The ATLAS experiment, one of the four major experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, has reported the first evidence for the decay of the Higgs boson to a pair of bottom quarks. The ATLAS Experiment presented evidence for a first sighting of the Higgs boson decaying to a …
Read More »Vicarious gets another $50 million to expand its research team and build smarter robots
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg might not be able to agree about much when it comes to AI these days, but the pair do seem to see the same potential in Vicarious, a startup applying unsupervised learning techniques to robots. Musk and Zuckerberg were two of the early backers of Vicarious. The startup announced …
Read More »Elon Musk shares footage of The Boring Company’s first working car elevator
Elon Musk’s Boring Company is getting closer to becoming a reality. The businessman conceived the idea in December in response to the pain of clogged up roads and traffic jams, and it has begun to take shape thanks to work carried out this summer. The basic idea is that underground …
Read More »Grandpa Is Determined to Finally Play in the NBA
The 61-year-old is on a mission to become the oldest person ever to play in the NBA after failing to make the team when he was selected by the San Antonio Spurs in the 1980 NBA Draft. He officially retired in 1999 after a career spent playing overseas, but Roberts …
Read More »Google has dropped Google Instant Search
After launching Google Instant — Google’s method of showing search results as you type them — several years ago, Google has removed the feature from search effective today. Google Instant launched in 2010 under the leadership of Marissa Mayer. Mayer called this change a “fundamental shift in search” and the …
Read More »Roomba Maker Wants to Sell Maps of Your Home to Google, Amazon
One of the problems with covering the decline of privacy in the digital age is the very concept that people should have the right to control how their information is bought, sold, and monetized is fundamentally opposed to most digital company business models (not to mention government policy). Now iRobot, which …
Read More »Adobe to Kill Flash Plugin by 2020
There was a time when Adobe Flash powered almost anything on the internet that moved. It was a dark time, but we didn’t even know how dark, until more efficient alternatives were developed and smartphones became common. Flash never adapted to this new world, and now Adobe is giving up. …
Read More »You Can Now Visit the International Space Station in Google Street View
Google has added Street View images to a great number of unusual places on Earth from historical sites to remote islands. Now, it’s getting Street View data for a place where there are no streets — the International Space Station. With the help of the station’s crew, Google has rolled …
Read More »Regular Physical Activity Has Anti-Inflammatory Properties, New Review Says
Regular physical activity represents a natural, strong anti-inflammatory strategy and should be integrated in the management of patients with cardiometabolic diseases, according to a review of previous studies by Bente Klarlund Pedersen, a clinical professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. According to the new review, physical activity has strong …
Read More »Chandrayaan-1 Orbiter Spots Water-Rich Volcanic Deposits on Lunar Surface
Ancient volcanic deposits distributed across the surface of the Moon contain unexpectedly high amounts of water compared with surrounding terrains, according to an analysis of data from the Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument onboard India’s Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter. This finding bolsters the hypothesis that the lunar mantle is surprisingly water-rich. Map …
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