Technology and Science Highlights of the Week #14 June 2024
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Google is starting to roll out a new feature in the Chrome mobile browser on Android called Listen to this page. As the name suggests, it can read aloud a web page opened in a browser.
This feature has playback controls similar to those found in music or podcast players. This allows you to pause, change reading speed, fast forward, or skip forward or backward 10 seconds at a time.
It is also possible to change the voice used to read the text, as well as the language. The Listen to this page feature currently supports several languages, including Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, English, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
Chatbots powered by ChatGPT and Google Gemini often give meaningless answers to the simplest questions, although they sound quite plausible. AI researchers call these false versions hallucinations. To catch a neural network in a lie, scientists propose using another neural network.
Scientists at the University of Nottingham have used a 3D printer to create a vacuum system to “trap” dark matter. Physicists will use it in a new experiment to reduce the density of a gas and then add ultra-cold lithium atoms to it. In this way, they will try to detect blast walls.
The fashion of the future is already with us: a gelatin T-shirt can be worn several times, and when you get tired of it, dissolve it and make something new. Engineers and designers from the ATLAS Institute at the University of Colorado in Boulder (USA) have created a machine that spins textile fibers from biomaterials, such as gelatin. The resulting biofibers feel a little like flax and dissolve in hot water in about an hour.
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it is read that it is the Moon that helps make life on Earth possible and maintain it for such a long time. Among the moons in our solar system, Earth's natural satellite is the fifth largest. The diameter of the Moon is about a quarter of the diameter of the Earth, and its mass is about 1.2% of the Earth's. The solar system's four natural satellites, larger than the Moon, orbit the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn, the satellites tiny compared to their planets.
This means that the Moon has a different influence on the Earth. The Moon stabilizes the tilt of the Earth's orbit, which helps maintain climate stability. It creates tides, which may have played a role in the formation of nucleic acids and life. The Moon most likely even helps the Earth maintain a protective magnetosphere.
Australia has tested its first laser weapon that can shoot down drones with pinpoint accuracy. The corresponding tests took place in May at one of the army training grounds.
According to the Australian Defense Force (ADF), Fractl's portable high-energy laser can track objects the size of a 10-cent coin moving 1 km away at 100 km/h. The system has enough power to burn through steel. Fractl was considered the world's most powerful portable high-energy laser.
A new study confirms that the Earth's inner core has been spinning slower than usual since 2010. The mysterious "backward motion" could also lead to a change in the overall rotation of the planet, which could result in an increase in the length of the day.
If the inner core's rotation continues to slow, its gravitational pull could cause our planet's outer layers to spin slightly slower, changing the length of the day. However, the change will be small, on the order of thousandths of a second. There is no need to change your clocks or calendars, especially if it is only a temporary change.
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