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Canadian Lucas Uchida just threw down another hard problem in Squamish. This time its a first ascent of Seven V14. Found near the northeast corner of the giant Octagon bloc in the Grand Wall Boulders, the problem is a low start to Lesson Six V10, which was first sent by Jason Kehl in 2005. The low start had been an exciting, longstanding open project for years in Squamish until the unthinkable happened in 2019. Someone chipped the holds forever altering the low start.

The chipped problem had remained unclimbed until now. It took Uchida only four sessions over two weeks to send the line. Despite the chipping, which ruined what would have become one Squamishs hardest all-natural lines, the problem offers some intense, athletic climbing. It rides up the slopey edge of a severely overhanging corner, which is then exited via a huge throw to the lip of Lesson Six.

Keeping with the number theme of Lesson Six, Uchida named the problem Seven, which also serves as a nod towards the film of the same name and problems sinful past. If climbing had seven deadly sins, chipping would most certainly be one of them.

Uchida had an incredible Squamish season in 2022. Many had joked, somewhat seriously, that theres not much left for him in Squamish now that hes ticked many of the very hard classics but he proved them wrong with this new first ascent. Highlights of his 2022 Squamish season include repeats of Room Service V12, The Pool Low V13, Room Service Low V14, Deadlift V14, North-North Ridge V14, The Singularity V14/15, and Dreamcatcher 5.14d, and a first ascent of Offenders of the Faith V13.

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Warning! Spoilers ahead for Superman: Lost #3!Move over Flash, because Superman's newest ally has the Scarlet Speedster absolutely beat in speed. A wayward Clark Kent hitches a ride from a race of aliens that makes Barry Allen look absolutely pathetic.

In Superman: Lost #3 by Christopher Priest and Carlo Pagulayan, Clark is still trying to make his way home after he wound up stranded in another part of the universe after traveling through a singularity. After seven months of travel, Superman has crossed 22 billion kilometers, but unfortunately, his personal survival kit informs him that he's still nearly 9.5 trillion kilometers away from reaching Earth.

However, just when hope begins to slip, Superman encounters a wild pack of space dolphins and recalls that they are capable of post-light speeds. Clark hitches a ride with the pack and discovers that they're traveling at well over ten times the speed of light. Superman theorizes that the animals must also utilize a system of black holes as they've been to Earth before. Thankfully, the dolphins get Clark close enough to a yellow star and help restore him to his full power.

When it comes to speed in the DC Universe, two people have everyone beat. The Flash and Superman. Barry Allen is connected to the Speed Force, a living energy that empowers every speedster. Clark, on the other hand, is a Kryptonian and his body has developed an array of powers thanks to the Earth's yellow sun, including super speed. The two have debated over their speeds and even competed in races multiple times to see who beats who. But more often than not, it's Barry or Wally West who usually takes home the title of Fastest Man Alive.

Unfortunately for Superman, he's as far from any Flash as he could possibly be. But even if Clark had a Scarlet Speedster by his side, it wouldn't do him any good in the cold vacuum of space. Thankfully, the space dolphins aren't just adorable as hell, they're some of the fastest beings in the galaxy. Not only can they travel several times the speed of light, but according to Superman, they can quickly zip to anywhere in the universe thanks to their black hole shortcuts. Flash might be the fastest superhero, but these cosmic mammals give him a run for his money.

Granted, the Flashes are capable of going faster than the speed as well, arguably faster than the space dolphins. But Barry, Wally, and every other speedster's power all come from the Speed Force. As far as readers are aware, the impressive speeds of the space dolphins are all-natural, no Speed Force enhancement required. Barry might be able to cross universes and travel through time. But when it comes to pure, raw speed, the space dolphins Clark befriends seem to have a natural talent the speedster just can't match. Fans can see Clark's quick, new allies in Superman: Lost #3, on sale now.

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After the gloom of the past few days across eastern areas, we'll eventually see some fine, warmer weather here today. But we are currently in the middle of what is often a cool period. It's one of those quirks of the British climate or a singularity as it's known, and therefore todays more 'spring-like' conditions are unlikely to last.

For the North West, it's the reverse, with the recent sunshine replaced by cloud and some rain on a cold front. This'll bring a drop in temperature eventually to all and will steadily work its way across the country before finally reaching Kent tomorrow.

But that pesky mist, low cloud and patchy fog at first continue to affect the East and South East, but should eventually clear to leave much of England and Wales with a mostly fine day, although there is the risk of some sharp, thundery downpours developing in some eastern and southern regions this afternoon. A storm forecast has been issued.

The sunshine will make it noticeably warmer, especially in areas where it remained dull yesterday, with temperatures reaching 18 to 22C in mostly light winds. But along the exposed coasts of East Anglia and Kent in particular, a northerly breeze will feel chilly, keeping temperatures down here. Later Northumberland and the North West will see more cloud, with Cumbria, in particular, turning wet during the afternoon.

Across Northern Ireland, overnight rain clears to leave sunny spells and just a few showers, mainly towards Derry and Antrim. After a bright start towards Lothian and The Borders, Scotland also sees some rain; before here, too, it turns brighter from the North West with sunny spells. It becomes mainly dry, but the North and the West will have a few showers in a primarily light Westerly breeze - maximum temperatures here only 10 to 14C.

After a fine evening across the East and South, the front works slowly south-eastward across England and Wales after dark. But the rain on it should become somewhat lighter, with the North and Wales seeing clearer skies by morning. Over Scotland and Northern Ireland, there'll be clear spells, but with a few showers, mainly in the North and West, particularly towards dawn. Lowest temperatures 5 to 7C in the North, 7 to 11C in the South in the North West or Westerly breeze.

As we enter the new working week, it'll be the turn of the South East and parts of East Anglia to see some rain, which should have cleared Kent by mid-day. When it does so, you'll join much of the rest of the country on a reasonable but cooler day. There'll be some sunshine but with variable amounts of cloud that'll produce a few showers, mainly over Scotland, Northern Ireland and eastern England, in a primarily light breeze from a North Westerly quarter.

Across the far North of Scotland, you'll see some rain moving in through the day in a freshening West or South Westerly wind. Although feeling pleasant across the country in the sunny spells there'll be on offer, top temperatures of 11 to 14C in the North and 15 to 17C further South will be on the cool side for the time of year.

The evening sees skies tending to break, with fewer showers after dark leaving clear intervals in mostly light West or North Westerly breezes. Although mainly dry, it'll turn chilly with minimum temperatures of 4 to 8C, low enough to perhaps give a touch of ground frost in some rural 'hollows' of the North where skies stay clear. It could also turn cold enough across the Northern Isles for showers to turn wintry later, as North West winds draw air from the Arctic.

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Editors Note: The following is a brief letter from Ray Kurzweil, a director of engineering at Google and cofounder and member of the board at Singularity Group, Singularity Hubs parent company, in response to the Future of Life Institutes recent letter, Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter.

The FLI letter addresses the risks of accelerating progress in AI and the ensuing race to commercialize the technology and calls for a pause in the development of algorithms more powerful than OpenAIs GPT-4, the large language model behind the companys ChatGPT Plus and Microsofts Bing chatbot. The FLI letter has thousands of signatoriesincluding deep learning pioneer, Yoshua Bengio, University of California Berkeley professor of computer science, Stuart Russell, Stability AI CEO, Emad Mostaque, Elon Musk, and many othersand has stirred vigorous debate in the AI community.

Regarding the open letterto pause research on AI more powerful thanGPT-4, this criterion is too vague to be practical. And the proposal faces a serious coordination problem: those that agree to a pause may fall far behind corporations or nations that disagree. There are tremendous benefits to advancing AI in critical fields such as medicine and health, education, pursuit of renewable energy sources to replace fossil fuels, and scores of other fields. I didnt sign, because I believe we can address the signers safety concerns in a more tailored way that doesnt compromise these vital lines of research.

I participated in theAsilomar AI Principles Conference in 2017 and was actively involved in the creation of guidelines to create artificial intelligence in an ethical manner. So I know that safety is a critical issue. But more nuance is needed if we wish to unlock AIs profound advantages to health and productivity while avoiding the real perils.

Ray KurzweilInventor, best-selling author, and futurist

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Cultured meat is gaining momentum, with large production facilities under construction and the arduous approval process for the finished products inching forward. Most of the industrys focus thus far has been on ground beef, chicken, pork, and steak. Save for one startup that was working on lab-grown salmon, fish have been largely left out of the fray.

But last month an Israeli company called Steakholder Foods announced it had 3D printed a ready-to-cook fish fillet using cells grown in a bioreactor. The company says the fish is the first of its kind in the world, and theyre aiming to commercialize the 3D bioprinter used to create it.

Steakholder Foods didnt produce the fish cells it used to print the fillet. They partnered with Umami Meats, a Singapore-based company working on cultured seafood. Umami created the fish cells the same way companies like Believer Meats and Good Meat create lab-grown chicken or beef: they extract cells from a fish (in a process that doesnt harm it) and mix those cells with a cocktail of nutrients to make them divide, multiply, and mature. They signal the cells to turn into muscle and fat, which they then harvest and form into a finished product.

Steakholder Foods takes the harvested cells and adds them to a bio-ink that also contains plant-based ingredients (this is mostly because of the plant ingredients cheaper cost, which brings down the final cost of the fish fillet). Layers of cells are put down one after the other, the fillet growing until it looks like the photo above. An added advantage of the 3D printing process is that it gives the fillet a flaky texture, just like real fish when its cooked well.

The type of fish used for this fillet was grouper, a large-mouthed heavy-bodied fish that tends to live in warm seas. Umami says its lab-grown grouper is healthier than the ocean-swimming version since it doesnt contain any of the antibiotics, mercury, or microplastics that can unfortunately be found in wild and farmed fish.

Due to the resources it takes to raise animals like cattle and chickens and the emissions created by factory farming, eating meat has come to be seen by many as environmentally unfriendly. But farmed fish have their own set of problems; overfishing is depleting wild populations of all kinds of fish, including grouper, and warming waters are throwing off marine ecosystems natural balance and causing negative ripple effects throughout their food chains.

That said, is 3D printing fillets from a mix of fish and plant cells a viable solution? The cultured meat industry has come under fire due to the products high costs, scalability issues, and biological limitations, and fish is no different. Though raising whole animals to then slaughter them for just a few parts is obviously not ideal, its a system thats been in place for decades; wont it take decades to replace it, if replacing it is possible at all?

Umami CEO Mihir Pershad said, We want consumers to choose based on how it tastes and what it can do for the world and the planetary environment. And we want to take cost off the table as consideration. Thats a nice thought, but a bit unrealistic, especially in these times of high inflation and market uncertainty. Its a small fraction of consumers that can afford to choose products based on their environmental impact; the rest choose based on cost.

Arik Kaufman, CEO of Steakholder Foods, is optimistic. As time goes by, the complexity and level of these products will be higher, and the prices linked to producing them will decrease, he said.

Umami has ironed out its production process for grouper and eel cells, and wants to add three more species to that list this year. The company hopes to bring its first products to market next year, starting in Singapore and then eventually the US and Japan.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently sampled the 3D printed grouper, making him the first prime minister to ever taste 3D-printed cultivated fish. Bet thats not a badge he was expecting to earn during his government tenure.

Time will tell whether 3D-printed fish fillets can replace fish caught in water. But if companies like Steakholder Foods and Umami Meats succeed in making their vision a reality, people, animals, and the planet will all be better off for it.

Image Credit: Shlomi Arbiv/Steakholder Foods

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