Month: September 2021
Oxygen Shortage Delaying NASA Launch
NASA has announced it will be delaying an upcoming satellite launch. The liquid oxygen needed to fuel the flight is needed in hospitals, where doctors use the important resource to keep dangerously sick COVID-19 patients alive. SpaceX founder Elon Musk tweeted that the shortage was “a risk, but not yet a limiting factor.” The company
Mindfulness Can Make You Selfish
Mindfulness and meditation are associated with reducing stress and anxiety, while increasing emotional well-being. Mindfulness increased prosocial actions for people who tend to view themselves as more interdependent. However, for people who tend to view themselves as more independent, mindfulness actually decreased prosocial behavior. The results sound contradictory given the pop culture toehold of mindfulness
implicit pattern learning on religious belief.
Belief in a God or gods who intervene in the world to create order is a core element of global religions and the study is about why and how brains come to believe in gods. Individuals who can unconsciously predict complex patterns, an ability called implicit pattern learning, are likely to hold stronger beliefs that
sense of oneness brings greater life satisfaction
People who believe in oneness the idea that everything in the world is connected and interdependent appear to have greater life satisfaction than those who don’t, regardless of whether they belong to a religion or don’t. Many people today practice yoga, meditation, action sports and other activities that aim at achieving a state of oneness
scan iPhones for child abuse delayed
The so-called NeuralHash technology would have scanned images just before they are uploaded to iCloud Photos. Then it would have matched them against known child sexual abuse material on a database maintained by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. If a match was found then it would have been manually reviewed by a
Neo Banks
The banking sector is undergoing somewhat of a revolution akin to the insurance sector before it. ‘Neo Banks’ are appearing across the world to offer a new, data-driven way to manage our money. Still for the everyday user, most banks already have apps and digital services available to help with all their basic needs, Just
Web Data Driving AI technologies
Web data is considered the only source of data that is flexible enough to reflect our actual reality and sharp enough to provide us with trustworthy data. When it comes to relying on data – no data at all is better than unreliable data. Web data sources also include public social media data. This form
electrified neoliberalism- Elon Musk’s robot
The conception of the “Tesla Bot” again reveals the consistently alarming truth: billionaires have had their wealth rewarded with unaccountable power for so long they no longer know and certainly don’t care about what the world looks like for the rest of us. Jobs aren’t just about the work you do, they’re about the community
James Webb space telescope Launch
Webb is Nasa’s successor to the ageing Hubble space telescope. Work on it began way back in 1996. Back then, it was called the Next Generation space telescope. It was forecast to cost $500m (£363m) and was set for launch in 2007. Nasa has completed the final tests of the James Webb space telescope and
Cracks in ISS Module-Russian Cosmonauts
Russian cosmonauts have discovered new cracks in a segment of the International Space Station that could widen, The space station has suffered several recent incidents. Russian officials last month said a software glitch, and a possible lapse in human attention, were to blame for throwing the ISS out of control. The space official has said