Tim Berners-Lee “is skeptical about a blockchain-based internet,” reports the Next Web. Instead, they describe his new vision as “a decentralized architecture that gives users control of their data” — on a Platform called Solid: Berners-Lee shares Web3’s purported mission of transferring data from Big Tech to the people. But Read more…
“China’s Mars sample return mission aims to collect samples from the Red Planet and deliver them to Earth in 2031, or two years ahead of a NASA and ESA joint mission,” reports SpaceNews: Lifting off in late 2028… the complex, multi-launch mission will have simpler architecture in comparison with the Read more…
Based on Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep, Scott’s film created a world so rich, so dirty and wet and worn out, so visually stunning, that imitation was an inevitability. Less gym-bro than The Terminator, less wacky than Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, and less all-out apocalyptic Read more…
The Guardian reports on the “world’s first production-ready solar car”, a streamlined and energy-efficient sedan-style vehicle covered with curved solar panels called “the Lightyear 0.” The Dutch company Lightyear hopes to be shipping the vehicle by November, priced at about $264,000 (€250,000 or £215,000) — though the company plans another Read more…
SFGate calls it “the most technologically advanced ride Disney has ever opened.” The 18-minute journey involves a secret rebel base, interrogation from the First Order, uncomfortably close brushes with Kylo Ren and a daring rescue mission, and has sophisticated animatronics and a trackless ride system unlike anything else currently in Read more…
A single MRI scan of the brain could be enough to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, according to new research by Imperial College London. The research uses machine learning technology to look at structural features within the brain, including in regions not previously associated with Alzheimer’s. The advantage of the technique is Read more…
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is “the first full-scale battle in which traditional and cyberweapons have been used side by side,” reports the New York Times. But the biggest surprise is that “many of the attacks were thwarted, or there was enough redundancy built into the Ukrainian networks that the efforts Read more…