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May 14, 2024

BYD promises big gains, faster charging speeds, as it launches upgraded EV platform

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BYD’s new EV platform with improved motors and charging speeds to arrive in Sea Lion 7 EV in weeks.

May 14, 2024

Smoke from Canadian wildfires reaches US, Minnesota under air quality alert

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With over 100 active wildfires burning in Canada, wildfire smoke has drifted across the border into the United States, prompting Minnesota officials to issue the state’s first air quality alert of 2024.

At least 37 of the 141 active fires burning in Canadian wildfires have been labeled “out of control,” including one that started on Friday in British Columbia and has since spread to 4,200 acres, forcing the evacuation of the small town of Fort Nelson, and the Fort Nelson Indian Reserve, officials said.

Most of the active wildfires, at least 90, are in British Columbia and Alberta provinces.

May 14, 2024

I Am Once Again Asking Our Tech Overlords to Watch the Whole Movie

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has seemingly cited Her as an inspiration for ChatGPT’s conversational voice assistant update. Maybe don’t!

May 14, 2024

Scientists help unravel life’s cosmic beginnings

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Knowledge about the early forms of life in the universe that may have led to the development of life on Earth remains largely unknown. However, a group of scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa are attempting to change that.

May 14, 2024

Ibm-granite/granite-code-models: Granite Code Models: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence

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Granite Code Models: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence — ibm-granite/granite-code-models.

May 14, 2024

LimX Dynamics’ W1 robot can stand, walk and roll on its hind ‘legs’

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LimX Dynamics has revealed that the W1 quadruped robot can walk on two feet across a smooth floor. In the future, it might also climb stairs bipedally as with other robots in the company.

May 14, 2024

Blurred lasers make for better 3D printed optics, study finds

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Canadian researchers have found that blurring tomographic volumetric additive manufacturing lasers improve optical printouts.

May 13, 2024

Amid Crisis, Tesla Has Removed Almost Every Single US Job Listing

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According to its official career page, Tesla has just three job listings in the United States, as layoffs continue.

May 13, 2024

Enhancing Boiling Processes for Lunar and Martian Exploration

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How will liquids boil under reduced gravity, specifically on the Moon and Mars? This is what a recent project hopes to address as a team of researchers led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and working with Texas A&M University investigated the behavior of boiling liquids under reduced gravity using parabolic flights that are designed to simulate reduced gravity conditions. This project holds the potential to help researchers and future astronauts better understand how to manage boiling liquids during long-term space missions to the Moon and Mars where the gravity is one-sixth and one-third of the Earth’s, respectively.

From left to right: SwRI Research Engineer, Emilio Gordon, Texas A&M University Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Dr. Bonnie Dunbar, and SwRI Research Engineer, Dr. Eugene Hoffman, examine the experimental payload right before its parabolic flight on April 24th, 2024. (Credit: Southwest Research Institute)

“We have so little data about how boiling works in reduced gravity,” said Kevin Supak, who is a program manager at SwRI and the project lead. “Our experiment studies boiling in conditions that simulate lunar and Martian gravity levels using four different surfaces to examine how bubbles initiate and detach.”

May 13, 2024

This marine alga is the first known eukaryote to pull nitrogen from air

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An alga’s bacterial symbiote has evolved into an organelle that turns atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia, making the alga unique among eukaryotes.

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