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Planetary scientist Jonathan I. Lunine, the David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences and chair of the astronomy department in the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell, has been appointed chief scientist of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory: #JPL

Raiders' Andrus Peat wanted a fresh start amid exit from Saints https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_andrus_peat_wanted_a_fresh_start_amid_exit_from_saints/s1_14819_40453352

Raiders' Andrus Peat wanted a fresh start amid exit from Saints
Andrus Peat spent nine seasons with the Saints, the last four attached to a contract he signed as a free agent in 2020. Peat played out what became a four-year deal and signed a one-year, $2M deal with the Raiders shortly after the draft. The Saints are believed to have shown interest in another Peat contract, but NewOrleans.football’s Nick Underhill writes he preferred a fresh start elsewhere. Peat figures to vie for a starting job in Las Vegas, while New Orleans is holding a competition to …

Robots Have Been Seen and Not Heard: Effects of Consequential Sounds on Human-Perception of Robots
Aimee Allen (Monash University - Australia), Tom Drummond (University of Melbourne - Australia), Dana Kulic (Monash University - Australia)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02938

Robots Have Been Seen and Not Heard: Effects of Consequential Sounds on Human-Perception of Robots
Many people expect robots to move fairly quietly, or make pleasant "beep boop" sounds or jingles similar to what they have observed in videos of robots. Unfortunately, this expectation of quietness does not match reality, as robots make machine sounds, known as 'consequential sounds', as they move and operate. As robots become more prevalent within society, understanding the sounds produced by robots and how these sounds are perceived by people is becoming increasingly important for positive hu…

Scientists develop ultra-thin battery for smart contact lenses that could be charged by tears
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/06/scientists-develop-ultra-thin-battery-that-could-be-charged-by-tears.html

"New study finds Earth warming at record rate, but no evidence of climate change accelerating"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Earth warming at record rate, but no evidence of climate change accelerating
Top scientists calculate that the rate Earth is warming hit an all-time high in 2023 with 92% of last year’s surprising record-shattering heat caused by humans. A group of 57 international scientists examining what’s behind last year’s deadly burst of heat say that even with a faster warming rate they don’t see evidence of significant acceleration in human-caused climate change beyond increased fossil fuel burning. Last year’s record temperatures were so unusual that scientists have b…

Update from Ukraine | Game Changer! France sends Mirage fighter jets to Ukraine. Ruzzia loses skies: https://benborges.xyz/2024/06/07/update-from-ukraine.html

Sci-fi author Martha Wells, author of the Murderbot series, on what a machine intelligence might want | New Scientist
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2432947-sci-fi-author-martha-wells-on-what-a-machine-intell…

Sci-fi author Martha Wells on what a machine intelligence might want
The author of All Systems Red, the latest pick for the New Scientist Book Club, on why her novella takes on the thorny topic of what a machine intelligence might do, if it could make its own choices

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Scientists develop ultra-thin #battery for #smart contact lenses that could be charged by tears

Robots Have Been Seen and Not Heard: Effects of Consequential Sounds on Human-Perception of Robots
Aimee Allen (Monash University - Australia), Tom Drummond (University of Melbourne - Australia), Dana Kulic (Monash University - Australia)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02938

Robots Have Been Seen and Not Heard: Effects of Consequential Sounds on Human-Perception of Robots
Many people expect robots to move fairly quietly, or make pleasant "beep boop" sounds or jingles similar to what they have observed in videos of robots. Unfortunately, this expectation of quietness does not match reality, as robots make machine sounds, known as 'consequential sounds', as they move and operate. As robots become more prevalent within society, understanding the sounds produced by robots and how these sounds are perceived by people is becoming increasingly important for positive hu…