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Organoids, smart cock rings, futuristic concrete, harvesting water from the air, airships, sustainable start ups, AI Jesus, hacking AI, transparent meta devices, robots learning form the internet and infinitely recyclable plastic.
Read “Scary Smart”, AI and bots learning from the internet might be a bad idea.
Organoids revolutionize research on respiratory infections
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-organoids-revolutionize-respiratory-infections.html?
AirGels are bioengineered models of human lung tissue that open up new possibilities in infection research. Organoids combined? Organoid puzzles?
Erection Tech Is Rising as Younger Patients Treat Dysfunction with AI
Startups rush to meet a growing market with ‘smart’ cock rings and gamified masturbation sleeves.
Futuristic concrete could transform roads and homes into giant batteries
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/battery-concrete-renewable-energy-cement-home-b2385055.html?
Low-cost cement could be used on roadways to provide contactless recharging for electric cars as they travel
New technology to harvest water from the air
https://www.springwise.com/innovation/sustainability/new-technology-to-harvest-water-from-the-air/?
Porous materials act as a nano-scale selective sponge to soak atmospheric humidity and convert it into water.
The Electric Airship Revolution Is Almost Here. Are We Ready?
https://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/a44495888/the-electric-airship-revolution-is-almost-here/?
Airships have become the engineering obsession of companies around the world
Top 10 sustainable startups of 2023
https://sustainabilitymag.com/articles/top-10-sustainable-startups-of-2023
Solar, sustainable brand platform, container farming, measurement, carbon, robotics, fusion, soil and smart farms.
‘AI Jesus’ shows a fascinating refashioning of the biblical prophet for the modern era
Jesus as an internet guru.
A New Attack Impacts Major AI Chatbots—and No One Knows How to Stop It
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-adversarial-attacks/?
Hacking AI.
New transparent metadevices based on quasi-1D surface plasmon polariton structures
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-08-transparent-metadevices-based-quasi-1d-surface.html?
Transparent electronic devices could have numerous valuable real-world applications. Among other things, they could enable the creation of new optical devices, smart gear or wearables, invisible solar panels and integrated communication systems.
DeepMind’s ChatGPT-Like Brain for Robots Lets Them Learn From the Internet
LLM training bots. Read https://www.ronimmink.com/scary-smart-why-we-are-all-jonathan-and-marta-kent-raising-superman/
An Infinitely Recyclable Plastic Could Solve the World’s Pollution Problem
They’ve engineered microbes to make the ingredients for a sustainable alternative to the 90% of plastics that can’t currently be recycled
