May 4, 2026

05 Sci-Tech

A skyscraper hanging from an asteroid in the sky… will soon become a reality | ArabiaWeather– www.arabiaweather.com

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This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

ArabiaWeather – Are you bored with high-rise towers and skyscrapers? Are you looking for a new “trend” in the world of design? Then, you should learn about the latest building concept that may turn the tables upside down.

The Analemma Tower project is an example of this concept, with Clouds Architecture Office developing a unique plan for a skyscraper suspended from an asteroid above New York City.

According to the description on the Clouds website, the “Analemma Tower” aims to be the tallest building in the world ever, as it exploits the growing desire for isolation and constant mobility. Thanks to the use of a planetary-like design, this tower allows a unique experience between space and New York City, through the use of Electromagnetic elevator.

After 2nd human bird flu case, risk still low– www.thefencepost.com

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After the Michigan state government announced Wednesday that a dairy farmworker had been diagnosed with bird flu, Biden administration officials told reporters that the risk to humans is still low, but that efforts to monitor for bird flu and to curb it are increasing.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services announced that a case of influenza A (H5) virus was identified in a Michigan farmworker who had regular exposure to livestock infected with influenza A (H5).
The only other case this year was in Texas.
A Health and Human Services Department official said the discovery of the case was an example of “public health in action” because the worker was already being monitored.
The HHS official said the situation around bird flu “is quickly evolving,” but that the risk to humans is still low. A Food and Drug Administration official said the milk supply is still safe.
Eric Deeble, a USDA official, said that USDA is providing additional tools to keep cow herds healthy, including biosecurity support and paying producers for veterinary costs associated with tests. USDA is working on a way to use the Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees and Farm-Raised Fish program to pay farmers for the losses due to milk that has not been produced, Deeble said.

Baidu’s CEO says AI tech not improving fast enough; calls for new format to boost reach– seekingalpha.com

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Baidu’s (NASDAQ:BIDU) Co-founder, Chairman and CEO Robin Li said that AI technology is not improving fast enough, when talking at an event in France of his desire to see the pace of AI improve.

“[The] fear is that the AI technology

Nanostrings Open the Door to Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena– www.azonano.com

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Researchers at TU Delft and Brown University have created string-like resonators that can vibrate longer at room temperature than any previously known solid-state device, reaching what is now only possible at absolute zero temperatures. The results were reported in Nature Communications.

Their research pushes the boundaries of nanotechnology and machine learning, producing some of the world’s most sensitive mechanical sensors.

The newly generated nanostrings have the best mechanical quality factors ever reported for any clamping object in room temperature conditions, in this instance clamped to a microchip. This makes the technique appealing for incorporation into current microchip platforms.

Mechanical quality factors represent how well energy is retained in a vibrating object. These strings are specially designed to trap vibrations, preventing their energy from leaking out.

Poll finds wide support among NYers for banning social media algorithms for children– www.northcountrypublicradio.org

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May 22, 2024 —

As the New York state legislative session draws to a close, a new poll finds support for several items before the Senate and Assembly, including protecting children from harmful algorithms on social media. Gov. Kathy Hochul says she’s making the issue a top priority.

Karen DeWittPoll finds wide support among NYers for banning social media algorithms for children

AI may fill gap for young people seeking peer advice– www.futurity.org

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Young people frequently use the internet to seek support from their friends but don’t always get helpful responses. Recent advances in AI technology may be able to help.

Young people find support from AI-generated responses on topics ranging from relationships to physical health. When it comes to sensitive topics, such as suicidal thoughts, however, they prefer human responses, according to a new study.

For decades, social media has increasingly become young people’s main method of peer support exchange. Researchers sought to understand when and how AI can facilitate and assist in such exchanges.

 

U.S. Sues to Break Up Ticketmaster Owner, Live Nation– www.nytimes.com

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The Justice Department on Thursday sued Live Nation Entertainment, the concert giant that owns Ticketmaster, asking a court to break up the company over claims it illegally maintained a monopoly in the live entertainment industry.

In the lawsuit, which is joined by 29 states and the District of Columbia, the government accuses Live Nation of dominating the industry by locking venues into exclusive ticketing contracts, pressuring artists to use its services and threatening its rivals with financial retribution.

GM Bets Big On Autonomous Vehicles Despite Regulatory Hurdles– finimize.com

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What’s going on here?

General Motors’ CEO Mary Barra threw her weight behind the push for autonomous vehicles at a Detroit Economic Club event on May 23, 2024.

What does this mean?

Barra’s endorsement comes as autonomous vehicle technology faces a critical mass of regulatory scrutiny following several high-profile accidents. Companies argue that self-driving cars, by eliminating human errors – responsible for 90% of road accidents – will ultimately be safer than traditional vehicles. These advances hinge on sophisticated AI and machine learning systems capable of mitigating human shortcomings like impairment and fatigue. Barra also underscored the competitive edge needed to confront robust global brands, especially from China, and called for governments to ensure fair competition.

Truth Social (NASDAQ:DJT) Reveals Earnings Flop, Investors Cheer Anyway– www.tipranks.com

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So, while we’ve been watching social media companyTruth Social (NASDAQ:DJT) pretty closely over the last several weeks, we’ve often been left stymied as to why its share price moves in the direction it does. Announcements that should be good news have little effect, while the price will race up or down on virtually nothing happening. Today, Truth Social rolled out its earnings, and despite a hefty loss, share prices rose fractionally in the closing minutes of Wednesday’s trading.

The centerpiece of the report featured a loss of $327.6 million for the first quarter. That is significantly more than the losses posted this time last year when it lost just $210,300. Those massive losses were essentially connected to Truth Social’s initial public offering.

Texas Judge Ships Interactive Charts Patent Suit to California– news.bloomberglaw.com

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The factors for relocating a lawsuit weigh heavily in favor of Tableau Software LLC, a Texas judge ruled in granting the company’s motion to transfer the patent infringement lawsuit brought by iCharts LLC to California.

Tableau established that it had a regular place of business and employees in San Francisco, the “vast majority” of the relevant evidence is in California, and the Northern District of California would be more convenient for witnesses, Judge Robert Pitman said in a Tuesday order in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas.

Price war in China’s AI field expanded as Alibaba Cloud and Baidu have drastically reduced model prices · TechNode– technode.com

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Alibaba Cloud gave China’s AI industry a fresh shock on Tuesday after it announced a price cut of up to 97%, making RMB 1 ($0.14) to handle an input as large as two million tokens. The sudden notice comes just days after TikTok owner ByteDance promised an ultra-low-cost model, which the company claimed can process 2 million Chinese characters under RMB 1, for corporate customers. Meanwhile, Baidu’s following announcement of its plan to open two main models – the entry-level ERNIE Lite and high-performance ERNIE Speed for free on Tuesday afternoon, further signals an escalated price war has begun aims to scramble for enterprises. [TechNode reporting]

Trump claims Vladimir Putin ready to THIS huge thing for him if elected: ‘We will be paying nothing’– www.hindustantimes.com

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As US Presidential elections are inching closer, former President Donald Trump on Thursday claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin is willing to do one major thing for him.

Taking to his social media platform Truth Social, Trump stated that he will use his strong ties with Putin to release Wall Street journalist Evan Gershkovich from a Russian jail.

Swedish army pursues four-fold artillery growth, including rocket artillery– www.army-technology.com

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At Future Artillery 2024 in Paris, Swedish Army Colonel Stephan Sjöberg discussed the growth and recovery of the Swedish artillery, which has ambitious plans to expand this function as part of the lastest defence bill.

“For decades of international operations, which was the focus for the Swedish army,” says Sjöberg, “the artillery was a function that was not needed, not asked for, and going from [counter-insurgency] operations in Afghanistan and Mali, to high intensity warfare and Nato conflict is a challenging journey for the artillery. The artillery is the function is that is growing the most in the defence bills.”

2024 will see the next Swedish defence bill, likely to take on considerations identified from Ukraine, as well as Sweden’s new membership in Nato, which began on 7 March, 2024. “This means a completely different a new landscape for Sweden,” says Sjöberg. On 26 April, 2024, Sweden submitted its final report on the development of its military defence, with proposals to gradually increase defence funding from the  2025, to reach Skr52.8bn ($4.9bn) by 2030.

Fires Burning Across Canada Are Already Impacting U.S. Air Quality– www.discovermagazine.com

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Dozens of wildfires are burning across Canada in May 2024 and sending unhealthy smoke blowing into the northern U.S. again. At the same time, the southeastern U.S. is getting smoke from Mexico, where drought conditions have been fueling fires.

Last year, Canada’s record 2023 wildfire season introduced millions of Americans across the Midwest and northeastern states to the health hazards of wildfire smoke, with air quality alerts that reached levels never seen there before.

Professional baseball games were postponed and the skies in New York City turned orange with haze, at times exposing millions of people to the worst air quality in the world. In some regions, the smoke hung on for days.

Gloom and Doom Warnings About Climate Change Do Not Work– scitechdaily.com

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Gloom and doom warnings about climate change are often ineffective, as evidenced by a global survey involving 59,000 participants from 63 countries. Researchers developed an app to tailor climate change messages effectively, finding that scare tactics can sometimes backfire, especially in places like Norway where such approaches are less effective compared to more constructive messages.

To effectively communicate about climate change and global warming, it’s crucial to tailor your message to suit your target audience and your goals. Researchers have created an app designed to assist individuals keen on raising awareness about climate issues. This tool aims to maximize support, whether the users are researchers, politicians, decision-makers, or legislators.

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Elon Musk’s First Neuralink Patient Becoming Streaming Star

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Neuralink Patient Looks To Monetize Himself On Social Media, Gets Elon Musk’s Support For Streaming, Raising Money Through X

The first Neuralink patient has passed the 100-day milestone since the Elon Musk founded company’s chip was implanted in his brain.

Noland Arbaugh is now ready to begin earning money or raising money as his story grows in popularity.

What Happened: Arbaugh, who was previously the anonymous Neuralink patient, is now publicly known and has done a series of interviews with Bloomberg, “Good Morning America,” and several social media influencers.

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Potential U.S. TikTok Buyer Wants to Decentralize the App

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U.S Billionaire Frank McCourt has thrown his hat into the “buy TikTok from the CCP” ring. The billionaire is hoping to turn TikTok into a decentralized app that would be hosted on his decentralized platform Polkadot.

From the press release announcing the bid: … Project Liberty is organizing a bid to acquire the popular social media platform TikTok in the U.S., with the goal of placing people and data empowerment at the center of the platform’s design and purpose… this bid for TikTok offers an innovative, alternative vision for the platform’s infrastructure – one that allows people to reclaim agency over their digital identities and data by proposing to migrate the platform to a new digital open-source protocol.

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  • Billionaire Frank McCourt is among the parties who have put in a bid for TikTok in the US, and there are reports that he could decentralize the social media giant on Polkadot.
  • McCourt is an outspoken critic of Big Tech and has been calling for users to own their data for years, lending credence to the reports about a big shift in TikTok America’s model.

The future of TikTok in the US could be decentralized, and Polkadot is leading the way to become the network that anchors the social media app with 170 million American users.

Frank McCourt, the real estate billionaire renowned as the former owner of Major League Baseball franchise LA Dodgers, is among the parties interested in purchasing the American operations of the Chinese company. TikTok has been forced into a sale by the Biden administration, which has accused the company of cannibalizing Americans’ data for the Chinese government. It’s not the first attempt to sell off the company to American owners, with a previous push by the Trump administration falling through.

McCourt is leading a consortium of individuals and corporations under his Project Liberty umbrella. He has brought on Guggenheim Securities as the investment bank and Kirkland Ellis as the law firm that will take charge of the deal. He says he has been in talks with several interested parties to partner up on the sale, hinting that participation could be open to the public.

An outspoken critic of the data silo model of Big Tech, McCourt told one news outlet that he intends to rebuild the  social media platform as “a new and better version of the internet where individuals are respected, and they own and control their identity and their data.”

It’s Time to Weed Out China From Our Patent System– www.thedefensepost.com

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In an election year, bipartisan issues are hard to come by. However, protecting American innovation from foreign threats, like those posed by China, is a cause policymakers from all political parties should align behind.

 

Many of China’s damaging practices — like stealing Americans’ personal information and providing domestic firms massive subsidies to dominate global markets — are becoming more obvious.

But others are sleeper issues that need more attention to ensure we prevent serious harm to our technology future.

Trump becomes first major US presidential candidate to accept crypto donations | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com

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On Tuesday, Donald Trump for President 2024 announced that it would be accepting donations made with cryptocurrencies for the first time, making him the only major party candidate to do so.

The former president’s campaign touted the move as evidence of his commitment to stay up to date with the ever-changing financial landscape.

“This addition to President Trump’s already groundbreaking digital fundraising operation marks the first time a major party Presidential nominee has embraced cryptocurrency for donations,”the campaign wrote in a press release, noting that, “contribution limits and disclosure requirements for crypto donations will follow Federal Election Commission regulations.”

Nanorobots for treating cancer have moved from theory to practise– www.blacklistednews.com

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DNA origami nanorobots use long DNA chains that are folded into specific shapes, creating tiny containers.  They can recognise specific cell types using molecules called aptamers.  Once they reach their target cells, they can deliver payloads such as drug molecules.

“In essence, the approach co-opts a number of strategies of our immune systems, with the robots playing the role of white blood cells that hunt down problematic cells and destroy them,” the BBC reported in 2012.

The BBC was reporting on laboratory tests that had been conducted by researchers at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University.

Harvard’s DNA nanorobot is a clam-like bot that can release its drug payload only when it reaches and identifies its target, cancer cells.

Scientists grow diamonds from scratch in 15 minutes thanks to groundbreaking new process– www.livescience.com

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Scientists have used a new technique to synthesize diamonds at normal, atmospheric pressure and without a starter gem, which could make the precious gemstones much easier to grow in the lab.

Natural diamonds form in Earth’s mantle, the molten zone buried hundreds of miles beneath the planet’s surface. The process takes place under tremendous pressures of several gigapascals and scorching temperatures exceeding 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit (1,500 degrees Celsius).

Similar conditions are employed in the method currently used to synthesize 99% of all artificially created diamonds. Called high-pressure and high-temperature (HPHT) growth, this method uses these extreme settings to coax carbon dissolved in liquid metals, like iron, to convert it to diamond around a small seed, or starter diamond.

Europe sets benchmark for rest of the world with landmark AI laws – Reuters– www.reuters.com

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BRUSSELS, May 21 (Reuters) – Europe’s landmark rules on artificial intelligence will enter into force next month after EU countries endorsed on Tuesday a political deal reached in December, setting a potential global benchmark for a technology used in business and everyday life.
The European Union’s AI Act is more comprehensive than the United States’ light-touch voluntary compliance approach while China’s approach aims to maintain social stability and state control.

X users gets delightful news: CEO Elon Musk allows posting of full length videos and monetization – Telugu News– www.indiaglitz.com

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Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, recently made an exciting announcement about the platform X (formerly known as Twitter). Subscribers now have the option to upload podcasts, TV shows, or movies and monetize their content.

In a response to his sister Tosca Musk, co-founder of the streaming service Passionflix, Elon highlighted that users can now upload their full-length films to X. He encouraged creators to share their TV shows, movies, or podcasts on the platform and start earning from subscriptions.This move, announced by Musk himself, aims to transform X into a multi-faceted content platform, rivaling established streaming giants like Netflix.

Tosca expressed her joy at the prospect of people watching her movies on X. Additionally, a user suggested that X should allow films to be posted with a one-time fee, giving viewers the option to buy the movie without a subscription. This proposal was seen as a potential transformation for X into a true movie platform. Some users also suggested necessary improvements for streaming on the platform.