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Old 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."

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...y-a-robot.html
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Old 2015-03-24, 02:08   Link #3042
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Wasn't there some that said "don't give the crazy madmen ideas."
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Old 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."

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http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/03/woo...rted-into.html


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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."

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http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/03/ent...arning-on.html
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Old 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.

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Old 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.""

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/0...n_6984870.html
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Old 2015-04-03, 00:13   Link #3046
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Could they be our own radio signals from say the 30s bouncing back off something dark?
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Old 2015-04-06, 00:46   Link #3047
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Liquid body armor tested in Poland

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Scientists at a Polish company that produce body armor systems are working to implement a non-Newtonian liquid in their products.

The liquid is called Shear-Thickening Fluid (STF). STF does not conform to the model of Newtonian liquids, such as water, in which the force required to move the fluid faster must increase exponentially, and its resistance to flow changes according to temperature. Instead STF hardens upon impact at any temperature, providing protection from penetration by high-speed projectiles and additionally dispersing energy over a larger area.

"This viscosity increases thanks to the subordination of the particles in the liquid structure, therefore they form a barrier against an external penetrating factor," said Karolina Olszewska, who performed tests on the STF for Moratex.

The exact composition of the STF is known only to Moratex and its inventors at the Military Institute of Armament Technology in Warsaw, but ballistic tests proved its resistance to a wide range of projectiles.

"We needed to find, design a liquid that functions both with projectiles hitting at the velocity of 450 meters per second and higher. We have succeeded," said Deputy Director for Research at the Moratex institute, Marcin Struszczyk.

Struszczyk said the liquid's stopping capability, combined with the lower indentation of its surface, provides a higher safety level for the user compared with traditional, mostly Kevlar-based, solutions.

"If a protective vest is fitted to the body, then a four centimeter deep deflection may cause injury to the sternum, sternum fracture, myocardial infarction, lethal damage to the spleen," Struszczyk said.

"Thanks to the properties of the liquid, thanks to the proper formation of the insert, we eliminate one hundred percent of this threat because we have reduced the deflection from four centimeters to one centimeter."

When hit by a high-speed projectile, a wide area of the STF hardens instantly, causing the usually massive energy to be dispersed away from the wearer's internal organs.

Implementing the solution in body armor required designing special inserts, but the company says those are lighter than standard ballistic inserts and broader range of movement for their users in the police and military.

"The point is for them not to interfere, not change the way of movement, operation of such the product by the user, and at the same time increase their motor skills, increase effectiveness of their decision process and increase their possibilities during the mission at hand," Struszczyk said.

The laboratory is also working on a magnetorheological fluid, which they hope can be also applied in their products.

According to the researchers, both liquids can find applications beyond body armor, such as in the production of professional sports inserts, and even entire outfits. Another use could be in car bumpers or road protective barriers.
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Old 2015-04-07, 13:10   Link #3048
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Brontosaurus and Apatosaurus might be different things after all.
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Old 2015-04-08, 01:37   Link #3049
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What?

Hasn't it already been established that the Brontosaurus is much bigger than its cousin?
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Old 2015-04-08, 11:14   Link #3050
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The first man set to undergo a head transplant has been revealed, saying that he finds the controversial surgery “very scary, but also very interesting”.

Valery Spiridinov is set to be the first person to undergo the operation. It will be carried out by controversial Italian doctor Sergio Canavero, whose optimistic plans have mostly been met with scepticism.
But Spiridonov — who has the rare genetic Werdnig-Hoffman disease, which gradually wastes away muscles — says that he is willing to undergo the risky procedure to give himself a chance at living in a healthy body.
“Am I afraid? Yes, of course I am. But it is not just very scary, but also very interesting,” Spiridonov, speaking from his house in the Russian town of Vladimir about 120 miles from Moscow, told MailOnline.
“But you have to understand that I don't really have many choices,” he said. “If I don't try this chance my fate will be very sad. With every year my state is getting worse.”


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/sc...-10162639.html

*wonder if saints will transplant his head onto a loli body.
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Old 2015-04-08, 12:20   Link #3051
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*wonder if saints will transplant his head onto a loli body.

what makes you think he hasn't already?


also, this reminds me of that new movie trailer..... Selfless i think it was called, but that was about transplanting minds.
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Old 2015-04-08, 19:42   Link #3052
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*wonder if saints will transplant his head onto a loli body.
Head too big. Not gonna work.
Though it would have been nice to be able to interact with other lolis in a loli body.....

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what makes you think he hasn't already?


also, this reminds me of that new movie trailer..... Selfless i think it was called, but that was about transplanting minds.
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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Old 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."

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/...0MZ13H20150408
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Old 2015-04-15, 06:51   Link #3054
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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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Old 2015-04-17, 12:09   Link #3055
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[Military.com] Navy Will Test its Electromagnetic Rail Gun aboard DDG 1000

It's HAPPENING
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Old 2015-04-17, 12:24   Link #3056
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WHERE IS JAPAN, YAMATO AND THE WAVE MOTION CANNON.

Pew pew pew.
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Old 2015-04-17, 14:57   Link #3057
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Is this still Captain James Kirk's ship.
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Old 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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Old 2015-04-21, 12:55   Link #3059
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Crickets Alone Will Not Save You, Futurist Foodies

Now to invest more research on Lab-Grown meat.
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Old 2015-04-21, 16:07   Link #3060
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Crickets Alone Will Not Save You, Futurist Foodies

Now to invest more research on Lab-Grown meat.
3D print your own steak
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