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Why Elon Musk is scared of artificial intelligence — and Terminators
Post Date: 2014-11-18 16:45:20 by Ada
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Elon Musk — the futurist behind PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX — has been caught criticizing artificial intelligence again. “The risk of something seriously dangerous happening is in the five year timeframe,” Musk wrote in a comment since deleted from the Web site Edge.org, but confirmed to Re/Code by his representatives. “10 years at most.” The very future of Earth, Musk said, was at risk. “The leading AI companies have taken great steps to ensure safety,” he wrote. “The recognize the danger, but believe that they can shape and control the digital superintelligences and prevent bad ones from escaping into the Internet. That remains to be ...
Climatologist: 30-Year Cold Spell Strikes Earth
Post Date: 2014-11-17 17:26:28 by BTP Holdings
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Climatologist: 30-Year Cold Spell Strikes Earth Sunday, 16 Nov 2014 07:46 PM By Clayton B. Reid Image: Climatologist: 30-Year Cold Spell Strikes Earth With nasty cold fronts thrusting an icy and early winter across the continental U.S. — along with last winter described by USA Today as "one of the snowiest, coldest, most miserable on record" — climatologist John L. Casey thinks the weather pattern is here to stay for decades to come. In fact, Casey, a former space shuttle engineer and NASA consultant, is out with the provocative book "Dark Winter: How the Sun Is Causing a 30-Year Cold Spell," which warns that a radical shift in global climate is underway, ...
Man-made Global Warming (AGW) is Real: Men Really Created It
Post Date: 2014-11-17 08:28:33 by Ada
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Man-made global warming is real, because it was humans who created the idea and proved, independent of nature, that human activity was the cause. It is a real idea; it is not real in fact. It is in the same context as Goethe’s comment that “The unnatural, that too is natural.” Proponents of the idea believe it’s real, because they created an imaginary world called a computer model. It proved the idea was real, because they claimed the model represented the real world. Naturally, in this unreal real world, the science is settled, the debate is over. Nowhere is this more narrowly defined and vigorously promoted as real than in government and our schools. Marshall ...
Chilean engineering students design new theft-proof bikes
Post Date: 2014-11-17 05:23:17 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, Nov. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- Three young Chilean engineering students have designed several types of bicycles that can be locked using some of their own parts, preventing bikes from being stolen, according to media reports on Monday. The young inventors of the bike "Yerka" have made the bike's lower frame opens up into two arms that are then connected to the seat post and locked to a post, so it is impossible to steal the bike without completely wrecking it. The "bikes that can’t be stolen" also include Brooklyn-based "Seatylock," which uses its saddle seat as a lock, and Seattle-based "Denny," which is locked with its detachable ...
Perfecting the mind: ‘Smart pill’ unlocks childlike state of learning in adults
Post Date: 2014-11-15 05:52:22 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Scientists from Stanford University say they have discovered a way to unlock a part of the brain that is responsible for assisting humans in learning new skills with the ease and wonderment that is identifiable in children. The scientific community offers a wide variety of cures for alleviating any number of ailments, and now it appears set to provide the world with a smart pill. READ MORE: Cure for migraines and epilepsy? Humans control genes in mice with power of thought Stanford Professor Carla Shatz and her colleagues, Dr. David Bochner and Richard Sapp, conducted animal experiments where they interfered with a brain protein called PirB (in humans it is called ...
Planet Earth's Most Disruptive Moment
Post Date: 2014-11-13 17:48:39 by BTP Holdings
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The most disruptive technological force on the planet is happening quietly and relatively unseen by most of us. When you plug your cellphone charger into a wall socket, you are probably connecting to one of about 500 coal-fired power plants in the United States. What if all of them were shut down by 2050? What if instead of getting your power from a centralized source, you got it from a small generating plant on top of your house or business or car? What if everywhere you went, no matter when you needed electricity, it came from a small local source, instead of a giant power plant? That is exactly what is starting to happen in the U.S., China and other nations around the world, ...
Israel, India test newest Barak-8 air and missile defense system
Post Date: 2014-11-11 01:32:32 by Tatarewicz
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JERUSALEM, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) -- The Barak-8 Air and Missile Defense System has successfully completed a comprehensive trial of its components, the prime contractor Israel Aerospace Industries ( IAI) announced on Monday. A live intercepting missile was fired during the trial, which was carried out in conjunction with Indian defense and military officials and was the first involving a full operational scenario, the company said in a statement. It did not disclose the location of the site where the trial took place. After being detected by radar, the weapon system calculated the optimal interception point and launched the Barak-8 missile into its operational trajectory. It then acquired ...
9,000-Year-Old Bison Mummy Found Frozen in Time
Post Date: 2014-11-09 21:28:23 by X-15
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The almost perfectly preserved bison mummy was found on the shore of a lake in northern Siberia Hidden away under frozen ground for nearly 10,000 years, an extremely well-preserved bison mummy is finally ready to give up its secrets. In 2011, members of the Yukagir tribe in northern Siberia discovered the remains of a steppe bison (Bison priscus), an extinct ancestor of the modern bisonthat still roam the plains of North America and northern Europe. The almost perfectly preserved bison was transported to the Yakutian Academy of Sciences in Siberia, where researchers made plans to perform a necropsy, an autopsy performed on animals. While other steppe bison mummies have been discovered ...
U.S.D.A. Approves Modified Potato. Next Up: French Fry Fans.
Post Date: 2014-11-09 09:40:00 by Tatarewicz
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NYT... A potato genetically engineered to reduce the amounts of a potentially harmful ingredient in French fries and potato chips has been approved for commercial planting, the Department of Agriculture announced on Friday. The potato’s DNA has been altered so that less of a chemical called acrylamide, which is suspected of causing cancer in people, is produced when the potato is fried. The new potato also resists bruising, a characteristic long sought by potato growers and processors for financial reasons. Potatoes bruised during harvesting, shipping or storage can lose value or become unusable. The biotech tubers were developed by the J. R. Simplot Company, a privately held ...
Maybe it wasn't the Higgs particle after all
Post Date: 2014-11-08 20:57:50 by Ada
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This is Associate Professor Mads Toudal Frandsen, University of Southern Denmark University of Southern Denmark Last year CERN announced the finding of a new elementary particle, the Higgs particle. But maybe it wasn't the Higgs particle, maybe it just looks like it. And maybe it is not alone. Many calculations indicate that the particle discovered last year in the CERN particle accelerator was indeed the famous Higgs particle. Physicists agree that the CERN experiments did find a new particle that had never been seen before, but according to an international research team, there is no conclusive evidence that the particle was indeed the Higgs particle. The research team has ...
Creating A Medical Nanobot - Electrons Regulating Enzymes At Molecular Level On A Chip
Post Date: 2014-11-06 23:20:58 by Tatarewicz
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Medicine's Fantastic Voyage Dear Colleagues, wouldn't it be great if we could get away from all the messy complexity of a cell, even a synthetic cell, and just make the biomolecules we need using high throughput fuidic cells? This field is developing as demonstrated by this research. Gordonov, et al. demonstrate that direct electrical control of a diffusable redox mediator at the surface of a gold electrode in the vicinity of an immobilized enzymatic pathway results in predictable protein oxidation, attenuation of activity, and biochemical signal generation. Their work is summarized by Mahler, the source of Figure 1. Mahler G, Enzyme control on a chip, Nature Nanotechnology, 20 ...
Ebola Mutation: Lack Of Virus Samples In US Hampers Efforts To Track Its Changes
Post Date: 2014-11-06 19:49:31 by Ada
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The Ebola virus, similar to many viruses, mutates, however slightly, as it spreads, and keeping up with those changes is key to heading off future outbreaks, scientists have said. Creative Commons Samples of Ebola are in short supply for U.S. scientists who require a fresh, steady stock of the virus to track its changes and to plan ahead for new drugs and vaccines. Much like the flu virus, Ebola mutates, however slightly, as it spreads, and keeping up with those changes is key to stopping new infections and heading off future outbreaks, according to Reuters. "No one really knows right now what has the virus mutated to or if it has mutated," Charles Chiu, a microbiologist and ...
Is Free Electricity Even Possible?
Post Date: 2014-11-04 17:37:14 by BTP Holdings
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I have seen a lot of advertisements about free electricity...but was always a skeptic... Until I saw this huge suppression case: Click here to see shocking video How the FDA (that's correct, the FDA) had to burn all this professor's findings on free electricity and how he was found dead afterwards. Its a chilling story that you need to see: Click here before the video is taken down if.inboxfirst.com/ga/clic...335-30c4760d77-8cf2161da8 Dave Walon Editor
Where We Go From Here...
Post Date: 2014-11-04 00:56:07 by James Deffenbach
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When I look back upon it, being invited to give the closing keynote at the Ohio Linux Fest will be at the top of my "2014 Cool Stuff I Did" list. From the moment I arrived, I was made to feel at home and welcomed. It is an experience I will remember always. My special thanks to +Beth Lynn Eicher for pulling all the levers and switches early on to help make it happen. You can watch my keynote here if you like. My special thanks to +Randy Noseworthy for the hours and hours he spent editing the keynotes into a decent form. Given he was using and old Android phone and a tripod, he did a great job. In a room with 300+ filled seats, I told the people in that room just how important ...
Epic Halloween Prank - video
Post Date: 2014-11-03 18:57:47 by Lod
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Poster Comment:Just great!
Scientists propose existence and interaction of parallel worlds: Many Interacting Worlds theory challenges foundations of quantum science
Post Date: 2014-11-03 06:23:39 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... Griffith University academics are challenging the foundations of quantum science with a radical new theory based on the existence of, and interactions between, parallel universes. In a paper published in the journal Physical Review X, Professor Howard Wiseman and Dr Michael Hall from Griffith's Centre for Quantum Dynamics, and Dr Dirk-Andre Deckert from the University of California, take interacting parallel worlds out of the realm of science fiction and into that of hard science. The team proposes that parallel universes really exist, and that they interact. That is, rather than evolving independently, nearby worlds influence one another by a subtle force of ...
Oceans arrived early to Earth; Primitive meteorites were a likely source of water, study finds
Post Date: 2014-11-03 05:30:50 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: Earth is known as the Blue Planet because of its oceans, which cover more than 70 percent of the planet's surface and are home to the world's greatest diversity of life. While water is essential for life on the planet, the answers to two key questions have eluded us: where did Earth's water come from and when? While some hypothesize that water came late to Earth, well after the planet had formed, findings from a new study led by scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) significantly move back the clock for the first evidence of water on Earth and in the inner solar system. "The answer to one of the basic questions is that our oceans ...
U.S. government: Ebola is safer than the flu; high-risk carriers free to mingle with the public
Post Date: 2014-11-02 15:18:19 by BTP Holdings
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U.S. government: Ebola is safer than the flu; high-risk carriers free to mingle with the public Saturday, November 01, 2014 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) When it comes to infectious disease, the medical contradictions practiced by the U.S. government are nothing short of staggering. Consider the striking contradiction between the government's policy on unvaccinated schoolchildren vs. its policy on allowing possible Ebola carriers to travel freely among the public as long as they are "asymptomatic" (i.e. showing no symptoms): Schoolchildren who are unvaccinated are routinely ordered sent home from public schools, even if they aren't infected with ...
UN Panel to Release 'Conclusive' Climate Change Report
Post Date: 2014-11-01 20:44:10 by BTP Holdings
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UN Panel to Release 'Conclusive' Climate Change Report Saturday, 01 Nov 2014 02:12 PM The United Nations' expert panel on climate science on Saturday finished a report on global warming that the UN's environment agency said offers "conclusive evidence" that humans are altering the Earth's climate system. The document, which combines the findings of three earlier reports, was adopted after all-night talks Saturday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and is scheduled to be released to the public on Sunday. Apart from discussing the human influence, it is expected to describe how climate impacts, including melting Arctic sea ice and rising ...
Schizophrenic CDC pulls document admitting Ebola can spread via sneezes and doorknobs; see the original here
Post Date: 2014-11-01 15:24:28 by BTP Holdings
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Schizophrenic CDC pulls document admitting Ebola can spread via sneezes and doorknobs; see the original here Friday, October 31, 2014 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) Just days after admitted it lied about how Ebola spreads and finally admitting the virus can spread through aerosolized particles propelled via sneezing or coughing, the CDC yanked its document off the web. It replaced it with a new PDF that's almost entirely empty, except for the statement "Fact sheet is being updated and is currently unavailable." You can see that file at this CDC link. As the editor of Natural News, I anticipated the CDC doing this, so I saved off a copy of the original PDF ...
Shigeru Miyamoto, the iconic video game director, best known for creating the Mario franchise
Post Date: 2014-11-01 06:04:49 by Tatarewicz
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Shigeru Miyamoto is the creator and producer of some of the world's most popular and most acclaimed video games. Mario, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda are just a few of his creations that once led gaming company Nintendo to greatness. As Super Mario Bros. turns 30 this year, Miyamoto admits to having planned something special for the occation. He also tells us where to find inspiration, shares his parenting secrets, and explains how to create something that has never been done before. What inspired you to create Super Mario Bros.? Shigeru Miyamoto: It started with a game called Donkey Kong and its main character Jumpman. He resembled an Italian. The action took place at a ...
Three facts you did not know about the Moon
Post Date: 2014-11-01 05:20:55 by Tatarewicz
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Pravda.Ru...It may seem that we know a lot more about the Moon than we do about any other celestial body. However, our natural satellite still hides many mysteries. There was time on Earth, when there was no Moon in the sky In the V century BC, Greek philosopher and astronomer Anaxagoras of Clazomenae wrote that according to his sources, the Moon appeared after the Earth was born. In the III century BC, Apollonius of Rhodes, in his "Argonautica," referred to the famous Aristotle, who, in turn, a century earlier, had described inhabitants of the mountainous regions of Arcadia, a region on the Peloponnesian Peninsula. Those people ate acorns and lived at the time, when there was ...
Sophisticated technology existed long before Christ
Post Date: 2014-11-01 05:14:15 by Tatarewicz
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Pravda.Ru A new term has recently appeared among archaeologists - "out-of-place artifact". It goes about objects of ancient origin related to technologies, the level of which does not correspond to the era that they come from. As a rule, the technological level of such findings is much higher. In particular, it goes about so-called "Baghdad Batteries" that were found in Iraq. The findings are more than 2,000 year old. The finding was made near Baghdad by German archaeologist Wilhelm Konig in 1938. The discovery looked like clay jugs, the necks of which were sealed with asphalt plugs. Copper-wrapped iron rods were sticking out of the plugs. The jars would be filled with ...
Smart phones will soon be able to tell when someone is lying
Post Date: 2014-10-31 15:47:48 by titorite
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Politicians and Lawyers are gonna LOVE this: We are nearing a point where our smartphones will be able to recognize a face or voice, in real life or on-screen. And identification is only the most basic of the possibilities. Many app-makers are experimenting with software that can also analyze – able to determine someone’s emotions or honesty just by a few facial cues. This interpersonal assessment technology promises to make our lives easier. For instance, facial recognition technology can allow people to get immediate and amazing customer service. If a restaurant or retailer can identify me before I walk in the door, it would be able to identify me as a returning customer, ...
Microsoft Launches Wearable Fitness Device for USD 199
Post Date: 2014-10-31 01:29:45 by Tatarewicz
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(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp launched a device called "Microsoft Band" that will allow users to monitor their fitness and exercise regime, marking the world's largest software company's debut into the wearable technology market. The wrist-worn device has sensors that monitor pulse rate, measure calorie burn and track sleep quality, Microsoft said in a blog post. Microsoft said the device will be available in the United States in limited quantities from Thursday for $199. Apple Inc unveiled a smart watch on Sept. 9 that will combine health and fitness tracking with communications and will go on sale in early 2015, while Samsung Electronics Co unveiled its Galaxy Gear ...
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