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Latest Articles: Science/Tech
IBM to team up with Chinese company and make Obama unhappy
Post Date: 2015-03-24 22:54:01 by Tatarewicz
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Want... The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) and China's Beijing Teamsun Technology recently announced their cooperation, allowing the latter based on IBM's technologies to develop and sell domestic innovation products–a move seen provoking the Obama administration, ThePaper.cn reports. Previously, the Obama administration had been weary of the information security contents in the draft of China's anti-terrorism law, and now IBM's cooperating with a Chinese enterprise in handing over the source codes to the latter will make the US government even more unhappy. IBM will be open to Chinese enterprises, not only to share its designs with them, but also ...
Airplane giant Boeing granted patent for FORCE FIELD technology
Post Date: 2015-03-24 05:28:33 by Tatarewicz
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BOEING has successfully obtained a patent for a 'Force Field'-like technology designed to protect targets from fatal explosions and shrapnel. Unlike the force field Marvel's Fantastic Four, right, Boeing's system will not deflect direct hits MARVEL•GETTY Unlike the force field Marvel's Fantastic Four, right, Boeing's system will not deflect direct hits The multibillion US company, which sells airplanes, rockets and satellites, was last week granted a patent for a new "Force Field" or "electromagnetic arc" technology. Unlike typical science fiction visions of a force field, Boeing's system will not be designed to deflect direct hits ...
Robots To Take Over Half of US Jobs Within Next Several Years, Expert Warns
Post Date: 2015-03-24 00:31:03 by Tatarewicz
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Sputnik... An expert in machine learning warns that advances in technology could mean the replacement of nearly half the US human workforce with computers over the next two decades. University of Oxford Associate Professor Michael Osborne evaluated 702 occupations in the US and predicted 47% could be taken over by computers and machines in the foreseeable future. The jobs most at risk are hospitality and food service, Osborne claimed, with 87% of the workforce there at “high risk” of being taken over by machines, the Brisbane Times reported. Trailing that are transportation and warehouse jobs at 75% and real estate at 67%. Interestingly enough, only 19% of workers in the ...
Lenovo moves into internet business with smart homeware
Post Date: 2015-03-23 22:56:25 by Tatarewicz
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Want... Lenovo, the world's largest PC maker by shipments, plans to enter the internet sector and boost its handset business though a new online venture that will be launched in April, reports CBNweekly. The new venture, called Fancy Maker, will focus on the Internet of Things (IoT), offering products such as wearable smart devices and smart homeware that integrate with mobile phones and applications, according to the magazine. The first batch of Fancy Maker products, to be unveiled in early April in tandem with the official launch of the venture, will be basic home appliances such as smart light bulbs and power sockets, said the article. "We explored for a few months and found ...
Big Bang theory could be debunked by Large Hadron Collider
Post Date: 2015-03-23 08:03:20 by Ada
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Scientists at Cern could prove the controversial theory of ‘rainbow gravity’ which suggests that the universe stretches back into time infinitely, with no Big Bang The theory of Rainbow Gravity may prove that the Big Bang could not have happened The theory of Rainbow Gravity may prove that the Big Bang could not have happened Photo: Alamy Sarah Knapton By Sarah Knapton, Science Editor10:33AM GMT 23 Mar 2015 Comments4 Comments The detection of miniature black holes by the Large Hadron Collider could prove the existence of parallel universes and show that the Big Bang did not happen, scientists believe. The particle accelerator, which will be restarted this week, has already found ...
A Self-Driving Car Just Set Off on a Record-Setting Cross-Country Trip
Post Date: 2015-03-22 22:36:42 by Tatarewicz
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Sputnik... Delphi Automotive is sending its driverless-car across the country in a 3,500-mile trip from San Francisco to New York. It is the longest automated drive ever attempted in North America. A Google self-driving car goes on a test drive near the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. While these cars promise to be much safer, accidents will be inevitable. How those cars should react when faced with a series of bad, perhaps deadly, options is a field even less developed than the technology itself. Delphi’s self-driving car will take about 10 days to make the cross-country trip. While the car has already passed long drive runs, Delphi's Chief Technology Officer ...
You’ll Never Guess the Latest Stupid Statement from John Kerry (climate change)
Post Date: 2015-03-21 11:50:48 by BTP Holdings
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You’ll Never Guess the Latest Stupid Statement from John Kerry John Kerry may not make as many ludicrous statements as Joe Biden, but he does have a habit of, shall we say, stretching the truth a bit? Like when Kerry said that man-made climate change is as settled as gravity. Really, John? As settled as gravity? That’s an interesting statement considering that I don’t recall you having a PhD. in physics. Or meteorology, for that matter. (He majored in Political Science, and he never received an “A” in his entire time at Yale. Surprised? Me, neither.) The problem, of course, is that man negatively impacting the climate is not settled by any stretch of the ...
HOW ATTACKERS CAN USE RADIO SIGNALS AND MOBILE PHONES TO STEAL PROTECTED DATA
Post Date: 2015-03-19 20:18:50 by titorite
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COMPUTERS HOUSING THE world’s most sensitive data are usually “air-gapped” or isolated from the internet. They’re also not connected to other systems that are internet-connected, and their Bluetooth feature is disabled, too. Sometimes, workers are not even allowed to bring mobile phones within range of the computers. All of this is done to keep important data out of the hands of remote hackers. But these security measures may be futile in the face of a new technique researchers in Israel have developed for stealthily extracting sensitive data from isolated machines—using radio frequency signals and a mobile phone. The attack recalls a method the NSA has been ...
Robot model for infant learning shows bodily posture may affect memory and learning
Post Date: 2015-03-19 06:01:29 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... An Indiana University cognitive scientist and collaborators have found that posture is critical in the early stages of acquiring new knowledge. The study, conducted by Linda Smith, a professor in the IU Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, in collaboration with a roboticist from England and a developmental psychologist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, offers a new approach to studying the way "objects of cognition," such as words or memories of physical objects, are tied to the position of the body. "This study shows that the body plays a role in early object name learning, and how toddlers ...
Click-click! Microsoft officially kills Internet Explorer brand
Post Date: 2015-03-19 05:38:57 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Windows 10 will abandon the long-criticized Internet Explorer web browser, replacing it with a new “Project Spartan” brand, Microsoft has confirmed. Microsoft's marketing chief confirmed at the company's ‘Convergence’ conference in Atlanta on Monday that Internet Explorer, the major old web browser brand, will only be used in enterprise compatibility with the new Windows 10, which will be offering a new way of browsing the internet, The Verge reported. “We’ll continue to have Internet Explorer, but we’ll also have a new browser called Project Spartan. We have to name the thing,” Chris Capossela said. Microsoft's new web browser, ...
Elon Musk: The Cars You’re Driving Today Will Eventually Be Outlawed
Post Date: 2015-03-18 05:15:37 by Tatarewicz
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The Daily Caller/Yahoo... Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk thinks every car on the road today — and many more in the future — will eventually be outlawed. The reason? They require humans to drive. “In the distant future, [legislators] may outlaw driven cars because they’re too dangerous,” Musk told NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang at company’s annual developers conference Tuesday. ”You can’t have a person driving a two-ton death machine.” “We’ll take autonomous cars for granted in quite a short time,” Musk told attendees gathered in the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. “I almost view it as a solved problem. We know what to do, and ...
Revolutionary 3-D printing technology uses light and oxygen to synthesize materials from a pool of liquid
Post Date: 2015-03-18 03:00:13 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... A 3D printing technology developed by Silicon Valley startup, Carbon3D Inc., enables objects to rise from a liquid media continuously rather than being built layer by layer as they have been for the past 25 years, representing a fundamentally new approach to 3D printing. The technology, to appear as the cover article in the March 20 print issue of Science, allows ready-to-use products to be made 25 to 100 times faster than other methods and creates previously unachievable geometries that open opportunities for innovation not only in health care and medicine, but also in other major industries such as automotive and aviation. Joseph M. DeSimone, professor of chemistry at ...
Sales of Virtual Reality products may take off this year
Post Date: 2015-03-17 23:04:17 by Tatarewicz
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Want... Manufacturers of virtual reality equipment are likely to see a boost from improved experience and expanding content by the end of this year, a Chinese company told Shanghai's China Business News. VR equipment and goggles made a splash at this year's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco in early March, even though such products have yet to make inroads into the consumer market, the newspaper said. The discomfort created by wearing VR gear for long periods of time, poor picture quality and a lack of content have been the main factors holding back the development of such products, according to the newspaper. In addition to Oculus, an early starter in the business, and ...
6 Ways The Power Grid Could Collapse
Post Date: 2015-03-17 17:00:55 by BTP Holdings
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6 Ways The Power Grid Could Collapse by Bill White Of all our infrastructure, the electrical power grid is the most fragile. In the 2013 Infrastructure Report Card, prepared by the American Society of Civil Engineers, Energy received a grade of D. The only reason it was that high, was that the energy category includes all classes of energy, not just electrical energy. However, in the narrative, the ASCE described the true condition of the electrical grid, declaring that it needed over one trillion dollars of investment to survive the next ten years. The problem is that our electrical grid, like much of our infrastructure, was designed for a 50 year lifespan. If you look at the ...
Al Gore at SXSW: We Need to ‘Punish Climate-Change Deniers’ and ‘Put a Price on Carbon’
Post Date: 2015-03-16 16:57:56 by BTP Holdings
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Al Gore at SXSW: We Need to ‘Punish Climate-Change Deniers’ and ‘Put a Price on Carbon’ Cole Mellino | March 16, 2015 10:37 am | Comments The South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival is happening now in Austin, Texas. Running from March 9 to 22, it’s a massive film, interactive and music festival that is nearly 20 years old. The festival brings together designers, developers, investors, entrepreneurs and politicians for panels and discussions about technology and innovation. “We need to put a price on carbon to accelerate these market trends,” said Gore. “And in order to do that, we need to put a price on denial in politics.” stocklight / ...
3-D Printed Bionic Arm ~ way, way cool
Post Date: 2015-03-14 20:46:11 by Lod
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The proper use of hi-tech, imo.
Scientists Call for Halt on Experiments Changing DNA of Human Embryos
Post Date: 2015-03-14 02:53:08 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape... NEW YORK (Reuters) - With rumors that scientists are about to announce they have modified the genes of human eggs, sperm, or embryos, five prominent researchers on Thursday called on biologists to halt such experiments due to fears about safety and eugenics. The call for a self-imposed research moratorium, which is extremely rare in science, was based on concerns that the work crosses an ethical line, said Edward Lanphier, president and chief executive officer of California-based Sangamo BioSciences Inc, senior author of the commentary in Nature. "Humans are not rats or other (experimental) organisms, and this is not something we want to do," Lanphier said in an ...
Magnetic nanoparticles could allow brain stimulation without wires
Post Date: 2015-03-13 00:58:29 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily Researchers at MIT have developed a method to stimulate brain tissue using external magnetic fields and injected magnetic nanoparticles -- a technique allowing direct stimulation of neurons, which could be an effective treatment for a variety of neurological diseases, without the need for implants or external connections. The research, conducted by Polina Anikeeva, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering, graduate student Ritchie Chen, and three others, has been published in the journal Science. Previous efforts to stimulate the brain using pulses of electricity have proven effective in reducing or eliminating tremors associated with Parkinson's ...
MB ~ Driverless Vehicle
Post Date: 2015-03-11 17:14:41 by Lod
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Poster Comment:Spooky stuff, imo.
Crazy scientist reveals the secret that big energy companies want buried (shocking)
Post Date: 2015-03-10 17:13:52 by BTP Holdings
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There are a few simple people that deserve the Medal Of Honor even though they were not in the army... or shared blood in the battle ground. I'm talking about people like this "CRAZY" scientist who uncovered one of the biggest secrets of the mankind... and preferred to share it with the community instead of getting millions of dollars for keeping it secret. We're talking about a secret plan that can produce free energy: >> Watch and Cry (click here) clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l...&b=dGIZx7LHtzyZme5lDg_XKg It's the same device that it was used with great success by the US navy to propel their ships for millions of miles... without any fuel... ...
Venezuela's food supply collapses, headed toward 1000% inflation as Health Ranger launches non-electric food grow system that produces food for pennies
Post Date: 2015-03-10 16:49:09 by BTP Holdings
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Venezuela's food supply collapses, headed toward 1000% inflation as Health Ranger launches non-electric food grow system that produces food for pennies Tuesday, March 10, 2015 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) The coming global food crisis really hit home for me last year. I saw droughts destroying crops across California and food inflation worsening almost everywhere. Collapsing water supplies and radical weather patterns have only accelerated the crisis, and while food may appear to be abundant on grocery store shelves, the retail presentation of abundant food is a thin veneer, under which lies a fragile food supply wholly dependent on just-in-time deliveries, stable ...
El Niño has finally arrived. Here's what that means for you.
Post Date: 2015-03-10 08:18:13 by Tatarewicz
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It's official. After almost a year of El Niño being a no-show, the US's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced that an El Niño weather pattern has developed, and is expected to hang around, messing up our weather, until August. An El Niño weather pattern is associated with a warm band of water in the central and eastern parts of the Pacific, and it can trigger strange weather events, such as heavy rain and unseasonable warmth in some areas, and cold snaps in others. Between 1997 and 1998, an extreme El Niño caused flooding and drought across the planet and generally wreaked havoc on global weather. Early last year, ...
Don’t trust your phone, don’t trust your laptop – this is the reality that Snowden has shown us
Post Date: 2015-03-10 07:36:14 by Ada
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Edward Snowden’s astute revelations show that no electronic communications device – from hard disks to sim cards – is trustworthy Back in July 2013, a few weeks after Edward Snowden’s revelations about internet and mobile-phone surveillance began, I wrote a column that began: “Repeat after me: Edward Snowden is not the story. The story is what he has revealed about the hidden wiring of our networked world.” Edward Snowden's not the story. The fate of the internet is John Naughton Read more The spur for the column was my realisation of the extent and astuteness of Snowden’s choice of what to collect and reveal. His was not some opportunistic ...
This urinal converts your pee into electricity
Post Date: 2015-03-09 07:02:37 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Researchers in the UK have created a urinal that converts pee directly into electricity. The technology uses a set of microbial fuel cells (MFC), which contain tiny organisms that survive by breaking down urine and producing electricity as a byproduct. An earlier model of the urinal was shown to successfully charge up a mobile phone, a stunt that made headlines back in 2013. But the team from the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK, wanted to find a more practical use for the technology, and is now working with Oxfam with the aim of lighting up refugee camps at night using nothing but urine. Currently many refugee camps or camps for displaced people ...
46,000 Twitter accounts used to promote IS: Brookings study
Post Date: 2015-03-09 06:39:55 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- A small group of "hyperactive" users are manipulating most of at least 46,000 Twitter accounts to promote the Islamic State (IS), a recent study said. Between 500 and 2,000 "hyperactive" users tweet 545 to 2,000 posts each day, and most of the accounts tweet in Arabic, with only about one in five using English, according to a study entitled "The ISIS Twitter Census" published by the Washington D.C.-based Brookings Institute. Most IS supporters were located within the territories where the IS operates, as well as Saudi Arabia, and they created their accounts in 2014, Al Jazeera quoted the study as saying on its website on Friday. ...
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