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World’s first 100% battery-electric cruise ship unveiled with 1,856 passenger capacity. (interestingengineering.com)
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Scientists Are Trying to Train Lab-Grown Brains. The Brains Have Started to Solve Problems. (www.popularmechanics.com)
Waymo’s robotaxis now being dispatched in 10 major U.S. markets with expansion in Texas and Florida in c/futurology@futurology.today
[–] RewindAgain@futurology.today 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The expansion into four more markets marks a significant step toward Waymo’s goal to surpass 1 million weekly paid trips by the end of 2026.

A back of an envelope calculation ( 3 trips per hour, 120 per week, 6k PA) - suggests this is replacing about 8,500 human drivers; still a modest amount.

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Ultrafast 3D printing method creates complex objects in under a second. (techxplore.com)
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Lab-grown retinas uncover secret behind high-definition human eyesight development. (interestingengineering.com)
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Korean researchers have developed a spray that stops severe bleeding almost instantly by transforming blood into a gel-like substance in under one second. (advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
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Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief. (www.theguardian.com)
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Scientists develop a nanomaterial that selectively kills cancer cells by triggering internal chemical reactions. In mice with human breast cancer, it eliminated tumors without side effects/recurrence. (news.oregonstate.edu)
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Sodium-ion batteries are making their way into cars—and the grid (www.technologyreview.com)
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Projections of when each of 150 countries May eliminate air pollution and carbon emissions from all energy (pubs.rsc.org)
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Stanford AI Experts Predict What Will Happen in 2026 (hai.stanford.edu)
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Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future: Gartner (www.theregister.com)
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Experimental vaccine prevents deadly allergic reactions in mice: Technology could offer longer protection against allergies than is possible with existing treatments. (www.nature.com)
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