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Robots to determine outcome of future wars: Russian army's tech chief
Post Date: 2016-07-07 07:41:32 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... The Russian military's tech chief says the outcome of future wars will be determined by robots. (Sputnik) The Russian military's tech chief says the outcome of future wars will be determined by robots. (Sputnik) Robots will replace conventional soldiers on the battlefield in the future, says the Russian military’s tech chief. “I see a greater robotization [of war], in fact, future warfare will involve operators and machines, not soldiers shooting at each other on the battlefield,” RT quoted Lieutenant General Andrey Grigoriev, the head of Russia’s Advanced Research Foundation (ARF), as saying on Wednesday. Noting that days of conventional warfare ...
Amazon moves one step closer toward army of warehouse robots Robotics competition prize for best warehouse-working ‘picker’ machine awarded to robot designed by Dutch team
Post Date: 2016-07-06 17:55:36 by Horse
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Amazon’s progress toward an army of helpful robots is one step closer: a prize for the best warehouse-working “picker” machine has gone to a robot designed by a team from TU Delft Robotics Institute and Delft Robotics, both based in the Netherlands. The competition was held in conjunction with Germany’s Robocup in Leipzig. Announced on Monday, the winners took home $25,000, while the university of Bonn’s NimbRo won $10,000 for second place and Japanese firm PFN was awarded $5,000 for third. The contest, in Amazon’s words, “aimed to strengthen the ties between the industrial and academic robotic communities,” and ended with slightly fewer than half ...
Norway says possible to realize full-scale carbon capture chain within 2022
Post Date: 2016-07-06 03:54:31 by Tatarewicz
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OSLO, July 4 (Xinhua) -- Norway said Monday in a feasibility study report that it is possible to realize a full-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) chain in the Nordic country within 2022, two years later than it had expected. "The feasibility studies are an important part of this work and show that realising a full-scale CCS chain in Norway within 2022 is possible and at lower costs than for projects considered in Norway earlier," Norway's Minister of Petroleum and Energy Tord Lien was quoted as saying in a statement when presenting the report. "Wide deployment of CCS is necessary for the world to reach its climate goals. The most important goal of a full-scale ...
Researchers in England have devised a better way to capture CO2 from smokestack emissions.
Post Date: 2016-07-05 00:24:41 by Tatarewicz
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Chemists unveil cheaper, more efficient carbon capture technology "It defies current accepted scientific understanding of the efficiency of carbon-capturing CO2," said researcher Michael North. YORK, England, July 4 (UPI) -- A team of scientists in England have found a better way to capture carbon from power plant emissions. The key to their new and improved technique is patented carbon-derived biomass material called Starbons. Starbons, which was pioneered a decade ago by scientists at the University of York, is made using biomass waste like food peelings and seaweed. Its key attribute is its porosity. Lots of tiny holes allow Starbons to capture lots of CO2. Current carbon ...
China finishes world's largest radio telescope to search for alien life
Post Date: 2016-07-04 23:38:12 by Tatarewicz
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Installation was completed on the world's largest radio telescope on Sunday morning in Pingtang, China. Photo by giohy.com GUIYANG, China, July 3 (UPI) -- China finished constructing the world's largest radio telescope to hunt for signs of alien life in deep space. The Five-hundred-meter Single-Aperture Radio Telescope, or FAST, contains 4,450 reflector panels with a diameter of 500 yards and is 30 football fields, according to the Xinhua news agency. About 300 people witnessed the installation Saturday of the last triangular-shaped panel to the reflector in Pingtang County of the southwestern province of Guizhou. The project was first conceived in 1994 and installation began ...
NASA's Juno Spacecraft Prepares for Cosmic Date With Jupiter
Post Date: 2016-07-04 22:24:31 by BTP Holdings
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NASA's Juno Spacecraft Prepares for Cosmic Date With Jupiter By alicia chang, ap science writer LOS ANGELES — Jul 4, 2016, 7:58 PM ET Space Journey To JupiterThe Associated Press This artist's rendering provided by NASA and JPL-Caltech shows the Juno spacecraft above the planet Jupiter. Five years after its launch from Earth, Juno is scheduled to go into orbit around the gas giant on Monday, July 4, 2016. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP) A solar-powered spacecraft is spinning toward Jupiter for the closest encounter with the biggest planet in our solar system. NASA's Juno spacecraft will fire its main rocket engine late Monday to slow itself down from a speed of 150,000 mph ...
Scientists just made it cheaper to produce hydrogen from water
Post Date: 2016-07-03 08:20:16 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... A hydrogen-fuel economy could finally become a reality with the recent discovery of a cheap, stable and efficient means of getting hydrogen from water. Scientists at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm now report that they have unlocked one major barrier to exploiting this renewable energy source. Because the best-performing catalysts for electrochemical oxidation, or "water splitting," are expensive precious metals, the research team led by KTH Professor Licheng Sun is one of many worldwide searching for cheaper alternatives. Sun had earlier developed molecular catalysts for water oxidation (Nature Chem. 2012, 4, 418) with an efficiency approaching ...
Hanergy launches four full solar power vehicles in Beijing
Post Date: 2016-07-03 05:41:39 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, July 3, 2016 (Xinhua) -- A full solar power vehicle is presented during a ceremony held by Chinese renewable energy company Hanergy Holding Group in Beijing, capital of China, July 2, 2016 China to fund construction of 55MW solar power plant in Kenya finance.yahoo.com/news/hanergy-launches-full-solar-power-192700335.html Hanergy launches full solar power vehicles that can be commercialized PR Newswire Hanergy Holding Group BEIJING, July 2, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Hanergy Holding Group, the world's leading thin-film solar power company, launched four full solar power vehicles at a grand ceremony themed "Disruptive Innovations Drive the Future" outside its ...
Night-time light pollution causes spring to come early
Post Date: 2016-07-01 07:10:05 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... Human use of artificial light is causing spring to come at least a week early in the UK, researchers at the University of Exeter in Cornwall have found. New research led by a team of biologists based at the University's Penryn campus highlights for the first time and at a national scale the relationship between the amount of artificial night-time light and the date of budburst in woodland trees. The study, the result of a long term collaboration with independent environmental consultants Spalding Associates, in Truro, made use of data collected by citizen scientists from across the UK, after the Woodland Trust asked them to note down when they first saw sycamore, oak, ...
Futurologist Dr Ian Pearson claims that sleeping with robots will be as common for women as watching porn is today
Post Date: 2016-07-01 02:58:54 by Horse
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Woman could be swapping human partners for robots in less than 10 years as the trend for sex with cyborgs continues to increase. Futurologist Dr Ian Pearson has compiled a report on the future of sex - where he suggests that sleeping with robots will be as common for women as watching porn is today. Sex with robots isn't exactly new though - and there are already a wide range of mechanical partners for humans out there. Footage, shared by Super Deluxe , was filmed in the Real Doll factory, and throws new light on the industry standard sex toys. Thanks to new developments, the pleasure aids have undergone a renaissance recently, with more than ever turning to them in lieu of human ...
Nobel laureates to Greenpeace: ‘Abandon your campaign against GMOs’
Post Date: 2016-06-30 02:57:33 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Over 100 Nobel laureates have signed a letter asking Greenpeace to halt its campaign against genetically modified crops and feeds, especially Golden Rice. They argue that GMOs can offer life-saving food sources to the world’s poorest regions. The group is holding a news conference on Thursday to discuss the topic at the National Press Club in Washington DC on Thursday. “WE CALL UPON GOVERNMENTS OF THE WORLD to reject Greenpeace's campaign against Golden Rice specifically, and crops and foods improved through biotechnology in general; and to do everything in their power to oppose Greenpeace's actions and accelerate the access of farmers to all the tools of modern ...
Hubble telescope spots rare tadpole galaxy
Post Date: 2016-06-29 03:57:04 by Tatarewicz
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While some stars in the head of the elongated galaxy are less than a million years old, others farther from the head are hundreds of millions to billions of years old. WASHINGTON, June 28 (UPI) -- Tadpole galaxies are rare in the universe, and even more rare in the local universe -- there are just 20 in the "local" areas closest to Earth -- and new Hubble telescope images of one relatively close by is shedding new light on their formation. New images of LEDA 36252, also known as Kiso 5639, were captured by Hubble, suggesting many of the stars in the galaxy are still forming as it drifts through a relatively gasless "desert" in the universe, which is why it has formed ...
Singularity is Near! Full Documentary (Exponential growth of computer technology)
Post Date: 2016-06-26 09:23:27 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Published on May 3, 2016 Michio Kaku and Ray Kurzweil explains the exponential rate at which Technological Singularity is approaching and the future is far near than we can Imagine! Poster Comment:============================================= Romans 1:22 21For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.…
'Brain training' is just the placebo effect working, study finds
Post Date: 2016-06-24 08:27:25 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... An experiment conducted by a team of researchers at the George Mason University finds that they can achieve what paid brain training programs claim - using a simple trick. They used two posters with different advertising messages to attract participants, but both posters lead to the exact same study and the exact same activities. One poster mentioned brain training and cognitive enhancement and citing studies that claim they can increase fluid intelligence. The other poster used the same design but simply offered credits for participation in a study. Fifty recruits were accepted to participate. The 25 participants lured by "Cognitive Enhancement" were the ...
The One Nuclear Threat That Most People Aren’t Aware Of
Post Date: 2016-06-23 09:06:36 by Ada
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These days we are all well aware that nuclear technology provides plenty of ways to disrupt our society. There are of course, an abundance of nuclear missiles in the world today, as well suitcase nukes and dirty bombs. There is also the ever looming possibility of a meltdown occurring in a nuclear power plant. However, there is one nuclear threat that very few people are aware of, and we have the Russians to thank for it. In short, they have a bona fide doomsday machine. No, this isn’t science fiction. At first glance it probably doesn’t sound very exotic, since this machine delivers ordinary nuclear weapons. What’s so unique about it, is the conditions that could cause it ...
Large-scale motion detected near San Andreas Fault System
Post Date: 2016-06-22 03:49:54 by Tatarewicz
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"We were able to break down the noisy signals to isolate a simple vertical motion pattern that curiously straddled the San Andreas fault," researcher Samuel Howell said. The top diagram shows the lobes of movement, uplift in red and subsidence in blue, found using GPS data, while the botom diagram shows the lobes predicted by an earthquake simulation model. Image by University of Hawaii, Manoa HONOLULU, June 20 (UPI) -- Analysis of GPS data has revealed new areas of motion around the San Andreas Fault System. Using data collected by the EarthScope Plate Boundary Observatory's GPS array, researchers identified 125-mile-wide "lobes" of uplift and subsidence. Over ...
Russian Moon Base to Hold Up to 12 People – Roscosmos
Post Date: 2016-06-22 03:20:27 by Tatarewicz
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Sputnik... Russian engineers are working on a project of a Moon base that will eventually hold up to 12 people, the spokeswoman of a research institute with the Russian space agency Roscosmos told local media. MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Zharova reportedly said that the lunar outpost project was initiated in the late 1960s-early 1970s.The base will be set up on the Moon surface, while radiation protection shelters and energy units can be hidden underground. "At the initial stage, the Moon base will be manned by no more than 2-4 people, with their number later rising to 10-12 people," Olga Zharova, of the TsNIIMash machine-building institute, was quoted by the Izvestia newspaper on ...
New Chinese study helps explain dangerous ice buildup on planes
Post Date: 2016-06-22 00:50:19 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, June 21 (Xinhua) -- Ice building up on the wings and tail of an aircraft flying during freezing rain is a major concern that could lead to high-speed crashes, and a new Chinese study published Tuesday may help explain why such a dangerous phenomenon occurs. A well-known culprit involved is the so-called supercooled large droplets (SLD) whose maximum diameter is greater than 1,000 micrometers. So concerned about SLD are safety officials that on Nov. 4, 2014, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) enacted a new rule regulating standards in ice buildup conditions created by the presence of SLD. Yet, despite the known dangers of SLD, significant knowledge gaps remained. ...
Too Cute for Their Own Good, Robots Get Self-Defense Instincts
Post Date: 2016-06-20 10:09:11 by Ada
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Droid designers, making friendlier creations that dispel the killer-cyborg image, find they now need to instill self-defense instincts, too; a lipstick stain Click for Full Text!
Could Bizarre Cricket Farm Solve World Hunger?
Post Date: 2016-06-18 09:06:15 by Tatarewicz
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C2C... A New York-based think tank of architects and ecologists have devised a unique way of solving food shortages in the form of a futuristic cricket farm. Dubbed the 'Cricket Shelter,' the plastic cave-like structure contains dozens of pods that are specially-designed to house the nutritious insects in a sanitary setting. The bizarre farm also features a number of 'wind quills' which would both provide ventilation for the creatures as well as amplify their chirps, which will be sure to thrill anyone living next door to one of them. Terreform ONE, the group behind the Cricket Shelter, suggests that the easily portable structure could be used in regions of the world ...
Mind-reading AI: Researchers decode faces from brainwave patterns (PHOTOS)
Post Date: 2016-06-17 03:48:38 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Artificial Intelligence can show who you are thinking about by analyzing brain scans and reconstructing an image of that person, a new study reveals. Trends Viral Researchers from the Kuhl Lab at the University of Oregon explored how faces could be decoded from neural activity in the study Reconstructing Perceived and Retrieved Faces from Activity Patterns in Lateral Parietal Cortex, published in the Journal of Neuroscience. Hongmi Lee and Brice A. Kuhl tested whether faces could be reconstructed from the ‘angular gyrus’ (ANG) located in the upper back area of the brain through functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) activity patterns. Read more © Marketing ...
This is the end of the fossil fuel age as we know it, says report
Post Date: 2016-06-16 08:36:35 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Fossil fuels are holding on, but end of their reign is nigh, says a new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance, which predicts that wind and solar will be cheaper than coal and gas generators by 2027, and electric vehicles could make up 25 percent of the global car fleet by 2040. The peak year for coal, gas, and oil looks to be 2025, and then it’s all downhill from there. For big oil guys, at least. "You can't fight the future," says lead researcher, Seb Henbest. "The economics are increasingly locked in." Released on Monday, Bloomberg’s New Energy Outlook report has found that US$11.4 trillion will be invested in new energy sources ...
Apple CEO impressed by nine-year-old Australian app maker
Post Date: 2016-06-15 06:21:33 by Tatarewicz
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MELBOURNE, June 15 (Xinhua) -- A nine-year-old Melbourne schoolgirl, Anvitha Vijay, has caught the eye of Apple's CEO Tim Cook at the Worldwide Developers' Conference (WWCD) in San Francisco. Out of the 350 students invited to Apple's WWCD, Vijay was acknowledged by Cook in his keynote speech as one the most promising and young app developers in the world. Vijay impressed Apple executives so much that she got to meet Cook. And he gave her a special shout out in the first few minutes of the show, pointing her out in the audience saying, "I met Vijay and she is going to make one heck of a developer." The nine-year-old's budding app career began when she was only ...
Japan's Nissan develops bio-ethanol powered system for vehicles
Post Date: 2016-06-15 06:06:19 by Tatarewicz
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TOKYO, June 14 (Xinhua) -- Japan's major automaker Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. announced on Tuesday that it is developing a fuel cell system for vehicles to run on bio-ethanol electric power, the first time for the fuel to be used in motor vehicles. The company's "e-Bio Fuel-Cell" generates electricity through the solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) power generator using bio-ethanol stored in the vehicle, said Nissan in a release. Hydrogen is produced from 100 percent ethanol or ethanol-blended water in the fuel tank of vehicle, then mixed with oxygen in atmosphere to produce electricity. "Bio-ethanol fuels, including those sourced from sugarcane and corn, are widely ...
Chiral molecule detected in space for first time
Post Date: 2016-06-15 04:35:56 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, June 14 (Xinhua) -- Scientists on Tuesday reported the first detection of a chiral molecule in space, a finding that may help understand one of the most puzzling mysteries of the early origins of life. Like a pair of human hands, chiral molecules have two forms that are identical in structure, but are mirror images of one another. Life on Earth uses one, and only one, handedness of many types of chiral molecules, a phenomenon known as homochirality. The amino acids that make up the proteins in our bodies, for example, are all left-handed. Chiral molecules are of particular significance in pharmaceutical development: one form, or enantiomer, may have a therapeutic effect ...
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