California-based Aptera Motors “is rolling out the first mass-produced solar car this year,” reports the Washington Post, after successfully crowdfunding a restart of their development effort: It’s a three-wheel, ultra-aerodynamic electric vehicle covered in 34 square feet of solar cells. The car is so efficient that, on a clear day, those cells alone could provide enough energy to drive about 40…
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Study achieves communication through dreams
Scientists have found that it is possible to achieve real-time communication with a person who is dreaming. We don’t often remember the details of wha… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/344030/study-achieves-communication-through-dreams…
Real-time dialogue with a dreaming person is possible
Dreams take us to what feels like a different reality. They also happen while we’re fast asleep. So, you might not expect that a person in the midst of a vivid dream would be able to perceive questions and provide answers to them. But a new study shows that, in fact, they can. Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/02/210218114018.htm
Lucid dreamers can hear and answer questions while still asleep, scientists find
Researchers have successfully achieved real-time communication with a sleeping person by invading their dreams in several independent experiments. Source: https://www.livescience.com/real-time-communication-while-dreaming.html
People can answer questions about their dreams without waking up
People can answer questions and solve maths problems while dreaming, a finding that could be used to help treat anxiety and other conditions Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2268496-people-can-answer-questions-about-their-dreams-without-waking-up/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
AMD Is Currently Hiring More Linux Engineers
According to Phoronix, AMD currently has several interesting job openings on the Linux front. From the report: While AMD has been delivering reliable Linux support with their recent launches, there is room for improvement in areas like more timely compiler support for new processors, better alignment of their new hardware enablement for getting the code not only upstreamed but into distributions…
Can Artificial Intelligence Restore 85-Year-Old Popeye Cartoons?
A Slashdot reader shared an anonymous tip about “new consumer-grade artificial intelligence employed to restore 85 year-old Popeye cartoons, using only the available digital copies as sources for the remastering.” It’s eerie to see vintage cartoons like Popeye the Sailor meets Sindbad the Sailor upgraded to high resolution. It’s apparently the work of Cartoon Renewal Studios, a group “Dedicated to the…
Neuroscientists’ New Theory: Dreaming Protects the Braincells For Eyesight
Writing in Time magazine, two neuroscientists share a surprising new theory on exactly how dreaming protects our brains: Neuroscience used to think that different parts of the brain were predetermined to perform specific functions. But more recent discoveries have upended the old paradigm. One part of the brain may initially be assigned a specific task; for instance, the back of our…
New Train Hall Opens at Penn Station, Echoing Building’s Former Glory
The Moynihan Train Hall, with glass skylights and 92-foot-high ceilings, will open Jan. 1 as an area for Amtrak and Long Island Railroad riders. The New York Times: For more than half a century, New Yorkers have trudged through the crammed platforms, dark hallways and oppressively low ceilings of Pennsylvania Station, the busiest and perhaps most miserable train hub in North…
Can the EmDrive actually work for space travel?
The EmDrive doesn’t just violate our fundamental understanding of the universe; the experiments that claim to measure an effect haven’t been replicated. When it comes to the EmDrive, keep dreaming. Source: https://www.livescience.com/can-emdrive-space-propulsion-concept-work.html