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Using Deep Mind in Archeology: DTNS Science News Monthly 6

Daily Tech News Show

Tom Merritt

Technology, News

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Monthly Science News is here! Our science correspondent Niki goes over the major science stories from March 2022 including CT scans of aquatic dinosaur bones to see how well they might have floated, archeologists using Google AI to restore old inscriptions and text, and how a paralyzed man used a brain-computer interface to communicate with the outside world.


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0:00.0

A tech demo shows off the usual tech things.

0:04.0

Then I'm going to jump to a link.

0:05.0

Using the usual tech devices.

0:07.0

We have a plane device called our mouse.

0:09.0

Doing the usual tech productivity tasks.

0:11.0

Now we're connected audio.

0:13.0

You can see my work. You can point at it.

0:15.0

And I can see your face and we can talk.

0:17.0

Except it's 1968 and it's going to set the computing agenda

0:20.0

for the next half century, then almost immediately be ignored.

0:24.0

The mother of all demos on no a little more.

0:27.0

Get it wherever you get your podcasts.

0:30.0

Hello, DTNS listeners and welcome back to another edition of the monthly science news.

0:44.0

I'm Dr. Nick Yakerman, your science correspondent.

0:47.0

Here with some of the top science and tech stories that happened in March.

0:52.0

I've been really excited to tell you this story for about two weeks now.

0:56.0

And that's because it's about dinosaurs.

0:58.0

And yes, I'm biased.

0:59.0

So we've known since around 2014 that spinosaurus,

1:03.0

this large sail back theropod dinosaur,

1:06.0

led a somewhat aquatic lifestyle because of excavations that had uncovered

1:11.0

that it had paddle like feet and a paddle like tail similar to that of a salamander.

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