Bill Gates has many things in his office just outside Seattle, including a wall-mounted periodic table with samples of most elements. Now you might be wondering, ‘why not all of the elements’? Some are radioactive, very rare, or only exist for a couple of seconds in a particle accelerator.
The BMW M Hybrid V8 competed in the 24 Hours of Daytona last week, and it could be a preview of the automaker’s first supercar since the M1 back in 1979-1981. Power comes from a twin-turbocharged 4.0L V8 engine, paired with a hybrid drive system, making a combined 631 hp and 479 lb-ft of torque. In 2024, the BMW M Team WRT will prepare for the debut of the car in the FIA WEC.
Artificial intelligence can be used to reimagine horror movie posters or generate a never-ending ‘Seinfeld’ sitcom on Twitch, called ‘Nothing Forever’. Created by Skylar Hartle and Brian Habersberger, this sitcom was made possible using a combination of machine learning, generative algorithms, and cloud services.
The 32GB Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition comes without any lockscreen ads, and you can get one for $139.99 shipped, today only, originally $189.99. Unlike previous models, users can quickly adjust the shade of the display from a white light to a warm amber. Or, schedule when the light changes for a more personalized experience. Product page.
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NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope has for the first time directly measured the mass of a single, isolated white dwarf, called LAWD 37. This white dwarf is around 56% the mass of our Sun and provides insights into theories of their structure as well as composition. For this discovery, researchers had to use gravitational microlensing.
XPENG’s AEROHT flying car has already taken to the skies in Dubai, and now, the RYSE RECON eVTOL can say the same, just with a more flashy backdrop. An Elvis impersonator was behind the joystick controls of this electric flying machine capable of hitting a top speed of 63 mph and reaching a maximum altitude of 400 feet, thanks to six battery-powered propellers.
Similar to the GAC Barchetta, the Bizzarrini Giotto supercar is one you probably never knew existed, and in this case, for good reason. Giotto Bizzarrini established the Italy-based Bizzarrini company in 1964 and produced the 5300 GT. Unfortunately, the company went under in 1969, but Kuwaiti investor Rezam Al Roumi acquired the name two years ago.
Within this century, astronauts will be turning soil on Mars into geopolymer cement, but in just a few more years, the ESA’s Sample Transfer Arm robot will be collecting tubes left on the Martian surface by NASA’s Perseverance rover. This 2.5 meter-long (8.2 foot) robotic arm will be fully autonomous, highly reliable and very dexterous.
There are robotic arms with realistic artificial muscles, and then this biohybrid robot that uses real mouse muscle tissue and LEDs for real-time control. Technically speaking, it utilizes mouse muscle cells overlaid on soft 3D-printed scaffolds and wireless LED chips for remote control. The light emitted from the LEDs stimulate the mouse tissue, which begins moving the scaffolding.