Telescope #69
“It is necessary to understand the development in science in the age we live in and to monitor its progress in a timely manner” Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (With gratitude… 1881 - 193∞)
SUSTAINABILITY
Kuva Space claims it can ‘distinguish nearly any material on Earth’. Its patented hyperspectral camera on a microsatellite can determine the health, and monitor, the likes of crops, plants, biodiversity, soil, marine conditions, and chemical pollutants. DETAY
Lloyd's of London will invest 40 million pounds ($49.6 million) in regions affected by the transatlantic slave trade, it said on Wednesday, after a report showed the commercial insurance market had strong links to the trade. Lloyd's will also spend around 12 million pounds on a programme to improve recruitment and progression for Black and other ethnic minority employees in the commercial insurance market, including bursaries for Black university students, it said in a statement. DETAIL
King Arthur Baking Company, a Vermont-based flour and baking goods company, has produced a new whole wheat flour using regenerative agriculture. DETAY
HEALTH
An oral medicine called anastrozole has been approved by the UK's drug regulatory agency for reducing the risk of breast cancer in post-menopausal women at moderate-to-high risk of the condition. DETAIL
The number of newborns with syphilis in the United States surged more than 10-fold in the last decade, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported on Tuesday. DETAIL
DIGITAL / TECHNOLOGY / SCIENCE /AI
Apple Inc on Wednesday lost a bid to block a mass London lawsuit worth up to $2 billion which accuses the tech giant of hiding defective batteries in millions of iPhones. DETAIL
OpenAI announced its new, more powerful GPT-4 Turbo artificial intelligence model during its first in-person event on Monday. It revealed a new option that will let developers create custom versions of its viral ChatGPT chatbot. It's also cutting prices. DETAIL
DeepMind announced the new version of its artificial intelligence model AlphaFold. The new version, which is an improved version of AlphaFold 2, makes predictions for almost all biological molecules in the Protein Data Bank, helping to identify molecules that play a key role in the treatment of different diseases, making the drug design process easier. DETAIL
A group of small, simple robots can make a collective decision by exchanging infrared light signals in a process inspired by how bees decide where to build their nests. DETAIL
A team of researchers at Kyoto University has been hard at work on a satellite made of wood — and they say it's now scheduled to launch into space next summer in a joint mission between Japan's JAXS space agency and NASA. While it may sound like an odd choice of materials, they say wood is a surprisingly suitable material for space. DETAIL
Nature – one of the top scientific journals in the world – has retracted a study that claims to have created a room-temperature superconductor from hydrogen, a shiny-gray metal called lutetium, and a dash of nitrogen. This comes a few months after the authors of the paper asked for their own paper to be retracted. DETAIL
What can you do with a pair of glasses? You can wear it to see around you or get rid of the harmful effects of sunlight, right? Not at all. With Rayban Meta Smart Glasses, you can listen to music without muting the world around you, make live broadcasts, take photos and answer calls on your phone while doing your work. Not glasses, but truly wearable technology.
Although the news is not very new, we wanted to share it because it is interesting. The green and renewable energy concept can also come with different designs. For example, like the wind turbines in this tree design. These turbines can produce electricity regardless of the direction they come from, even in a light breeze, take up very little space, and are very easy to install.
ENERGY / TRANSPORTATION
A 140-year-old idea to exploit the temperature differences between layers of the ocean is gaining new interest as a way to provide clean power for people living on islands. DETAIL
CYBERSECURITY
The British postal service and courier company has left an open redirect vulnerability on one of its sites, exposing its customers to phishing attacks and malware infections. DETAIL
In its most recent update, posted late Wednesday evening, OpenAI blamed a possible cyberattack for the "periodic outages," claiming they were triggered by an "abnormal traffic pattern reflective of a DDoS attack," referring to a distributed denial-of-service attack, which is when hackers target a server by overwhelming it with a flood of traffic. DETAIL
HUMAN
An unemployed person used an artificial inteligence tool called LazyApply to blast out 5,000 job applications "in a single click" — and managed to land around 20 job interviews. While that may sound a lot, that's a meager success rate of roughly half a percent. DETAIL
Germany will host Europe's first 3D printed social housing. This project, which took shape in the town of Lünen in North Rhine-Westphalia, indicates that innovative construction methods can be applied to public housing projects carried out with state aid. DETAIL