Month: January 2023

Philadelphia Eagles’ Josh Sweat hospitalized after neck harm

Post author By Mans Life Daily
Post date January 1, 2023

Philadelphia Eagles' Josh Sweat hospitalized after neck injury

The New Year’s Day football game was called off for the Philadelphia Eagles defensive end josh sweat.

During the Eagles’ clash with their rivals the New Orleans Saints, the professional athlete was carted off the field and taken to a nearby hospital after sustaining a neck injury in a first-quarter clash.

“Eagles DE Josh Sweat was taken to a local hospital as a precautionary measure with a neck injury,” the Philadelphia Eagles said in a January 1 Twitter statement. “He has movement in all extremities.”

According to NBC Sports, after Sweat attacked the Saints full-back, Adam Prentice, headfirst at the end of a third downconversion, he didn’t get off the floor. Medical personnel tended to Sweat after the collision and stayed on the field for a few minutes before being placed on a stretcher and lifted off the field.

ESPN reported that the Eagles team rushed by the 25-year-old’s side to show their support for him.

Sport

Fantasy Soccer Week 17 inactive

Post author By Mans Life Daily
Post date January 1, 2023

6:43 p.m. ET

AJ MassESPN Author

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- Contributor to fantasy football, baseball and college basketball.
- Author of the book “Yes, It’s Hot in Here.”

Who to start? Who should you sit on? To help you finalize your fantasy football lineups and avoid starting a player who won’t be in the lineup, we post fantasy-related updates and analysis here when NFL teams update their official inactive player lists publish. All rankings quoted in this column are from our ESPN Fantasy staff.

Official inactives should arrive approximately 90 minutes before each game’s scheduled kick-off time.

Update frequently for the latest information.

1 p.m. ET games

offense

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Colt McCoy, QB, ARI: Concussion – OFF
Impact: Apparently things aren’t going well with McCoy, so the Cardinals turn to David Blough.

DeAndre Hopkins, WR, ARI: Knees – OFF
Impact: Choose your poison, given the QB scenario here: Marquise Brown, Greg Dortch, AJ Green or Robbie Anderson.

Tommy Trembling, TE, CAR: Hip – Doubtful
Impact: He could be good for a few catches if he can play.

Dante Pettis, WR, CHI: Ankle – Doubtful
Impact: Equanimeous St. Brown cleared the concussion protocol, allowing you to turn in his direction if necessary.

Chase Claypool, WR, CHI: Knee – Doubtful
Impact: If he can play, Claypool will likely dominate the target count.

Jerry Jeudy, WR, DEN: Ankle – Doubtful
Impact: He is expected to play this weekend.

Kendall Hinton, WR, DEN: Achilles tendon – Questionable
Impact: Courtland Sutton is poised to return to action, limiting most of Hinton’s benefits.

Greg Dulcich, TE, DEN: Achilles tendon – OUT/IR
Impact: Could this mean a return to fantasy relevance for Albert Okwuegbunam?

Dare Ogunbowale, RB, HOU: Knee – Doubtful
Impact: Royce Freeman may not have to share broadcasts this week.

Teagan Quitoriano, THE, NEW: Knees – OFF
Impact: Admit it. You had no idea he was the Texans’ first TE until you read this. Jordan Akins and Brevin Jordan will have common goals.

Kylen Granson, TE, IND: Knuckles – OUT
Impact: Can Nick Foles-to-Jelani Woods bring you a fantasy title?

Trevor Lawrence, QB, JAX: Toe – Doubtful
Impact: While this game is technically meaningless for the Jaguars, Lawrence is not expected to sit out this game.

Tua Tagovailoa, QB, MIA: Concussion – OFF
Impact: The Dolphins will have to rely on Teddy Bridgewater to try and get them into the postseason.

Rhamondre Stevenson, RB, NE: Ankle – Doubtful
Impact: He will likely share some of RB duties with Damien Harris.

DeVante Parker, WR, NE: Concussion – OFF
Impact: Expect Jakobi Meyers and Nelson Agholor to start.

Tyquan Thornton, WR, NE: Knee – Doubtful
Impact: Given Parker’s injury, there’s a huge opportunity here.

Hunter Henry, TE, NE: Knee – Doubtful
Effect: If he can play, he has a monopoly on all TE targets…

John Smith, TE, NE: Concussion – OFF
Impact: …with no other active options on the depth map.

Chris Olave, WR, NO: Achilles tendon – Questionable
Impact: He probably looks like starting alongside the likes of Rashid Shaheed and Tre’Quan Smith.

Jalen Hurts, QB, PHI: Shoulder – OUT
Impact: Once again, Gardner Minshew will start for the Eagles.

Julio Jones, WR, TB: Knee – Doubtful
Impact: All signs point to Jones being able to dress for this one.

Antonio Gibson, RB, WHAT: Knees – OFF
Impact: Brian Robinson Jr. could have a big day as a result.

defense

Zach Allen, DT, ARI: handouts

Antonio Hamilton, CB, ARI: Hip – OUT

Marco Wilson, CB, ARI: Neck – Doubtful

Jaycee Horn, CB, AUTO: Wrist – OFF

Jadeveon Clowney, DE, CLE: Concussion – Doubtful

DJ Jones, DT, DEN: Knee – Doubtful

Randy Gregory, LB, DEN: Knee – OUT/IR

Baron Browning, LB, DEN: Back – Doubtful

DeShon Elliott, S., DET: Shoulder – OUT

Yannick Ngakoue, DE, IND: Throat – OUT/IR

Kenny Moore II, CB, IND: Knuckles – OUT

Folorunso Fatukasi, DT, JAX: Ankle – Doubtful

Travon Walker, DE, JAX: Ankle – Doubtful

Bradley Chubb, LB, MIA: Ankle – Doubtful

Xavien Howard, CB, MIA: Knee – Doubtful

Jalen Mills, CB, NE: Groin – Doubtful

Jonathan Jones, CB, NE: Chest – Doubtful

Pete Werner, LB, NO: Achilles tendon – Questionable

Marcus Maye, S, NO: Shoulder – OUT

Marshon Lattimore, CB, NO: Abdomen – Doubtful

Azeez Ojulari, LB, NYG: Ankle – Doubtful

Adoree’ Jackson, CB, NYG: Knee – Doubtful

Avonte Maddox, CB, PHI: Toe – OFF

Vita Vea, DT, TB: Calf – Doubtful

Carlton Davis III, CB, TB: Shoulder – Doubtful

Jamel Dean, CB, TB: Toe – Doubtful

Mike Edwards, S, TB: Achilles tendon – Questionable

Antoine Winfield Jr., S, TB: Ankle – Doubtful

Kamren Curl, S, WHAT: Ankle – Doubtful

Benjamin St-Juste, CB, WHAT: Ankle – Doubtful

4 p.m. ET games

offense

1 relatives

Christian Watson, WR, UK: Hip – Doubtful
Impact: He looks like a game caller, so having Allen Lazard as an alternate isn’t a bad idea.

Ben Skowronek, WR, LAR: Calf – OFF
Impact: Hello, Van Jefferson and Tutu Atwell? Is that thing on?

Tyler Higbee, TE, LAR: Elbow – Doubtful
Impact: He is expected to play this week and catch as many passes from Baker Mayfield as possible.

Kenneth Walker III, RB, SEA: Ankle – Doubtful
Impact: Walker should launch this week and receive most of the RB workload.

Travis Homer, RB, Sea: Ankle – Doubtful
Impact: No practice all week leads us to believe DeeJay Dallas will be the primary backup.

Marquise Goodwin, WR, SEA: Shoulder – OUT/IR
Impact: He joins TE Will Dissly (knee) on the bench as we ring 2023.

Tyler Lockett, WR, SEA: Hand – Doubtful
Impact: Besides Lockett and DK Metcalf, there’s not much else in the WR space.

Jimmy Garoppolo, QB, SF: Foot – OUT
Impact: With Garoppolo “not yet able to move and do things,” Brock Purdy remains the man.

Deebo Samuel, WR, SF: Knees – OFF
Impact: The rumor mill seems to think Samuel could snap some snaps in week 18.

defense

Keisean Nixon, CB, UK: Groin – Doubtful

Durwin James Jr., S, LAC: Concussion – OFF

Aaron Donald, DT, LAR: Knuckles – OUT

Leonard Floyd, LB, LAR: Disease – Doubtful

Lamarcus Joyner, S., NYJ: Hip – Doubtful

Ryan Neal, S, SEA: Knee – Doubtful

game on Sunday night

Larry Ogunjobi, DE, PIT: Toe – Doubtful

Myles Jack, LB, PIT: Groin – Doubtful

Lamar Jackson, QB, BAL: Knees – OFF
Impact: Playoff berth in hand, Tyler Huntley set to handle things in the Ravens’ huddle.

Calais Campbell, DT, BAL: Knee – Doubtful

Marcus Peters, CB, BAL: Calf – OFF

Technology

The Most Beautiful Neural Tales of 2022

Post author By Mans Life Daily
Post date January 1, 2023

The Most Stunning Neural Stories of 2022

We made it! Despite mankind’s best efforts, we made it through 2022. Before we pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and prepare for what 2023 has in store, we should probably take some time to reflect on the past year.

Here at Neural, that means sharing our favorite stories from the past 12 months. In 2022 there was a lot of overwhelming news in the world of technology. From Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter to former Google engineer Blake Lemoine declaring that he had met sentient AI, it’s been a year to remember.

But instead of rehashing months-old news, we wanted to take this opportunity to share our most mind-blowing and fascinating stories of the year. Some of these were big news when we released them, others have an evergreen feel to them. But these are all items that we are particularly proud of.

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So, before we say goodbye to you and 2022, and without further ado, here are Neural’s most mind-blowing stories of the year.

Thomas Macaulay

TNW/Neural reporter Thomas Macaulay has had a fantastic year. It would take a few volumes to reprint all of the amazing stories he wrote in 2022, but we’ve managed to snag five hits for your reading pleasure.

Why have aliens never visited Earth? Scientists blame the singularity for this

New ‘burnout’ theory explains why aliens are avoiding Earth

What if the real reason we haven’t encountered aliens is because their civilizations grew too big to thrive? This is all theoretical, but you might be surprised who might be the first species to experience this “burnout.”

An inventor resurrected his imaginary friend with AI – then she tried to murder him

It’s all fun and games until your childhood pal becomes a killer robot. This is eerily similar to the plot of the 1986 cult classic Deadly Friend. Although the real story is about a guy who trained an AI-powered microwave to behave like his imaginary friend, and the movie was about a guy who put a computer chip in a dead man’s head, both stories have their merits as classic horror films you ask me.

A plant-based filet mignon gave me a taste of a meatless future

This story is a wonderful insight into the experience of culinary cuisine at the highest level. It’s a great story. But if I’m being honest, my biggest takeaway is that Tom’s childhood favorite food was steak.

The Dutch are world leaders in lab-grown meat. Why can’t they eat it?

The Dutch are world leaders in lab-grown meat. How come they can’t eat it?

This is one of my favorites and a perfect example of why Tom is so good at what he does. This deep dive not only discusses the technology, but dares to ask difficult questions: “It’s not vegetarian, but if it eliminates all the disadvantages of conventional meat, why shouldn’t I eat it?” And why can’t I find it in Europe?”

The 7 most absurd predictions by Elon Musk

Elon Musk is the richest person in the world. If you ask us, that’s a lot less impressive than it sounds. He spent 2022 doing what he always does: making headlines and causing controversy. Rather than speculating on what he’ll do next, we wanted to gently remind you that he has a habit of making things up over time.

Tristan Green

I’m usually not one to blow my own horn. But since it’s Christmas time, I thought I’d share my favorite Neural stories written by you in 2022:

DeepMind Researcher Claims New “Gato” AI Could Lead to AGI, Says “Game Over!”

This whole thing became a big thing on Twitter, at least as far as the AI community is concerned. There was a significant amount of respectful debate that has since spread into numerous other discussions of fancy AI models from OpenAI and Meta.

Your brain could be a quantum computer hallucinating math

I’m not sure who needs to hear this, but your brain is a lot smarter than you think. While you enjoy life in a classical world, our brain (theoretically) works in a quantum world. If it sounds difficult, that’s because it is.

Photo credit: Nicole Gray

Eureka! Scientists have just connected two time crystals together for the first time

The biggest story of 2021 was Google’s time crystals. To this day, I think it’s the most important story I’ve ever covered. But 2022 also had some very cool experiments in the same domain. I can’t wait for 2023!

Why “home robots” are a lot further away than you think

Elon Musk and Tesla are trying to convince the world that they are about to put a humanoid helper robot into production. Spoiler alert: they most certainly aren’t. A little critical thinking goes a long way here.

Did the world really end in 2012?

I wrote this piece in early January 2022 and after thinking about it all year I stand by it. I’m pretty sure the world ended in 2012, that’s the only thing that makes sense.

However, if this was not the case and all of this was true, I would like to wish you a wonderful 2023. On behalf of Neural, thank you for reading. Happy New Year!

Science

Do you need to construct buildings on the moon? Simply blast the regolith with microwaves

Post author By Mans Life Daily
Post date January 1, 2023

Do you want to build structures on the moon? Just blast the regolith with microwaves

Microwaves aren’t just useful for reheating leftovers. They can also set up landing pads on other worlds – at least according to a study published by a consortium of scientists from the University of Central Florida, Arizona State University and Cislune, a private company. Her research shows how a combination of sorting the lunar soil and then blasting it with microwaves can create a landing pad for future rockets on the moon – and save any surrounding buildings from being blown up by dust particles traveling at 10,000 km/h.

This system works in large part because certain minerals on the moon’s surface are magnetic, and these same minerals are also very susceptible to microwave heating. In particular, a type of glassy mineral called ilmenite, which makes up about 1-2% of the lunar surface, is highly magnetic.

Ilmenite is formed when the moon is hit by small meteors, forming material called agglutinates. Older lunar soils (that is, those not recently destroyed by a meteor) have up to 60% of the soil composed of these agglutinates, while “younger” lunar soils have only about 20%. So the concentrations are high enough in some places that contain significant amounts of older regolith.

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According to this UT interview, understanding regolith will be key to building any type of lunar base.

So if future researchers wanted to build a landing pad, they could zap this older soil with powerful microwaves to sinter it together and create a durable enough surface for a rocket to land on without having to sandblast everything around it. This sandblasting would be particularly nasty since there is no air to slow down the dust particles like there would be on Earth.

The solution seems simple enough – irradiate the soil with microwaves to sinter it together. Systems can always be improved, however, and this microwave sintering process is no exception. The researchers found that by subjecting the regolith to a process known as conditioning, they could increase the amount of microwaves absorbed and thus the effectiveness of the heating process.

The preparation in this case involves sieving the soil and hitting it with a magnetic field, causing the more magnetic soil to move toward the magnet, while the non-magnetic soil simply falls back to the ground. dr Phil Metzger, one of the lead authors of the study, compares the process to what recyclers do here on Earth – they sort material by its magnetic strength, which allows magnetic material, like regular steel, to be separated from more valuable stainless steel, which is non-magnetic .

In this UT video, we describe why in situ resource utilization is useful for all sorts of things.

If the magnet on the moon is turned off, the magnetic earth would be on the non-magnetic type. And since magnetic soil is also much more susceptible to microwaves, the treatment process could increase the amount of energy the material absorbs by 60-80%.

That’s an absurd improvement, and one that could dramatically reduce the necessary size of the microwave power supply needed for such a mission. Given the weight of some microwave power supplies, any reduction in their weight could dramatically lower the cost of the overall program.

The paper also looks at other potential methods of creating landing pads, including polymer-based through pavement-based pads. However, the cost effectiveness of using in situ resources, such as those found in the microwave sintering project, is most effective at the current price point to put devices into orbit.

While that price could drop significantly in the coming decades, this technique appears to be one of the best for Artemis mission planners hoping to land a reusable rocket on the moon within this decade. For now, the next research steps would involve testing the microwave power source and similar tests on the ground in a simulated lunar environment, including in vacuum. If some microwave dishes are something, smelling the resulting stuff might not be the best idea.

Learn more:
UCF – Methods of constructing lunar landing sites may involve microwave lunar soil
UT – What is the best way to build landing pads on the moon?
Subtitles – Lunar landers could spray landing pads immediately upon arrival on the moon
UT – NASA is investing in a plan to build landing pads and other structures on the moon out of regolith

main image:
Artist’s impression of a lunar base.
Credit – NASA

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