The time has finally come to announce the five finalists of the Startup Battlefield. It all started earlier this year when the TechCrunch editorial team selected 200 companies from thousands that applied. From there, the team then chose the 20 finalists who pitched this week onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 to investor judges and packed…
Last month, the MIT Office of Graduate Education celebrated National Student Parent Month with features on four MIT graduate student parents. These students’ professional backgrounds, experiences, and years at MIT highlight aspects of diversity in our student parent population. Diana Grass is one of MIT’s most involved graduate student parents. Grass is a third-year PhD…
What Is Automatic Laser Welding Machine? Automatic laser welding machine is a type of computer numberical controlled laser welder to do automatic or semi-automatic butt welding, sealing welding, spot welding, overlap welding, and realize the welding of complex plane straight lines, arcs and arbitrary trajectories. A CNC laser welding machine is an automated high-precision fiber…
The KNS3-KNSTH1-KNSTH2 complex acts as a cargo receptor for the transport of boric acid channels from the endoplasmic reticulum to the plasma membrane. Credit: Osaka Metropolitan University Botanists have come to understand the channels and transporters involved in the uptake and transport of nutrients, yet how are they positioned where they need to be? For…
Tel Aviv University before a talk from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in June 2023 REUTERS/Amir Cohen SupremacyParmy Olson (Macmillan Business (UK); St Martin’s Press (US)) For most people, ChatGPT appeared to materalise out of thin air. Within weeks of OpenAI’s quiet launch of the AI chatbot, it had become the fastest-growing app of all time…
AMD’s Q3 2024 earnings call today wasn’t bullish on gaming revenue overall, but it did confirm a hot new rumor on GPUs — specifically, the launch of AMD’s next-gen RDNA 4 parts early next year. “We are on track to launch the first RDNA4 GPUs in early 2025,” said AMD CEO Lisa Su, and the…
Many animals, including humans, have developed a taste for alcohol in some form, but excessive consumption often leads to adverse health effects. One exception is the Oriental wasp. According to a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, these wasps can guzzle seemingly unlimited amounts of ethanol regularly and at…
The MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing has announced the launch of a new program to support postdocs conducting research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and particular disciplines. The Tayebati Postdoctoral Fellowship Program will focus on AI for addressing the most challenging problems in select scientific research areas, and on AI for music…
Proposed model of LpHsfA2-mediated heat tolerance. Due to the allelic variation of LpHsfA2 promoter, the regulation of downstream genes LpHSP18.2 and LpAPX1. Credit: Journal of Integrative Plant Biology (2024). DOI: 10.1111/jipb.13789 Perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.), widely cultivated in the cool-season for forage supply and turfgrass, is extremely susceptible to high temperatures. A recent study…
Readers of those other sites may not care much about font size and column widths. “40-character line lengths? In 18-point Comic Sans? I love it!” they say. But not you, because you are an Ars reader. And Ars readers are discerning. They have feelings about concepts like “information density.” And we want those feelings to…
