haddockseyes

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Leading military contractors jacked up the price of several everyday products after receiving non-competitive contracts, costing taxpayers more than $1.3 million in apparently unnecessary markups, according to Pentagon contracting data acquired by Responsible Statecraft.

 

Carbon Brief explains the key sticking points at the 2023 IMO talks in London and what nations ultimately agreed on emissions targets.

 

The Element drives itself continuously at around two miles per hour over farmland, using an advanced computer vision system to identify crops and unwanted botanical invaders. With two-axis robotic arms positioned close the ground, it can flick weeds out of the way where they’ll dry out before they can grow seeds and spread.

 

Bonds linked to the world’s biggest oil company have ended up in ESG funds, highlighting a major flaw in how the sector is regulated.

 

US Air Force colonel Matthew Strohmeyer says they have fed the models with classified operational information to inform sensitive questions. The long-term aim of such exercises is to update the US warhorse so it can use AI-enabled data in decision-making, sensors and ultimately firepower.

 

Better farming techniques across the world could lead to storage of 31 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide a year, data shows. That amount is not far off the 32 gigatonnes gap between current planned emissions reduction globally per year and the amount of carbon that must be cut by 2030 to stay within 1.5C.

[–] haddockseyes@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a pretty famous thought experiment about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_argument

 

Thanks to gene therapy, people who could previously only detect shades of grey can now distinguish red objects from a darker background

 

Beijing bolstering position as global renewables leader with solar capacity more than rest of world combined

 

The disease was diagnosed in the Australian rules footballer Heather Anderson, who died at age 28 in November, a paper outlining the postmortem analysis said.

 

Researchers have discovered the first programmable RNA-guided system discovered in eukaryotes. The technology, known as Fanzor, has the potential to be more easily delivered to cells and tissues than CRISPR-Cas systems, and further refinements could make them a valuable new technology for human genome editing.

 

In all, five rats received a vitrified-then-thawed kidney in a study whose results were published this month in Nature Communications. It’s the first time scientists have shown it’s possible to successfully and repeatedly transplant a life-sustaining mammalian organ after it has been rewarmed from this icy metabolic arrest.

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