Comment Re:With whom? (Score 0) 20
Has to be the USA government, I mean 30 billion yearly... serious money.
Submission + - How robotic hives and AI are lowering the risk of bee colony collapse (phys.org)
alternative_right writes: The unit—dubbed a BeeHome—is an industrial upgrade from the standard wooden beehives, all clad in white metal and solar panels. Inside sits a high-tech scanner and robotic arm powered by artificial intelligence. Roughly 300,000 of these units are in use across the U.S., scattered across fields of almond, canola, pistachios and other crops that require pollination to grow.
AI and robotics are able to replace "90% of what a beekeeper would do in the field," said Beewise Chief Executive Officer and co-founder Saar Safra. The question is whether beekeepers are willing to switch out what's been tried and true equipment.
AI and robotics are able to replace "90% of what a beekeeper would do in the field," said Beewise Chief Executive Officer and co-founder Saar Safra. The question is whether beekeepers are willing to switch out what's been tried and true equipment.
Submission + - Study finds online searches reduce diversity of group brainstorming ideas (phys.org)
alternative_right writes: While the study found no statistically relevant difference between the creativity of individuals with access to internet search and those without, as those individuals were clumped into groups, internet search appeared to stymie their production of ideas.
"This appears to be due to the fact that Google users came up with the same common answers, often in the same order, as they relied on Google, while non-Google users came up with more distinct answers," wrote lead author Danny Oppenheimer, a professor in CMU's Department of Social and Decision Sciences.
"This appears to be due to the fact that Google users came up with the same common answers, often in the same order, as they relied on Google, while non-Google users came up with more distinct answers," wrote lead author Danny Oppenheimer, a professor in CMU's Department of Social and Decision Sciences.
Submission + - NASA teams with Netflix to stream rocket launches and spacewalks this summer (nerds.xyz)
BrianFagioli writes: NASA is coming to Netflix. No, not a drama or sci-fi reboot. The space agency is actually bringing real rocket launches, astronaut spacewalks, and even views of Earth from space directly to your favorite streaming service.
Starting this summer, NASA+ will be available on Netflix, giving the space-curious a front-row seat to live mission coverage and other programming. The space agency is hoping this move helps it connect with a much bigger audience, and considering Netflix reaches over 700 million people, that’s not a stretch.
This partnership is about accessibility. NASA already offers NASA+ for free, without ads, through its app and website. But now it’s going where the eyeballs are. If people won’t come to the space agency, the space agency will come to them.
Starting this summer, NASA+ will be available on Netflix, giving the space-curious a front-row seat to live mission coverage and other programming. The space agency is hoping this move helps it connect with a much bigger audience, and considering Netflix reaches over 700 million people, that’s not a stretch.
This partnership is about accessibility. NASA already offers NASA+ for free, without ads, through its app and website. But now it’s going where the eyeballs are. If people won’t come to the space agency, the space agency will come to them.
Submission + - Space is hard (spacenews.com)
RUs1729 writes: For-profit companies are pushing the narrative that they can do space inexpensively. Their track record reveals otherwise: cutting corners won't do it for the foreseeable future.
Submission + - DoJ deal gives HPE the go-ahead for its $14 billion Juniper purchase (telecoms.com)
AmiMoJo writes: HPE has settled its antitrust case with the US Department of Justice (DoJ), paving the way for its acquisition of rival kit maker Juniper Networks. Under the agreement, HPE has agreed to divest its Instant On unit, which sells a range of enterprise-grade Wi-Fi networking equipment for campus and branch deployments. It has also agreed to license Juniper's Mist AIOps source code – a software suite that enables AI-based network automation and management. HPE can live with that, since its primary motivation for buying Juniper is to improve its prospects in an IT networking market dominated by Cisco, where others like Arista and increasingly Nokia and Nvidia are also trying to make inroads.
Comment: Pour one out for Juniper.
Comment: Pour one out for Juniper.
Comment Re:Doesn't help (Score 1) 75
Nothing will fix the motoring public who are of course the root cause of crashes. Your characterization of same is on point, US elections being proof.
Naive humans have emotional difficulty admitting most of humanity are useless eaters.
Comment Re:US mental healthcare (Score -1) 172
It has been brewing for a long time, if someone declared to be Napoleon, he would have been assessed for schizophrenia. Today when a man declares he is a woman, he is be offered a way to transition (mutilate himself) and his experience is glamorized and presented to children as a heroic act of self discovery that should be admired and followed. It is not only that we don't treat mental disease, we celebrate it. What else can one expect from society that promotes body positivity as a way to justify unhealthy behavior? If someone is obese, a doctor should suggest that it is not healthy and propose a treatment plan, society should help, not goad the person into showing it off in a weird and sick exhibitionist parade.
Submission + - Defense Department to stop sharing satellite weather data. (npr.org)
Dustin Destree writes: Maybe it's conspiracy theory, maybe it's connected, but I remember something about AccuWeather wanting this to happen so only they could get the data, and then sell it to others. No more hurricane data, and it'll be so much easier to deny climate change when you can no longer see the sea ice retreating, or can't afford (if they sell it) access to the data proving so!
Submission + - Sinaloa cartel used phone data and surveillance cameras to find FBI informants, (reuters.com)
alternative_right writes: The report said the hacker identified an FBI assistant legal attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City and was able to use the attaché's phone number "to obtain calls made and received, as well as geolocation data." The report said the hacker also "used Mexico City's camera system to follow the (FBI official) through the city and identify people the (official) met with."
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Comment Conventional window SIZE regulations needed. (Score 1) 75
The point of windows is visibility.
Submission + - UV-C light kills nearly everything—except this unusual organism (science.org)
sciencehabit writes: If you’ve ever gotten burned at the beach or swimming pool, you’re no stranger to the Sun bombarding Earth with ultraviolet rays. But the UV light that keeps beachgoers reaching for the sunblock isn’t even the worst the Sun sends our way. Lucky for us, Earth’s ozone layer blocks the Sun’s shortest wave radiation, called UV-C, which is so damaging to cells in high doses that it’s a go-to sterilizer in hospitals.
UV-C is such a killer, in fact, that scientists have questioned whether life can survive on worlds that lack an ozone layer, such as Mars or distant exoplanets. But research published this month in Astrobiology suggests one hardy lichen, a hybrid organism made of algae and fungi, may have cracked the UV-C code with a built-in sunscreen, despite never experiencing these rays in its long evolutionary history.
When scientists brought a sample of the species, the common desert dweller Clavascidium lacinulatum, back to the lab, graduate student Tejinder Singh put the lichen through the wringer. First, Singh dehydrated the lichen, to make sure it couldn’t grow back in real time and mask any UV damage. Then he placed the lichen a few centimeters under a UV lamp and blasted it with radiation. The lichen seemed just fine.
So Singh purchased the most powerful UV-C lamp he could find online, capable of sending out 20 times more radiation than the amount expected on Mars. When he tested the lamp on the most radiation-resistant life form on Earth, the bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans, it died in less than a minute.
After 3 months—likely the highest amount of UV-C radiation ever tested on an organism—Singh pulled the sample so he could finish his master’s thesis in time. About half of the lichen’s algal cells had survived. Then, when the team ground up and cultured part of the surviving lichen, about half of its algal cells sprouted new, green colonies after 2 weeks, showing it maintained the ability to reproduce.
The species may provide a blueprint for surviving on Mars or exoplanets, which don’t have an ozone layer to protect them.
UV-C is such a killer, in fact, that scientists have questioned whether life can survive on worlds that lack an ozone layer, such as Mars or distant exoplanets. But research published this month in Astrobiology suggests one hardy lichen, a hybrid organism made of algae and fungi, may have cracked the UV-C code with a built-in sunscreen, despite never experiencing these rays in its long evolutionary history.
When scientists brought a sample of the species, the common desert dweller Clavascidium lacinulatum, back to the lab, graduate student Tejinder Singh put the lichen through the wringer. First, Singh dehydrated the lichen, to make sure it couldn’t grow back in real time and mask any UV damage. Then he placed the lichen a few centimeters under a UV lamp and blasted it with radiation. The lichen seemed just fine.
So Singh purchased the most powerful UV-C lamp he could find online, capable of sending out 20 times more radiation than the amount expected on Mars. When he tested the lamp on the most radiation-resistant life form on Earth, the bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans, it died in less than a minute.
After 3 months—likely the highest amount of UV-C radiation ever tested on an organism—Singh pulled the sample so he could finish his master’s thesis in time. About half of the lichen’s algal cells had survived. Then, when the team ground up and cultured part of the surviving lichen, about half of its algal cells sprouted new, green colonies after 2 weeks, showing it maintained the ability to reproduce.
The species may provide a blueprint for surviving on Mars or exoplanets, which don’t have an ozone layer to protect them.
Comment Re:Quick History lesson (Score 1) 174
That constitutional amendment was NEVER meant to allow any foreigner to come to the US and drop a kid and have it be a US citizen ......
It was to ensure the slaves were treated as citizens...they were forcibly brought here....
Very different.
SCOTUS didn't actually rule on this.....but they need to and change the misuse of this that has haunted us till this day.
What other countries allow this so readily....that a non-citizen drops a kid in your country and it has automatic citizenship and full rights??
Comment Re:No change happens in a vacuum. (Score 3, Insightful) 174
So remind me again why trans people acting on their own fundamental and unchangeable mental processes that don't hurt anyone are bad? Maybe also explain again why respecting these people is "identity politics" while hating on them isn't as I didn't follow your logic there. I also don't follow how struggling to find new terminology to cover a minority group that has only been recently recognized (despite having always been there) is hateful.
For grown adults...no one gives a fuck if they want to play dress up, or call themselves whatever they want to call themselves (pronouns , etc).
The problem is when they want to force the overwhelming majority of normal people in the world to play their game with them....
Throwing fits when a normal server at a restaurant calls what looks to be a male "mr" or "sir"....trying to get them fired, etc.
It comes when men calling themselves women, start to intrude into real womens' spaces...locker rooms, competing in women's sports....etc.
The real thing that sank that ship, is when they started coming for children.
Trying to force books on trans and queer on school children.....in some states, ruling against parents that refused to permanently harm their kids with medical "trans help treatments"....hormones, surgery.
Allowing ultra left teachers to hide secrets on sexuality from parents while allowing them to speak sexuality into the children's ear....
People tend to get really fucking uptight when you start fucking with their kids....and moving to that plane was a bridge too far for normal people and parents.
Again, if you're a grown adult...you can dress and act how you want to....you can chop off or surgically do whatever you want with your own body and no one care.....aside from not wanting to PAY for it....that's on you too.
Comment Re:...will have to act immediately to remove mater (Score 1) 41
How hard would it be to pull all their servers OUT of the country...and just allow connections to continue to servers outside the country?
Sure, response times would drop some...but how much response time do you need for FB??
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