2015-03-24, 00:02 | Link #3041 |
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Will You Be Murdered By a Robot?:
"With a bit of technical knowledge and a good imagination, any malevolent person may soon be able to eradicate the human race. This is a mildly exaggerated version of a fundamental claim in The Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones—Confronting a New Age of Threat, an alarming and informative new book by Benjamin Wittes and Gabriela Blum. By combining the elements of the subtitle in sinister ways, Wittes and Blum conjure a number of nightmarish scenarios: a drone hovers above a packed sports stadium and sprays invisible anthrax spores into air breathed by tens of thousands, a miniature robotic drone that looks exactly like a spider assassinates a businessman as he showers, a malign molecular biology graduate student modifies the smallpox virus to enhance its lethality and overcome vaccinations." See: http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...y-a-robot.html |
2015-03-30, 14:27 | Link #3043 |
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Woolly Mammoth DNA Inserted into Elephant Cells but passenger pigeon will
become de-extincted first: "Harvard geneticist George Church and his colleagues used a gene-editing technique known as CRISPR to insert mammoth genes for small ears, subcutaneous fat, and hair length and color into the DNA of elephant skin cells. The work has not yet been published in a scientific journal, and has yet to be reviewed by peers in the field. Woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) have been extinct for millennia, with the last of the species dying out about 3,600 years ago. But scientists say it may be possible to bring these and other species back from the grave, through a process known as de-extinction. But we won't be seeing woolly mammoths prancing around anytime soon, "because there is more work to do," Church told U.K.'s The Times, "But we plan to do so," Church added." "And Church himself has been working on trying to bring back the passenger pigeon, a bird whose flocks once filled the skies of North America but went extinct in the early 20th century. The researchers extracted about 1 billion DNA "letters" from a 100-year-old museum specimen, and are attempting to splice them into the DNA of a common rock pigeon." See: http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/03/woo...rted-into.html ============================================== Entanglement-Based Machine Learning on a Photonic Quantum Computer in principle and if scaled would show exponential speed up: "For the first time, physicists have performed machine learning on a photonic quantum computer, demonstrating that quantum computers may be able to exponentially speed up the rate at which certain machine learning tasks are performed—in some cases, reducing the time from hundreds of thousands of years to mere seconds. The new method takes advantage of quantum entanglement, in which two or more objects are so strongly related that paradoxical effects often arise since a measurement on one object instantaneously affects the other. Here, quantum entanglement provides a very fast way to classify vectors into one of two categories, a task that is at the core of machine learning. In the future, the researchers hope to scale the method to larger numbers of qubits. They explain that higher-dimensional quantum states can be encoded using a photon's degree of freedom of orbital angular momentum, or by using other properties." See: http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/03/ent...arning-on.html |
2015-03-31, 03:07 | Link #3044 |
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New DNA Tech: Creating Unicorns and Curing Cancer for Real?:
"In 2012, scientists in the U.S. and Sweden invented a technology as potentially life-altering as splitting the atom. One that you haven’t heard of—yet—called “CRISPR-Cas9”. This innovation with the cumbrous name allows biologists to edit DNA almost as easily as cutting and pasting words and letters on a laptop. Scientists say that CRISPR-Cas9 may soon allow them to perform miraculous fixes to eliminate or alter mutations that cause everything from some cancers to Parkinson’s disease. More whimsically, the technology could be used to create, say, a unicorn, or a pig with wings; though it’s unlikely they could make swine fly. More nefariously, terrorists or the military might create pathogens that could harm far more people than splitting the atom has so far. Or, an accident could occur unintentionally. See: http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...-for-real.html |
2015-04-02, 22:18 | Link #3045 |
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Are Aliens Behind Mysterious Radio Bursts? Scientists Weigh In:
"What are those things? For the past eight years, astronomers have been scratching their heads over a series of strange radio signals emanating from somewhere in the cosmos. And now, the mystery has deepened. A new study shows that the so-called "fast radio bursts" follow a weirdly specific pattern -- a finding that the researchers behind the study say "is very hard to explain." "There is something really interesting we need to understand," study co-author Michael Hippke, a scientist at the Institute for Data Analysis in Neukirchen-Vluyn, Germany, told New Scientist. "This will either be new physics, like a new kind of pulsar, or, in the end, if we can exclude everything else, an E.T."" See: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/0...n_6984870.html |
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Liquid body armor tested in Poland
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*wonder if saints will transplant his head onto a loli body.
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2015-04-08, 19:42 | Link #3052 |
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Head too big. Not gonna work.
Though it would have been nice to be able to interact with other lolis in a loli body..... There was an X-Files episode about it where this molest victim of a priest transplanted his head onto a woman.
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2015-04-12, 16:31 | Link #3053 |
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3D virtual objects that can be touched and felt:
"British company Ultrahaptics has developed a unique technology that enables users to receive tactile sensations from invisible three dimension objects floating in mid-air. Using ultrasound to precisely project sensations through the air, users can 'feel' and interact with virtual objects." See: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/...0MZ13H20150408 |
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SpaceX rocket blasts off, then lands - too hard - on ocean barge
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/...0N52CC20150414
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2015-04-20, 10:07 | Link #3058 |
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Norway Will Be the First Country to Turn Off FM Radio in 2017
Recode: Nokia's planning a return to phones next year
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