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The Tesla Bot: Explained!
Tesla announced a 5 foot 8 humanoid robot. Here’s WHY.
6 Toilets From History, and What They Taught Us
This episode of SciShow is brought to you in partnership with Gates Notes. You can go to https://www.gatesnotes.com/Developmen… to read about the latest innovations in toilets and sanitation, and to learn more about the “Reinvent the Toilet Challenge,” which is … Continue reading
Why the Airship May Be the Future of Air Travel
[…] Just one short-haul flight a year produces 10% of our individual carbon emissions. We could go back to trains for our traveling, which produce about half the CO2 of a plane, but you don’t always have the time. What … Continue reading
10 Crazy Facts About The Apollo Program | Answers With Joe
[…] The race to the moon was always more about dueling superpowers than the spirit of exploration. And because of that, enormous risks and creative leaps were made to reach their goal. For that and many other reasons, the Apollo … Continue reading
The New Breed: What Our Animal History Reveals For Our Robotic Future | Kate Darling
Robot ethicist Kate Darling offers a nuanced and smart take on our relationships to robots and the increasing presence they will have in our lives. From a social, legal, and ethical perspective, she shows that our current ways of thinking … Continue reading
Flood protection in the Netherlands | Focus on Europe
The recent floods claimed many lives in Germany and Belgium – but left the Netherlands relatively unscathed. The country’s Delta Project has been successful. But some residents pay a high price. […]
5 Computer Scientists Who Changed Programming Forever
It’s taken the work of many programmers to turn computers into something we carry in our pockets, and here are five (technically 10!) that we think you should be aware of. Hosted by: Rose Bear Don’t Walk
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Why does this balloon have -1 holes?
[…] Do check out Jordan Ellenberg’s book Shape. This video was inspired by Chapter 2. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/21/bo… https://www.jordanellenberg.com/book/… Support me on Patreon and I will post you a free torus balloon. I hope I don’t regret this. https://www.patreon.com/standupmaths Here is Sam … Continue reading
How TikTok’s Algorithm Figures You Out | Kottke
Using dozens of bot accounts, The Wall Street Journal did an investigation and determined that TikTok’s algorithm needs only one piece of information to determine what you want to watch: the amount of time you spend watching individual videos. Observing … Continue reading
DeepMind’s AI predicts structures for a vast trove of proteins
AlphaFold neural network produced a ‘totally transformative’ database of more than 350,000 structures from Homo sapiens and 20 model organisms. The human genome holds the instructions for more than 20,000 proteins. But only about one-third of those have had their … Continue reading
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