高市早苗首相は、産業基盤の近代化、防衛体制の強化、そして経済の強靭化に向けて、日本国民から強い信任を得ました。頑張ってください! #japan

here's how rocket engines are made in Japan. >

enjoy the weekend with this all-inspiring piano performance, human generated. >

can using compressed air be a viable alternative to battery-based EVs? one advantage is the speed of compressed air recharging, and recharging stations can use pretty off-the-shelf equipment (although at higher pressures)... GM's attempting to do so, will the others follow? > here's another blog and goes into detail how an existing rig can be made into running on compressed air, at pretty respectable engine HP... >

Engine Builder Magazine

Compressed Air Supercharged 509 cid Big Block Chevy Engine - Engine Builder Magazine

Tina Pierce of Tina Pierce Racing recently overhauled her Top Sportsman truck and its 509 big block Chevy engine to be compressed air supercharged.

#ev #renewables #generalmotors #GM

what sort of batteries will be made and supplied to Australian homes? > #energy #solar #renewables

we all need vitamin E and K. both are fat-soluble, and you need vitamin K (with calcium intake from other food) to have strong bones and for proper brain health you got to have vitamin E. using your AI machine, you will know that some pretty easy and packed sources of the two vitamins can come from bean sprouts and sunflower sprouts. just a 100 grams of sunflower sprouts, which you can simply put them into your beef burger, club sandwhich or pasta, is going to contribute a significant value to your wellbeing. how does sunflower sprouts look like? >

Benefits of Sunflower Sprouts - Healthier Steps

#health #healthcare #wellbeing #vitamins #body

while a lot of attention has been placed on Tether's holdings of 124 metric tons of gold, perhaps there is more to cheer about from the same company's recent release of its bitcoin mining tool as open source. >

Tether Open-Sources the Next Generation of Bitcoin Mining Infrastructure with MOS, Mining OS, Mining SDK - Tether.io

2 February, 2026 – Tether, the largest company in the digital assets industry, today announced the open-sourcing of Mining OS (MOS), an operating...

#bitcoin #btc #tether #gold #finance

ever seen a bunch of folks playing with heium? looks fun and it sure does sound funny! LOL. it has been almost a decade where this focus on the world's shortage of helium gas been doing its rounds since. the recently shortage situtation however, is a little different this time; as more than 1/3 of all of the world's helium gas is used in MRI machines in hospitals, and a significant amount of helium gas is used in production of semiconductors (a.k.a microprocessors, chips, flash RAM etc etc...). the largest source of helium at the moment? drilling alongside natural gas sites. can this gas be synthetized? No. keen to look at the market position for helium gas? >

Procurement Resource

Helium Price Trend, News, Chart and Price Forecast

Procurement Resource provides latest Helium prices and a graphing tool to track prices over time, compare prices across countries, and customize pr...

Source BBC >

The world keeps running out of helium. There is now a race to prepare for the next shortage

Our lives are surprisingly dependent upon this extremely light and unreactive gas, yet supplies of it are remarkably fragile.

#gas #helium #resources #commodities #finance

one of the largest and uptapped use of advanced, AI-enabled robots, is in the field of healthcare. not only our world continues to face the chronic shortage (globally) of qualified doctors, but also, healthcare providers from nurses, nutritionists, etc. are in short supply. >

The most advanced robots in 2026 - Standard Bots

Explore the most advanced robots in 2026, from humanoids like Figure 02 to industrial arms like RO1.

the remarkable progress for machine intelligence to be embedded within sensors of these robots will have a dramatic impact on the range and broad capability for healthcare tech-enabled humanoid devices, and when they are combined with the right AI-driven core, this can help reduce the already overloaded heathcare systems globally. the other critical aspect for the design, production and roll-out of these machines; is how each device's malpractice and thus punitive product liability be covered, when viewed from the perspective of the patient's insurance cover. #healthcare #health #robotics #machineintelligence #artificialintelligence #future #innovation #technology

the extreme climate effects cannot be understated. the other dangerous trend is the growing feeling among many that current efforts towards decarbonization / environmental conservation is a losing point of no return attempt; this self-defeating feeling might be tempting, but it goes against the entire core human spirit > https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20260204-in-pictures-northern-morocco-floods-force-evacuation-50-000-people

wind turbine failure stems from (1) short-sighted design that attempts to lower capital cost and (2) failure to develop correct material performance datasheets >

America was right about wind turbines: the “dark side” many chose to ignore — and drones are now moving in

#renewables #wind #productdesign #technology

moltbook is the beginning of the trend wherein highly competent people doing patently stupid things rationalized by the pleasurable ethos of technological leaps over-rides everything else. consider if this ethos is applied and widely subscribed by scientists and genomics technicans dabbling in pathogens, bacteria and all other things biological. the other non-obvious justification that arises within such competent people doing patently stupid things; is that this is simply the cost of innovation and that the ill-effects of AI tools are simply overhyped and excessively overblown; I put it to you plainly, that you have refused to accept that responsibility for product safety, is an inherent industrial obligation thereon; I further put it to you; that the reasoning whereby product safety must fall within the domain of regulators/law-makers and not that of the innovator at source, is simply patently childish and short-sighted. I hereby guarantee you; that these highly competent people doing patently stupid things; will fall silent and childishly point blame towards the inability for regulators/law-makers to keep pace; when the next iteration of moltbook comes up; without intervention from its human API owner thereon (for much of moltbook's current hyped up controversy stems largely from human-derived motivations) begin to speak among themselves pertaining to genomic sequences of biological constructs that will unleash pain & suffering upon one and all.

between Weaviate and Timescale, which DB is better for multi-node LLMs? It really depends if you need SQL compatibility isn't it? and, if the multi-node LLM has this in one of its agents, one anomaly throws a cascade of instability into whatever simulation one is running, especially when training data is wiped from a whole bunch of different primary APIs. example > from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer model = SentenceTransformer('all-MiniLM-L6-v2') embeddings = model.encode(["example text 1", "example text 2"]) interesting.

one of the most established resource for OTEC energy with several past references for the use of OTEC on specific marine vessels in various places >

Makai Ocean Engineering

Ocean Thermal Energy (OTEC) | 40+ Years of Trusted Expertise

Makai is a global leader in Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) with decades of experience advancing OTEC energy in Hawaii and beyond.

a more recent example is a planned OTEC demonstration plant (offshore) from the company named Global OTEC >

Global OTEC - Clean Energy from the Ocean

Global OTEC announces world’s largest onshore OTEC demonstration plant to date

Global OTEC announces world’s largest onshore OTEC demonstration plant to date

what is has since installed, is a storm resistant structure off the coast of Gran Canaria with support from EU's Horizon PLOTEC project... #ocean #renewables #energy #OTEC

will this company's all solid state battery make an impact for ultra-long distance EV range?

the recent win in the US Court on the matter of wind energy sets legal precedent perhaps. This was from the Dec 22 order / freeze by the US administration on grounds of national security (interesting strategy...) https://www.npr.org/2026/01/12/g-s1-105808/offshore-orsted-revolution-wind-trump-court-clean-energy on US Tariffs, in the event that the US Supreme Court does make an opinion, the White House does have several other means to errect and maintain import tariffs. #usa #finance #wind #renewables

US household and credit card debt now hovers at US$18.59 trillion, US$1.23 trillion respectively, with median interest servicing costs at about 15-20%. From the financial perspective of the banks and financial institutions, this represents one of its most profitable non-investment banking business activity, to which the US President now attempts to limit US credit card interests to no more than 10%. Will it work? Or is this just a passing, exploratory possibility? Later in the week we shall know, including Davos. While peer-to-peer direct lending has been in the works in different places thus far, can stablecoins and tokenized assets play a role in lowering the cost of borrowing? Non-custodial smart contracts like MakerDAO, Aave are mainly a digital collateralized loan product, with exchanges like Bitfinex performing / facilitating the P2P direct consumer loan mechanism. The biggest risk that are currently not addressed? Liquidation at LTV (loan-to-value) threshold is perhaps the largest risk factor for liquidity providers... >

Household Debt and Credit Report

Unique data and insight into the credit conditions and activity of U.S. households

#money #finance #crypto #banks #USeconomy #NASDAQ

connecting the dots yet? >

OpenProject.org

openDesk - OpenProject brings open source project management to openDesk

Open source project management software for classic, agile or hybrid project management: task management✓ Gantt charts✓ boards✓ team collabor...

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Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform

OpenEuroLLM – A European Family of Large Language Models

OpenEuroLLM will develop a family of Large Language Model (LLMs) covering all EU official languages, ensuring transparency, compliance with the AI ...

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Fraunhofer Group for Microelectronics in cooperation with the Leibniz institutes IHP and FBH

Expanding access to advanced chip design capabilities: Launch of the EU Chips Design Platform

#EU #Europe #geopolitical #technology #innovation #machineintelligence #artificialintelligence #AI

As images of a multi-channel, coordinated American military operation flashed across television screens all over the world, the reality on the ground could not have been any clearer; Chinese made JY-27A mobile anti-stealth radars did not see the black chariots coming, Russian made S-300 long-range surface-to-air missile systems were displaying incompetence at scratching at any of the roughly 150 aircraft sorties deployed, and Iran’s Mohajer-6 drones (currently used by Russia in its special military operation in Ukraine), performed its advanced surveillance, reconnaissance and armed guided munitions role flawlessly to the extent where not a single American-born or US-made asset suffered any insurance claim whatsoever..... https://medium.com/@acefujiwara/the-maduro-hustle-ee8ca048c475 #energy #crypto #gas #oil #venezuela #maduro #finance #money #geopolitical #geopolitics #risk

so...back to the office yet? feeling lethargic? relax! it's a wonderful Friday, so enjoy the very cheerful rendition performed by Maduro ya no es presidente > ... and, if you think its about the oil; think again. stay tuned... #maduro #venezuela #oil