SpaceX received the first contract for the commercial launch of Starship.

Japanese corporation SKY Perfect JSAT Holdings Inc. chose Starship to launch its Superbird-9 communications satellite. The launch is scheduled for 2024.

Off the coast of Greenland, scientists have discovered a luminous fish with antifreeze flowing in its veins.

American scientists presented the results of their study of biodiversity in the waters of the Arctic Ocean off the coast of Greenland. During the study, they discovered a luminous motley snail fish, in the veins of which antifreeze flows. The scientists said the levels of antifreeze proteins in this Arctic fish species are the highest of any known species with similar antifreeze-producing abilities. Thus, fish that live in cold waters do not turn into "frozen".

In the US, they offer a service that will allow you to communicate with deceased relatives.

The idea is to film footage using 20 cameras and create a kind of "digital clone" of a person while they are alive. After that, the video is processed using artificial intelligence, which is trained to answer questions in natural language. The "digital copy" is then uploaded to the StoryFile platform, after which you can talk to her. The system creates the illusion of a real-time conversation and allows for dialogue. The cost of the service is only £39.99.

Google has taught robots to understand voice commands using the Internet.

Researchers from the California office demonstrated how, in response to the command "I'm hungry", the robot brings a pack of chips. The highlight is that no one scored a team into it - the robot was simply taught to google requests and find out what a person needs.

On Everest, traces of the DNA of a domestic chicken and dog were found at an altitude of 5 thousand meters.

Scientists have been routinely testing the diversity of the biosphere at this altitude. Samples were taken from the ponds and streams of Everest, revealing 187 unique signatures. Quite suddenly, among them were a chicken and a dog. What they did at such a height and how they ended up is a mystery.

Submarine with an autonomy of 54 hours.

A UAE-based startup has unveiled a new design for the Kronos submarine, which actually looks more like a futuristic spacecraft than a submersible. The submarine is designed for 11 people. The device is equipped with water cannons. Works both on the diesel generator, and on the electric motor.

Scientists are going to resurrect the Tasmanian wolves using the genes of marsupial mice.

First, they will have to reconstruct the genome of the extinct thylacine, after which they will have to match it with the genome of the marsupial mouse. They are believed to be close relatives. Then, with the help of reproductive technologies, an embryo will be created from the edited cells. It will be placed in an artificial uterus or implanted into the body of a surrogate individual - the same fat-tailed mouse.

BMW and Toyota are teaming up to create hydrogen-powered cars.

According to the head of BMW sales, the first jointly created hydrogen production car can be expected as early as 2025.

For the first time in history, scientists have given a name to a heat wave.

For the first time in history, Spanish scientists named a heat wave - Zoe. An extreme weather event was recorded in Seville on July 24-27. These days the temperature rose to 44.4 °C. In the future, in the names of new heat waves, female and male names will alternate in reverse alphabetical order. Hurricanes and cyclones have long been given human names, with the unofficial practice of naming winter storms dating back to 2012.

A British man has created a smart door to prevent a cat from bringing dead mice into the house.

The cat Jinx constantly brought dead mice and birds into the house of the owners. The owners got tired of dead animals in the house and came up with the OnlyCat system, an artificial intelligence camera that recognizes a cat and its victims at the front door. If Jinx comes with loot, then the system does not open the cat door. OnlyCat has prevented a cat from bringing home 42 victims.

Created by AI that recommends personalized fonts.

Adobe and UCF have created FontMart, a neural network that studies the reading technique and habits of the user. Based on this data, the AI recommends the most convenient font for a particular person and its size. The first tests showed almost one hundred percent marks from readers.

Создан ИИ, рекомендующий персонализированные шрифты.

Adobe и UCF создали FontMart - нейросеть, которая изучает технику чтения и повадки пользователя. На основании этих данных, ИИ рекомендует наиболее удобный для конкретного человека шрифт и его размер. Первые тесты показали почти стопроцентные оценки от читателей.

Canada has become the most popular country in the world for those wishing to relocate.

Residents of 50 states wanted to emigrate there. In second place is Japan, in third - Spain. These conclusions were made by Australian analysts from Compare the Market. They studied Google search data for different countries, which included keywords on the topic of moving.

The International Astronomical Society has announced a competition

Everyone can offer their name for the new exoplanets found by the James Webb telescope. True, naming a planet after a dog will not work - the community wants the name to pursue a specific goal. Basically, the idea is aimed at students and amateur astronomers, who are invited to shoot down in teams. But singles can also work.

Monsoons accelerate climate change.

Monsoons accelerate climate change, as they lift atmospheric pollutants - gases and aerosols - into the stratosphere and spread them over a large area. The South Asian monsoons create a layer of harmful substances about 16 kilometers above the Earth. It contains industrial, agricultural and transport emissions. The layer covers the regions of West Africa and parts of the Pacific Ocean.

Porsche and Pixar made a 911 model in the style of the heroine of the cartoon "Cars" - Sally Carrera.

The car will be sold at auction and the proceeds will go to charity.

Elon Musk explained why humanity needs to be chipped.

The entrepreneur is sure that implanting chips in the human brain is a great idea. Technology can help those who have experienced serious trauma. In their case, the chip will be programmed for treatment. For paralyzed people, the chips will help them use their brains to interact with computers. Musk believes that the technologies of his Neuralink company, which makes neural chips, will help achieve a better future for the whole world.

Starlink was hacked with just $25.

Security researcher Lennert Wouters hacked the SpaceX-operated Starlink satellite internet system using a homemade circuit board that cost $25 to develop. He physically disassembled the satellite dish and attached his modchip to it, consisting of a Raspberry Pi, flash memory, electronic switches, and a voltage regulator. After connecting to the Starlink dish, the tool launched a bug-injection attack to temporarily short out the system, which allowed Starlink's defenses to be bypassed so that Wouters could infiltrate blocked parts of the system. Wouters' attack causes the first bootloader to fail - a ROM bootloader that is flashed into the system-on-a-chip and cannot be upgraded. He then deployed the patched firmware to later bootloaders, all of which gave him root access and full control of the plate. SpaceX called Wauters' study "technically impressive."

Signs of its earthly origin have been found on the moon.

Scientists from the University of Washington have found that lunar rocks contain helium and neon - gases of terrestrial origin. And this proves that the Moon was once part of the Earth. Researchers suggest that the earth's satellite was formed as a result of the split of one large ancient planet. Probably, a large space object crashed into it, and it split into two parts, which later became the Earth and the Moon.

Scientists have learned to “erase” memories of drug addiction.

This discovery should help in the treatment of dependent people. Scientists took stem cells from the tissues of drug addicts, which can reach the brain and influence it so that it “forgets” about the sensations that a person experienced when taking drugs. After that, new memory cells are formed in the brain that do not carry information about addiction. After the job is done, the stem cells either migrate to another damaged site or die and leave the body. In theory, this method can help and get rid of nicotine addiction.