#Mapping technologies

[markcooper7826]

Dreame: Revolutionizing Smart Home Cleaning with Cutting-Edge Robot Vacuums and Cleaners

In the ever-evolving world of smart home technology, Dreame has emerged as a trailblazer, offering innovative solutions that seamlessly blend cutting-edge engineering with unparalleled convenience. Their line of robot vacuums and cleaners has garnered widespread acclaim, redefining the way we approach household chores.

At the forefront of Dreame's offerings is their state-of-the-art robot vacuum and cleaner lineup. These intelligent machines harness the power of advanced sensors and mapping technologies, meticulously navigating through your living spaces and effortlessly tackling dirt, dust, and debris with remarkable efficiency. With their sleek designs and whisper-quiet operation, Dreame's robot vacuums and cleaners seamlessly integrate into your daily routine, allowing you to enjoy a spotless home without lifting a finger.

What truly sets Dreame apart is their unwavering commitment to innovation and user-friendly experiences. Their products are designed with intuitive controls and smart connectivity features, enabling you to monitor and manage cleaning tasks from the convenience of your smartphone or voice assistant. Whether you're at home or on the go, Dreame empowers you to maintain a pristine living environment with minimal effort.

As the smart home industry continues to evolve, Dreame remains at the forefront, constantly pushing the boundaries of what's possible. Their dedication to cutting-edge technology, combined with a deep understanding of consumer needs, has solidified their position as a trusted brand in the realm of automated cleaning solutions. Experience the future of smart home cleaning with Dreame and embrace a new level of convenience and cleanliness.

[meganbrooks8616]

Dreame Vacuum Cleaning Robots: Revolutionizing Smart Home Cleaning

Welcome to the exciting world of smart home technology, where innovation meets convenience. Today, we'll explore the remarkable advancements in vacuum cleaning robots, with a special focus on the pioneering brand Dreame.

Dreame has emerged as a trailblazer in the vacuum cleaning robot industry, offering cutting-edge solutions that seamlessly integrate into modern smart homes. Their state-of-the-art robots are designed to make your life easier, ensuring a spotless living environment with minimal effort on your part.

Equipped with advanced sensors and mapping technologies, Dreame's vacuum cleaning robots navigate your home with precision, efficiently cleaning every nook and cranny. These intelligent machines adapt to different floor surfaces, adjusting their suction power and cleaning patterns to deliver thorough and customized cleaning experiences.

But Dreame's innovations go beyond mere cleaning prowess. Their robots boast smart features that elevate the user experience to new heights. With voice control integration and mobile app connectivity, you can effortlessly manage and monitor your robot's cleaning cycles, schedules, and even receive real-time updates on its progress.

Dreame's commitment to sustainability is another standout aspect. Their robots are designed with energy-efficient motors and long-lasting batteries, ensuring a reduced environmental impact while delivering exceptional cleaning performance.

As the smart home industry continues to evolve, Dreame remains at the forefront, continuously pushing the boundaries of innovation and user-friendly technology. With their vacuum cleaning robots, you can enjoy a hassle-free, spotless living environment while embracing the convenience of the future.

[thoughtportal]

Last month I wrote a post about my intention to get off US tech platforms and services. I’d been considering it for a while, and even taking small steps in that direction, but the alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump, paired with the growing threats from the United States, finally made me take the plunge.

I’m planning to publish a longer list of alternatives for others who want to start shifting away from US tech companies in the near future. But before that, I wanted to provide an update on how things are going. The truth is that getting off the tech services most of us have come to rely on is (probably unsurprisingly) a challenging task because there’s only so much an individual can do to push back on structural forces and a purposeful limitation on the choices available to us.

[charliejaneanders]

As augmented reality, self-driving vehicles and other innovations slowly creep into everyday life, we’re going to be faced with these kind of situations more and more often. Tech companies will ask us in the words of Groucho Marx, “Who are you gonna believe: me, or your own eyes?”

Google Told Me To Walk Into Traffic (my latest newsletter!)

[randominteresting]

Epic laser mapping system

[reasonsforhope]

"As countries around the world begin to either propose or enforce zero-deforestation regulations, companies are coming under growing pressure to prove that their products are free of deforestation. But this is often a far from straightforward process.

Take palm oil, for instance. Its journey from plantations, most likely in Indonesia or Malaysia, to store shelves in the form of shampoo, cookies or a plethora of other goods, is a long and convoluted one. In fact, the cooking oil or cosmetics we use might contain palm oil processed in several different mills, which in turn may have bought the raw palm fruit from several of the many thousands of plantations. For companies that use palm oil in their products, tracing and tracking its origins through these obscure supply chains is a tough task. Often it requires going all the way back to the plot level and checking for deforestation. However, these plots are scattered over vast areas across potentially millions of locations, with data being in various states of digitization and completeness...

Palmoil.io, a web-based monitoring platform that Bottrill launched, is attempting to help palm oil companies get around this hurdle. Its PlotCheck tool allows companies to upload plot boundaries and check for deforestation without any of the data being stored in their system. In the absence of an extensive global map of oil palm plots, the tool was developed to enable companies to prove compliance with regulations without having to publicly disclose detailed data on their plots. PlotCheck now spans 13 countries including Indonesia and Malaysia, and aims to include more in the coming months.

Palm oil production is a major driver of deforestation in Indonesia and Malaysia, although deforestation rates linked to it have declined in recent years. While efforts to trace illegally sourced palm oil have ramped up in recent years, tracing it back to the source continues to be a challenge owing to the complex supply chains involved.

Recent regulatory proposals have, however, made it imperative for companies to find a way to prove that their products are free of deforestation. Last June, the European Union passed legislation that prohibits companies from sourcing products, including palm oil, from land deforested after 2020. A similar law putting the onus on businesses to prove that their commodities weren’t produced on deforested land is also under discussion in the U.K. In the U.S., the U.S. Forest Bill aims to work toward a similar goal, while states like New York are also discussing legislation to discourage products produced on deforested land from being circulated in the markets there...

PlotCheck, which is now in its beta testing phase, allows users to input the plot data in the form of a shape file. Companies can get this data from palm oil producers. The plot data is then checked and analyzed with the aid of publicly available deforestation data, such as RADD (Radar for Detecting Deforestation) alerts that are based on data from the Sentinel-1 satellite network and from NASA’s Landsat satellites. The tool also uses data available on annual tree cover loss and greenhouse gas emission from plantations.

Following the analysis, the tool displays an interactive online map that indicates where deforestation has occurred within the plot boundaries. It also shows details on historical deforestation in the plot as well as data on nearby mills. If deforestation is detected, users have the option of requesting the team to cross-check the data and determine if it was indeed caused by oil palm cultivation, and not logging for artisanal mining or growing other crops. “You could then follow up with your supplier and say there is a potential red flag,” Bottrill said.

As he waits to receive feedback from users, Bottrill said he’s trying to determine how to better integrate PlotCheck into the workflow of companies that might use the tool. “How can we take this information, verify it quickly and turn it into a due diligence statement?” he said. “The output is going to be a statement, which companies can submit to authorities to prove that their shipment is deforestation-free.” ...

Will PlotCheck work seamlessly? That’s something Bottrill said he’s cautiously optimistic about. He said he’s aware of the potential challenges with regard to data security and privacy. However, he said, given how zero-deforestation legislation like that in the EU are unprecedented in their scope, companies will need to sit up and take action to monitor deforestation linked to their products.

“My perspective is we should use the great information produced by universities, research institutes, watchdog groups and other entities. Plus, open-source code allows us to do things quickly and pretty inexpensively,” he said. “So I am positive that it can be done.”"

-via Mongabay, January 26, 2024

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Note: I know it's not "stop having palm oil plantations." (A plan I'm in support of...monocrop plantations are always bad, and if palm oil production continues, it would be much better to produce it using sustainable agroforestry techniques.)

However, this is seriously a potentially huge step/tool. Since the EU's deforestation regulations passed, along with other whole-supply-chain regulations, people have been really worried about how the heck we're going to enforce them. This is the sort of tool we need/need the industry to have to have a chance of genuinely making those regulations actually work. Which, if it does work, it could be huge.

It's also a great model for how to build supply chain monitoring for other supply chain regulations, like the EU's recent ban on companies destroying unsold clothes.

[fruitiermetrostation]

[rovermcfly]

I really thought by deleting every browser and social media/social media-adjacent app from my phone I would be plunged into total chaos and agony. I expected calamity in my mind and in my life.

instead literally nothing happened. frankly I barely even noticed it. I mean to be fair I already did a lot of work to reduce my screen time before and it wasn't like going cold turkey from 12 hour screentime days, but still. I expected a little more... distress. or at least the overwhelming joy of experiencing life outside of constant internet access at my fingertips.

I can't even tell a cool story about how quitting phone-based internet changed my life. it really didn't. maybe it's because everyone around me has normal smartphones still, maybe it's really just my months of preparing in other ways. whatever it is, it was silly to wait so long to do it.

so if you're waiting for a sign to switch to a dumbphone or dumb down your smartphone- this is it. it's easier than you think right now.

[scifigeneration]

Can you upload a human mind into a computer? A neuroscientist ponders what’s possible

by Dobromir Rahnev, Associate Professor of Psychology at Georgia Institute of Technology

The concept, cool yet maybe a little creepy, is known as mind uploading. Think of it as a way to create a copy of your brain, a transmission of your mind and consciousness into a computer. There you would live digitally, perhaps forever. You’d have an awareness of yourself, you’d retain your memories and still feel like you. But you wouldn’t have a body.

Within that simulated environment, you could do anything you do in real life – eating, driving a car, playing sports. You could also do things impossible in the real world, like walking through walls, flying like a bird or traveling to other planets. The only limit is what science can realistically simulate.

Doable? Theoretically, mind uploading should be possible. Still, you may wonder how it could happen. After all, researchers have barely begun to understand the brain.

Yet science has a track record of turning theoretical possibilities into reality. Just because a concept seems terribly, unimaginably difficult doesn’t mean it’s impossible. Consider that science took humankind to the Moon, sequenced the human genome and eradicated smallpox. Those things too were once considered unlikely.

As a brain scientist who studies perception, I fully expect mind uploading to one day be a reality. But as of today, we’re nowhere close.

Living in a laptop

The brain is often regarded as the most complex object in the known universe. Replicating all that complexity will be extraordinarily difficult.

One requirement: The uploaded brain needs the same inputs it always had. In other words, the external world must be available to it. Even cloistered inside a computer, you would still need a simulation of your senses, a reproduction of the ability to see, hear, smell, touch, feel – as well as move, blink, detect your heart rate, set your circadian rhythm and do thousands of other things.

But why is that? Couldn’t you just exist in a pure mental bubble, inside the computer without sensory input?

Depriving people of their senses, like putting them in total darkness, or in a room without sound, is known as sensory deprivation, and it’s regarded as a form of torture. People who have trouble sensing their bodily signals – thirst, hunger, pain, an itch – often have mental health challenges.

That’s why for mind uploading to work, the simulation of your senses and the digital environment you’re in must be exceptionally accurate. Even minor distortions could have serious mental consequences.

For now, researchers don’t have the computing power, much less the scientific knowledge, to perform such simulations.

Scanning billions of pinheads

The first task for a successful mind upload: Scanning, then mapping the complete 3D structure of the human brain. This requires the equivalent of an extraordinarily sophisticated MRI machine that could detail the brain in an advanced way. At the moment, scientists are only at the very early stages of brain mapping – which includes the entire brain of a fly and tiny portions of a mouse brain.

In a few decades, a complete map of the human brain may be possible. Yet even capturing the identities of all 86 billion neurons, all smaller than a pinhead, plus their trillions of connections, still isn’t enough. Uploading this information by itself into a computer won’t accomplish much. That’s because each neuron constantly adjusts its functioning, and that has to be modeled, too.

It’s hard to know how many levels down researchers must go to make the simulated brain work. Is it enough to stop at the molecular level? Right now, no one knows.

2045? 2145? Or later?

Knowing how the brain computes things might provide a shortcut. That would let researchers simulate only the essential parts of the brain, and not all biological idiosyncrasies. It’s easier to manufacture a new car knowing how a car works, compared to attempting to scan and replicate an existing car without any knowledge of its inner workings.

However, this approach requires that scientists figure out how the brain creates thoughts – how collections of thousands to millions of neurons come together to perform the computations that make the human mind come alive. It’s hard to express how very far we are from this.

Here’s another way: Replace the 86 billion real neurons with artificial ones, one at a time. That approach would make mind uploading much easier. Right now, though, scientists can’t replace even a single real neuron with an artificial one.

But keep in mind the pace of technology is accelerating exponentially. It’s reasonable to expect spectacular improvements in computing power and artificial intelligence in the coming decades.

One other thing is certain: Mind uploading will certainly have no problem finding funding. Many billionaires appear glad to part with lots of their money for a shot at living forever.

Although the challenges are enormous and the path forward uncertain, I believe that one day, mind uploading will be a reality. The most optimistic forecasts pinpoint the year 2045, only 20 years from now. Others say the end of this century.

But in my mind, both of these predictions are probably too optimistic. I would be shocked if mind uploading works in the next 100 years. But it might happen in 200 – which means the first person to live forever could be born in your lifetime.

[estudiomargarita]

[apenitentialprayer]

This week, Australia became one of a growing group of countries that give workers the "right to disconnect" — they don't have to respond to after-hours messages from the boss unless it's an emergency. [...] After France became the first country to pass a right-to-disconnect law in 2016, many nations in Europe and South America followed suit. Even more companies stepped up in the wake of the pandemic when telework became more common and the lines between home and office were further obliterated. [...] Once upon a time, "after work" meant something. No more. "The very idea that, once work hours were over, no one could get hold of you —via email, text, Slack, whatever— is completely alien to contemporary young people, who never let their cellphones leave their hands," Slate's Dan Kois wrote last year. […] Technology and the remote work revolution mean your boss can reach you at any time, for any reason. Some countries are looking to restore some sanity to the situation.

[i-am-dumb]

They have been lost in in the forest for 45 minutes now. Crepe doesn't know how to read a map but they also refuse to accept defeat so they are pretending to know what they are doing. Vanilla knows Crepe has no clue what they are doing, but he just as lost as they are so he's just trying to stay calm and decipher the map.

Raisin knows EXACTLY where they are, but since Crepe insists that they know what they are doing, she decided to just chill and wait for them to either figure it out on their own or give up and ask for help.

without blur

[twothpaste]

i wanna rave and ramble about my m3 postcanon worldbuilding but choosing where to begin is a herculean task all its own.

[psychiatricmentalhealthfacility]

Claiming those without sufficient technological or life extension access are proven criminals or non-citizens or are artificial simulations resembling life that do not need technological access or to have data recorded in relation to them. Criminals claiming their victims are merely automated. Automatics. Automated.

[vimbry-moved]

the first real experience I've had of being fascinated by technological developments in adulthood is getting on a bus that has charging ports in the seats and a screen displaying the route with an announcer.

[fruitiermetrostation]

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