🥒 A new enzyme could lead to harmless pesticides

Plant diseases reduce crop yields and cause great economic damage to agriculture. Japanese scientists have uncovered the mechanism by which Xanthomonas bacteria cause diseases in crops. They have discovered a new enzyme responsible for synthesising a substance that suppresses plant immunity. This discovery will make it possible to create new, more effective and safer plant protection products that will specifically target this enzyme and will not harm the environment.

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💎 The world's fastest supercomputer has calculated the technology for creating superdiamond

Scientists from the USA have managed to unlock the secret of creating BC8 material, which surpasses diamond in strength. It is assumed that superalmass exists in the cores of large exoplanets. Using a supercomputer Frontier, the researchers found that to obtain BC8 requires melting diamond, subjecting it to extreme conditions - the pressure, 12 million times higher than atmospheric pressure, and a temperature of almost 5000 ° C. The synthesis requires a series of shock waves, the parameters of which have also been determined. The supercomputer has studied all possible configurations of a billion atoms, performing millions of calculations. Now the theory is to be tested in practice at the National Ignition Facility.

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🛥 Cylindrical sails can reduce fuel consumption of cargo ships by 90%

Startup CoFlow Jet has developed a wind energy system that looks like several bridge piers placed on a ship. The installation is inspired by Flettner rotors, but has no moving parts. CoFlow Jet cylinders draw air in, compress it with an impeller and release it at a specific angle, creating thrust and pressure imbalance. This technology can reduce ship fuel consumption by up to 90 per cent and is easily adaptable to existing ships.

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🤖Neuralink implanted its brain chip into a second patient's brain

Neuralink has implanted its brain chip into a second person. Company founder Ilon Musk said the operation was a success and Neuralink plans to carry out eight more such implantations this year. Of the claimed 1,024 electrodes of the neurochip, the patient has 400 functioning. The development gives paralysed people the ability to control digital devices with their thoughts. For example, the implant allowed the first patient to play video games, use the Internet, post messages on social networks and move the cursor on a laptop.

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🍏 Apple will release the Apple Watch "Kids"

The company plans to release a new budget Apple Watch SE with a plastic case to lower its cost and make it more accessible and appealing to the kids' audience.

This will allow it to compete with other manufacturers of low-cost smart watches and expand Apple's share of the kids' tech market, as any parent would love the convenience of being able to track their child's location via the locator and keep in touch with them via the in-built caller.

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Area of residence may determine cancer risks and tumour biology

Where people live has long been studied by scientists in terms of disease risks. For example, higher noise levels are associated with higher risks of cardiovascular disease, and polluted air is associated with the development of dementia. Cancer is no exception. Scientists cite evidence that the area of residence does affect cancer risks and can alter the biology of tumours of already advanced cancer.

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🍣A neural network has revealed what a sushi lover's paradise looks like.

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OpenAI concludes that the GPT-4o model poses a medium threat

OpenAI has released the GPT-4o System Map, a research document that describes the security measures and risk assessments conducted prior to the release of the model. GPT-4o's security checks were based on four categories, and only the manipulation category was found to have a medium risk. The texts generated by the model were in some cases more convincing than human texts. The paper was released amid growing criticism of the company's security standards and calls for greater transparency. While GPT-4o has been vetted by both internal teams and external experts, the primary responsibility for risk assessment remains with OpenAI itself.

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😱 OpenAI showed a frightening passage from the ChatGPT-4o testing. A girl was chatting with a neural network, but in the middle of the conversation the model shouted "No!" and then started copying the user's voice - both lines from the video are spoken by the neural network.

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👊 Obama, Trump, Musk and others met in the same ring

Neural network generated wrestling with presidents and other celebrities.

😁This is what a debate in the US should be like.

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Youtuber Norme stayed up for 11 days on a stream to break a world record. But YouTube blocked his broadcast for "violating community rules".

At the time the stream ended, the guy had been awake for 264 hours and 56 minutes. He was already so bad that concerned subscribers called an ambulance.

Interesting fact: since 1996, the Guinness Book of Records does not track this record, because it is very dangerous for health. It is not known what Norme was trying to achieve.

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Ray Kurzweil: 'We won't have a confrontation with AI - AI will penetrate us'

Futurist and scientist Ray Kurzweil predicts that the merger of man and machine, known as the "Singularity", will occur in the coming decades. In his book The Singularity is Coming, he claims that general artificial intelligence (AGI) will be achieved by 2029, and that by 2045, humans will be able to increase their intelligence by a million times through advanced brain interfaces. According to him, our brains will be integrated with the cloud and we will be able to get the information we need by the power of thought. "We won't have a confrontation with AI: AI will penetrate inside us," says the scientist. This will lead to a big change in civilisation, improving the quality of life, but it will also raise serious ethical and social questions.

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🏓 DeepMind's robot has beaten humans in half of table tennis matches

Google DeepMind researchers have created the world's first robotic table tennis player capable of playing at the amateur level. The system combines an ABB IRB 1100 industrial robotic arm and specialised software from DeepMind. The robot won 45 per cent of the 29 games played. It defeated all beginners and won 55% of matches against intermediate level players. Although a professional player can still beat the robot, the system demonstrates the potential of machines to master complex physical tasks that require instant decision-making and adaptation.

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