Research Road EP 16
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Belle of the Ranch
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🗓️ 7 November 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Research Road EP 16
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| 0:00.0 | Well, howdy there, internet people. It's Dana again, and today you're at Research Road. |
| 0:05.2 | This is a weekly series where we go through science and tech news with a bit of dry humor. |
| 0:10.5 | Then we answer some questions from y'all. Today is the 5th of November, 2024. And on this date in |
| 0:17.3 | 1872, Susan B. Anthony voted for Ulysses S. Grant. Yes, that's 48 years before the |
| 0:23.8 | 19th Amendment guaranteed the right to vote to women. She was picked up a couple weeks later and was |
| 0:29.0 | eventually fined $100. When she was informed of the fine, she said, quote, |
| 0:34.6 | I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. |
| 0:40.9 | Fun fact, she never paid a dime. |
| 0:44.7 | So, starting off with tech news, |
| 0:49.7 | reporting is suggesting that some of the big players in AI tech are having to reassure investors |
| 0:51.4 | that the billions of dollars being spent on the tech will eventually |
| 0:55.1 | turn a profit. And speaking of AI, Open AI has developed a new measurement for accuracy when it comes |
| 1:02.2 | to large language models, answering simple questions. Let's just say there's a lot of room for |
| 1:07.6 | improvement. We'll put the link down below. You might want to read it |
| 1:11.3 | before relying on the emerging tech too heavily. And now on to space. Voyager 1, which was launched |
| 1:19.9 | in 1977 and became the first spacecraft to leave our solar system in 2012, has made headlines and spark nostalgia. |
| 1:29.7 | The spacecraft's fault protection system seems to have switched its communication system to an S-band |
| 1:36.3 | radio, which is a system that has gone unused since 1981. |
| 1:41.5 | Another NASA project with an orbiter named Lunar Trailblazer passed a series of tests and is moving towards a launch date. |
| 1:49.4 | Most estimates put the date somewhere in the next six months or so. |
| 1:53.6 | The craft will be looking for more information about water on the moon. |
| 1:58.2 | On Mars, the Perseverance rover captured imagery of Phobos passing in front of the sun, |
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