeons
- @science -
👍13😱7❤4
ScienceAlert - Latest
Antarctica's Total Solar Eclipse Looks Stunning in These Phenomenal Photos
➖ @sciencetoall ➖
Antarctica's Total Solar Eclipse Looks Stunning in These Phenomenal Photos
➖ @sciencetoall ➖
ScienceAlert
Antarctica's Total Solar Eclipse Looks Stunning in These Phenomenal Photos
On 4 December 2021, a total solar eclipse dazzled a few thousand lucky people in Antarctica and countless penguins, who got to witness nearly 2 minutes of totality as the Moon blotted out the Sun's light.
👍2🤩2🤯1
ScienceAlert - Latest
Scientists Catch a Mesmerizing Glimpse of a Super-Rare Giant Phantom Jelly
➖ @sciencetoall ➖
Scientists Catch a Mesmerizing Glimpse of a Super-Rare Giant Phantom Jelly
➖ @sciencetoall ➖
ScienceAlert
Scientists Catch a Mesmerizing Glimpse of a Super-Rare Giant Phantom Jelly
A deepwater robot, humming through the twilight zone of Monterey Bay, has managed to capture incredibly rare video footage of a giant phantom jelly.
👍5
ScienceAlert - Latest
There's a Cancer Treatment That Gives People 'Night Vision'. Here's How
➖ @sciencetoall ➖
There's a Cancer Treatment That Gives People 'Night Vision'. Here's How
➖ @sciencetoall ➖
ScienceAlert
There's a Cancer Treatment That Gives People 'Night Vision'. Here's How
Among all the different types of cancer treatment, photodynamic therapy – where light is used to destroy malignant cells – might have one of the strangest side effects: Patients are often better able to see in the dark.
🤩3👍2😱2
Forwarded from Daily Science to all
ScienceAlert - Latest
Bizarre Transparent Fish That Sees Through Its Own Head Captured in Rare Footage
➖ @sciencetoall ➖
Bizarre Transparent Fish That Sees Through Its Own Head Captured in Rare Footage
➖ @sciencetoall ➖
ScienceAlert
Bizarre Transparent Fish That Sees Through Its Own Head Captured in Rare Footage
Thousands of feet beneath the surface of Monterey Bay off California, scientists recently captured footage of a fish with a bulbous, translucent head and green orb-like eyes that peer out through its forehead.
🤩8❤2
ScienceAlert - Latest
Stunning New Images Reveal The Chaotic Glory of The Sun in Mind-Blowing Detail
➖ @sciencetoall ➖
Stunning New Images Reveal The Chaotic Glory of The Sun in Mind-Blowing Detail
➖ @sciencetoall ➖
ScienceAlert
Stunning New Images Reveal The Chaotic Glory of The Sun in Mind-Blowing Detail
You're looking at a 300-megapixel photo of our Sun. Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy used a specially modified telescope, taking over 150,000 individual photos and combining them into this magnificent image (see below).
👍3❤1