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Aug 18, 2016
Why This Company Is Betting That Reddit Can Make Artificial Intelligence Smarter
Posted by Elmar Arunov in categories: robotics/AI, supercomputing
Stephen Hawking’s AI company is letting its new supercomputer read huge collections of messages.
By Kevin J. Ryan.
Aug 18, 2016
Aubrey de Grey Announces Progress in MitoSENS
Posted by Steve Hill in category: biotech/medical
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=16&v=-teTeyUPsJM
More Progress for the SENS approach.
Filmed August 16th 2016.
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Aug 18, 2016
Artificial Gravity In Space For Mice? Multi-Generational Study Concept
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: health, space travel
Aug 17, 2016
The silicon dreamer who’s difficult to doubt
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: computing, quantum physics
She is showing the world how QC really works. Hoping; Science and Tech finally gives her the recognition she deserves; and history reflects just how key to QC she is. She is to QC as Tesla was to energy (breaking the boundaries).
They said a silicon based quantum computer couldn’t be built. Professor Michelle Simmons and her team are proving otherwise.
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Aug 17, 2016
“Super-Babies to a Quantum Portal to the Cosmos” –China’s 2016 Headlines Foreshadow Control of the Planet & Beyond
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: computing, quantum physics, space
As I highlighted earlier, we now understand more about the telescope announcement 3 months ago and its tie with the Quantum Satellite. Also, we are aware of China’s efforts to be the world leader of tech as they have proven in Pharmaceuticals (namely the generic brand market). Space is another area they have passion due to the opportunities in mining rare and raw materials, etc. Things are getting extremely interesting for sure.
BTW — the balance of tech power is changing; and we could see soon a day that folks look towards China stating the future of tech v. SV.
Aug 17, 2016
Exploring the promise of the quantum realm
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: engineering, nanotechnology, particle physics, quantum physics, security, terrorism, transportation
Nice work; understanding the quantum effects in nanomechanical systems is closer to reality in being achieved. Imagine a nanobot or microbot with quantum mechanic properties.
Rob Knobel is probing the ultimate limits of nanomechanical systems to develop and build tiny vapour sensors, which could be used as airport security tools to prevent terrorism or drug smuggling.
He and his students are using highly specialized equipment in the $5-million Kingston Nano Fabrication Laboratory (KNFL), which opened a year ago in Innovation Park, to fabricate nanosensors made from graphene, a form of carbon a single atom thick.
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Aug 17, 2016
DARPA’s EXTREME Program will Manipulate Light to Strengthen US National Security
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: materials, security
It aims to introduce engineered optical materials (EnMats) and associated design tools for creating innovative optical systems with improved performance, new functionality, and drastically reduced size and weight.
It will do this by finding ways to manipulate light in ways beyond the conventions of classical reflection and refraction, delivering optical systems the size of a sugar cube.
If successful, EXTREME could introduce a new era in optics and imagers for national defense.
Aug 17, 2016
Hezbollah Drone Is a Warning to the U.S
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: drones, military, robotics/AI
I hate saying “I told you so”; however, it has happened. Whenever, technology is easily acquired means the bad people also has the same access via many sources.
As early as November 2004, Hezbollah sent Iranian-supplied Mirsad drones into Israeli airspace on spy missions, catching Israeli air defenses off guard. Shortly thereafter, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah proclaimed that the Mirsad could penetrate “anywhere, deep, deep” into Israel while carrying more than 200 pounds of explosives.
It was a bold claim for the time. The United States was the first country to deploy a modern, armed drone—the Predator—in 2001. For several years, America possessed a virtual monopoly on weaponized flying robots.
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Aug 17, 2016
Revolution by Design: The Materials Genome Initiative
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, materials
Washington, DC — The creation of a new material has long been either an accident or a matter of trial and error. Steel, for instance, was developed over hundreds of years by people who didn’t know why what they were doing worked (or didn’t work). Generations of blacksmiths observed that iron forged in charcoal was stronger than iron that wasn’t, and iron that was forged in a very high-temperature, charcoal-fired furnace and rapidly cooled was even stronger, and so on.
While we’re still learning things about steel, we now have all kinds of recipes that we can use to make steels with different properties depending on the application, but those recipes took a lot of time, sweat and toil to develop. Wouldn’t it be great if we could skip over all the trials and errors and design new materials from scratch with the exact properties we want?
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