Deep inside the temporal lobe of the brain, the hippocampus has a central role in our ability to remember, imagine and dream.
— Read on elifesciences.org/articles/58874
Cruise’s Robot Car Outages Are Jamming Up San Francisco | WIRED
In a series of incidents, the GM subsidiary lost contact with its autonomous vehicles, leaving them frozen in traffic and trapping human drivers.
— Read on www.wired.com/story/cruises-robot-car-outages/
Objective Reality May Not Exist At All, Quantum Physicists Say – Slashdot
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Stephen Holler, an associate professor of physics at Fordham University, tells Popular Mechanics that the study underscores a famous observation by Richard Feynman: “If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don’t understand quantum mechanics.”
— Read on m.slashdot.org/story/401744
‘Superworms’ Can Digest Styrofoam, Australian Scientists Find – Slashdot
The idea is that some kind of enzyme engineered from the gut of an insect or bacteria could be used to digest difficult-to-recycle plastic so it could be made into new plastic products, which would reduce the need for virgin plastic. Used for things such as coffee cups and packing peanuts, polystyrene is one of the most common plastics in production. It accounts for “up to 7-10% of the total non-fibre plastic production,” according to the paper.
— Read on m.slashdot.org/story/400892
World’s largest vats for growing ‘no-kill’ meat to be built in US | Meat industry | The Guardian
Commitment to building four-storey bioreactors is gamechanger for cultivated meat industry, says expert
— Read on www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/25/worlds-largest-vats-for-growing-no-kill-meat-to-be-built-in-us
Is Social Media Training Us to Please a Machine? – Slashdot
“We tend to think that the internet is a communications network we use to speak to one another — but in a sense, we’re not doing anything of the sort. Instead, we are the ones being spoken through.”
— Read on m.slashdot.org/story/400136
Slime Mold Grows Network Just Like Tokyo Rail System | WIRED
Talented and dedicated engineers spent countless hours designing Japan’s rail system to be one of the world’s most efficient. Could have just asked a slime mold. When presented with oat flakes arranged in the pattern of Japanese cities around Tokyo, brainless, single-celled slime molds construct networks of nutrient-channeling tubes that are strikingly similar to the […]
— Read on www.wired.com/2010/01/slime-mold-grows-network-just-like-tokyo-rail-system/amp
Cybercriminals Are Doing Their Homework in Latest Banking Scam – Slashdot
The con starts off as many that target individuals do nowadays: With a text message. In this case it’s not a phishing attempt, it’s an attempt to ascertain whether the person receiving the message is susceptible to further manipulation. Posing as the target’s bank, the message asks whether a large charge ($5,000 in the example the FBI gives) was legitimate and asks for a reply of YES or NO.
— Read on m.slashdot.org/story/398738
Anthony Levandowski’s latest moonshot is a peer-to-peer telecom network powered by cryptocurrency | TechCrunch
A new mobile data network — accompanied by the quinfecta of a website, Medium post, white paper, dedicated subreddit and Discord channel — quietly launched late Tuesday evening in San Francisco, promising a new way to exchange data anonymously and at high speeds without relying on legacy carriers, and at a cheaper price. The peer-to-peer […]
— Read on techcrunch.com/2022/02/02/anthony-levandowskis-latest-moonshot-is-a-peer-to-peer-telecom-network-powered-by-cryptocurrency/
Open Source Developer Intentionally Corrupts His Own Widely-Used Libraries – Slashdot
The reason behind this mischief on the developer’s part appears to be retaliation — against mega-corporations and commercial consumers of open-source projects who extensively rely on cost-free and community-powered software but do not, according to the developer, give back to the community.
— Read on m.slashdot.org/story/394885
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