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News of the week selected by Impactscool – January 28th, 2019

28 January 2019 | Written by La redazione

The most important news about future and technology selected by Impactscool team

Artificial intelligence is spreading in companies

Artificial intelligence is increasingly entering companies. According to a survey by the Gartner company, the number of companies that use artificial intelligence has grown by 270% in the last four years and has tripled in the past 12 months.

According to the study this increase is linked to the evolution and maturation of this technology, which has led companies to implement it in many sectors.

 

Facebook and Airbus are working on a solar powered drone

Facebook and Airbus would be working on a solar-powered drone. The well-known social network and the aeronautics giant, according to a document shown by the German newspaper NetzPolitik, would have already tested the drone in Australia in the last months of 2018.

This is not an absolute novelty for Facebook, which in the past had already launched (and then abounded) the project “Aquila”: a drone powered by solar energy that was supposed to bring internet connection to the places of the Earth that still don’t have one. The new project could have the same goal.

 

Genetics: five sick monkeys are cloned in China

In China, for the first time, sick animals have been cloned. They are 5 sleepless monkeys, which will be used to study diseases so far impossible to reproduce in the laboratory, from insomnia to some neurodegenerative diseases.

The five animals are the result of two experiments: in the first the donor monkeys have been genetically modified, thanks to the Crispr-Cas9 technique. In the second, instead, the cells taken from the “modified” animals have been used to clone monkeys of the same genetic defect.

 

Pollution makes us less happy

Do you feel sad today? The fault could also be pollution. A study conducted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, in collaboration with the University of Beijing, in fact, states that air pollution is not only harmful to health but also to the emotional well-being of people, with repercussions on their social life and behavior.

The researchers used data on the pollution of 144 Chinese cities and, at the same time, monitored the general happiness of the inhabitants of these urban areas, observing the mood through 210 million messages from China’s largest microblogging platform, Sina Weibo. Thus, they found a correlation between pollution and levels of unhappiness.

 

Innovations for space exploration: ESA call for proposals

The future of space exploration passes from the Moon. The European Space Agency, ESA, has published a plan that provides a prize of 500,000 euros for innovations useful for space exploration.

The aim is to encourage European companies to develop technologies to build lunar bases built with materials extracted from the Moon, also thanks to 3D printing. It will be in our satellite, in fact, the launching pad of the adventure of humanity on Mars.

 

Artificial falling stars: the project of a Japanese startup

The Japanese startup Astro Live Experience has just launched a prototype satellite capable of producing artificial falling stars. In fact, it was created to expel a load of small metal pieces in the low earth orbit, which, burning in the atmosphere, give rise to an artificial meteor shower.

The difficulties are not lacking, but the team’s goal is to have a functioning, operational and safe satellite by 2020. The inaugural show, in fact, is scheduled for the 75th anniversary of the atomic bomb release on Hiroshima.

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