💡 Warp News #264
🤰 Next generation of weight loss drugs shows even better results. 💉 Measles vaccine has saved 94 million lives since 1974. 🔭 World's largest telescope takes shape in the Atacama Desert.
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🎥 Found a great studio for online talks
Last Friday, I delivered two talks from a nice and professional studio I found in Stockholm, Plus 46 Studio.
I've been somewhat resistant to giving online talks because I didn't have a really good technical solution. I've thought about getting my own equipment, but I'm so bad at troubleshooting tech when things go wrong. So I've been searching for a while for a good place to broadcast from.
This was the first real test and it went excellently. One was live to 400 people connected from various places in Sweden, and the other was a recording.
So if you want me as an online lecturer, I now have a really good solution.
🏭 How green is China?
A couple of readers have reached out with a reasonable point. While last week's news about China's coal power reaching historically low share of electricity production is true, it can be misleading. The total amount of coal power in China is actually increasing, but solar, wind, and other energy sources are increasing more.
So the news might make China appear greener than it really is. Thanks for pointing that out!
⚰️ The end is near for today's internet search
I forgot to link to my observation last week about how the googling we've grown accustomed to is near death. But now I've done it. 🙂
Mathias Sundin
The Angry Optimist
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📽️ Filmmakers should become centaurs
Peter Dalle, a Swedish film legend, is right about human intelligence but wrong about artificial intelligence.
⚰️ The end is near for today's internet search
RIP internet search based on a list of links.
💡 Fact-based optimistic news of the week
🎮 Create your own game worlds directly from text with new AI model
Google Deepmind has developed Genie 2, an AI that transforms text descriptions into fully playable 3D worlds. The technology opens new possibilities for game developers to quickly test and create game concepts.
🔭 World's largest telescope takes shape in the Atacama Desert
ELT will be the world's largest optical telescope with a mirror of 39.3 meters in diameter that collects 100 million times more light than a human eye. The telescope will be able to take 16 times sharper images than the Hubble telescope and have 250 times greater light-gathering capacity.
💉 Measles vaccine has saved 94 million lives since 1974
Measles vaccines have saved 94 million lives globally since 1974, of which 92 million were children. The measles vaccine has saved more lives than any other childhood vaccine in the last 50 years.
🧠 New technology revives brain several hours after death
Yale researchers have managed to restore basic cellular functions in a pig brain four hours after death using a specially developed perfusion machine. The technique is now being tested on human brains to develop better treatments for neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
👂 New AI system translates speech and text in real time across 100 languages
Meta's new AI model can translate between 101 spoken languages and 96 written languages directly. Using streaming-based processing, the model starts translating speech while it is still being received, minimizing delays. This enables real-time translation delivery.
🤰 Next generation of weight loss drugs shows even better results
New drugs under development against obesity show weight reductions of up to 22 percent of body weight after 48 weeks of treatment. The drug retatrutide, which combines three appetite-regulating hormones, shows the best results so far in clinical trials.
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