💡 Warp News #281
👩💻 ChatGPT uses less energy than an hour of Netflix. 🧬 Baby saved by the world’s first personalized CRISPR treatment. 🍾 ESS accelerator starts with 542 meters proton beam.
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Green Party 💚 AI
It was fun to give a talk on AI to the Green Party's parliamentary group and office.
I'm especially happy when our political leaders show an interest in new technology.
The invitation to discuss AI with the Liberal Party's equivalent group (the party I once represented in parliament) must have gotten lost in the mail, but I'm not bitter!
Mathias Sundin
The Angry Optimist
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💡 Fact-based optimistic news of the week
🍾 ESS accelerator starts with 542 meters proton beam
For the first time, protons have been accelerated all the way from the ion source to the beam dump, a distance of 542.5 meters in the 600-meter-long accelerator tunnel. ESS will be the world's most powerful neutron source and as a giant microscope for studying various materials.
🔋 Researchers are developing liquid batteries that can be printed in any shape: "Like toothpaste"
Researchers have created batteries with electrodes in liquid form that can be 3D-printed without losing capacity. The battery can be stretched to double its length and has been tested through 500 charging cycles without performance loss.
🧬 Baby saved by the world’s first personalized CRISPR treatment
A nine and a half month old boy received the world's first custom gene editing treatment for his rare genetic disease CPS1 deficiency. The treatment fixed the boy's specific mutation and he can now eat normal amounts of protein without getting dangerous ammonia levels in his blood.
💉 Study for world's first tuberculosis vaccine in 100 years reaches recruitment target earlier than expected
The clinical trial of potentially first new tuberculosis vaccine in a century has successfully recruited all 20,000 participants several months earlier than planned. The vaccine showed 50% effectiveness in earlier phase 2 studies, which could reduce millions of tuberculosis cases globally.
👩💻 ChatGPT uses less energy than an hour of Netflix
One hour of Netflix watching equals the energy required for between 300 and 3000 ChatGPT prompts. Ending your shower one second earlier saves enough water to compensate for 40 ChatGPT prompts.
📉 Diabetes-related deaths in the US drop to lowest levels in years
New preliminary figures from the CDC show that diabetes-related deaths in the US have decreased to 26.4 deaths per 100,000 people according to data from the third quarter of 2024. This decrease reverses the concerning increase observed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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