Humanoid robots could lift 4,000 times their own weight thanks to breakthrough 'artificial muscle'. LiveScience.com article. Pull quote: “"This research overcomes the fundamental limitation where traditional artificial muscles are either highly stretchable but weak or strong but stiff," lead study author Hoon Eui Jeong, a professor of mechanical engineering at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), said in a statement. "Our composite material can do both, opening the door to more versatile soft robots, wearable devices, and intuitive human-machine interfaces."” But will the skeleton support that amount of weight?
This ‘impressive’ AI model predicted Hurricane Melissa’s perilous growth. Nature.com article. Pull quote: “Still, the DeepMind team cautions against reading too much into the predictions of a single storm: “We are happy to have been able to contribute useful guidance to NHC, but we caution against representing the model’s capabilities based on a single case or metric,” says Ferran Alet, a research scientist at DeepMind.”
It’s never been easier to be a conspiracy theorist. TechnologyReview.com article. Pull quote: “But Hofstadter’s concept of the paranoid style remains useful—and ever relevant—because it also describes a way of reading the world. As he put it, “The distinguishing thing about the paranoid style is not that its exponents see conspiracies or plots here or there in history, but they regard a ‘vast’ or ‘gigantic’ conspiracy as the motive force in historical events. History is a conspiracy, set in motion by demonic forces of almost transcendent power, and what is felt to be needed to defeat it is not the usual methods of political give-and-take, but an all-out crusade.”” Part of a new TR series of articles.
Man finally released a month after absurd arrest for reposting Trump meme. ArsTechnica.com article. Pull quote: “Chris Eargle, who started the “Free Larry Bushart” Facebook group, told The Intercept that Weems’ story justifying the arrest made no sense. Instead, it seemed like the sheriff’s actions were politically motivated, Eargle suggested, intended to silence people like Bushart with a show of force demonstrating that “if you say something I don’t like, and you don’t take it down, now you’re going to be in trouble.””
Former CDC official on new mpox cases and current federal resources. TheHill.com article. Pull quote: “We won’t have that coordination to say, hey, there’s expiring doses coming out of the National Strategic Stockpile. Does anybody want these? And so, we will still have a bunch of people who need access to vaccines who will not be able to get them because they’ll not be able to afford them. We have people who will not get messaging that they should have gotten. ”
Space-Geek Backlog List
This is linked-list of articles that have been accumulating in my reading list over the last couple of weeks, still more to come in future issues:
• Innospace
gets license for first orbital launch attempt,
• Something
from “space” may have just struck a United Airlines flight over Utah,
• How
NASA, SpaceX and America can still win the race to the moon,
• Duffy
says NASA will open Artemis 3 lander contract to competition, and
• Samara
Aerospace pointing technology to be tested in orbit.
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