Archive for the ‘habitats’ category: Page 3
Mar 10, 2024
MIT’s dress takes sustainable fashion to the next level
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: habitats, sustainability
Imagine a dress that doesn’t just fit you perfectly – it morphs along with your style, body, and the shifting trends of the season. It sounds futuristic, but this ‘smart’ garment exists thanks to a collaboration between textile innovators at MIT and a forward-thinking fashion house. It makes sustainable fashion more innovative.
Traditionally, bespoke tailoring—making clothes to a customer’s measurements—was the only way to ensure a perfect fit for one’s body. However, this option was too expensive for most people. A new invention of active fibers and innovative knitting processes is making custom clothing more accessible and eco-friendly.
Mar 10, 2024
The Dream of Building an Underground City on Mars (Sci-Fi Documentary)
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in categories: education, environmental, habitats, robotics/AI, space
This is a sci-fi documentary, looking at what it takes to build an underground city on Mars. The choice to go underground is for protection, from the growing storm radiation that rains down on the surface every day. And to further advance the Mars colonization efforts.
Where will the materials to build the city come from? How will the crater be covered to protect the inhabitants? And what will it feel like to live in this city, that is in a hole in the ground?
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Feb 29, 2024
Humanoid robot-maker Figure partners with OpenAI and gets backing from Jeff Bezos
Posted by Josh Seeherman in categories: finance, habitats, robotics/AI
Why do I find this so alarming?
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is looking to fuse its artificial intelligence systems into the bodies of humanoid robots as part of a new deal with robotics startup Figure.
Sunnyvale, California-based Figure announced the partnership Thursday along with $675 million in venture capital funding from a group that includes Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as well as Microsoft, chipmaker Nvidia and the startup-funding divisions of Intel and OpenAI.
Feb 27, 2024
Gravitational anomalies reveal seamount 3 times the height of world’s tallest building
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: habitats
Researchers found and mapped four seamounts in the deep sea off the coast of Peru and Chile. The tallest of these new peaks rises around 1.5 miles above the seafloor.
Feb 25, 2024
Switzerland will be home to the world’s tallest 3D-printed building
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: habitats
100-feet tall, Tor Alva will likely be the world’s tallest building by the end of 2024.
Switzerland, home to the tallest summit in Europe — Jungrau, will also be home to one of the world’s tallest 3D-printed structures.
Feb 22, 2024
Tesla dealership building in Golden Valley sells for $23.7M
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: habitats
Drake Motor Partners developed the dealership last year and now sold it for $23.7 million.
Feb 20, 2024
National Homeless Facts and Statistics
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: biotech/medical, habitats
1.6 billion people globally are homeless.
Homelessness has been a growing issue in the United States for decades — it affects millions of people each year. Despite efforts to address the problem, the number of individuals experiencing homelessness continues to rise, with the COVID-19 pandemic and an ongoing lack of affordable housing exacerbating an already difficult situation.
Feb 18, 2024
Leaking underground propane tank found at Virginia home before deadly house explosion
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: habitats
Authorities in Virginia are investigating the cause of a house explosion and fire that killed one firefighter, injured 10 others and leveled a home in a Washington, D.C., suburb.
Audio samples for the paper “BASE TTS: Lessons from building a billion-parameter text-to-speech model on 100K hours of data”
Abstract: We introduce a text-to-speech (TTS) model called BASE TTS, which stands for Big Adaptive Streamable TTS with Emergent abilities. BASE TTS is the largest TTS model to-date, trained on 100K hours of public domain speech data, achieving a new state-of-the-art in speech naturalness. It deploys a 1-billion-parameter autoregressive Transformer that converts raw texts into discrete codes (“speechcodes”) followed by a convolution-based decoder which converts these speechcodes into waveforms in an incremental, streamable manner. Further, our speechcodes are built using a novel speech tokenization technique that features speaker ID disentanglement and compression with byte-pair encoding. Echoing the widely-reported “emergent abilities” of large language models when trained on increasing volume of data, we show that BASE TTS variants built with 10K+ hours and 500M+ parameters begin to demonstrate natural prosody on textually complex sentences.
