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Physicists Just Came Up With a Mathematical Model for a Viable Time Machine
Post Date: 2017-04-30 06:25:29 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... "Mathematically, it is possible." Physicists have come up with what they claim is a mathematical model of a theoretical "time machine" - a box that can move backwards and forwards through time and space. The trick, they say, is to use the curvature of space-time in the Universe to bend time into a circle for hypothetical passengers sitting in the box, and that circle allows them to skip into the future and the past. "People think of time travel as something as fiction. And we tend to think it's not possible because we don't actually do it," says theoretical physicist and mathematician, Ben Tippett, from the University of British ...
Artificial intelligence to take over half of all jobs in next decade – China's top techie
Post Date: 2017-04-29 08:54:56 by Tatarewicz
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RT...New recruit "Pepper" the robot, a humanoid robot designed to welcome and take care of visitors and patients, Ostend, Belgium, 2016 © Francois Lenoir / Reuters Robots and artificial intelligence (AI) will replace humans in 50 percent of all jobs in just ten years, says Kai-Fu Lee, founder of venture capital firm Sinovation Ventures and a reputable Chinese technologist. Commerce Bot, a robot that provides customer service with artificial intelligence technology and voice recognition is seen at SK telecom's stand at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, 2017© Paul Hanna / Reuters AI is the “singular thing that will be larger than all of human tech ...
Physicist Pops Bermuda Triangle 'Methane Bubble' Theory
Post Date: 2017-04-29 08:13:10 by Tatarewicz
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C2C... One of the most popular prosaic explanations for the mysterious disappearances of ships and planes in the Bermuda Triangle has been debunked. Skeptics searching for an answer to the puzzling phenomenon have long suggested that lost ships and planes fell victim to a surge of methane gas erupting from the ocean floor. However, author and bubble physicist Helen Czerski says that the 'methane bubble' theory is simply scientific hot air. According to her explanation, if a large amount of methane erupted from the ground underwater, it would quickly form into tiny bubbles rather than a ship-sinking giant mass of gas. Additionally, these tiny bubbles would push the water below ...
The race to build the world’s first sex robot The $30bn sex tech industry is about to unveil its biggest blockbuster: a $15,000 robot companion that talks, learns, and never says no
Post Date: 2017-04-28 00:21:20 by Horse
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n the brightly lit robotics workshop at Abyss Creations’ factory in San Marcos, California, a life-size humanoid was dangling from a stand, hooked between her shoulder blades. Her name was Harmony. She wore a white leotard, her chest was thrust forward and her French-manicured fingers were splayed across the tops of her slim thighs. Harmony is a prototype, a robotic version of the company’s hyper-realistic silicone sex toy, the RealDoll. The Realbotix room where she was assembled was lined with varnished pine surfaces covered with wires and circuit boards, and a 3D printer whirred in the corner, spitting out tiny, intricate parts that will be inserted beneath her PVC skull. Her ...
Spotlight: Perfectly imperfect -- experimental dialogues between China-made humanoid, world's leading AI experts
Post Date: 2017-04-27 07:50:46 by Tatarewicz
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(Xinhua) Chen Xiaoping (R), director of a robot research and development team, and Jia Jia, an interactive robot that looks like a real Chinese young woman in traditional outfit, talk through internet with Kevin Kelly on screen, founding executive editor of Wired magazine, in Hefei, capital of east China's Anhui Province, April 24, 2017. Jia Jia was invited as a special reporter of the Xinhua News Agency to conduct the man-machine dialogue with Kelly on Monday. Jia Jia was unveiled in 2016 by Chen's robot research and development team at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei. It took the team three years to research and develop this new-generation interactive ...
New Material Replicates Photosynthesis to Generate Clean Energy and Suck Up CO2
Post Date: 2017-04-27 06:19:10 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Scientists have created an artificial form of photosynthesis that could reduce levels of carbon dioxide in the air, and provide solar fuel at the same time – two potential benefits to help stabilise our changing climate. The chemical reaction is triggered by blue light mimicking the blue wavelength of sunlight, and converts carbon dioxide into two reduced forms, formate and formamides, which can be used as energy sources. After the reaction is finished, what's left is cleaner air and excess energy, just like the photosynthesis process in plants that converts light energy to chemical energy. The team from the University of Central Florida has high hopes for its ...
Mind hacking: Scientists want new laws to stop our thoughts from being stolen
Post Date: 2017-04-27 05:43:29 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Researchers have called for radical new legislation protecting people’s thoughts from being stolen and maybe even deleted. Biomedical ethicists Marcello Ienca and Roberto Andorno believe that while rapid advances in neurotechnology have created opportunities in modern medicine, they also present new challenges for human privacy. Writing in the journal Life Sciences, Society and Policy, the pair have warned that brain-hacking and “hazardous use of medical neurotechnology” could threaten the integrity of our thoughts. Paralyzed man uses thoughts to move arm & hands thanks to electrode implants (VIDEO) t.co/0p3W3F84K6pic.twitter.com/1wVlFCPkiW — RT (@RT_com) ...
Asteroid Shock Waves Could Have Provided the Building Blocks for RNA
Post Date: 2017-04-24 07:30:52 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... A now famous experiment conducted by chemists Stanley Miller and Harold Urey back in 1952 showed that even if we don't know for sure how the first living cells formed, at least some of their molecular building blocks could have been produced by simple chemical reactions under conditions on ancient Earth. Now, more than half a century later, researchers from France and the Czech Republic have used a similar experiment to expand this list of potential ingredients to include all four RNA bases, filling in some possible stepping stones on the pathway from chemical soup to the origins of life. While the results don't show how life probably formed, they do demonstrate ...
Syria designs robotic grenade-launcher
Post Date: 2017-04-23 00:16:19 by Tatarewicz
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PravdaReport... Syrian engineers designed a combat remote-controlled platform, which can be equipped with both rocket-propelled grenades and various kinds of small arms. The serial production of the latest development has already begun. Photos and videos of the new product of the Syrian defense industry have already appeared on the Internet. The use of such robots will help reduce losses of the Syrian army as military men will not have to go into the line of enemy's fire. Two grenade launchers of the new robotic machine can kill snipers or destroy terrorists' machine-gun emplacement. As an alternative weapon, photos of the new machine show a 7.62 mm PKM machine gun. The weapon is ...
Armageddon: Russian Scientists Visualize Doomsday Asteroid Rage
Post Date: 2017-04-21 07:27:38 by Tatarewicz
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Russian scientists have simulated the Earth’s collision with a one-kilometer-wide (0.6 mile) asteroid and created a model of the catastrophic consequences this could have on our planet. In a plotline taken straight from a science-fiction movie, experts from the Emergency Situations Ministry’s Scientific Research Institute, the Institute of Astronomy and the Institute of Geosphere Dynamics of the Academy of Sciences of Russia have predicted that a one-kilometer-wide (0.6 mile) asteroid slamming into the Earth’s surface could wipe out a major city or cause a devastating tsunami if it lands in the sea. This image provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech shows a simulation of asteroid 2012 ...
Unpaywall This New Browser Plug-in Lets You Access Millions of Scientific Papers for Free
Post Date: 2017-04-21 07:24:36 by Tatarewicz
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If you're of the mindset that knowledge should be freely accessible to as many humans as possible, paywalls for academic journals can be downright frustrating. Now a free browser extension is promising to bust through those paywalls wherever possible. Unpaywall was launched earlier this month by the open source not-for-profit Impactstory – funded by the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation – and it's already making a splash in the traditional publishing industry. Install the plug-in on your Chrome or Firefox desktop browser, and it will start displaying a little lock symbol whenever you're on the landing page of an article in an academic ...
Type messages with your brain’: Facebook teases development of new silent speech technology
Post Date: 2017-04-21 04:38:31 by Tatarewicz
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RT.... Facebook says it is developing non-invasive technology that will allow people to transform thoughts into text through sheer mind power, sparing them the time and effort required to type words. The project has received a fairly mixed response, however. The social media giant announced its intention to create the potentially revolutionary technology at its developer conference, F8, on Wednesday. The far-reaching plans to combine the “convenience of voice” and “the privacy of text” were presented by the head of Facebook’s Building 8 hardware research division, Regina Dugan. What makes the project so exceptional is its focus on transferring data ...
The Nerve Agent Attack that Did Not Occur: Analysis of the Times and Locations of Critical Events in the Alleged Nerve Agent Attack at 7 AM on April 4, 2017 in Khan Sheikhoun, Syria
Post Date: 2017-04-20 17:06:43 by Ada
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By Theodore A. Postol, professor emeritus of science, technology, and national security policy at MIT. Postol’s main expertise is in ballistic missiles. He has a substantial background in air dispersal, including how toxic plumes move in the air. Postol has taught courses on weapons of mass destruction – including chemical and biological threats – at MIT. Before joining MIT, Postol worked as an analyst at the Office of Technology Assessment, as a science and policy adviser to the chief of naval operations, and as a researcher at Argonne National Laboratory. He also helped build a program at Stanford University to train mid-career scientists to study weapons technology in ...
Guangdong police release nation’s first ID authentication app
Post Date: 2017-04-20 07:04:26 by Tatarewicz
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(People's Daily Online) Guangdong citizens no longer need to worry about proving their identities, even if they don't happen to have their ID cards on them. On April 19, Guangzhou police unveiled an identity authentication app that enables citizens to prove their identities via their mobile phones. To date, the city has authorized 20 offices to help citizens register for the service. Once they register, they can use facial recognition technology, available via the app, to prove their identities whenever and wherever necessary. Developed by police in the Nansha district of Guangzhou, the app provides highly accurate results while at the same time protecting against personal ...
Aliens, AI & colonies on Mars: AppleÂ’s Wozniak predicts Earth 2075
Post Date: 2017-04-18 02:31:26 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has made several bold predictions regarding the future of humanity both here and on Mars, the influence of artificial intelligence and even the possibility of humans meeting with extraterrestrials. "Apple will be around a long time, like IBM," Wozniak said in an interview Friday, as cited by USA Today. "Look at Apple's cash. It can invest in anything. It would be ridiculous to not expect them to be around. The same goes for Google and Facebook." Wozniak previously made a bold prediction regarding the emergence of laptop computers way back in 1982, so he has already shown somewhat of a knack for divination. In relation to Apple, ...
Wikileaks Reveals Hive: The CIA’s Top Secret Virus Control System
Post Date: 2017-04-17 20:26:49 by Ada
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Wikileaks’ latest release comes on the heels of CIA director Mike Pompeo’s aggressive statements against the transparency organization in which he labeled them “non-state hostile intelligence service.” CIA Director Mike Pompeo speaks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, Thursday, April 13, 2017. Pompeo denounced WikiLeaks, calling the anti-secrecy group a "hostile intelligence agency." (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) CIA Director Mike Pompeo speaks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, Thursday, April 13, 2017. Pompeo denounced WikiLeaks, calling the anti-secrecy group a “hostile ...
LEAKED NSA MALWARE THREATENS WINDOWS USERS AROUND THE WORLD
Post Date: 2017-04-17 04:23:30 by Tatarewicz
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The ShadowBrokers, an entity previously confirmed by The Intercept to have leaked authentic malware used by the NSA to attack computers around the world, today released another cache of what appears to be extremely potent (and previously unknown) software capable of breaking into systems running Windows. The software could give nearly anyone with sufficient technical knowledge the ability to wreak havoc on millions of Microsoft users. The leak includes a litany of typically codenamed software “implants” with names like ODDJOB, ZIPPYBEER, and ESTEEMAUDIT, capable of breaking into — and in some cases seizing control of — computers running version of the Windows operating ...
This New Graphene-Based Electrode Could Boost Solar Storage by 3,000%
Post Date: 2017-04-17 03:32:22 by Tatarewicz
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RMIT University ScienceAlert... Drawing inspiration from the plant world, researchers have invented a new electrode that could boost our current solar energy storage by an astonishing 3,000 percent. The technology is flexible and can be attached directly to solar cells - which means we could finally be one step closer to smartphones and laptops that draw their power from the Sun, and never run out. A major problem with reliably using solar energy as a power source is finding an efficient way to store it for later use without leakage over time. For that purpose, engineers have been turning to supercapacitors - a type of technology that can charge extremely fast and release energy in ...
Scientists Have Created a Device That Sucks Water Out of Thin Air, Even in the Desert
Post Date: 2017-04-16 02:39:30 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... When it comes to future challenges, one of the biggest will be water scarcity - on a warming planet we're going to have plenty of seawater, but not enough fresh, clean water in the right places for everybody to drink. And while a lot of research has focussed on desalination, a team of scientists have now come up with another possible solution - a device that pulls fresh water out of thin air, even in places with humidity as low as 20 percent. All it needs is sunlight. It might sound too good to be true, but so far the research is solid. Called the 'solar-powered harvester', the device was created by teams from MIT and the University of California, Berkeley, ...
Engineers Just Submitted an Incredible Proposal to Turn the US Border Wall Into a Hyperloop
Post Date: 2017-04-14 08:04:29 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... The Trump administration is reviewing design bids for its proposed wall along the US-Mexico border. But not all plans are interpreting the word 'wall' literally. A group of Mexican and American engineers and urban planners called MADE Collective want to build a US$1 trillion hyperloop transportation network instead. The plan would turn the border into a shared nation, called Otra Nation, with an independent local government and nonvoting representatives in the US and Mexican legislatures. The group submitted its design to the US Customs and Border Protection's official call for proposals in March. It also launched a petition to replace the current border ...
The Earth’s Magnetic Poles Are Shifting
Post Date: 2017-04-12 08:31:11 by Ada
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I’m sure that many of you have heard the ‘concept’ that the Earths magnetic poles (North and South) are shifting, or that some kind of a rapid pole shift is going to occur. A pole shift is when the Earth’s magnetic fields switch places so that the North Pole is now in the South, and vice versa. This is no longer a concept, but an actual fact. Some of us may have been led to believe that the poles would rapidly shift on December 21st, 2012. Obviously, this theory was untrue. However, the poles are shifting and have done so many times in the past, but the theory that the poles could shift instantly at any moment is just that, a theory. The Earths magnetic poles reverse ...
Math model to help design new materials for storing electricity
Post Date: 2017-04-10 05:36:17 by Tatarewicz
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 8 (Xinhua) -- Researchers have devised a mathematical model for designing new materials for storing electricity, an approach different from chemists and materials scientists who traditionally rely on trial and error to create materials for batteries and capacitors. "The potential here is that you could build batteries that last much longer and make them much smaller," said Daniel Tartakovsky, a professor in the School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences at Stanford University and co-author of a study published this week in Applied Physics Letters. "If you could engineer a material with a far superior storage capacity than what we have today, ...
Scientists Have Invented a Graphene-Based Sieve That Turns Seawater Into Drinking Water
Post Date: 2017-04-05 02:08:01 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Researchers have achieved a major turning point in the quest for efficient desalination by announcing the invention of a graphene-oxide membrane that sieves salt right out of seawater. At this stage, the technique is still limited to the lab, but it's a demonstration of how we could one day quickly and easily turn one of our most abundant resources, seawater, into one of our most scarce - clean drinking water. The team, led by Rahul Nair from the University of Manchester in the UK, has shown that the sieve can efficiently filter out salts, and now the next step is to test this against existing desalination membranes. "Realisation of scalable membranes with ...
New plastic-eating fungus may solve garbage problem
Post Date: 2017-04-04 07:29:35 by Tatarewicz
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(Xinhua) KUNMING, April 1 -- Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have identified a novel fungus capable of degrading polyurethane (PU) plastics. The fungus named Aspergillus tubingensis was isolated by a research team led by Xu Jianchu, a researcher with the Kunming Institute of Botany under CAS. "The fungus can grow on the surface of PU and break the chemical bonds between plastic molecules or polymers through activity of its enzymes," Xu told Xinhua. "Meanwhile, the fungus also uses the physical strength of its mycelia to help break apart polymers." PU is a type of synthetic polymer widely used in the manufacture of plastic-related materials. PU ...
Astronomers Have Officially Found a Candidate for Planet Nine
Post Date: 2017-04-04 05:26:13 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... An intense three-day crowdsourced search for an undiscovered planet in our solar system has produced four possible candidates. The hunt for Planet Nine was part of a Zooniverse citizen science project, conducted in real-time, with the BBC's Stargazing Live broadcast. The project was hosted at the Siding Spring Observatory at Australian National University (ANU). About 60,000 people from all over the world participated in the search, which not only turned up four possible candidates for Planet Nine but also helped classify more than four million other objects. Participants worked using data from Siding Spring's SkyMapper telescope. The project was led by ANU ...
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