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Faster Firefox? Mozilla's Quantum Shoots for Quicker Page Loads, Smoother Scrolling
Post Date: 2016-10-30 08:37:06 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Mozilla is overhauling its Gecko-based web engine so that it's better at handling the dynamic features of modern websites. Mozilla has announced project Quantum, kicking off a major overhaul of its web engine to deliver a faster browsing experience by the end of 2017. The new Quantum engine will improve Firefox's ability to handle modern website features, such as auto-playing video, rich animations, and instant messaging. Because users expect these features to just work, and developers want to use them, Mozilla thinks it's time to do a better job of supporting the needs of both groups. The engine aims to harness the hardware the browser runs on more ...
Risk of Earth’s destruction by asteroid increasing as astronomers find 5,000 new risky comets
Post Date: 2016-10-29 03:45:24 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Astronomers have identified an increasing number of asteroids which “pose a threat” to Earth, according to the European Space Agency. Near-Earth Objects, or NEOs, are asteroids or comets whose orbits are close to ours, meaning there is a risk they could hit Earth. Ranging in size from meters to tens of kilometres, astronomers are discovering more and more asteroids that could threaten our planet. Since 2010, an additional 5,000 have been discovered, bringing the total known number of NEOs to 15,000. “The rate of discovery has been high in the past few years, and teams worldwide have been discovering on average 30 new ones per week,” Ettore Perozzi of the ...
Would YOU visit a robot gynecologist? The four-armed device to operate on women that's controlled by a doctor using foot pedals
Post Date: 2016-10-27 17:56:28 by Horse
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Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, New York, has bought a 'da Vinci' robot The device gives doctors a 3D view of the surgical site; they can control the robot's arms using hand and foot pedals It will be used for gynecological operations, such as uterus tumor removal Doctors say the device will allow women to leave hospital within two days A robot gynecologist will soon be treating patients in New York. The da Vinci robot has performed a number of minor operations since it was approved for use by the FDA in 2000. Now, Elmhurst Hospital in Queens has purchased one - to join their team of obstetricians and gynecologists. The robot will be used to perform non-invasive procedures ...
A massive hole in the Sun's corona is supercharging aurorae right now
Post Date: 2016-10-27 01:26:48 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Yesterday, officials announced that a "moderate" geomagnetic storm would hit Earth, and then gradually weaken over the next 24 to 48 hours. Caused by Earth's transition into strong solar winds blasted from a hole in the Sun’s corona, the solar storm failed to disrupt power grids, satellites, and radio navigation systems as feared, but it’s been putting on a hell of a show in the night sky instead. Solar storms like the one we’re experiencing right now are caused by coronal holes on the Sun, which look like ominous, black patches in the outer atmosphere. But rather than a physical 'hole' in the atmosphere that exposes the surface, a ...
This brilliant teen figured out how to make clean energy using a device that costs $5
Post Date: 2016-10-24 04:09:05 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Maanasa Mendu thinks she’s cracked the code on how to make wind and solar energy affordable. On Tuesday, Mendu - a 13-year-old from Ohio - won the grand prize in the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge for her work in creating a cost-effective 'solar leaves' design to create energy. In addition to winning the title of America’s Top Young Scientist, she gets $25,000 for her achievement. The leaves, designed to help developing areas in need of cheaper power sources, cost roughly US $5 to make. Over the past three months, Mendu and nine other finalists worked on their projects alongside a mentor provided by 3M. Mendu was inspired to come up ...
New type of solar cell replaces silicon with inexpensive perovskite
Post Date: 2016-10-24 03:56:18 by Tatarewicz
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) -- A new design for solar cells that uses inexpensive, commonly available materials, including tin and other abundant elements, could rival and even outperform conventional cells made of silicon. The resulting new type of solar cell, which replaces silicon with a crystal called perovskite, converts sunlight to electricity at efficiencies similar to current technology but at much lower cost, said researchers from Stanford University in the United States and Oxford University in Britain. Perovskite is a photovoltaic crystalline material that is thinner, more flexible and easier to manufacture than silicon crystals. The new device consists of two perovskite ...
How Soviets fumbled their "internet"
Post Date: 2016-10-24 00:19:41 by Tatarewicz
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RI... Soviet scientists tried for decades to network their nation. What stalemated them is now fracturing the global internet as well On the morning of 1 October 1970, the computer scientist Viktor Glushkov walked into the Kremlin to meet with the Politburo. He was an alert man with piercing eyes rimmed in black glasses, with the kind of mind that, given one problem, would derive a method for solving all similar problems. And at that moment the Soviet Union had a serious problem. A year earlier, the United States launched ARPANET, the first packet-switching distributed computer network that would in time seed the internet as we know it. The distributed network was originally designed to ...
Mysterious Planet 9 may be ‘twisting’ the solar system, scientists say
Post Date: 2016-10-22 06:27:50 by Tatarewicz
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RT A planet, believed to be the ninth in our solar system, but which has remained mysteriously elusive to astronomers could be causing the “wobble” in our solar system that causes planets to move at a different angle to the sun, according to new research. “Because Planet Nine is so massive and has an orbit tilted compared to the other planets, the solar system has no choice but to slowly twist out of alignment,” lead author of the study from Caltech Elizabeth Bailey said in a statement. All planets in our solar system (excluding the hypothetical Planet 9) move around the sun on the same plane, but this plane differs by six degrees to the sun which is tilted from ...
170mph ‘air bombs’ capable of downing planes and ships could unlock mystery of the BERMUDA TRIANGLE
Post Date: 2016-10-22 05:49:24 by Tatarewicz
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Sun... Bizarre hexagonal clouds suggest the devastating air bombs could be behind mystery disappearances in the notorious area STRANGE clouds forming above the Bermuda Triangle could explain why dozens of ships and planes have mysteriously vanished in the notorious patch of sea. The remarkable new theory suggests the clouds are linked to 170mph “air bombs” – capable of bringing down planes and ships. Bermuda Island is a tiny island located in the Atlantic Ocean Now the riddle could finally be solved after meteorologists speaking to the Science Channel’s What on Earth revealed their findings. Using radar satellite imagery, they discovered bizarre ...
Earth faces another ICE AGE within 15 YEARS as Russian scientists discover Sun 'cooling'
Post Date: 2016-10-21 20:29:08 by Ada
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THE Earth is heading towards another ice age as solar magnetic activity is set to drop by up to 60 per cent in the next 15 years. An ice age could be coming Experts say that solar activity as low as it currently is has not been seen since the mini-ice age that took place between 1645 and 1715 – a period known as the Maunder Munimum where the entire Thames froze over. A new model has allowed experts to predict solar activity with more accuracy than ever before and it suggests that magnetic activity will fall by 60 per cent between 2030 and 2040. The model looks at the Sun’s ’11-year heartbeat’ – the period it takes for magnetic activity to fluctuate. This ...
Physicist says our Universe could have spawned from a black hole
Post Date: 2016-10-21 04:31:02 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... According to our best understanding of the Universe, if you travel back in time as far as you can, around 13.8 billion years or so, you'll eventually reach a singularity - a super-dense, hot, and energetic point, where the laws that govern space-time breakdown. Despite our best attempts, we can't peer past that singularity to see what triggered the birth of our Universe - but we do know of only one other instance in the history of our Universe where a singularity exists, and that's inside a black hole. And the two events might have more in common than you've ever considered. It might sound a little crazy, but, as physicist Ethan Siegel explains over at ...
This new device lets you grow your own food from plant cells
Post Date: 2016-10-21 04:19:40 by Tatarewicz
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Researchers in Finland have invented an appliance that grows food ingredients - basically, all the healthy compounds found within veggies - using plant cells inside a bioreactor. The team says the system, known as the CellPod, works by growing plant cell material from a seed culture, producing proteins, fibres, and other plant-based compounds, to give the user the benefits of a greenhouse on their kitchen counter - no farm required. "Urbanisation and the environmental burden caused by agriculture are creating the need to develop new ways of producing food - CellPod is one of them. It may soon offer consumers a new and exciting way of producing local food in their own homes," ...
Stephen Hawking says most of our history is "the history of stupidity"
Post Date: 2016-10-21 04:04:18 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... In a lecture at the University of Cambridge this week, Stephen Hawking made the bold claim that the creation of artificial intelligence will be "either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity". The talk was celebrating the opening of the new Leverhulme Centre of the Future of Intelligence, where some of the best minds in science will try to answer questions about the future of robots and artificial intelligence - something Hawking says we need to do a lot more of. “We spend a great deal of time studying history," Hawking told the lecture, "which, let’s face it, is mostly the history of stupidity." But despite all our ...
Experts believe mysterious aluminium object dating back 250,000 years 'could be part of ancient UFO
Post Date: 2016-10-20 12:03:00 by Horse
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Metallic aluminium was not produced by mankind until around 200 years ago - but this appears manufactured making the object a baffling find. A piece of aluminium that looks as if it was handmade is being hailed as 250,000-year-old proof that aliens once visited Earth. Metallic aluminium was not really produced by mankind until around 200 years ago, so the discovery of the large chunk that could be up to 250,000 years old is being held as a sensational find. The details of the discovery were never made public at the time because it was pulled out of the earth in communist Romania in 1973. Builders working on the shores of the Mures River not far from the central Romanian town of Aiud ...
Hillary Clinton Destroys America’s Free Energy Hopes—Forever
Post Date: 2016-10-20 08:22:08 by Tatarewicz
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WDIM... A shocking Ministry of Energy (MoE) report circulating in the Kremlin today says that due to the machinations of both Hillary Clinton and President Obama, the hopes of unlimited energy for the United States has been “forever destroyed” after the US government ordered the defunding of that nations most advanced fusion reactor on the same day it set a new world record in free energy production. According to this report, MoE and other global energy scientists “beamed/radiated” excitement on 30 September when the Boston based Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced that its Plasma Science and Fusion Center’s (PSFC) Alcator C-Mod (ARC) tokamak ...
Stephen Hawking says artificial intelligence could be humanity's greatest disaster
Post Date: 2016-10-20 07:07:19 by Ada
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The invention of artificial intelligence could be the biggest disaster in humanity’s history, Professor Stephen Hawking has said, warning that if they are not properly managed, thinking machines could spell the end for civilisation. “The rise of powerful AI will be either the best or the worst thing ever to happen to humanity. We do not know which,” the British physicist said. He was speaking at the opening of a new Cambridge centre that will seek to address the potential dangers and conundrums of AI. Professor Hawking, a prominent critic of making unchecked advances in AI, said that the technology promised to bring great benefits, such as eradicating disease and ...
The two astronauts onboard the Shenzhou-11 spacecraft entered the space lab Tiangong-2 Wednesday morning.
Post Date: 2016-10-20 06:38:50 by Tatarewicz
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ABOARD China'a TIANGONG-2, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- Today is the first day that our flight crew moved into the space complex for the Shenzhou-11 mission. It is 10:05 p.m. now, and we haven't finished our work yet. I'm told people are concerned about our life here in space. Tutuping'an, a net user of Xinhua mobile app, is curious about how we sleep and have meal in the space lab. I should say Chen Dong and I feel fulfilled in work, and we really want to go to bed now. As we were so busy in the morning, docking Shenzhou-11 and Tiangong-2 and then entering Tiangong-2 of the complex, we had no time for dinner. We ate only one meal for breakfast and lunch. They were largely ...
Adding seaweed to cattle feed could reduce methane production by 70%
Post Date: 2016-10-20 04:40:30 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... If we add dried seaweed to 2 percent of sheep and cattle feed, we could cut methane emissions by more than 70 percent, scientists have found. With livestock responsible for 44 percent of all human-caused methane - a gas that has 36 times the global warming potential of CO2 - this could cut a huge chunk of the 3.1 gigatonnes these animals release into the atmosphere each year in burps and farts. To put that 3.1 gigatonnes of methane into perspective, the entire European Union releases just over that amount of CO2 each year. And if we cut that 3.1 gigatonnes by 70 percent by adding seaweed to livestock feed, we’d be clearing 2.17 gigatonnes of methane released into ...
Google's AI can now learn from its own memory independently
Post Date: 2016-10-18 05:41:26 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... The DeepMind artificial intelligence (AI) being developed by Google's parent company, Alphabet, can now intelligently build on what's already inside its memory, the system's programmers have announced. Their new hybrid system – called a Differential Neural Computer (DNC) – pairs a neural network with the vast data storage of conventional computers, and the AI is smart enough to navigate and learn from this external data bank. What the DNC is doing is effectively combining external memory (like the external hard drive where all your photos get stored) with the neural network approach of AI, where a massive number of interconnected nodes work ...
Tesla, Panasonic team up to build solar cells
Post Date: 2016-10-17 07:57:09 by Tatarewicz
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Tesla Motors and Panasonic Corp. announced plans to produce photovoltaic cells and modules in a Buffalo, N.Y., plant owned by SolarCity Corp., pending Tesla's purchase of SolarCity. r PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 17 (UPI) -- Tesla Motors and Panasonic Corp. announced an agreement to produce photovoltaic cells and modules in a new plant in Buffalo, N.Y. The deal is contingent of Tesla's acquisition of SolarCity Corp., a California-based designer of solar power systems currently constructing the Buffalo plant. Tesla, manufacturers of electric-powered automobiles, plans to use the cells and modules in a solar energy system with Powerwall and Powerpack, Tesla cars' energy storage ...
Spotlight: China to play important role in building more powerful telescopes to observe distant galaxies
Post Date: 2016-10-17 05:07:58 by Tatarewicz
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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- The latest estimation that there might be 10 times more galaxies in the universe than previously thought requires more powerful telescopes to observe the "missing" galaxies and China can be a strong player in this field, astronomers said. "Evidence for 10 times more galaxies, invisible to current telescopes, strongly motivates the development and construction of next-generation telescopes, such as space telescopes and giant ground-based facilities, as well as the invention of new observational strategies," Zheng Cai, Hubble Fellow at the University of California, told Xinhua on Sunday. Chinese President Xi Jinping recently wrote to ...
New Obama Executive Order Hints At Devastating Space Event: “Could Disable Large Portions Of The Electrical Power Grid… Cause Cascading Failures”
Post Date: 2016-10-16 19:20:46 by BTP Holdings
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New Obama Executive Order Hints At Devastating Space Event: “Could Disable Large Portions Of The Electrical Power Grid… Cause Cascading Failures” Mac Slavo October 15th, 2016 SHTFplan.com Read by 18,476 people solar-flare-1 Once considered a fringe conspiracy theory, it appears that the Obama administration is now actively preparing for a massive solar event that could wipe out life as we have come to know it. Space weather events such as solar flares, solar energetic particles, and geomagnetic disturbances have long been believed to pose a significant threat to our technologically advanced society with the ability to not only affect global positioning satellites, but ...
Dogs too smart to follow useless advice, study says
Post Date: 2016-10-15 07:30:26 by Tatarewicz
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In this experiment, the researchers put dog treats inside a box. Lifting the lid was the only necessary action for getting the treat. But when researchers taught dogs to use the box, the instructors first pulled a lever on the side of the box. However, the dogs soon figured out the lever was irrelevant to getting the treat. So they stopped using it. Click for Full Text!Poster Comment:If only people were as smart; wouldn't be fighting stupid wars for Israel, featherbedding at work, and many other unnecessary things.
These industrial robots teach each other new skills while we sleep It takes days to reprogram an industrial robot. With artificial intelligence, it could take only a few hours.
Post Date: 2016-10-15 04:57:55 by Horse
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Fanuc, maker of the industrial robots used to assemble Apple’s iPhone and cars for Volkswagen and Tesla, is now partnering with Nvidia to add the company’s graphics processing units to its massive machines. Fanuc launched an initiative to bring artificial intelligence to its robots after investing $7.3 million in Preferred Networks, a machine learning company, in 2015. Nvidia’s graphics processing units and deep-learning technology will be used to help Fanuc robots recognize, process and respond to the environment around them. It’s especially important for reinforcement learning, which is how machines use artificial intelligence to adopt new skills through practice. A ...
Chinese scientist plans mass production of sea-rice
Post Date: 2016-10-15 04:55:29 by Tatarewicz
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QINGDAO, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- China's "father of hybrid rice" is planning to expand its production of sea-rice at a newly founded research center in Qingdao, a port city in the eastern province of Shandong, local sources said Saturday. Within three years, the sea-rice research and development center, headed by scientist Yuan Longping, is expected to expand the yield of sea-rice to 200 kilograms on each "mu," the Chinese unit equivalent to 666 square meters, according to local authorities in Qingdao's Licang District, where the new research body is located. Wild sea-rice is sometimes found in saline-alkaline soil at the junctures where rivers join the sea. The ...
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