Archive for the ‘futurism’ category: Page 122
Apr 19, 2024
Unexpectedly uneven distribution of functional trade-offs explains cranial morphological diversity in carnivores
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: futurism
Functional trade-offs can affect phenotypic variation. Here, the authors examine trade-offs between bite force and speed in 132 carnivore species, finding that optimising for velocity can be obtained in more ways than optimising for force, and this may impact morphological variability.
Apr 19, 2024
Zuck just revealed the secret ingredient in his bromance with Jensen Huang
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in category: futurism
Mark Zuckerberg and Jensen Huang’s friendship appears to be Silicon Valley’s latest bromance.
They have a lot in common: both run Big Tech firms worth trillions, they each have a signature jacket, and now they’re bonding over cheesesteaks.
The Meta CEO said the dynamic duo like to break bread and revealed what they chat about when they get together.
Apr 19, 2024
Scientists just found an evolutionary holy grail
Posted by Arthur Brown in category: futurism
A new report traces the extraordinary lineage of a common Amazonian butterfly—and estimates the hybridization of its two parental species happened around 180,000 years ago.
Apr 19, 2024
BLINK: Multimodal Large Language Models Can See but Not Perceive
Posted by Cecile G. Tamura in category: futurism
From upenn BLINK multimodal large language models can see but not perceive.
From UPenn.
Multimodal large language models can see but not perceive.
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Maserati’s “Folgore Day” kicks off the beginning of its journey to full electrification by 2028 and launches the GranCabrio Folgore.
Apr 18, 2024
Farewell to metals in industry forever: the material that science fiction predicted and has just been produced
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: futurism, materials
A new, microscopic material will end with metals in industry: this is the new futuristic alternative that you will see from now on.
Apr 18, 2024
Ancient humans lived inside a lava tube in the Arabian desert
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Underground tunnels created by lava flows provided humans with shelter for thousands of years beneath the hot desert landscape of Saudi Arabia.
Apr 17, 2024
Retro-reflectors could help future cities keep their cool
Posted by Cecile G. Tamura in category: futurism
Engineers at Princeton University have quantified the cooling benefits of a simple solution for beating urban heat: reflecting solar radiation back from whence it came.
Apr 17, 2024
Link Verified between Turbulence and Entropy
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: futurism
The verification of a 63-year-old hypothesis indicates that nonequilibrium statistical mechanics could act as a theoretical framework for describing turbulence.