A paper in Nature reports that a Braingate Brain Computer Interface (BCI) enabled a man paralyzed from the neck down to have his thoughts translated to text with 94% accuracy. An intracortical BCI tdecodes attempted handwriting movements from neural activity in the motor cortex and translates it to text in real-time, using a recurrent neural …
Robert Zubrin was interviewed on the History Unplugged podcast about the critical transformation of humanity with from a new age of discovery. I will review Zubrin key points to understand old age of discovery and how it will apply to the colonization of the solar system in the decades ahead. I will also look at …
Amazon’s Project Kuiper is asking the FCC to launch more than 4500 satellites. Amazon’s old plan was for 3236 satellites. If the new request is approved they will launch a total of 7774 satellites. They plan to start launching two satellites next year. The Kuiper satellites will operate between 590 and 630 km (370 and …
In real life when you need to transport something, you place it inside a container. It can then travel on a boat, on a train or even be pulled on the road by a truck, enabling it to get to its destination. In a virtual environment, the information can also be placed inside containers, so …
Elon Musk had a twitter poll to determine if he will sell 10% of Tesla. The poll was 58% for yes Elon should sell 10% of his Tesla shares. Elon has about 170 million shares of Tesla. This sale will be 17 million shares. Elon had 22.8 million stock options awarded to him from a …
BYD battery EV sales rose 176% to 41,232 units year over year and 13% from September, 2021. October PHEV sales increased from 7,126 units in 2020 to 38,771 in 2021. BYD has also sold over 1000 battery electric buses. Volkswagen Group delivered 122,100 battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) were delivered to customers from July 1 to Sept …
A friend of mine, Angie Apperson, asked on Linkedin Who are on your list of most admired female leaders in tech? Here is my list of my five most admired female leaders in Technology and innovation. Lisa Su Lisa Su. CEO of AMD. When Lisa Su became CEO of Advanced Micro Devices in 2014, AMD …
The number of Chinese provinces with significant power shortages is down to two in mid-October instead of 18 at the start of the month. The number of coal power plants with dangerously low coal stockpiles (less than 7 days) has also decreased by 90%. China’s coal imports jumped 76% in September from the level of …
China is turning to increased nuclear power plans because of their coal and hydroelectric energy crisis. China has an energy crisis this year with droughts reducing hydro power by 30% and problems ramping up coal power. China had slowed its nuclear power build after the 2011 Tsunami in Japan caused the Fukushima plant to fail. …
On the prediction site Metaculus, Robin Hanson and Matthew Barnett have a bet about whole brain emulation versus artificial general intelligence. The bet is that when US labor participation rate is less than 10% then em-like automation will contribute more to GDP than AGI-like. Robin Hanson wrote the book the Age of EM. The “Em” …
There is a bet on the prediction site Metaculus, that asks will US labor force participation drop below 10%? The formulation of the argument for the question focuses on automation and a related question on Whole Brain Emulation or other paths to Artificial General Intelligence. The U.S. labor participation rate stood at 61.4% as of …