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Google Earth’s Flight Simulator Is Now on Browsers: Here’s How to Play

Google Earth’s Flight Simulator Is Now on Browsers: Here’s How to Play

Published by skeptic

One of the hidden features in the Google Earth desktop app is a fun little flight simulator that lets you fly all over the Earth using maps generated by the app. And Google has just announced that the flight simulator is also now available in your web browser of choice for all to enjoy. The addition of the game is part of a larger push by Google to add pro-level features to the website interface, so you can skip installing the desktop app. Some of those features include elevation profiles, new import types, extra data layers and the flight simulator.  Most of the above features are for professional and hobbyist use, but the flight simulator is just there for fun. It’s been around since 2007 in the desktop app, and Friday marks its first appearance in the website version of Google Earth.  It’s not as in-depth as some other flight sims, but you can’t argue with the breadth of places where you can fly. Google Earth How to play the flight simulator in Google Earth It doesn’t take a …

New CPR simulator could help save astronauts in space

New CPR simulator could help save astronauts in space

Published by Jenni Sidey

The race to return humans to the moon and eventually send astronauts to Mars has forced scientists to confront a difficult reality. Space is dangerous, isolated and unforgiving. When a medical emergency happens millions of miles from Earth, there is no nearby hospital waiting to help. One of the greatest concerns is sudden cardiac arrest. On Earth, doctors and first responders use cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, to keep blood flowing after the heart stops. In space, however, performing CPR becomes far more difficult because gravity itself changes how blood moves through the body. Now, researchers at Concordia University have developed a new high-fidelity simulator designed to study how CPR works in reduced gravity environments. Their findings, published in the journal npj Microgravity, could help future astronauts survive cardiac emergencies during long missions in deep space. The project combines engineering, medicine and space science into a system that mimics blood flow inside the human body. The simulator allowed scientists to track how artificial blood moved during CPR under both Earth gravity and hypogravity conditions. 3D-printing of …

Therapists test an AI dating simulator to help chronically single men practice romantic skills

Therapists test an AI dating simulator to help chronically single men practice romantic skills

Published by José Betancourt

A recent experiment reveals that artificial intelligence programs might offer a practical way for men struggling with chronic romantic isolation to practice social skills and reduce their emotional burden. Over a three-month period, participants who completed a guided dating simulation reported notable drops in feelings of loneliness, as well as decreases in general mental and sexual distress. These results, published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, suggest that digital companions could serve as an accessible stepping stone for people who find traditional therapy intimidating. Across the globe, public health experts are tracking a steep rise in chronic loneliness and severe social disconnection. A growing segment of the population experiences involuntary singlehood, a condition where people deeply desire an intimate relationship but face persistent barriers to finding one. For many, this constant romantic failure leads to intense feelings of inadequacy, pervasive sadness, and long-term sexual frustration. Chronic social isolation is now recognized as a severe public health crisis with measurable physical consequences. People living without meaningful romantic relationships frequently suffer from higher rates of depression, acute …

Anlife: what does an unusual evolution simulator have to say about AI? | Games

Anlife: what does an unusual evolution simulator have to say about AI? | Games

Published by Sam Flores

A strange piece of software has recently landed on the PC gaming store Steam. And “software” feels like the cleanest way to describe it. Existing somewhere between a full-blown life sim, a science project and a kind of haunted fish tank, Anlife: Motion-learning Life Evolution probably would have disappeared without making much impact if it wasn’t for one unusual factor. Several years ago some of its creators were absolutely roasted on camera by one of the genuine legends of Japanese animation. Back in 2016, Hayao Miyazaki, the director of movies such as Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away, was shown new technology that used AI in order to animate models. Faced with a zombie that utilised its head to move by knocking its skull against the ground and wriggling its body like a fish, Miyazaki declared what he had seen was “an insult to life itself”. It’s hard not to watch the clip without feeling slightly seared – but now, a decade later, the ashen-faced developers from that room have sufficiently recovered to make their work …

Record-breaking quantum simulator could unlock new materials

Record-breaking quantum simulator could unlock new materials

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An artist’s representation of qubits in the Quantum Twins simulator Silicon Quantum Computing An unprecedently large quantum simulator could shed light on how exotic, potentially useful quantum materials work and help us optimise them in the future. Quantum computers may eventually harness quantum phenomena to complete calculations that are intractable for the world’s best conventional computers. Similarly, a simulator harnessing quantum phenomena could help researchers to accurately model poorly understood materials or molecules. This is especially true for materials such as superconductors, which conduct electricity with nearly perfect efficiency, because they derive this property from quantum effects that could be directly implemented on quantum simulators but would require more steps of mathematical translation on conventional devices. Michelle Simmons at Silicon Quantum Computing in Australia and her colleagues have now created the biggest quantum simulator for quantum materials yet, called Quantum Twins. “The scale and controllability we have achieved with these simulators means we are now poised to tackle some very interesting problems,” she says. “We are designing new materials in previously unthought-of ways by literally building …

AI Trading Simulator with Debating Agents for Easier Stock Research

AI Trading Simulator with Debating Agents for Easier Stock Research

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What if artificial intelligence didn’t just give you answers but actually debated them? Imagine a system where AI agents argue over investment strategies, challenge each other’s assumptions, and collaboratively decide on the best course of action, just like a human trading team. Below, Better Stack breaks down how the open source Python project “Trading Agents” brings this concept to life. This innovative framework doesn’t just analyze financial data; it simulates the deliberative process of a trading firm, with specialized AI agents taking on roles like sentiment analysis and technical forecasting. The result? A fascinating glimpse into how AI can emulate human-like decision-making in finance, offering a fresh approach to collaborative systems. In this explainer, you’ll uncover the inner workings of “Trading Agents” and how its debate-based decision-making sets it apart from traditional AI systems. From customizable agent roles to risk-free simulations, the platform is a playground for developers eager to experiment with multi-agent workflows. But this isn’t just about finance, it’s a bold exploration of how AI can challenge, argue, and refine ideas in ways …