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[Link] Researchers Made a Camera That’s the Size of a Grain of Salt
Read: 8/12/2021 www.vice.com
It can take images that are better than existing tech. A newly-developed camera the size of a grain of salt can take clear, full-color images—at the level of cameras that are 500,000 times larger.
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[Link] This Company Is Selling a Futuristic Gauss Gun for $3,375
Read: 30/11/2021 www.vice.com
Advanced weapons startup Arcflash Labs is selling an alpha version of a handheld gauss gun for $3,375.00. It’s called the GR-1 and it’s very similar to futurist weapons from video games like Fallout and Quake.
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[Link] Australia’s only working carbon capture and storage project fails to meet target
Read: 14/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Australia’s only working carbon capture and storage project in Western Australia has failed to meet its target to lock away greenhouse gases from a major gas processing plant.
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[Link] Meet M6 — 10 Trillion Parameters at 1% GPT-3’s Energy Cost
Read: 14/11/2021 towardsdatascience.com
On June 25, Alibaba DAMO Academy (the R&D branch of Alibaba) announced they had built M6, a large multimodal, multitasking language model with 1 trillion parameters — already 5x GPT-3’s size, which serves as the standard to measure the rate of progress for large AI models.
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[Link] Inkplate Comes Full Circle, Becomes True Open Reader
Read: 4/11/2021 hackaday.com
Regular readers will likely remember the Inkplate, an open hardware electronic paper development board that combines an ESP32 with a recycled Kindle screen.
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[Link] Pig Kidney Successfully Transplanted From Hog to Human
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Doctors in New York City transplanted a kidney grown in a pig to a brain-dead woman in a major step forward for xenotransplantation, a process in which human organs are grown in animals and then transplanted into humans.
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[Link] Apple launches new AirPods and revamped MacBook Pro laptops
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Apple has announced new third-generation AirPods and its much-anticipated new MacBook Pro laptops, with new screens and high-end M1 Pro and M1 Max chips.
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[Link] China has won AI battle with U.S., Pentagon's ex-software chief says
Read: 12/10/2021 www.reuters.com
LONDON, Oct 11 (Reuters) - China has won the artificial intelligence battle with the United States and is heading towards global dominance because of its technological advances, the Pentagon's former software chief told the Financial Times.
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[Link] Boogaloo Bois Are Using Amazon Ring Doorbells to Protect Them From the FBI
Read: 6/9/2021 www.vice.com
Paranoia is the bread-and-butter for Amazon’s Ring camera system.
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[Link] New Part Day: DLP300s The Next Big Thing For Low Cost Resin Printing?
Read: 1/9/2021 hackaday.com
The majority of non-SLA resin 3D printers, certainly at the hacker end of the market, are most certainly LCD based. The SLA kind, where a ultraviolet laser is scanner via galvanometers over the build surface, we shall consider no further in this article.
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