Sunday, 28 September 2025

Tesla is building an AI humanoid robot called Optimus, says Elon Musk

Added: 08.11.2021 1:24 | 157 views | 0 comments

Tesla will branch out from building electric, self-driving cars to produce humanoid robots designed to “eliminate dangerous, repetitive, boring tasks”, says the company's founder Elon Musk

Tags: Self-Driving Cars

Source: www.newscientist.com

US-built biometrics equipment is falling into the hands of the Taliban

Added: 08.11.2021 1:24 | 145 views | 0 comments

There are growing concerns about how the Taliban might use the data from a huge biometrics programme started by the US in Afghanistan

Tags: Taliban

Source: www.newscientist.com

Diabetes implant is restocked by swallowing magnetic insulin capsules

Added: 08.11.2021 1:24 | 147 views | 0 comments

A stomach implant delivers insulin that can be refilled through capsules that are swallowed. If the device is approved for use in humans, it could revolutionise the treatment of type 1 diabetes

Source: www.newscientist.com

Reminiscence review: Sci-fi that’s too ambitious for its own good

Added: 08.11.2021 1:24 | 136 views | 0 comments

Reminiscence, featuring Hugh Jackman and Thandiwe Newton, has all the making of a great science fiction thriller. But unfortunately it falls flat

Tags: Hugh Jackman

Source: www.newscientist.com

Afghan people face an impossible choice over their digital footprint

Added: 08.11.2021 1:24 | 139 views | 0 comments

The Taliban's rise to power has left many people in Afghanistan looking to delete their digital footprint, but there are few resources available and keeping it intact may be key to fleeing the country, writes Nighat Dad

Tags: Afghanistan , Dell , Mel B.

Source: www.newscientist.com

VPNs could be vulnerable to attacks that send you to fake websites

Added: 08.11.2021 1:24 | 141 views | 0 comments

Virtual private networks (VPNs), which have seen a rise in use as more people work from home, are vulnerable to an attack that removes the anonymity they grant users, researchers have found

Tags: Networks

Source: www.newscientist.com

What’s next now Tesla is worth a trillion dollars?

Added: 06.11.2021 18:44 | 142 views | 0 comments

Financially speaking, Tesla is a massive success. The question is what will it do with all that money, wonders Rowan Hooper

Tags: Money

Source: www.newscientist.com

Smart scheduling for big computing tasks cuts emissions up to a third

Added: 06.11.2021 18:44 | 169 views | 0 comments

We could slash emissions from database backups or long machine-learning tasks by waiting to run them until renewable energy makes up the largest part of the energy mix

Tags: Slash

Source: www.newscientist.com

Watch a wooden knife that is sharper than steel cut through steak

Added: 06.11.2021 18:44 | 140 views | 0 comments

Wood knives sharpened to be three times sharper than steel require less energy to produce than standard tableware

Source: www.newscientist.com

Steel and concrete are climate change's hard problem. Can we solve it?

Added: 05.11.2021 20:37 | 137 views | 0 comments

Heavy industry produces more carbon dioxide than the entire US. Perfect the new technologies that could clean it up and we can score a crucial climate victory

Tags: Technology

Source: www.newscientist.com

El Salvador's bitcoin adoption hit by an easy money-making loophole

Added: 05.11.2021 20:37 | 139 views | 0 comments

El Salvador recently became the first country in the world to make bitcoin legal tender, but traders have been exploiting the state issued bitcoin "wallet app" to make a quick profit

Tags: Beer , Bitcoin , LEGO , Fire

Source: www.newscientist.com

AI can turn a collection of 2D images into an explorable 3D world

Added: 05.11.2021 20:37 | 160 views | 0 comments

A neural network can turn a selection of photographs of a scene into a 3D world that can then be viewed from any angle, and could eventually be used in the movie industry

Tags: Networks , Movies

Source: www.newscientist.com

AI can change a fashion model’s pose and alter their clothes to match

Added: 05.11.2021 20:37 | 137 views | 0 comments

The technology used to create deepfake videos has been applied to fashion models, and can put them in a pose they never actually stood in

Tags: Technology , Beer

Source: www.newscientist.com

Microsoft and Nvidia build largest ever AI to mimic human language

Added: 05.11.2021 20:37 | 148 views | 0 comments

An artificial intelligence with more than 530 billion parameters - the largest ever - has achieved record scores at understanding human language

Tags: Microsoft

Source: www.newscientist.com

Self-healing plastic repairs itself in 10 seconds even under water

Added: 05.11.2021 20:37 | 142 views | 0 comments

A new type of strong, flexible, self-healing plastic can repair itself rapidly, even in salty or acidic water, which may be useful for divers or underwater pipes

Tags: Mel B.

Source: www.newscientist.com

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