The electrician became the king of the British Isle.

Peel is part of the kingdom, but every ten years they choose their own ruler. The island is famous for its old tavern and 900-year-old castle ruins. Now they have a new owner: 33-year-old electrician Aaron. During his coronation, he was doused with beer and seated on a beer barrel throne. Aaron will keep order and will be able to knight those who will be useful to the island.

"The Elon Musk Law"

UCLA Law School will launch a course called "The Elon Musk Law" based on the lawsuits of Tesla and SpaceX corporations, as well as Elon Musk personally. Course instructor Professor Stephen Bainbridge believes that the popularity of the billionaire will really attract students. The program will cover cases related to Tesla's purchase of SolarCity, the delayed acquisition of Twitter, compensation to Tesla's CEO, securities investigations, and potential conflicts of interest in his business dealings.

A material has been created that can "feel" and "think".

Scientists have proven that almost any material can be used to create integrated circuits capable of performing computational operations. In particular, specialists managed to mechanically process information and integrate it into a soft polymer. Usually this technology is used in silicon semiconductors, but it has a counterpart in nature - the properties of nervous tissue. Scientists from Pennsylvania decided to test it in soft materials like the brain. The polymer used reconfigurable circuitry so that external stimuli were captured and converted into electrical information that could then be processed to produce output signals. This approach can be used to detect radio frequencies and send light signals - for example, for autonomous search and rescue systems.

In the Andes, ancient Indian dams are being restored to combat drought.

In the Peruvian Andes in the Pamparomas region, due to drought, they began to restore the dams of the ancient Indians, built in the pre-colonial era. Thanks to one of them, they hope to collect 15,000 cubic meters of water when it rains. It is always dry in the Andes from May to September. But due to climate change, it has become even less rainy. Farmers are worried about the harvest of barley, root crops and alfalfa, a perennial legume. If the land does not generate income for half a year, many families will have nothing to live on.

"The northernmost island in the world" turned out to be an iceberg.

In the summer of 2021, a group of Danish and Swiss scientists accidentally found "a piece of land closest to the North Pole" measuring 30 by 60 meters. It was called Qeqertaq Avannarleq - "the northernmost island" in Greenlandic. But it turned out to be an iceberg. The study showed that there is water under Qeqertaq Avannarleq. So it's not an island, but a flat iceberg. It probably broke off from a nearby glacier. Gravel could get on it during landslides. So far, Oodaak Island, 780 meters southeast of Qeqertaq Avannarleq, claims the title of the northernmost point of the Earth. But now his status is also in question.

The flu shot can reduce the risk of a stroke.

Annual flu vaccination may be associated with a lower risk of stroke. These conclusions were reached by Spanish scientists during a study involving almost 86,000 people over 40 years old. Since the study is an observational study, scientists cannot say that it is the flu shot that reduces the risk of stroke. So far, only the connection between the two events has been established. More information is needed to draw firm conclusions.

Cargo ships decided to bypass Sri Lanka for the safety of blue whales.

There is a large population of these animals around the island, so animal rights activists have long demanded a change in logistics routes. Over the past ten years, at least 12 blue whales have died due to collisions with container ships near Sri Lanka. These are the largest modern animals. They grow up to 30 meters in length, weigh up to 150 tons and live for about 80 years. The species is under threat of extinction.

Pigeons have surpassed mammals in brain efficiency.

A gram of pigeon brain consumes, on average, 2.5 times less glucose than the brain of mammals of comparable size, and 3.5 times less per neuron, the German scientists found. The reason for such a high energy efficiency of avian neurons has not yet been precisely determined, but, most likely, the matter is in the histological features of the nervous tissue and the temperature of the brain.

Men's brains shrink when they become fathers, scientists have found.

The study involved forty volunteers from two countries who were preparing to become fathers for the first time. They underwent MRI examinations before their partner's pregnancy, during it, and also several months after the birth of the child. The results showed that in fathers, unlike mothers, the structure of the limbic system of the brain, which is responsible for motivation and internal reward, does not change with the birth of a child. But the restructuring occurs in the cerebral cortex, affecting the visual cortex and areas associated with the network of the passive mode of the brain. Perhaps the changes in the brain are designed to help fathers more easily recognize their child and be more willing to respond to him, the authors of the study say.

In Japan, they released the NFT to reward officials.

The Japanese government has issued non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as a reward for local officials who excel in the use of digital technologies. The first awards were presented during the Summer Digi Denkoshien 2022 event. Seven mayors received NFTs.

NTU scientists have introduced a robot to prevent falls in the elderly.

The robot consists of a wheeled battery base that is connected to a padded seat belt worn around the user's hips. While the person walks, the robot follows him. Using a depth-sensing camera and other sensors, it is able to recognize control movements that indicate a sudden loss of balance by the user. When this happens, it stops and fixes the straps, preventing the user from falling. In addition to assisting in everyday life, the robot can be used in rehabilitation medicine, supporting the user when he learns to walk again. It is reported that in the near future the MRBA will be improved to an industrial prototype.

Elon Musk discussed with Apple the connection of the iPhone to Starlink satellite communications.

As you know, the iPhone 14 line supports the ability to make emergency calls via satellite. The head of SpaceX wants the giant to partner with him so that Apple smartphone owners can use Starlink as an alternative. According to Elon Musk, he has already held "promising negotiations" with Apple, which the company itself, however, has not confirmed.

Intel and Broadcom have shown Wi-Fi 7 with data transfer rates in excess of 5 Gb/s.

In the experiment, company employees used a Dell laptop and a Broadcom access point equipped with Wi-Fi 7 chips that use wider 320 MHz channels in the unlicensed 6 GHz spectrum. An Intel representative noted that this is not the maximum speed of Wi-Fi 7, and theoretically it can be increased.

The Chinese are developing an ejection seat for cars.

In the event of an imminent accident, the seats will shoot out of the car, saving the driver and passengers from injury. The developer company Chery has not yet told how the roof of the car will open and how the seats will land.

In Japan, they began to produce soda flavored with fried dumplings.

The new soft drink is called Gyoza and contains vinegar, garlic, ginger, chili oil. Along with the bottle, the buyer is given instructions that say that you should not drink the contents in crowded places. The first tasters note that they have never drunk anything more disgusting. At the same time, Gyoza quickly gained popularity - mainly due to the challenges that local bloggers arrange.

Dubai to build moon for space tourism.

Dubai could be home to a luxury moon-themed resort. The $5 million resort concept was developed by Canadian architecture firm Moon World Resorts. All the details of the project have not yet been disclosed, but it is reported that the total height of the building will be about 224 m. And the surrounding area of over 40 thousand square meters will be turned into a lunar colony. The authors of the project expect that the new resort will allow 2.5 million people a year to join space tourism.

China is a new player in the graphics card market.

Biren Technology introduced its GPU - Biren BR100. It is a chip completely designed and made in China. The performance of the BR100 is higher than that of the NVIDIA Ampere A100, but about 2.0 to 2.5 times slower than solutions based on the NVIDIA Hopper architecture. Thus, the Celestial Empire actually got rid of the technological dependence of Taiwan, Nvidia and other guys. We are waiting for the appearance of video cards on the market.

People begin to hate each other when they are too cold or too hot.

Temperatures below +12 °C and above +21 °C can have a negative impact on the psyche and provoke aggression in social networks. Scientists analyzed 4 billion tweets written by Americans in 2014-2020. Artificial intelligence compared the presence of hate speech in the post with the temperature outside the window. The least aggressive tweets were written at temperatures between +15°C and +18°C. When it was warmer than +30 °C outside, there was much more hatred on the Internet: in all climatic zones and social communities.

In China, a virtual robot has become the CEO of a company.

Chinese IT company NetDragon Websoft has appointed a new CEO. The post was taken by Ms. Tang Yu, a virtual humanoid robot with artificial intelligence. Tang Yu became the world's first female robot in the CEO chair. The robot will make decisions on risk management, as well as deal with personnel policy. Tang Yu is expected to streamline processes and be fair to all employees.

Google brought the Internet to Africa with 15,000 kilometers of cable.

The company laid a 15,000 km long Internet cable under water, connecting Western Europe and South Africa. The cable transmits data at a speed of 150 Tbps. The company says that 1.6 million people will be able to get a job using the internet cable.