The U.S. National Institute on Aging (NIA) is funding a 6-year, up to $300 million project to build a massive Alzheimer’s research database that can track the health of Americans for decades and enable researchers to gain new insights on the brain-wasting disease. The NIA, part of the government’s National Read more…
America’s Department of Defense is gearing up for a future conflict in space, as China and Russia deploy missiles and lasers that can take out satellites and disrupt military and civilian communications. The White House this month proposed a $30 billion annual budget for the U.S. Space Force, almost $4 Read more…
The Evening Standard interviewed Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, in a piece headlined “Will Wikipedia be written by AI?” “The discussion in the Wikipedia community that I’ve seen so far is…people are cautious in the sense that we’re aware that the existing models are not good enough but also intrigued because Read more…
A better social media would need to be decentralized… As well as avoiding a single point of failure (or censorship), this would help with other goals: community ownership, and democratic control, would be facilitated by having many smaller, perhaps more local, sites. Existing social media giants must be brought into Read more…
Paris voted overwhelmingly Sunday to banish for-hire electric scooters from the streets of the French capital, delivering a blow to operators and a victory for road safety campaigners. The referendum means the City of Light, once a pioneer in embracing e-scooter services, is set to become the only major European Read more…
“SpaceX has its first commercial cargo contract to the lunar surface,” says Jaret Matthews, the founder of the tiny startup Astrolab which makes a moon rover the size of a Jeep Wrangler. On Friday, Astrolab announced that it had signed an agreement with SpaceX for its Flexible Logistics and Exploration Read more…
Like electronics or photonics, magnonics is an engineering subfield that aims to advance information technologies when it comes to speed, device architecture, and energy consumption. A magnon corresponds to the specific amount of energy required to change the magnetization of a material via a collective excitation called a spin wave. Read more…