NASA built a cosmic ray gun to test how space radiation affects astronauts

NASA built a cosmic ray gun to test how space radiation affects astronauts

In space, astronauts are constantly bombarded by cosmic rays. Now NASA has a way to study the effects on Earth. NASA The Milky Way is a wild west of high-energy, subatomic particles that flash through the galaxy at a speed close to the speed of light. Because these galactic cosmic rays move around our corner…

Tulsa mayor wants Tesla Cybertruck police vehicles, if automaker builds Gigafactory

Tulsa mayor wants Tesla Cybertruck police vehicles, if automaker builds Gigafactory

Mayor G.T. Bynum / Twitter Mayor of Tulsa G.T. Bynum has a simple sentence: When Tesla builds his future Cybertruck Gigafactory in the city of Oklahoma, he wants Cyber ​​truck Police vehicles. Mayor Bynum tweeted a representation of a cyber truck adorned with local police paint on Sunday. His city is reportedly a finalist in…

Today's technology could cut road construction emissions in half

Today’s technology could cut road construction emissions in half

Build without emissions? It could happen. Getty Images It’s easy to forget that almost every important process in our modern world needs energy, and that includes it Road construction. Someone has to make asphalt and concrete, something has to move the materials and it takes energy. A new study by Chalmers University of Technology and…

Microsoft builds massive supercomputer for smarter AI

Microsoft builds massive supercomputer for smarter AI

Supercomputers like this one at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are designed to tackle the world’s toughest computer challenges. Randy Wong / LLNL Microsoft has built a giant supercomputer to work with artificial intelligence, a new direction for its Azure cloud computing service. It has 285,000 processor cores that were reinforced by 10,000 graphics chips…

Google Doodle honors Hawaiian ukulele player Israel ‘Iz’ Kamakawiwo’ole

Animated video doodle celebrates the music of Hawaii’s Israel Kamakawiwoʻol. Google The name Israel Kamakawiwoʻole may not be immediately apparent to some, but his music is known to many around the world. The Hawaiian-born – better known as Iz – was a musician, singer and songwriter whose ukulele medley from Somewhere Over the Rainbow /…

Autism as an advantage in AI jobs: This organization is making an argument for neurodiversity

Autism as an advantage in AI jobs: This organization is making an argument for neurodiversity

Leon Campbell is a quality assurance specialist. Dylan Watton, AHRC It was 2018 and Leon Campbell was worried about a job. The now 25-year-old Hunter College graduate had a degree in IT, but had never been anywhere. Campbell who has autismwondered how he would behave as an employee or whether he would make a mistake…

Game of Thrones one year later: Still one of TV's greatest achievements

Game of Thrones one year later: Still one of TV’s greatest achievements

Ned Stark’s last moments in season 1. HBO Many TV shows have been running for years without wiping out a really permanent moment, but Game of Thrones only needed nine episodes to produce an all-time great. In Baelor, Episode 9 of season 1Around 2.7 million watched how the admirable Ned Stark, apparently the protagonist of…

The best meat delivery services in 2020

The best meat delivery services in 2020: Omaha Steaks, Snake River Farms, Porter Road and more

If the mood is right, nothing is better than a perfectly grilled steak or a deliciously juicy burger. This is double if you have been at home for more than two months Corona virus. And now we’re all stuck inside so long that the barbecue season has come. This is the best time of year…

Google's smart headphone wire has touch sensing for controls

Google’s smart headphone wire has touch sensing for controls

Google’s prototype of a headphone cable to control touch detection. Google Google is Working on a prototype of a headphone cable with touch detection for controls. Different functions are triggered by turning, swiping, pinching, gripping and tapping the wire or pushing the fingers: Tap to play and stop, e.g. B. double tap to move to…