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Researchers want you to change your car for a mini-helicopter
Post Date: 2014-06-22 04:14:53 by Tatarewicz
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Six institutions funded by the European Union are exploring the idea of small commuter helicopters to tackle city traffic. Swarms of flying cars hovering over cities has been a persistent image in sci-fi. We’ve seen them in TV shows like Hanna-Barbera’s The Jetsons and movies such as Blade Runner and The Fifth Element. But the truth is few people have taken them seriously as a solution for everyday transportation. Until now. myCopter is a European government project that is studying the technical feasibility of small commuter helicopters. The main challenge is figuring out how to make personal choppers easy to fly for ordinary people. Scientists at the University of Liverpool ...
China Focus: 3D printing industry begins to boom
Post Date: 2014-06-20 22:05:47 by Tatarewicz
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QINGDAO, June 20 (Xinhua) -- With products ranging from stem cells, shoes and mini-statues, 3D printing has started to boom in China amid the industry's rapid development worldwide. Qingdao Unique Products Develop Co., Ltd announced that adipose-derived stem cells and corneal stromal cells exported via a biological 3D printer had survived for nine days. Cell-printed tissues can be used for organ transplants or restoration, said Wang Hong, board chairman of the company at the 2014 World 3D Printing Technology Industry Exhibition, which opened on Thursday in east China's coastal city of Qingdao. The four-day event has attracted 110 3D printing companies at home and from abroad and ...
Robots in warfare
Post Date: 2014-06-20 07:14:09 by Tatarewicz
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swissinfo.ch Machines are starting to slowly replace humans on the battlefield. It’s believed fully autonomous weapons may be ready in 20-30 years. And Switzerland is moving ahead with its own research into mobile robot technology. At a recent meeting in Geneva on the threat of killer robot technology (lethal autonomous weapons systems or LAWS), a Swiss foreign ministry disarmament expert said the international community was only starting to grasp the possible repercussions of the robotic revolution on the future battlefield. Laurent Masmejean added that it was crucial to further examine which applications of autonomous capabilities would be desirable, legal and acceptable, and ...
Why Solar Energy Is the Key to Solving Global Poverty
Post Date: 2014-06-20 05:22:58 by Tatarewicz
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Yahoo News Every morning, students in Kunthur, a village outside Bangalore, India, leave home carrying a battery among their books. At Swamy Vivekananda High School, solar panels charge the batteries during the day so the stored energy can be used to power lanterns when the students return home. With access to light—and the elimination of dirty and costly kerosene-powered lamps—families save $100 a year and children have more time for work and study, offering them a chance to rise out of poverty. Solar energy is emerging as a way to give power to the 1.3 billion people in the world with no reliable access to electricity without spending billions of dollars to build ...
Fish-eating spiders discovered in all parts of the world
Post Date: 2014-06-20 01:33:53 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: Spiders are traditionally viewed as predators of insects. Zoologists from Switzerland and Australia have now published a study that shows: spiders all over the world also prey on fish. The academic journal PLOS ONE has just published the results. Although viewed by ecologists as the classical predators of insects, researchers have become increasingly aware that spiders are not exclusively insectivorous. Certain larger-sized species supplement their diet by occasionally catching small fish. This shows a new study by zoologist and spider expert, Martin Nyffeler from the University of Basel, Switzerland and Bradley Pusey from the University of Western Australia. The ...
Bipedal android outruns fastest sprinter
Post Date: 2014-06-20 01:06:38 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... Korean developers of a bipedal robot allege it to be capable of outrunning the world’s 100-meter sprint record-toter. The minds behind Raptor, as the automaton has been christened, at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) say it outperforms Usain Bolt by some two seconds. Bolt’s intact record stands at 9.58 seconds. The machine has been fitted with a tail, which restores its balance on tricky terrain, and sports an inbuilt energy recovery system. The institute’s Park Jong-won has said, "The KAIST's Raptor robot actually runs at the maximum speed of 46km/h which means the robot can run 100m in just 7.8seconds. That means the ...
Tesla's "Mad Genius" Plot to Kill Ford and Chevy
Post Date: 2014-06-18 18:44:47 by BTP Holdings
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Tesla’s Latest Move Shocks the Auto Industry Published Wed, Jun 18, 2014 | Robert Williams, Founder Technology companies typically guard their patents with the might of a thousand dragons. In fact, patent lawsuits have dramatically spiked in recent years as companies rush to protect intellectual property. We’ve even seen the emergence of “patent trolls.” That is, companies or individuals that file patent applications with an eye toward eventual litigation, simply to block the progress of other companies. Heck, look at the action from just yesterday alone… Teva (TEVA) settled a case with four rival companies that were infringing on the patent for its ...
Russia to create electromagnetic super weapon
Post Date: 2014-06-18 06:49:10 by Tatarewicz
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Pravda...Defense strategists place their stakes on high-tech weapons. Nearly all superpowers of the world conduct their works in the development of such weapons. It transpired recently that Russian scientists developed a generator, the capacity of which is comparable to that of a nuclear unit. It is a genuine scientific breakthrough, and it is already clear that the defense industry will not be the only field where the new super device is going to be used. An individual, who is miles away from physics and is only familiar with home electricity, will not be able to imagine the power of several billions of watts. It will be even harder to imagine that such power can be generated by a device ...
New computer program aims to teach itself everything about any visual concept
Post Date: 2014-06-18 06:00:28 by Tatarewicz
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In today's digitally driven world, access to information appears limitless. But when you have something specific in mind that you don't know, like the name of that niche kitchen tool you saw at a friend's house, it can be surprisingly hard to sift through the volume of information online and know how to search for it. Or, the opposite problem can occur -- we can look up anything on the Internet, but how can we be sure we are finding everything about the topic without spending hours in front of the computer? Computer scientists from the University of Washington and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Seattle have created the first fully automated computer ...
The PhiSciences Neurophone for Only $99 is Coming!
Post Date: 2014-06-17 03:12:29 by Tatarewicz
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CLICK to Join Our Volunteer Group on Facebook to spread the word! $99 NeuroPhone! Welcome to the crowd funder hub for the new $99 Neurophone, in PRE-LAUNCH. To the right is the video that will used for the crowd funder once we launch. Which is anticipated to be late summer of 2014. The Neurophone is not a phone. It's way smarter than a smart phone. Invented by Patrick Flanagan in 1958, when he was only a 13 year-old prodigy, the Neurophone boosts IQ using ultrasonic frequencies broadcast into the brain via transducers you wear on your head. The doctor explains all in the videos to the right. Today, a Neurophone, if you do not wish to wait until 2015 for it's greatly ...
New evidence for 'oceans' of water deep in Earth: Water bound in mantle rock alters view of Earth's composition
Post Date: 2014-06-16 03:45:58 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... Schematic cross section of the Earth’s interior. The study by Steve Jacobsen and Brandon Schmandt used seismic waves to find magma generated at the base of the transition zone, around 410 miles deep. Dehydration melting at those conditions, also observed in the study’s high-pressure experiments, suggests the transition zone may contain oceans worth of H2O dissolved in high-pressure rock. The findings alter previous assumptions about the Earth’s composition. [Click to enlarge image] Researchers from Northwestern University and the University of New Mexico report evidence for potentially oceans worth of water deep beneath the United States. Though not in the ...
CLIMATE MCCARTHYISM CLAIMS YET ANOTHER VICTIM
Post Date: 2014-06-14 15:39:35 by Ada
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Climate McCarthyism has claimed another victim. Dr Caleb Rossiter - an adjunct professor at American University, Washington DC - has been fired by a progressive think tank after publicly expressing doubt about man-made global warming. Rossiter, a former Democratic congressional candidate, has impeccably liberal credentials. As the founder of Demilitarization for Democracy he has campaigned against US backed wars in Central America and Southern Africa, against US military support for dictators and against anti-personnel landmines. But none of this was enough to spare him the wrath of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) when he wrote an OpEd in the Wall Street Journal describing ...
Free Electricity When The Grid Is Down?
Post Date: 2014-06-14 12:00:48 by BTP Holdings
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It's outrageous! Thousands of American families lived through a nightmarish scenario last winter. No electricity, no heating, and delayed help from authorities... ==> Too Bad They Didn't Know About This Many patriots are determined to go "off the grid." The problem is... gaining energy independence is just too darn complicated. Right? I thought so too. Until I found this guy... => Discover more... I'm talking about a hushed-up invention... developed and proven by top German scientists during WWII. A crazy guy decided to risk his life making this public. He took his camera and filmed himself while building the device that generates free electricity. => ...
Veteran IT Professional Gives Six Reasons Why the IRS’ Claim That It ‘Lost’ Two Years of Lois Lerner’s Emails Is ‘Simply Not Feasible’
Post Date: 2014-06-14 11:01:49 by James Deffenbach
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A veteran IT professional tells TheBlaze that the IRS’ claim that the agency lost two years’ worth of former IRS official Lois Lerner’s emails is “simply not feasible.” On Friday, members of Congress revealed that the IRS would not be able to hand over Lerner’s emails to and from other IRS employees from January 2009 to April 2011, possibly due to a “glitch” or “crash.” Lawmakers were seeking the emails as part of their investigation into the IRS targeting scandal. Norman Cillo, an Army veteran who worked in intelligence and a former program manager at Microsoft, argued it is very difficult to lose emails for good and laid out six reasons ...
The Coming Societal Collapse
Post Date: 2014-06-13 22:05:00 by Lorie Meacham
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While mainstream media and the disinformation propagandists have so far done their best to marginalize any who had the courage to state the facts about what is unfolding around us, such denial and spin are no longer able to hide reality. The new Pentagon study outlined in the article below should be extremely alarming to anyone that is even partially awake. Connotations are made in the report that indicate even “non violent activists” (peaceful citizens that don’t agree with their completely out of control government) are likely to be considered “terrorists”. Its time to wake up, now. Those that rule over the military industrial complex do not care about you. They ...
NASA scientist designs faster-than-light spacecraft (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
Post Date: 2014-06-13 08:01:04 by Tatarewicz
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A NASA scientist and a renowned graphic artist have teamed up to produce designs for a vessel that may someday allow human beings to travel the universe and beyond in a first-of-its-kind warp drive spacecraft faster than light. Impressive illustrations of the work-in-progress — NASA’s New Design for a Warp Drive Ship” — made their way to the web this week while NASA researcher Harold White and Dutch artist Mark Rademaker continue to fine-tune the concept behind a type of craft that may actually be able to travel faster than the speed of light. White, a physicist for the aeronautics administration that has been studying a faster-than-light propulsion concept for ...
Russia Issues Grim Report On North American Magnetic Anomaly
Post Date: 2014-06-13 05:30:01 by Tatarewicz
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Sorcha Faal, A grim report prepared by Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force Lieutenant-General Viktor Bondarev on the just completed scientific mission of North America carried out by 4 Tupolev Tu-95 strategic aircraft and 2 Ilyushin Il-78 aerial refueling tankers that “electronically swept” for “magnetic anomalies” from Alaska to California warns that a “catastrophic event” may be nearing for this region. US officials, it should be noted, characterized this purely scientific mission as a “bombing run” that came within 50 miles of California, but which their Air Forces were able to repel by their launching of F-15 fighter jets. This report, ...
Synchronized brain waves enable rapid learning
Post Date: 2014-06-13 02:53:54 by Tatarewicz
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The human mind can rapidly absorb and analyze new information as it flits from thought to thought. These quickly changing brain states may be encoded by synchronization of brain waves across different brain regions, according to a new study from MIT neuroscientists. The researchers found that as monkeys learn to categorize different patterns of dots, two brain areas involved in learning -- the prefrontal cortex and the striatum -- synchronize their brain waves to form new communication circuits. "We're seeing direct evidence for the interactions between these two systems during learning, which hasn't been seen before. Category-learning results in new functional circuits ...
Solar Flares Disrupt Communications on Earth, Could Send Shockwave on Friday the 13th
Post Date: 2014-06-12 19:47:13 by scrapper2
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The sun has had three major solar flares on its surface in the past two days that have affected communications on Earth and could send a shockwave through Earth this Friday, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The “solar events” caused brief blackouts in high frequency communications when they struck, twice on Tuesday morning and once this morning, all between the hours of 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. EDT. Solar flares are bursts of radiation on the sun’s surface. The disturbance to Earth’s atmosphere can disrupt GPS and communications signals, according to NASA. One of the flares created a “coronal mass ejection” that actually could come ...
Prediction: Largest Economic Opportunity of the 21st Century
Post Date: 2014-06-11 17:55:39 by BTP Holdings
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It's only about the size of a small coffee pot. But one expert calls it the "largest economic opportunity of the 21st century." It's already being used to partially power Google, Wal-Mart, FedEx and Bank of America. And guess what? The company that makes it could become one of the most valuable in the world. And hardly anybody knows about it. But here's the best part -- you can own a piece right now for only about 21 cents. CLICK HERE NOW for all the details. click.pubsvs.com/t/BA/CiU...A5OCZyPU1DJmc9MA./AQ/wWt2
How to Use a Green Roof for Off-grid Survival
Post Date: 2014-06-11 17:36:24 by BTP Holdings
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How to Use a Green Roof for Off-grid Survival SVP_green roof As the “green movement” has been slowly gaining steam, new ideas have been proposed and some old ideas have been revisited. In many cases, the old ideas are actually more energy efficient than the newer high tech ideas that environmental activists are pursuing. It seems that some of our ancient ancestors were much better at “going green” than today’s generation, without even having a concern about greenhouse gases and the ozone layer. Many of the most promising technologies aren’t as much associated with developing energy-efficient means of energy production, as they are in using the energy we ...
Russia’s Androids to Surpass Western Alternatives – Deputy Prime Minister
Post Date: 2014-06-09 00:08:41 by Tatarewicz
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NOVOSIBIRSK, June 6 (RIA Novosti) – The Russian Foundation for Advanced Research Projects is creating a universal android robotic platform that could surpass the western alternative, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Friday. “We will have to concentrate all our efforts and best minds to create robotic production models that will surpass their western alternatives in key characteristics,” Rogozin stressed during the Tekhnoprom forum in Novosibirsk, Russia today. The deputy prime minister withheld further details about the project, adding only that any pessimistic speculation about Russia’s loss of leadership in the sphere of robotics are absolutely ...
Scientists develop dual-purpose copper wire
Post Date: 2014-06-07 01:37:57 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... Scientists have managed to develop copper wire into a means to both transfer and store away energy by building a supercapacitor around the wire. The revolutionary dual-purpose wire was developed by nanotechnology scientist Jayan Thomas and his Ph.D. student Zenan Yu at the University of Central Florida. The course of action starts out by creating a sheath of nanowhiskers over the wire by heating it up. The next step is to develop the whiskers into an electrode using a special alloy. A second plastic-covered layer of nanowhiskers formed a second electrode, which together with the first one would enable energy storage. A special gel glued the two layers. Because of the ...
RBN has fallen into the "Social Media" NSA Trap
Post Date: 2014-06-06 21:42:51 by Itistoolate
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Smile: Your Selfie Is A Mugshot For The NSA The selfie phenomenon is undoubtedly making the NSA’s job easier by producing a mountain of tagged online data to feed its facial recognition algorithms. A report in The New York Times, based on documents from 2011 obtained by the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, reveals that the US security agency’s reliance on facial recognition technology has grown significantly under the Obama administration – coinciding with a rise in popularity of taking and tagging self portraits on online social networks. The newspaper reports that the agency has turned to new software to process the flood of images being included in digital ...
Laser device can detect alcohol in cars: External device detects presence of alcohol vapors inside of a moving car
Post Date: 2014-06-06 08:23:23 by Tatarewicz
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A new open-access article in the Journal of Applied Remote Sensing is garnering attention for research that could aid in the campaign to prevent drunk driving: a device that can detect alcohol in cars. The Journal of Applied Remote Sensing is published by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. The article "Stand-off detection of alcohol in car cabins," by JarosBaw MByDczak, Jan Kubicki, and Krzysztof KopczyDski of the Military University of Technology in Warsaw, details experiments using an external laser device to detect the presence of alcohol vapors inside of a moving car. The device was constructed at the university's Institute of Optoelectronics ...
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