The Futurist is your daily tech, cosmic, and science (both weird or otherwise) newsletter with articles and content curated just for you. // Mars’ terrain // Fiber optics // Sleep hacks // Alien sighting? | | “With a veritable army of robots scanning its surface, Mars is the most surveilled planet after Earth. Those rovers and orbiters collect a mountain of image data, but very little is processed into an easily viewable format. The US Geological Survey Astrogeology Science Center is looking to change that. Leveraging supercomputers and cloud computing, the USGS has released 4,800 digital terrain models (DTMs) and 155,000 high-resolution images of the red planet.” | Celebrate the release of RAID’s new YouTube series, Call of the Arbiter, by signing up for the #1 ranked RPG of 2023 and getting the new Legendary Champion Artak for free. For those who aren’t familiar with RAID: Sign up for the hottest RPG of the year and get a brand new free character who is super cool and awesome and be sure to check out their hot new YouTube series all by clicking below. [Ad] | “An international collaboration of researchers has achieved a new speed record after transferring 1.7 petabits of data over 41 miles (67 km) of standard optical fiber cable. That's the equivalent speed of 17 million broadband internet connections.” | “It shouldn't be that hard to fall asleep within the first few minutes of closing your eyes. Nevertheless, it is. 1 in 3 Americans have trouble falling asleep at night, according to the National Institutes of Health. People may struggle to catch those z's or stay asleep due to issues with chronic pain, nicotine usage, hormonal changes, pregnancy and menopause, medication, sleep apnea, or mental health, according to Dr. Keisha Sullivan, a doctor of osteopathic and family medicine and a sleep medicine specialist at Kaiser Permanente in Largo, Maryland.” | AI doesn’t have to be scary. In fact, it can help you do things like have more free-time or help you automate your life. You can use prompts to help you plan how to learn a new skill or utilize a tool that will streamline your business so that you can have time to do things like creative work and make more money. AI can help, we swear, and this is how. [Ad] | “A new video has gone viral on social media, purporting to show a mystery creature hiding behind a garden fence, that was quickly tied to last week's reports of a ‘UFO crash’ in a residential area of Las Vegas. This follows the mysterious sequence of events from late April that included eyewitness accounts of a bright streak across the sky, followed by a report of an object crashing in an individual's back garden. But did the latest piece of footage, filmed in night mode, really show ‘10ft tall’ extraterrestrials that one of the eye-witnesses claimed to have observed shortly after the reported crash?” | Interested in having one of your social posts featured in The Futurist? | | What part of the brain is responsible for vision? | Let’s see what you think… | | | | |
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