A Never-Before-Seen Structure in Human Sperm Could Explain How It Controls Its Swim
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A Never-Before-Seen Structure in Human Sperm Could Explain How It Controls Its Swim
The sperm's tail is perhaps one of the most iconic structures among all of the cells in the human body, so it's odd to think there are still some things we don't know about it. It turns out there is a weird kind of helix right at the very tip of the tail…
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Here's Why Jeff Bezos Is Building a Giant Mechanical Clock Designed to Last 10,000 Years
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Here's Why Jeff Bezos Is Building a Giant Mechanical Clock Designed to Last 10,000 Years
Here's something you might not know: Jeff Bezos – the founder of Amazon and rocket company Blue Origin – owns a mountain. Yep, an entire mountain in Texas.
Companies Race to Dominate the World of Maps for Driverless Cars
Autonomous vehicles will need highly sophisticated maps in order to navigate our road networks. Companies are racing to find the best way to design them.
Self-driving cars are on the horizon, but the technology requires sophisticated maps to ensure that vehicles can navigate the roads safely. Right now, industry leaders are at work to ensure that Google — currently ahead of the pack with its Google Maps service — doesn’t snatch the biggest slice of the pie.
The maps that autonomous vehicles will use to navigate the roads need to be much more sophisticated than Google’s current offering. A self-driving car needs more information than a human driver or a pedestrian, so various sensors and high-definition cameras are being used to chart the country’s highways and byways.
According to Bloomberg, Google is working on a 3D mapping project that would capture the landscape of hazards that a vehicle may face in much greater detail. The project goes way beyond what’s currently available via Google Maps, but it’s also distinct from the high-definition maps being created by Alphabet subsidiary Waymo.
Maps for self-driving cars will also need to be updated far more frequently. It’s crucial that vehicles know about new roads and temporary obstacles like construction projects, so that they’re not taken by surprise by an unexpected change. Companies like MapBox – which signed a deal with Tesla last year, as per Electrek – consult user data in order to update their maps.
As self-driving technology continues to evolve, we’ll get a better idea of the specific information these vehicles need in order to operate, and the best method of producing the required maps.
However, it’s clear that whoever emerges as the go-to supplier of maps for autonomous vehicles stands to make a lot of money. If self-driving cars take off as they’re expected to, the automotive industry will be reliant on these maps for the foreseeable future, so competition is set to be fierce.
Autonomous vehicles will need highly sophisticated maps in order to navigate our road networks. Companies are racing to find the best way to design them.
Self-driving cars are on the horizon, but the technology requires sophisticated maps to ensure that vehicles can navigate the roads safely. Right now, industry leaders are at work to ensure that Google — currently ahead of the pack with its Google Maps service — doesn’t snatch the biggest slice of the pie.
The maps that autonomous vehicles will use to navigate the roads need to be much more sophisticated than Google’s current offering. A self-driving car needs more information than a human driver or a pedestrian, so various sensors and high-definition cameras are being used to chart the country’s highways and byways.
According to Bloomberg, Google is working on a 3D mapping project that would capture the landscape of hazards that a vehicle may face in much greater detail. The project goes way beyond what’s currently available via Google Maps, but it’s also distinct from the high-definition maps being created by Alphabet subsidiary Waymo.
Maps for self-driving cars will also need to be updated far more frequently. It’s crucial that vehicles know about new roads and temporary obstacles like construction projects, so that they’re not taken by surprise by an unexpected change. Companies like MapBox – which signed a deal with Tesla last year, as per Electrek – consult user data in order to update their maps.
As self-driving technology continues to evolve, we’ll get a better idea of the specific information these vehicles need in order to operate, and the best method of producing the required maps.
However, it’s clear that whoever emerges as the go-to supplier of maps for autonomous vehicles stands to make a lot of money. If self-driving cars take off as they’re expected to, the automotive industry will be reliant on these maps for the foreseeable future, so competition is set to be fierce.
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Wormhole Entanglement and the Firewall Paradox
One hundred years after Albert Einstein developed his general theory of relativity, physicists are still stuck with perhaps the biggest incompatibility problem in the universe. The smoothly warped space-time landscape that Einstein described is like a painting by Salvador Dalí — seamless, unbroken, geometric. But the quantum particles that occupy this space are more like something from Georges Seurat: pointillist, discrete, described by probabilities. At their core, the two descriptions contradict each other. Yet a bold new strain of thinking suggests that quantum correlations between specks of impressionist paint actually create not just Dalí’s landscape, but the canvases that both sit on, as well as the three-dimensional space around them. And Einstein, as he so often does, sits right in the center of it all, still turning things upside-down from beyond the grave.
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One hundred years after Albert Einstein developed his general theory of relativity, physicists are still stuck with perhaps the biggest incompatibility problem in the universe. The smoothly warped space-time landscape that Einstein described is like a painting by Salvador Dalí — seamless, unbroken, geometric. But the quantum particles that occupy this space are more like something from Georges Seurat: pointillist, discrete, described by probabilities. At their core, the two descriptions contradict each other. Yet a bold new strain of thinking suggests that quantum correlations between specks of impressionist paint actually create not just Dalí’s landscape, but the canvases that both sit on, as well as the three-dimensional space around them. And Einstein, as he so often does, sits right in the center of it all, still turning things upside-down from beyond the grave.
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"Nanodrops" That Repair Corneas May Ultimately Replace Glasses
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"Nanodrops" That Repair Corneas May Ultimately Replace Glasses
Quite a number of people develop nearsightedness or farsightedness during their lifetimes. "Nanodrops," a new eye drop developed by Israeli ophthalmologists, has successfully fixed corneas in pig eyes, and could potentially do the same for people. New eye…
Why Self-Taught Artificial Intelligence Has Trouble With the Real World
The latest artificial intelligence systems start from zero knowledge of a game and grow to world-beating in a matter of hours. But researchers are struggling to apply these systems beyond the arcade.
Until very recently, the machines that could trounce champions were at least respectful enough to start by learning from human experience.
To beat Garry Kasparov at chess in 1997, IBM engineers made use of centuries of chess wisdom in their Deep Blue computer. In 2016, Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo thrashed champion Lee Sedol at the ancient board game Go after poring over millions of positions from tens of thousands of human games.
But now artificial intelligence researchers are rethinking the way their bots incorporate the totality of human knowledge. The current trend is: Don’t bother.
The latest artificial intelligence systems start from zero knowledge of a game and grow to world-beating in a matter of hours. But researchers are struggling to apply these systems beyond the arcade.
Until very recently, the machines that could trounce champions were at least respectful enough to start by learning from human experience.
To beat Garry Kasparov at chess in 1997, IBM engineers made use of centuries of chess wisdom in their Deep Blue computer. In 2016, Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo thrashed champion Lee Sedol at the ancient board game Go after poring over millions of positions from tens of thousands of human games.
But now artificial intelligence researchers are rethinking the way their bots incorporate the totality of human knowledge. The current trend is: Don’t bother.
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This Strange Species That Lives Off Nuclear Energy Is Like Alien Life on Earth
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This Strange Species That Lives Off Nuclear Energy Is Like Alien Life on Earth
When you're trying to figure out what alien life might look like, it makes sense to be looking in the most extreme environments Earth has available. One such place where life has been found to thrive is three kilometres (1.86 miles) beneath the ground, the…
Physicists Just Stuffed an Atom Full of Atoms And Created a Brand New State of Matter
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Physicists Just Stuffed an Atom Full of Atoms And Created a Brand New State of Matter
An international team of scientists have provided the first proof of an exotic new state of matter, known as Rydberg polarons. This state of matter is formed at ultra cold temperatures, when an electron orbits its nucleus at such a great distance that other…
Dark matter’s nature is illuminated by the earliest stars
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Dark matter’s nature is illuminated by the earliest stars
Long-elusive particles might have left their mark on the primordial cosmos. Researchers have long theorized that dark matter makes up about 85% of the Universe, but the elusive material has never been directly detected. Rennan Barkana at Tel Aviv University…
Scientists Have a Crazy New Hypothesis About The Origin of The Moon
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Scientists Have a Crazy New Hypothesis About The Origin of The Moon
The usual explanation for the origin of the Moon describes it as the result of a collision between Earth and something else that spun material into space. But a new paper suggests that our satellite could have emerged from the ring of a vapourised planet…
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New Russian missile with mostly unlimited fire range was presented by Russian president Vladimir Putin,
There's no analogs in the world and there won’t be any for next 10-15 yeras,
Missile interception is totally impossible
There's no analogs in the world and there won’t be any for next 10-15 yeras,
Missile interception is totally impossible
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