Dec 31
“I must be a lil toxic cuz I enjoyed cursing ya out today… but we not taking that into 2024. Now have a good day. No make it a bad day!”
Dec 31
Jujutsu Kaisen wrapped up earlier this week after a long and fairly grim season. You won’t be surprised to learn that it’s got another season in the works, once again courtesy of MAPPA.
Dec 31
Livestock farming is a challenging business that gets riskier and more expensive as of late. One of the fears many farmers have is that having a dense congregation of animals might make infectious diseases spread much faster, leading to mass mortality and low productivity. [photo credit: PixaBay on Pexel]
We’ve certainly seen recent cases where millions of animals have been culled in recent years because of this kind of issue. Whether it is Korean cattle with lumpy skin, Danish minks, Japanese chicken, or Chinese pork, this is a high-risk scenario that plays out on a regular basis.
FarmPro believes it has a solution to this challenge. Its FarmPlusCare hardware product is a real-time monitoring device for large livestock (like cows) that collects health data such as temperature and activity every 10 minutes. The device is about the size of an iPod, weighs 50g, and can sense 0.1 degrees C temperature variations. If you want to see it, FarmPro will be at CES 2024.
The device is installed near or on the ear of the cattle, which is why it wouldn’t work on smaller livestock, for now. The data is fed into a database from which it can be analyzed by their algorithms. Users have a dashboard that is accessible from a mobile app or PC.
Body temperature tracking is a great tool to detect infections at an early stage, giving farmers enough time to isolate sick animals and avoid mass contagion. It is apparently possible to extract insights such as whether an animal has eaten or had enough to drink.
There’s a simple notification system, just like any other app. The tracker also helps with more positive outcomes and tasks such as tracking and managing the births, pregnancy, and delivery schedules.
At a high level, this may appear simple, and one must wonder why this wasn’t done by every farmer before. However, the implementation of these concepts is very difficult. FarmPro’s founders have experience actually running farms and are well aware of things that need fixing. For instance, the hardware is very well designed to run in a farming environment where things can get rough, with temperatures, dirt, humidity, and even shocks, which can be problematic.
So far, FarmPro has deployed its solutions in several countries. For example, some farmers in Argentina have used the system for the past three years. Other places include France, Mongolia, and more. As you can guess, New Zealand and Australia are high on the list of countries FarmPro would like to expand next. The company’s data is encouraging, with a rise of 20% in milk production and a 50% drop in diseases.
From a business standpoint, the company estimates the business opportunity to grow to $736M by 2030. Their strategy so far is to have new customers get on board and run the system free for one year. After that, the service becomes a recurring subscription, essentially after the customers had time to see the benefits.
FarmPro is eager to get new customers up and running, so they are quite aggressive with the hardware pricing, which they say is about ~30% less expensive than competitors. Hopefully, future hardware revisions can open the market to smaller (and more numerous) animals such as sheep/lamb.
Smart Farming for Healthier Herds: FarmPro’s FarmPlusCare
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Dec 31
The Oscar winner starred as the pure-blood wizard in the popular fantasy franchise.
Dec 31
In terms of entertainment, 2023 was a big year all around. We got many wholly new things that were excellent in their own special way, while the majority of reliable brands and franchises stayed firm in greatness or took a few hits with their new entries. And on this, the final day of the year, it’s time to think…
Dec 31
HBO’s House of the Dragon is keeping the Game of Thrones train going along, but it’s not the only spinoff for the fantasy series in the works. In a newly released blog looking back on 2023, author George R.R. Martin revealed he and HBO have a number of animated series in unofficial development—as in, they haven’t been…
Dec 31
Fantasia Barrino Opens Up About Losing ‘Everything’ After Winning ‘American Idol’
Posted in: Today's Chili“The Color Purple” star described herself as a “little girl” from High Point, North Carolina, who knew “nothing about the industry.”
Dec 31
Fantasia Barrino Opens Up About Losing ‘Everything’ After Winning ‘American Idol’
Posted in: Today's Chili“The Color Purple” star described herself as a “little girl” from High Point, North Carolina, who knew “nothing about the industry.”
Dec 31
io9's Top 100 Posts of 2023
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The year is ending, but the posting never stops. io9 wrote thousands of stories in 2023, from breaking news to analysis and critique of the biggest films, TV shows, comics, and games in our worlds. Here’s a look back at the 100 you, our dear readers, read and shared the most. Thanks for sticking around for another…
Dec 31
A few weeks ago, NASA’s robotic Mars explorers were given some time off from hard work while the agency waited out Mars solar conjunction, a natural phenomenon that could interfere with their communications. Leading up to the pause, the Curiosity rover was put in park — but its Hazard-Avoidance Cameras (Hazcams) kept snapping away. In a first for the rover, Curiosity recorded the passage of a Martian day over 12 hours from its stationary position, capturing its own shifting shadow on the landscape as the sun moves from dawn to dusk. It held onto the images until after the conjunction ended on November 25.
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Curiosity was given instructions to record the 12-hour sequences a few days before the conjunction began in mid-November, according to NASA. The idea was to see if it could catch any weather events that might crop up. That didn’t end up happening, but the images Curiosity snapped on November 8 are still pretty enchanting. They’ve been pieced together in two videos showing the view from its front and rear Hazcams.
Curiosity’s Hazcams are normally used to help drivers avoid terrain that could be dangerous to the rover. But with the rover parked ahead of its pause in duties from November 11 to November 25, the cameras were freed up for a bit of sight-seeing. Curiosity recorded from its position at the base of Mars’ Mount Sharp from 5:30AM to 5:30PM. It and the other Mars explorers have since resumed their normal duties.
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This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/nasas-curiosity-rover-snapped-this-dreamy-timelapse-of-a-martian-day-175701537.html?src=rss
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