AI and automation are creating a hybrid workforce

 The pandemic is accelerating AI and automation:

https://www.axios.com/ai-automation-pandemic-job-changes-bdccef8b-4766-4170-8984-775e8aa13168.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top

New Battery Technology Enables Charging Electric Cars Up to 90% in Just 6 Minutes

That should eliminate one of the few advantages of ICE vehicles:

https://scitechdaily.com/new-battery-technology-enables-charging-electric-cars-up-to-90-in-just-6-minutes/

Tesla Just Changed Everything

 Truly amazing potential to change the world:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rwYNgkhXoA&feature=youtu.be

Redesigned Current Conductors Boost Lithium-Ion Battery Efficiency and Safety

 “But in our study, making the collector 80% lighter increased the energy density of lithium-ion batteries – how much energy they can store in a given weight – by 16-26%. That’s a big jump compared to the average 3% increase achieved in recent years.”

https://scitechdaily.com/redesigned-current-conductors-boost-lithium-ion-battery-efficiency-and-safety/

Biology is having its industrial revolution

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-future-e64aa254-428a-43d0-8e78-84a3a27910ac.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0

Videos of GM’s Driverless Cars Show Several Near-Crashes

 This could slow things down, unfortunately:

https://futurism.com/the-byte/videos-gm-driverless-cars-crashes

Solar power now generates the cheapest electricity in history, IEA says

 Yes!

https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/solar-energy-cost

What Did the Earth Look Like _______ Million Years Ago

Just because this is cool:

https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#240

Type in your city of choice and see where it used to be.

“Holy Grail” Sought for More Than a Century: Researchers Synthesize Room Temperature Superconducting Material

 If they can get this down to reasonable pressures, it'll change the world:

https://scitechdaily.com/holy-grail-sought-for-more-than-a-century-researchers-synthesize-room-temperature-superconducting-material/

Researchers Extract More Energy From Sunlight – Could Boost the Efficiency of Solar Panels by 50%

 Clever:

https://scitechdaily.com/researchers-extract-more-energy-from-sunlight-could-boost-the-efficiency-of-solar-panels-by-50/

Chemists propose spinach as a better, cheaper battery catalyst

 Popeye was right about spinach giving him energy:

https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/spinach-batteries?rebelltitem=2#rebelltitem2

Musk: Tesla Is Rolling Out a Beta of “Full Self-Driving” Next Week

 We're getting closer:

https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-beta-full-self-driving

Columbia Professor: There’s a 50% Chance We’re Living in a Simulation

 I don't think the math adds up at all (after all, if you have three options it doesn't necessarily mean each option has an equal chance of being true), but here you go:

https://futurism.com/columbia-professor-50-percent-chance-simulation

Some Planets May Be Better for Life Than Earth: Researchers Identify 24 Superhabitable Exoplanets

 "A study led by Washington State University scientist Dirk Schulze-Makuch recently published in the journal Astrobiology details characteristics of potential “superhabitable” planets, that include those that are older, a little larger, slightly warmer and possibly wetter than Earth. Life could also more easily thrive on planets that circle more slowly changing stars with longer lifespans than our sun."

https://scitechdaily.com/some-planets-may-be-better-for-life-than-earth-researchers-identify-24-superhabitable-exoplanets/

Physicist and student run the numbers on paradox free time travel

 At least it's mathematically possible:

https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/time-travel-paradox

Science pays off

 "Even under very conservative assumptions, it is difficult to find an average return below $4 per $1 spent. Accounting for health benefits, inflation bias, or international spillovers can bring the social returns to over $20 per $1 spent."

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-future-48a558fd-cd67-4883-8cc6-2df46945a55d.html?chunk=6&utm_term=emshare#story6

Nuclear fusion reactor could be here as soon as 2025

 More on the exciting new fusion generator, although it wouldn't actually generate electricity until 2035:

https://www.livescience.com/nuclear-fusion-reactor-sparc-2025.html

In 2020, more men and women are likely to consider sex with a robot

 Sex with robots is working its way into the zeitgeist:

https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/robot-sex-doll-study?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1

New Detector Breakthrough Is Potential Game-Changer for Quantum Computing

 https://scitechdaily.com/new-detector-breakthrough-is-potential-game-changer-for-quantum-computing/