Tesla plans to enter the UK energy market by offering electricity to homes and establishing “virtual power plants.” The company aims to support the transition to 100% renewable energy by enabling customers with Tesla products to store and sell electricity to the grid at optimal market prices.
Hey all! This weekend, let’s delve into the mind-boggling concept of superintelligent AI. What does it mean to have an intelligence surpassing our own? How would we even recognize it? Can our limited human comprehension grasp what it has to teach us?...
The European Commission has presented a proposal to modernise EU regulations on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to incorporate new gene editing techniques....
OpenAI’s Superalignment team will address the core technical challenges of controlling superintelligent AI systems and ensuring their alignment with human values and goals....
The UK government has partnered with BioNTech to conduct trials of personalised mRNA-based cancer immunotherapies. These trials aim to provide precision immunotherapies to treat cancer patients and offer personalized treatments for up to 10,000 patients by 2030. BioNTech will establish a regional hub and labs in Cambridge,...
The unintentional consequence of lowering sulphur content in marine fuel, as part of clean air regulations, is a weakened cooling effect caused by sulphur particles in ships’ exhaust fumes, according to a new model. This inadvertently exacerbates warming, potentially raising global temperatures by 0.05C by 2050. Other factors,...
Seems to me that if they can empirically show that the effect works; as is apparent here, that it opens the door to SO2 being used as a climate engineering strategy; the EC wants to start talks on geoengineering, so this could be on the table.
Thought occurs to me though; that the more elaborate the solution, the more desperate the problem, so lets hope we can mitigate climate change before it gets to the point of needing space-based sunshades or somesuch.
Hey, c/science! Let’s kick off with your take on two recent but linked events. Over the past few days, the Earth has experienced its hottest ever recorded temperatures, breaking records from at least 1979 and possibly longer. At the same time, climate change protestors from Just Stop Oil have been interrupting the Ashes and...
I’ve got an itch to make one, but I suppose it wouldn’t strictly all be UK-centric content, although that’s not to say that UK doesn’t produce plenty of great science....
honestly, ferrari is a clever bloke but he (or I) can’t honestly believe the crap he a) says or b) callers he fails spectacularly to challenge. Alot of them seem open goal....
I’ve been listening to LBC on the drive to/from work for over a decade probably. I feel like they always get the right mix of something interesting to listen to and just enough crackpot callers to provide entertainment value.
My daughter (8) enjoys gymnastics, so she’s pretty strong and agile.
The other week, a boy she knows from school decided to challenge her to a chase game in the park (“I’m going to GET you”), so she sprints to this big climbing frame, monkeys up one side of it, climbs hand over hand across the horizonal ladder thing, swings up to the platform at the top and then looks back to see if he’s behind her…
…he’s still struggling to get up the first part of the climbing frame
and I laughed to myself and thought: “yeah, just keep leaving the boys in the dust”.
Have you or a loved one worked in the NHS as Staff or Volunteer? Had a life changing operation funded though the NHS? Positive or Negative experience with the NHS system?...
NHS saved the sight in my left eye following a horrendous viral infection about 20 years ago. It was the first time I remember feeling in absolute awe of a system that got me from GP to Consultant to urgent treatment and back to health with abolsutely nothing to pay; totally incredible.
I’m also old enough to remember family GPs, no telephone queues for an appointment at 8am and not being made to feel that you are nothing more than an incovenience.
I would vote for a truly competent government of any colour that could drag the NHS out of its grave and make it the thriving, efficient and well-resourced organisiation that we all deserve it to be.
Instead, what I now understand about private medical insurance is that they won’t cover pre-existing conditions, so (and I’m sorry to say), my strong advice to all you healthy young people of the fediverse is to take-out some private health insurance now; when you don’t need it, to ensure that you can get the prompt medical treatment you need later in life when shit starts going wrong.
Tesla to Disrupt UK Energy Market with Launch of New Household Electricity Supplier (www.theguardian.com)
Tesla plans to enter the UK energy market by offering electricity to homes and establishing “virtual power plants.” The company aims to support the transition to 100% renewable energy by enabling customers with Tesla products to store and sell electricity to the grid at optimal market prices.
Weekend Discussion Thread: Let's Wrap Our Minds Around the Concept of Superintelligent AI (feddit.uk)
Hey all! This weekend, let’s delve into the mind-boggling concept of superintelligent AI. What does it mean to have an intelligence surpassing our own? How would we even recognize it? Can our limited human comprehension grasp what it has to teach us?...
EU Commission Proposes Rule Change to Enable Gene Editing in Crop Plants Comparable to Conventional Breeding (sciencebusiness.net)
The European Commission has presented a proposal to modernise EU regulations on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to incorporate new gene editing techniques....
Restored driver's education footage from 1963 of a trip from central London to Bath (www.youtube.com)
I enjoyed this video because vast sections of London, are easily recognizable from this 60 year old video:...
OpenAI Announces New Team to Align Superintelligent AI with Human Values (openai.com)
OpenAI’s Superalignment team will address the core technical challenges of controlling superintelligent AI systems and ensuring their alignment with human values and goals....
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UK Government and BioNTech Partner for Trials of Personalised Cancer Immunotherapies (www.gov.uk)
The UK government has partnered with BioNTech to conduct trials of personalised mRNA-based cancer immunotherapies. These trials aim to provide precision immunotherapies to treat cancer patients and offer personalized treatments for up to 10,000 patients by 2030. BioNTech will establish a regional hub and labs in Cambridge,...
Low suphur shipping rules might be exacerbating global warming (www.carbonbrief.org)
The unintentional consequence of lowering sulphur content in marine fuel, as part of clean air regulations, is a weakened cooling effect caused by sulphur particles in ships’ exhaust fumes, according to a new model. This inadvertently exacerbates warming, potentially raising global temperatures by 0.05C by 2050. Other factors,...
Climate Change Protests vs Rising Temperatures: What's Your Take?
Hey, c/science! Let’s kick off with your take on two recent but linked events. Over the past few days, the Earth has experienced its hottest ever recorded temperatures, breaking records from at least 1979 and possibly longer. At the same time, climate change protestors from Just Stop Oil have been interrupting the Ashes and...
Welcome science community! What do you want to see here? What rules are we comfortable with?
Let’s use this thread to share ideas about the sidebar content: I think content guidelines are helpful, so I suggest:...
Do we want a science community?
I’ve got an itch to make one, but I suppose it wouldn’t strictly all be UK-centric content, although that’s not to say that UK doesn’t produce plenty of great science....
on a day off like today, putting on the radio means nick ferrari on LBC. Best to stay in bed until 10 and James O Brien
honestly, ferrari is a clever bloke but he (or I) can’t honestly believe the crap he a) says or b) callers he fails spectacularly to challenge. Alot of them seem open goal....
Dad's! what have your kids done recently that made you smile?
My youngest (16 months) has started giving hugs on command. The best part, when he leans in he makes the ‘ahhhhhhh’ noise....
Happy 75th Birthday To The NHS! What are your NHS memories? (www.england.nhs.uk)
Have you or a loved one worked in the NHS as Staff or Volunteer? Had a life changing operation funded though the NHS? Positive or Negative experience with the NHS system?...
today is my first true day of british success
This afternoon I’ve got my citizenship ceremony, then we are off to the pub. Can’t ask for much more!...
What are the main issues currently facing the UK economy? (www.niesr.ac.uk)
NIESR is the UK’s oldest independent research institute, specialising in economic and social analysis....