World's 1st 'tooth regrowth medicine' to be tested in Japan from Sept. 2024 (mainichi.jp)
Stretchable e-skin could give robots human-level touch sensitivity (techxplore.com)
Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road (fortune.com)
Waymo self-driving cars are delivering Uber Eats orders for first time (www.cnbc.com)
Imagine a furnace that heats the whole neighbourhood, not just your home | CBC (www.cbc.ca)
The Synaptic Self: Neuromorphic Computing and the Nature of the Mind (www.ultra-unlimited.com)
The Chief Ideologist of the Silicon Valley Elite Has Some Strange Ideas (www.nytimes.com)
Why Korea is Dying Out | Kurzgesagt (youtu.be)
If I’m #childfree, am I part of the problem or the solution? Discuss ;)
Retrofuturism: Electric Car Prototype with 132km range from 1982 (lemmy.ca)
$260 Million AI Company Releases Undeletable Chatbot That Gives Detailed Instructions on Murder, Ethnic Cleansing (www.404media.co)
The article and release are interesting unto themselves. However, as this is c/Futurism, let’s discuss what happens in the future. How do you folks think this ideological battleground plays out in 5, 50, or 500 years?
World’s 1st drug to regrow teeth enters clinical trials - National | Globalnews.ca (globalnews.ca)
Mass Extinction Predicted: Extreme Heat Likely To Wipe Out Humans and Mammals in “Triple Whammy” [in 250M years] (scitechdaily.com)
XKCD 2820: Inspiration (lemmy.ca)
Alt text: An apple fell on Isaac Newton’s head and gave him the idea that the moon might be a tasty apple, though this turned out not to be true–the Apollo program eventually determined that it was just a desolate and bland Red Delicious....
Scientists close in on fifth force of nature - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
tl;dr: maybe....
Fusion Is Having a Moment (spectrum.ieee.org)
How long could you survive in space without a spacesuit? (www.space.com)
tl;dr; pass out at 15s, brain death in 4m....
Is Star Trek’s Warp Drive Possible? - JSTOR Daily (daily.jstor.org)
Tl;dr: no.
EU passes law to blanket highways with fast EV chargers by end of 2025 (www.theverge.com)
The chargers must be placed every 60km (37mi) and allow ad-hoc payment by card or contactless device without subscriptions.
The evolution of space food: from squeezable tubes to cosmic culinary marvels – AeroTime (www.aerotime.aero)
Can you imagine dishes that are only possible in low or zero gravity? Like, your souffles on Mars might never collapse!
What are the different branches of futurism?
As the title says, what are all of the different futurisms, or like imaginings of the future?...
When we all have pocket telephones (a 1919 comic) (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1708144...
Wind and solar unbeatable for low cost new electricity (cosmosmagazine.com)
There’s going to be this interesting inflection point where solar will be cheaper than the wiring in the grid. That will come with all sorts of societal side effects. In particular, it further increases the gap between the rich (those with land for panels) and the poor (those that need to buy from the grid).
A break from the lawn: can an iconic meadow seed wider change? (www.cam.ac.uk)
cross-posted from: kbin.social/m/science/t/205362...
Turns out all we may need to stop climate change is 139 billion gallons of super-duper white paint (www.businessinsider.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1578660...
Tokamak Energy’s Demo4 magnet system can carry 12 million Amperes of electricity (interestingengineering.com)
