Links for 2021-10-19
What is China’s new hypersonic glide vehicle? “China appears first in the world to combine an old concept of FOBS with modern glider technology...Orbital weapons and glide vehicles could dodge different interceptors in different ways, hedging China’s bets.” https://archive.md/xi3vV
The Pentagon’s first-ever chief software officer claims that the United States has no competing fighting chance against China in 15 to 20 years when it comes to cyberwarfare and artificial intelligence. https://www.vox.com/recode/22725044/china-ai-race-pentagon-wechat
UN finds 'no adverse health effects from Fukushima disaster: “No adverse health effects among Fukushima residents have been documented that are directly attributable to radiation exposure from the FDNPS accident.” https://www.unscear.org/unscear/en/publications/2020b.html
Researchers find few adverse health effects in wildlife exposed to low levels of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear accident https://cvmbs.source.colostate.edu/researchers-find-few-adverse-health-effects-in-wildlife-exposed-to-low-levels-of-radiation-from-the-fukushima-nuclear-accident/
The oldest known pre-human footprints, discovered on the island of Crete in 2002, have been dated as being 6.05 million years old https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-98618-0
From sex to free speech, what goes online is increasingly up to financial companies https://archive.is/eQOmc
A cryptography game-changer for biomedical research at scale https://actu.epfl.ch/news/a-cryptography-game-changer-for-biomedical-researc/
Past & Future of Brain-Computer-Interfaces by Sebastian Völkl youtu.be/9r20Y4GCUXs
Simulated AI creatures demonstrate how mind and body evolve and succeed together: “An in silico playground for creatures that learn, mutate, and evolve establishes the importance of morphological intelligence and suggests a new way to optimize embodied AIs.” https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/06/simulated-ai-creatures-demonstrate-how-mind-and-body-evolve-and-succeed-together/?guccounter=1
Mum has 20 babies in one year by surrogates and spends £67,000 on their 16 nannies https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/mum-20-babies-one-year-24252473.amp