Another epidemic is coming! Bill Gates prediction

Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, has warned that the world is going to be hit by another epidemic like Corona in the next few years.

Earlier, in 2015, he had expressed concern about the epidemic in advance. He also said that if 10 million people die in the next few decades through something, it will not be through war, it will be due to an infectious virus. At the end of 5 years of this statement, there was a catastrophe of coronavirus in the world.

Speaking to US actress, director and producer Rashida Jones at a recent event, she expressed fears of a new epidemic.

It's a coincidence, but Bill Gates is not to be taken lightly. Because, he has been active in health and vaccine work for a long time. He has enough research and knowledge about this. It is believed that he is saying this in the context of that experience and reality.

He also commented on Corona's next trip and office hours. According to him, after Corona, business travel will be reduced by 50 percent, in addition, office work hours will be reduced by 30 percent. Meanwhile, Microsoft has already halved the working hours of its employees sitting at home in office work.

Earthquake forecast: Google is showing hope

Earthquake; A catastrophe of nature. There are an average of ten earthquakes of different magnitude on the earth every hour. Tech giant Google is working on this earthquake. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that Google is planning to build an earthquake forecasting system as their next big project.

What is Google saying? Google recently tested using fiber optic cable, this technology can provide earthquake and tsunami warnings around the world. There is a long history of using optical fiber for alert, forecasting or sensing applications. However, most of these strategies are effective at distances up to a maximum of 100 km. Google says it is moving toward a technology that operates over distances of more than a few thousand kilometers, and that it is possible to use ordinary fiber under the sea instead of specially sensitive fibers and equipment. Hopefully, Google's technology will be able to use common tools that are found in a large number of fiber optic systems in the world.

Why fiber optic cable? Fiber optic cables connect distant continents with the ocean floor, and most of the international traffic on the Internet is done with these cables. Google also has its own submarine cable. At the moment their 15 fiber systems are spread over a total distance of 112 thousand kilometers. Cables are being used to connect, search, transmit and receive information around the world at the speed of light by connecting to global networks. These cables are made using optical fiber, which transports information by traveling 2 lakh 4 thousand 109 kilometers per second.

Crossing such a huge path often leads to distortion of information. This is why there is a digital signal processing system at the receiving end by which data distortions are corrected. One of the characteristics of light identified as part of optical transmission is the state of polarization (SOP). This is the situation that is showing hope in the plan to get an earthquake forecast. This condition can change in response to mechanical disturbances, including cables, and enable us to detect seismic activity by detecting these disturbances.

First attempt seven years ago: In 2013, Google began working on its first earthquake forecasting system. At that time, instead of optical fiber under the sea, they conducted this test on land-based cables. They focused on how to use SOP data to better understand deviations from ground-based wire detection, but Google did not do so at the time, as environmental issues in the area were too much of a hindrance to seismic signal detection.

Light of hope in scientific article: In 2018, a team of 12 scientists from the United Kingdom, Italy and Malta published a research report. The article mentions the initial success of detecting earthquakes by observing progressive changes through both land and sea using a short band ultrasound laser.

The team limited their experiments to a depth of less than 535 kilometers on land, 96 kilometers under sea and 200 meters in shallow water. In a recent blog post published in Google Cloud, Google authorities said that this article made scientists interested in working on this issue anew. In this context, they started thinking about how to detect earthquake data using fiber optic cable under the sea floor. In October of last year (2019) they came up with an idea to talk about the possibility of identifying earthquakes based on spectral reflections. It is possible to get the expected results in the spectral analysis of Stokes' parameters to see the frequencies characteristic of earthquakes.

Success: Towards the end of 2019, Google began monitoring the SOP data of several of their submarine cables spread worldwide. The SOP was remarkably stable in the early stages of this observation, even after the signal was found to be stable after crossing about ten and a half thousand kilometers. For the next few weeks, the sea floor was probably very calm, at this time no SOP showed any signs of an earthquake.

January 22, 2020; Google claims to have detected a submarine cable 1500 kilometers from the epicenter of a magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Jamaica that day. A plot of SOP shows a clear spike about five minutes after the earthquake, which is related to the duration of the earthquake wave travel from Jamaica to Cable, and the spike lasted about 10 minutes.

Fancy 6 non-humanoid robots

The demand for humanoid robots and industrial robots as well as non-humanoid robots is increasing day by day. A non-humanoid robot is a robot made of a variety of animal or object shapes that specializes in certain tasks. These robots are made for domestic health care, entertainment and security services. Here are some of the fancy non-humanoid robots.

Paro: Paro is a therapeutic baby seal robot that is able to exert a beautiful and calm effect on patients in hospitals and nursing homes. This robot is designed to be used as a therapy for dementia. The robot can move its tail, open and close its eyes just like normal animals. In addition to eye-contact, it is also able to respond to touch. Even when the robot is hugged, it behaves like a normal animal.

Buddy: Made by Blue Frog Robotics, this robot named Buddy is designed as a personal assistant at home. This robot interacts with humans and also provides protection to its owner. It will keep your home safe when you go somewhere. It also has a matching pair to play games and give pleasure to the baby.

Miro: The popularity of robots with the same qualities as ordinary animals is increasing day by day. With that in mind, this robot has been designed and engineered. Miro is the first robot in history to use a brain-inspired biometric operating system. This means that the robot named Miro will behave exactly like the creature given the information input on the motherboard.

Zenbo: This robot made by Asus is basically a health care assistant robot. Although designed to focus on health care, the robot can be connected to a variety of electrical devices in the home and can also provide home security.

Aibo: This robot was originally created in 1998 to look like a dog made by the famous electronics manufacturer brand Sony. But Sony is still working to update the robot to make it more attractive and functional. This robot is able to walk like normal dogs and is able to give pleasure to its owner. This robot is also good at playing with children.

Pigios: This cargo robot is designed to carry your belongings. Helping to keep your hands empty while shopping, this robot is also able to walk around the store with you. It can keep pace with the pace of human walking. It also has the technology to navigate its owner's location.