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Marines Taking Robots to Military-Grade Level
Post Date: 2016-05-04 22:15:09 by BTP Holdings
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Marines Taking Robots to Military-Grade Level Published Wed, May 4, 2016 | Greg Miller, Senior Analyst Marines Taking Robots to Military-Grade Level Things look pretty tough right now for the Terminator. Forget “I’ll be back”… some robots are struggling to even get there in the first place. Take Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL), for example, which recently put its Boston Dynamics robotics division up for sale. Having only acquired the company at the end of 2013, it’s not like Boston Dynamics isn’t putting in the effort or making substantial progress. Far from it, in fact. (Take a look at some clips on YouTube if you don’t believe me.) Rather, it’s ...
10-year-old Finn awarded 10,000 USD for discovering security fault in Instagram
Post Date: 2016-05-04 01:58:42 by Tatarewicz
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HELSINKI, May 3 (Xinhua) -- A 10-year-old Finnish boy has received 10,000 U.S. dollars from Instagram after finding a security fault in the service, reported Finnish daily Iltalehti on Tuesday. The boy whose name was given as Jani discovered the security vulnerability in the Instagram app, a mobile photo-sharing service owned by Facebook, in March this year, said the daily. He found he could delete other people's comments when he inputted malicious code into the comment field of the application. Jani informed Instagram about the technical fault by email. After a few days, Instagram replied to him that the flaw was fixed. As a reward, he received 10,000 U.S. dollars from Instagram. ...
Wastewater discharge into streams can lead to rapid antibiotic resistance, bacterial infections and disease
Post Date: 2016-05-02 22:12:50 by BTP Holdings
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Wastewater discharge into streams can lead to rapid antibiotic resistance, bacterial infections and disease Monday, May 02, 2016 by: David Gutierrez, staff writer (NaturalNews) Discharges from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) may be a major contributor to the evolution of antibiotic resistance in the wild, according to a study partially funded by the European Regional Development Fund. Bacteria naturally possess an intrinsic resistance to toxic chemicals, including antibiotics, and new resistance may also develop naturally through mutation. But scientists agree that widespread overuse of antibiotics has rapidly accelerated the evolution of antibiotic resistance, by killing off ...
A New Madrid Earthquake Is Coming And America Will Be Shaken Like Never Before
Post Date: 2016-05-02 11:22:55 by Ada
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Most Americans expect the next great earthquake in the United States to come on the west coast. But what if it strikes right down the middle of the country instead? The New Madrid fault zone is six times larger than the San Andreas fault zone in California and it covers portions of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi. Back in 1811 and 1812, a series of absolutely devastating earthquakes along the New Madrid fault zone opened very deep fissures in the ground, caused the Mississippi River to run backwards in some places, and were reportedly felt as far away as Washington D.C. and Boston. They were the strongest earthquakes ever recorded east of ...
Japan has approved gene editing using a fertilised human egg
Post Date: 2016-05-02 03:10:32 by Tatarewicz
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FUTURISM/ScienceAlert A Japanese government bioethics panel has approved the modification of genes from fertilised human egg cells for basic research. They did so just last week, on Friday April 22. However, they rejected clinical testing of gene modification technology, citing unknown and possibly harmful impacts on the next generation. Clinical trials of gene editing technology, which involve correcting genetic defects and putting the egg back into the womb, carry too many risks and potential detrimental effects on the offspring. So the eggs that are modified will not currently be brought to term. The bioethics panel agreed that researchers could use the technology and modify ...
Free will could all be an illusion, scientists suggest after study shows choice may just be brain tricking itself
Post Date: 2016-05-01 10:17:20 by Ada
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Research adds to evidence suggesting 'even our most seemingly ironclad beliefs about our own agency and conscious experience can be dead wrong' A woman looks at a human brain at an exhibition in Bristol Matt Cardy/Getty Images Free will might be an illusion created by our brains, scientists might have proved. Humans are convinced that they make conscious choices as they live their lives. But instead it may be that the brain just convinces itself that it made a free choice from the available options after the decision is made. The idea was tested out by tricking subjects into believing that they had made a choice before the consequences of that choice could actually be seen. In ...
Artificial intelligence explained
Post Date: 2016-04-30 06:56:46 by BTP Holdings
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Artificial intelligence explained Katie Couric Global Anchor April 29, 2016 By Kaye Foley When it comes to the future of artificial intelligence, the ultimate battle between man and machine may come to mind — but that’s really the stuff of science fiction. AI actually has a presence in our daily lives on a much more useful and less apocalyptic level. Think personal assistant devices and apps like Alexa, Cortana and Siri, web search predictions, movie suggestions on Netflix and self-driving cars. The term “artificial intelligence” was coined back in 1956. It describes a machine’s ability to perform intelligent behavior such as decision-making or speech ...
Astronomers might have finally detected where mysterious, extragalactic neutrinos are coming from
Post Date: 2016-04-30 04:12:40 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Just over three years ago, physicists working in Antarctica announced they'd detected the first evidence of mysterious subatomic particles, known as neutrinos, coming from outside our galaxy. It was a huge moment for astrophysics, but since then, no one's quite been able to figure out where those particles are coming from, and what's sending them hurtling our way. Until now, that is - a team of astronomers has just identified the possible source of one these extragalactic visitors, and it appears that it started its journey to us nearly 10 billion years ago, when a massive explosion erupted in a galaxy far, far away (seriously, George Lucas couldn't make ...
Hackers showed us how to break into the grid — and it was shockingly easy
Post Date: 2016-04-29 21:16:04 by BTP Holdings
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A power company in the Midwest hired a group of white hat hackers known as RedTeam Security to test its defenses. We followed them around for 3 days, as they attempted to break into buildings and hack into its network, with the goal of gaining full access. And it was all much easier than you might think. Based on our experiences, it would seem that power companies need to step up their game in the fight against cyber attackers or it could be "lights out." Poster Comment:Watch video at source. You will not believe how easily they got in.
CHINA'S NUKE-HYPERSONIC MANEUVERING WARHEAD SPEEDSTER...
Post Date: 2016-04-29 05:01:35 by Tatarewicz
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PravdaMainForum... China successfully tests nuclear-capable hypersonic missile China successfully carried out a flight test of its state-of-the-art high-speed maneuvering warhead last week, sources in the Pentagon said. The trial took place just days after a hypersonic glider was reportedly tested by Russia. The DF-ZF hypersonic glide vehicle was launch on Friday by a ballistic missile fired from the Wuzhai site in central China, unnamed US military officials told the Washington Free Beacon website. The maneuvering glider was tracked by American satellites as it was traveling at the speed of several thousand kilometers per hour along the edge of the atmosphere towards an impact area in ...
Historical Evidence of Climate Change Links to Political Change
Post Date: 2016-04-27 16:53:24 by Ada
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QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; I have read your thesis on global warming and that this is only part of a natural cycle. I admit that you have persuaded me whereas the claims are false especially that New York City should have been under water by now according Al Gore. You mentioned that there was global warming which enabled the Vikings to reach America because the ice melted. My question is rather blunt. If we are headed now into a global cooling period, what is the historical evidence that society also declines? Thank you in advance PD ANSWER: I have reported that the peat fires in Borneo and Sumatra have exceeded all the emissions from the entire U.S. economy. This whole movement is to ...
Bright flash of light marks incredible moment life begins when sperm meets egg
Post Date: 2016-04-26 22:52:57 by NeoconsNailed
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Also at Phoenix 2nite: As the economic collapse accelerates, home invasions for FOOD start appearing in the press... Poll: Trump Reaches 50 Percent Support Nationally for the First Time Giant wave-riding platform design puts solar power out to sea Graphene-based ultracapacitors give trucks a boost of acceleration Scientists Create New Quantum State Of Water By Squeezing It WISP Is A Tiny Wireless Computer That Draws Power From Radio Waves The Hell on Earth Paved by Samantha Power's Good Intentions For a Nation of 1.4 Billion People, China Can Sure Look Empty 04-26-2016 • http://www.wired.com, LAURA MALLONEE ... ROUGHLY 1.4 BILLION people live in China, yet Bence Bakonyi ...
The Global Warming Hoax, Paris Climate Accord and NWO Global Governance
Post Date: 2016-04-25 09:20:22 by Ada
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“Global warming is the biggest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it.” Longtime meteorologist and Weather Channel founder John Coleman With last Friday’s Earth Day marked by the US among 170 nations out of the planet’s 190 nations signing last December’s UN Paris climate change agreement at the United Nations, the topic “global warming/climate change” is once again all abuzz these days. Additionally, in less than a week a documentary entitled “The Climate Hustle” is being released in movie theaters nationwide on May 2nd debunking the notion that humans have caused global warming from the alleged increased CO2 ...
Pro-Monsanto Bill Nye the 'science guy' says GMOs are awesome and climate change skeptics should be thrown in prison... yeah, really
Post Date: 2016-04-24 18:35:28 by BTP Holdings
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Pro-Monsanto Bill Nye the 'science guy' says GMOs are awesome and climate change skeptics should be thrown in prison... yeah, really Saturday, April 23, 2016 by: Daniel Barker (NaturalNews) Celebrity scientists such as Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michio Kaku and Bill Nye keep their careers afloat by embracing mainstream scientific theories and presenting them to the public in a reassuring show-biz manner – and not by applying any real criticalal thought themselves. You don't get invited to appear in the mainstream media on a regular basis by questioning the status quo or being skeptical about Big Pharma, the biotech industry or vaccine safety, for example. And you certainly ...
Are Rich Americans Getting Secret Brain Implants?
Post Date: 2016-04-24 02:23:26 by Tatarewicz
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C2C... An unorthodox presidential candidate is making some strange claims surrounding wealthy Americans and clandestine brain implant technology. According to Zoltan Istvan, the 'Transhumanist Party' candidate we told you about last December, two powerhouses in the artificial intelligence field intend to secretly get brain surgery to receive a mysterious implant. What exactly the 'cranial chip' may provide for these ambitious and possibly foolhardy computer geniuses remains open to speculation. However, Istvan mused to The Mirror, "The technology will allow them to carry out basic conversations. That's how far this telepathy idea has come." Allegedly, the ...
McAfee: If FBI gets backdoor to people's phones, US society will collapse
Post Date: 2016-04-23 01:29:49 by Tatarewicz
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RT... They said that the war never changes – but what if it does? The introduction of digital technologies, the cyberspace of the World Wide Web has introduced new battlefields. Law enforcement, drug trade, political fights and terrorism have gone online. The fight for information and access to the hidden data is raging on, both in the legal sphere, with authorities trying to tighten the grip on the digital flow, and international, with army-like hacker groups searching for the cracks in the cyber defense of nations. How far will this fight go? Who has the upper hand? And can battles in virtual reality claim real lives? We ask the cyber-expert extraordinaire – John McAfee is on ...
Google is working on beaming high-speed wireless internet into your home
Post Date: 2016-04-22 05:43:31 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... It’s been five years since Google launched its Fiber broadband service, which has given selected US cities access to a super-fast alternative to what’s being offered by tech villains Comcast and Time Warner Cable. And now, the CEO of Google Access (the company that oversees Fiber), Craig Barrett, has announced that they’re working on a plan to beam wireless broadband directly into homes across the US, telling re/code rather mysteriously, "[W]e are experimenting with a number of different wireless technologies." So why is this such a big deal? Well, if Google can come up with the technology needed to wirelessly connect every home in America to the ...
FBI director hints that agency paid record $1.3mn to hack into San Bernardino iPhone
Post Date: 2016-04-21 23:38:29 by Tatarewicz
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RT... FBI Director James Comey let slip a general idea of how much his agency paid to a third party for software to break into the work phone belonging to one of the San Bernardino terrorists. At London’s Aspen Security Forum on Thursday, a moderator asked Comey how much the FBI paid the as-yet-unnamed third party for the software to hack into the iPhone, Reuters reported. Read more © Stephen Lam FBI reveals iPhone hacking method to senators behind anti-encryption bill "A lot," Comey replied. "Really?" "More – let's see. More than I will make in the remainder of this job, which is seven years and four months, for sure," Comey said, ...
The Joy of Stuff
Post Date: 2016-04-21 08:26:11 by Ada
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We’re all supposed to be “detoxing,” “cleansing,” or “decluttering” our lives these days. Gastronomically, the idea is that you pare down your diet to its most basic essentials, and thus cut away pounds, potential illnesses, or any lack of confidence you might feel. Mentally, we’re told to step away from the chaotic buzz of work, social media, television, and life obligations in order to clear out the clutter in our heads and become more “mindful.” And then there’s the house-oriented version of these words, most recognized in the popular bestseller The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. Author Marie Kondo tells her readers that the ...
Imagine having a home that pays for itself
Post Date: 2016-04-21 07:25:22 by BTP Holdings
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Imagine having a home that pays for itself Imagine this scenario for a moment. Instead of you receiving a $300 bill each month for your electricity usage, you send the electric company an invoice for the electricity they are purchasing from you. And, just to make it more fun, you tell them that late charges will be assessed if you don’t receive payment within 30 days. Science fiction? Fantasy? Maybe not. As the cost of energy-efficient equipment falls and more and more homes are powered by solar panels and wind turbines, there could come a day when you live in a home that actually produces more electricity than it uses. Net-zero homes, featuring energy-efficient appliances, highly ...
Startup raises $3 million to bring delinquent drones to the ground
Post Date: 2016-04-21 02:57:12 by Tatarewicz
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RT... San Diego-based startup SkySafe has raised $3 million in seed funding to satisfy a need that may have been inconceivable a decade ago: building technology to disable drones that wander into spaces where they aren’t welcome. The popularity of drones for commercial and recreational use is skyrocketing. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) estimates that 2.5 million will be sold in 2016, with the number rising to 7 million by 2020. Read more © Francois Lenoir 7 million drones by 2020? US projects explosive UAV growth SkySafe founder and CEO Grant Jordan announced the launch of his company to the public on Wednesday. The startup’s mission is to keep rogue drones out ...
Orwellian Reality: Big Brother Watching You on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram
Post Date: 2016-04-20 07:56:02 by Ada
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The US Central Intelligence Agency has become increasingly focused on monitoring social media, according to a document obtained by The Intercept; the intelligence agency is pouring money in start-ups mining tweets, Instagram photos, and Facebook posts. Every time you post a message on Facebook or share a photo on Instagram, remembers this: Big Brother is watching you. No, it’s not a quotation from the famous “1984” by George Orwell. The truth of the matter is that the US Central Intelligence Agency has set its eye on social media platforms. In his latest article US, investigative journalist Lee Fang sheds some light of the CIA’s investment programs, referring to a ...
Japanese unveil electric car that doesn’t need battery
Post Date: 2016-04-20 03:14:49 by Tatarewicz
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Japan has made another technological leap - Toyohashi University of Technology and Taisei Corp has unveiled the first electrical car in the world that will run without a battery, receiving its charge from an electrified road. The unveiling on Friday was in the form of a test drive in Toyohashi, in the Aichi Prefecture. The small vehicle moved over the electrified surface, which had two rail-like steel paths spaced to match the car’s special tires. The charge is derived from steel wires embedded in them, which serve as a conduit. The drive lasted for 30 meters at a speed of 10km/h, and, according to Professor Takashi Ohira, as cited by Kyodo: “Acceleration was smooth, and the ...
Five major earthquakes in 48 hours; seismologist warns mega-quakes coming Why is the crust of the Earth shaking so violently all of a sudden?
Post Date: 2016-04-19 13:05:56 by Horse
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Over the past 48 hours, there have been five major earthquakes globally, and one prominent seismologist has declared that “catastrophic mega earthquakes” could be on the way. In fact, seismologist Roger Bilham of the University of Colorado has made headlines all over the world by warning that “current conditions might trigger at least four earthquakes greater than 8.0 in magnitude”. If his projections are accurate, our planet could be on the precipice of a wave of natural disasters unlike anything that any of us have ever experienced before. Since the beginning of 2016, south Asia has been hit by an unusually high number of large earthquakes, and this has scientists ...
Saint or Sinner, Government Eyes Are Watching Every Move You Make
Post Date: 2016-04-19 08:22:03 by Ada
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“The way things are supposed to work is that we’re supposed to know virtually everything about what [government officials] do: that’s why they’re called public servants. They’re supposed to know virtually nothing about what we do: that’s why we’re called private individuals. This dynamic – the hallmark of a healthy and free society – has been radically reversed. Now, they know everything about what we do, and are constantly building systems to know more. Meanwhile, we know less and less about what they do, as they build walls of secrecy behind which they function. That’s the imbalance that needs to come to an end. No democracy can be ...
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