India to order taxi aggregators like Uber, Ola to go electric

India to order taxi aggregators like Uber, Ola to go electric

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India plans to order taxi aggregators like Uber and Ola to convert 40% of their fleet of cars to electric by April 2026, according to a source and records of government meetings to discuss new rules for clean mobility. In a meeting in New Delhi on May 28, Niti Aayog officials and the ministries of road transport, power, renewable energy and steel, as well as the departments of heavy industries and trade, were among those recommending taxi operators in India gradually convert to electric. They also recommended that all new cars sold for commercial use should only be electric from April 2026, a change that would also apply to Uber and Ola, said the person who has direct knowledge of the matter but spoke on condition of anonymity.

Source: in.reuters.com

DNA from teeth leads to discovery of new group of ancient Siberians

DNA from teeth leads to discovery of new group of ancient Siberians

The finding was part of a wider study which also discovered 10,000 year-old human remains in another site in Siberia are genetically related to Native Americans — the first time such close genetic links have been discovered outside of the US. The international team of scientists, led by Professor Eske Willerslev who holds positions at St John’s College, University of Cambridge, and is director of The Lundbeck Foundation Centre for GeoGenetics at the University of Copenhagen, have named the new people group the ‘Ancient North Siberians’ and described their existence as ‘a significant part of human history’. The complex population dynamics during this period and genetic comparisons to other people groups, both ancient and recent, are documented as part of the wider study which analysed 34 samples of human genomes found in ancient archaeological sites across northern Siberia and central Russia.

Source: www.sciencedaily.com

Unwalled.Garden: souped-up RSS for P2P social apps

Unwalled.Garden: souped-up RSS for P2P social apps

Since starting on Beaker and Dat – an experimental p2p Web stack – I’ve been looking for an applications model which is powerful enough to run a variety of Web applications without relying on hosts. RSS could have become a more powerful network by expanding its content schemas to cover all social media. It could have then encouraged all users to setup their own sites and join an open social network.

Source: pfrazee.hashbase.io

Momentum is building to explore Venus

Momentum is building to explore Venus

Garvin, the chief scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is the principal investigator on a proposed mission to Venus that would drop a probe through its atmosphere. It is a crucial question now that astronomers have uncovered thousands of planets outside our Solar System — many of which are rocky worlds that orbit their stars at distances similar to those of Venus and Earth from the Sun. That is why Suzanne Smrekar, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has her eye on Venus — especially some spots that look eerily similar to locations on Earth where subduction is happening now.

Source: www.nature.com

Quantum transitions take time – the news is its experimental demonstration

Quantum transitions take time – the news is its experimental demonstration

There is a different kind of “smooth” transition that a system can make between the 0 and 1 states, and that is via a
superposition of the two states. So to demonstrate the non-instantaneous nature of a quantum transition you have to do two things: first, you need to actually catch a system
during a (typically very fast) transition and second, you need to come up with a way of getting the system to interfere with itself (or producing some other indirect effect that would not occur but for the existence of a superposition). They used a superconductor to produce a macroscopic quantum system that behaved like an atom in that it had a small number of discrete energy levels that it could transition between.

Source: blog.rongarret.info

The decline of the family has unleashed an epidemic of loneliness

The decline of the family has unleashed an epidemic of loneliness

The disruption of family life caused by the SDT in the U.S. has been rehearsed thousands of times, including by this writer, but the numbers still startle. As Verdery and Margolis sum up: “Evidence is accumulating that the legacy of divorce and remarriage has a long reach straining inter-generational relationships and suppressing the support that divorced parents, stepparents, and remarried biological parents might expect from their children in later life.” One study of low-income cohabiting parents found that, within three years, half the fathers had moved out; a considerable number would vanish from their kids’ lives entirely.

Source: www.city-journal.org

The Flasher of the Arts

The Flasher of the Arts

33xQuoted in Alden Whitman, Mies van der Rohe obituary, New York Times, August, 19, 1969; Also, Philip C. Johnson, Mies van der Rohe (New York, NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1947). Cram is not well remembered today, but he was probably the best-known American architect of the first third of the twentieth century—and, in 1926, the first architect to grace the cover of Time.66xA rare architectural monograph on the work of Cram is Ethan Anthony’s The Architecture of Ralph Adams Cram and His Office (New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 2007). Like most architects, Cram followed the long-standing principle of architectural propriety: A building should suit its purpose not only in terms of functionality but also in terms o

Source: hedgehogreview.com

Stadia Founder’s Edition

Stadia Founder’s Edition

Devices you add to your cart must have the same Preferred Care plan. Add or remove Preferred Care for this device to match what’s already in your cart, or buy this device in a separate order. You are now on Google Store .

Source: store.google.com

Quantum transitions take time. This is not news

Quantum transitions take time. This is not news

There is a different kind of “smooth” transition that a system can make between the 0 and 1 states, and that is via a
superposition of the two states. So to demonstrate the non-instantaneous nature of a quantum transition you have to do two things: first, you need to actually catch a system
during a (typically very fast) transition and second, you need to come up with a way of getting the system to interfere with itself (or producing some other indirect effect that would not occur but for the existence of a superposition). They used a superconductor to produce a macroscopic quantum system that behaved like an atom in that it had a small number of discrete energy levels that it could transition between.

Source: blog.rongarret.info

New Evidence Suggests Satoshi Nakamoto Is Paul Solotshi, Creator of TrueCrypt

New Evidence Suggests Satoshi Nakamoto Is Paul Solotshi, Creator of TrueCrypt

Paul Solotshi Calder Le Roux, a 46-year old criminal mastermind, is the creator of encryption software E4M and TrueCrypt (the cryptography encryption software Satoshi Nakamoto likely used to lock up his 1 million BTC), and author of an uncannily similar manifesto to the one in Bitcoin’s whitepaper in 1998. With the public release of Document 187, it’s now being suggested that Paul Le Roux may be Satoshi Nakamoto – and that Wright is in possession of encrypted hard drives containing Le Roux’s stash of the famously stationary 1 million bitcoins. As explained in Wikipedia:

At the end of Le Roux’s manifesto, he states:

Satoshi Nakamoto’s 1 million bitcoins are allegedly locked away in secure TrueCrypt volumes, encryption software that’s based on E4M’s code.

Source: www.investinblockchain.com