What’s News for January 25th? We are bouncing around the world to find you some of the most interesting news of today, in addition we have searched for the news others missed!
1. A look at consciousness through the lens of epidemiology. https://meltingasphalt.com/consciousness-an-outside-view/
2. Single Cell Genomics Reveals Viruses Consumed by Marine Protists https://www.frontiersin.org/…/fmicb.2020.524828/full
3. Black silicon photodetector breaks the 100% efficiency limit. One incoming photon generates approximately 1.3 electrons. [Published: 13.8.2020] https://www.aalto.fi/…/black-silicon-photodetector…
4. The Nanotechnology Revolution Is Here–We Just Haven’t Noticed Yet: “The nanotechnology revolution is quietly underway, with scientists harnessing microchip fabrication technology to create nanoscale devices. For example, Resonant makes microelectromechanical systems incorporated into smartphones to filter radio interference via vibrating elements. Moreover, another nanomachine, the metalens, a thin and virtually flat lens covered with thousands of silicon fibers, can bend light in ways that used to require multiple conventional lenses; applications include three-dimensional (3D) smartphone sensors, which metalens maker Metalenz will produce with semiconductor manufacturer STMicroelectronics. Meanwhile, the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Andrei Fedorov and colleagues used electron beams to etch patterns in two-dimensional materials, or to stack structures made of carbon atoms atop them.” https://www.wsj.com/…/the-nanotechnology-revolution-is… [archived version: https://archive.fo/iah0J]
5. Harvesting renewable energy from Earth’s mid-infrared emissions https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/02/26/1402036111
6. “Turning back time with epigenetic clocks. If biological ageing can be slowed, halted or rewound, are the machine-learning algorithms the best way to measure it? Some experts are unconvinced.” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00077-8
7. Mathematical theory of deep learning: Can we do it, in addition, should we do it? https://youtu.be/3uRD_lg701k
8. Instant Neural Graphics Primitives with a Multiresolution Hash Encoding (Training a NeRF takes 5 seconds!) https://nvlabs.github.io/…/assets/mueller2022instant.pdf
9. Democrats Push to Revive $250 Billion Tech Investment Bill to Counter China [WSJ] https://archive.fo/HzprQ
10. Lastly, their DNA Hides a Warning, but They Don’t Want to Know What It Says — Some volunteers for biobanks, which collect genetic information to study health across populations, have been surprised to be informed they carry risky mutations. [NYT] https://archive.fo/onmKL
