Hardware Podcasts

2. Boom Brings Back Supersonic, Using AI to Beat TB, 5G is Messing Up Weather Forecasts

The Next Byte Podcast · 26 Jan 2021 · 19m

What this episode covers

Hosts Daniel Scott Mitchell and Farbod Moghaddam discuss three engineering topics: Boom Supersonic's XB-1 prototype and its path to the Overture aircraft, an MIT machine learning model for tuberculosis drug discovery, and a Rutgers study on 5G interference with weather forecasts. They detail Boom's use of carbon composites, additive manufacturing, and Prometheus Fuels' carbon-sequestered jet fuel to address the Concorde's economic and environmental failures. The hosts then explain how MIT's Gaussian model improves drug screening accuracy by incorporating uncertainty, before analyzing how 5G frequency leakage impacts satellite weather data.

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Companies
Boom Supersonic, Prometheus Fuels, MIT, Rutgers University
Products
XB-1, Overture, Concorde, iPhone 12

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