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The Eyewall's avatar The Eyewall @theeyewallwx.bsky.social
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As #Beryl races toward the Yucatan, we try to narrow the possibilities for Texas. We expect a landfall near the RGV Sunday night, with impacts for much of the S TX coast & Coastal Bend. Beryl transitions to flooding/rain threat next week in S Texas. More: theeyewall.com/beryl-racing...

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Jeff Berardelli 's avatar Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social
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As the world warms, certain basins are seeing a spike in rapid intensification(RI) due to hotter ocean water. In the Atlantic the trend on the strongest of hurricanes is upward. A recent study shows RI is increasing 4.4 mph per decade, adding ~18 mph over the last 4 decades.

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Alphabet is abandoning its robo-agriculture startup

Its crop-sniffing rover tech is reportedly being licensed to berry producer Driscoll’s, due to fierce industry competition and slim profit margins. The startup was earlier graduating from Alphabet’s X lab.

www.theverge.com/2024/7/3/241...

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Perplexity’s ‘Pro Search’ #AI upgrade makes it better at math and research

The AI search startup says its Pro Search is capable enough to ‘pinpoint case laws for attorneys.’ And Pro Search now comes with more advanced math and programming capabilities.

www.theverge.com/2024/7/3/241...

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Dr. Athena Masson's avatar Dr. Athena Masson @weathergoddess.bsky.social
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#Beryl continuing westward maintaining Cat 5 strength - 160mph. #Jamaica under a #Hurricane Warning with Beryl likely maintaining major status as it approaches the island Wednesday. Afterwards, portions of the Yucatan will need to prepare for the storm. #wx

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Steve Bowen's avatar Steve Bowen @stevebowen.bsky.social
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There have been 24 Atlantic storms in the Satellite Era (1966-present) which have gone through a >70kt rapid intensification within a 36-hour period. (Min start of 35kt)

All of those storms originally formed in Aug, Sep, Oct, or Nov.

Until Beryl.

#Beryl is doing this in June.

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David Ho's avatar David Ho @davidho.bsky.social
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With #Beryl barreling across the Caribbean as the earliest cat. 5 on record, let’s remember that things are just going to get worse as we continue to consume nearly 100 million barrels of oil every day.

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#Bluesky's new Starter Pack feature explained

Existing users can add accounts and custom feeds to create a starter pack and share the link with someone who is not on Bluesky yet. Once you have signed up, your account will follow all the suggested people and feeds.

techcrunch.com/2024/06/27/b...

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Copernicus ECMWF's avatar Copernicus ECMWF @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
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🌡️📈 With #ClimateChange, the impact of extreme #heat is increasingly felt by many citizens around the world.
In this context, heat stress is an emerging concern. But what exactly is this condition?

Discover it in our new article 👉bit.ly/4ckMEHy

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Zack Labe's avatar Zack Labe @zlabe.bsky.social
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The mean global sea surface temperature averaged over the last three months was the highest on record relative to any other March to May period...

Data from NOAA ERSSTv5: psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...

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‘Better than graphene’ material development may improve implantable technology

Move over, graphene. There’s a new, improved two-dimensional material in the lab: #Borophene. Researchers tweaked borophene to interact with cells and other biological units in unique ways.

www.psu.edu/news/materia...

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Ed Hawkins's avatar Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.bsky.social
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It is five years since the UK put net-zero by 2050 into law.

Prime Minister Theresa May, saw the Gorner glacier in Switzerland retreating on her regular hiking visits there. That visual manifestation of our warming world helped persuade her of the need to act.

www.politico.eu/article/ther...

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MIT robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are vastly overestimating generative #AI

Rodney Brooks co-founded three key companies, including iRobot. He likes to make predictions about the future of AI and keeps a scorecard on his blog of how well he’s doing.

techcrunch.com/2024/06/29/m...

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Illumex is using #AI to ease pain of getting good data into #LLMs

The company is combining a number of technologies, including graph databases and relational databases, pulling all this information together into a data fabric which companies can access to train LLMs.

techcrunch.com/2024/06/27/i...

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Orby is building #AI agents for the enterprise

Orby AI is building a generative AI platform that attempts to automate a range of different #business workflows, including workflows that involve data entry, documents processing and forms validation.

techcrunch.com/2024/06/27/o...

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Dust offers a enterprise #AI assistants connected to internal data

With Dust, companies can create custom AI assistants and share them with their employees so that they can work more efficiently. You can associate it with documents stored in Google Drive or Slack.

techcrunch.com/2024/06/27/d...

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Persona’s founders work on a next-level humanoid #robot

The startup is the brainchild of MIT research scientist Jerry Pratt and longtime associate Nic Radford, an industry vet with his own impressive resume, including seven years as part of NASA’s #robotics.

techcrunch.com/2024/06/26/p...

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These smart #binoculars can identify thousands of stars and over a million landmarks

Unistellar Envision binoculars use #AR to overlay information about what you’re looking at similar to Swarovski’s Optik AX Visio binoculars (but they won't recognize birds).

www.theverge.com/2024/6/27/24...

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Hologram: M. P. Shiel first introduced the idea of a hologram in "The Last Miracle" (1907). Based on pioneering work by other scientists including Mieczysław Wolfke in 1920, physicist Dennis Gabor later invented holography in 1948.

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Solar power: Begum Rokeya made the idea of using solar electricity popular in "Sultana's Dream" (1905). Actual experiments with solar power were already made much earlier starting in the 1860s. Most notably Charles Fritts installed the world's first rooftop photovoltaic solar array in NYC in 1884.

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Laser: H. G. Wells coined the idea of a heat-ray in "The War of the Worlds" (1898). Albert Einstein later established the theoretical foundations for the laser in a scientific paper (1917).

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Videotelephony: "A Journey in Other Worlds" (1894) by John Jacob Astor IV first described the idea of a visual telegraph.

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Gesture-based interfaces: Gesture-based computing, where users interact with technology through hand gestures, became popularized by the movie "Minority Report" (2002). Inspiring real gesture control systems like motion-aware games such as the Nintendo "Wii" (2006) and Microsoft's "Kinect" (2010).

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Flying cars: Ian Fleming’s novel “Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang” (1964) envisioned flying cars, but first experiments were already made much earlier, like for example by Glenn Curtiss, with the “Autoplane“ (1917) shown at the Pan-American Aeronautical Exposition which was able to hop, but not fly.

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3D food printing: Food replicators like the meal machine in “The Jetsons” (1962) and "The Replicator" in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987) influenced the development of 3D food printing technology, like "Fab@Home" by the Cornell University (2006) or later "Foodini" by Natural Machines (2014).

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Hoverboard: The concept of a hoverboard was first described in the science-fiction novel "The Hole in the Zero" by M. K. Joseph (1967). Various attempts have been made to create hoverboards. Greg Henderson, CEO of the company, Arx Pax developed a hoverboard prototype using magnetic fields (2014).

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The internet: Mark Twain's 1898 short story "From the 'London Times' of 1904" described a worldwide network of "telelectroscopes" that allowed people to see and communicate with others around the globe using interconnected computer networks, similar to today's internet.

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Drone (UAV): Thomas Edison's "In the Deep of Time" (1896) contained one of the earliest mentions of drones in science-fiction. Raymond Z. Gallun's short story "The Scarab" (1936) popularized the concept of robotic bees. Frank Herbert's novel "Dune" featured a tiny "hunter seeker" drone (1965).

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3D printing: The idea was first described by Murray Leinster in his 1945 story "Things Pass By". In 1971, Johannes F Gottwald patented the "Liquid Metal Recorder", first describing rapid prototyping. Then in 1974, David E. H. Jones laid out the concept of 3D printing in the journal New Scientist.

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Self-driving cars: First experiments have been conducted on self-driving cars since 1939. Later Isaac Asimov predicted them in his 1964 essay about the World's Fair. The first self-sufficient and truly autonomous cars appeared in the 1980s, with Carnegie Mellon University's Navlab project in 1984.

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Voice-controlled computers: The computer HAL 9000 in Arthur C. Clarke's "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) could be controlled by voice commands, predating modern voice assistants like Apple's Siri.

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