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Earth to face unprecedented heatwave in 2015
Post Date: 2014-10-31 00:50:51 by Tatarewicz
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Pravda.Ru NASA experts believe that in 2015, planet Earth will have to deal with an unprecedented heatwave. The forecast is based on temperature trends of recent years. Since the start of permanent climate observations in 1880, the frequency of temperature anomalies has been growing. Occurrences of high average temperatures follow each other: in 1995, 1997, 1998, 2005 and 2010. This September, average global temperature was 15.7 degrees Celsius, which is a new record for the past 135 years. During the first nine months of this year, average global temperature made up 14.7 degrees Celsius. NASA experts say that the current year can be regarded the hottest since 1998. However, in the ...
Happy 45th Birthday, Internet!
Post Date: 2014-10-30 14:45:35 by X-15
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Happy birthday, Internet! You may be turning 45 today, but we swear you don't look a day over 30. And not to embarrass you, but we thought we'd celebrate by sharing some of your baby photos. Or, more accurately, perhaps some of your ultrasound picturess. How do we define the invention of the internet? It's a question that scholars and armchair historians have debated for decades. Did it start with the birth of British scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web in 1991? Did it start with the adoption of TCP/IP back in the Seventies? You could make a case for either. But one seminal moment in the creation of the internet, even further back, cannot be denied: the first ...
Oil-rich Saudi must invest in solar energy: official
Post Date: 2014-10-28 05:42:06 by Tatarewicz
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Yahoo... Riyadh (AFP) - Oil-rich and sun-blessed Saudi Arabia has no choice but to invest in solar energy, a senior official of the national electricity provider said on Monday. "Solar energy is a must, not a choice," Hamed al-Saggaf, an executive director with the Saudi Electricity Company, told a conference on sun power. The kingdom is the largest producer in the OPEC oil cartel and is entirely dependent on oil and gas for its electricity production. "If we continue to consume fuel at the same rate then there will be a great lost opportunity," Saggaf told the 4th Solar Arabia Summit of industry players. "At least we have to start now," Saggaf said. The ...
China to construct Antarctic airfield, reports say
Post Date: 2014-10-28 05:27:39 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... China is reportedly planning to construct an airfield on the politically neutral continent of Antarctica. The Chinese government plans to build the airfield near its Antarctic Zhongshan Station on Larsemann Hills in Prydz Bay in East Antarctica, the Beijing Evening News reported on Monday. The proposed airfield will assist China’s four research stations on the frozen continent, the newspaper said. “[Researchers] must rely on maritime transport…[which is] seriously affecting the ability of scientific exploration,” the report said. China’s Xue Long (Snow Dragon) icebreaker is scheduled to depart Shanghai on Thursday for an expedition to Antarctica, the ...
Over 30 robot factories under construction in China
Post Date: 2014-10-28 05:10:38 by Tatarewicz
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SHANGHAI, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- China is now the world's largest industrial robot market with over 30 robot factories under construction, authorities said. Qu Daokui, deputy director of the State Engineering Research Center for Robotics, said during a forum in Shanghai on Sunday that robotics and the Internet will transform global manufacturing, and China is entering a golden decade for the development of domestically produced robots. Before 2008, there was no robot industry in China, he said. However, with the disappearance of the demographic dividend and a growing labor shortage, the country became the world's largest industrial robot market in 2013, he said. In the past ten ...
Why Are Apples’ Macs Selling so Well in the Post-PC Era?
Post Date: 2014-10-27 06:19:00 by Tatarewicz
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Epoch Times... Craig Federighi, senior vice president of Software Engineering at Apple, discusses the new operating system update during an event at Apple headquarters on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014 in Cupertino, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) Craig Federighi, senior vice president of Software Engineering at Apple, discusses the new operating system update during an event at Apple headquarters on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014 in Cupertino, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) More in Tech News The internet has brought us all closer together… unfortunately. (Shutterstock*) Cyberespionage Is Harder to Pin to a State Than Spying in the Physical World (Courtesy of maketecheasier.com) How ...
New windowless plane lets you have your head in the clouds (VIDEO)
Post Date: 2014-10-27 04:27:23 by Tatarewicz
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RT...An emerging UK aerospace firm has released images of its windowless plane concept. Instead of windows passengers will see display screens, which can show the environment outside the plane as well as films and video conferencing. CPI, based in north east England, believes the idea will quickly take off as planes without windows are much lighter than planes with them, and as airlines battle to save money and fuel, cost is one of their main considerations. A lighter plane will burn less fuel and will produce less CO2 emissions, which will also be better for the environment. The entire inner surface of the fuselage would be covered with high definition, flexible displays, which would be ...
MyCopter wants you to zoom around in your own personal helicopter
Post Date: 2014-10-26 22:10:39 by Tatarewicz
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Mirror... Personal helicopters could soon be filling the air - but you'll need £200,000 to buy one We've already got driverless cars to look forward to, and this was the week in which we were told that hoverboards might soon be a reality. What’s next – personal helicopters for one and all? Erm, yes actually. Okay, not really. Not for everyone. You’ll need to be minted to own one, but the closest thing yet to a flying car could soon be hoving into view. A European project called MyCopter has been beavering away at the idea and before the end of the year, a piloted flight of an easy-to-fly vertical take-off aircraft will happen. It’s called the ...
Elon Musk: ‘With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.’
Post Date: 2014-10-25 12:26:40 by Buzzard
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Tesla chief executive Elon Musk has warned about artificial intelligence before, tweeting that it could be more dangerous than nuclear weapons. Speaking Friday at the MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics department’s Centennial Symposium, Musk called it our biggest existential threat: I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I were to guess like what our biggest existential threat is, it’s probably that. So we need to be very careful with the artificial intelligence. Increasingly scientists think there should be some regulatory oversight maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. With ...
Miniature human intestines have been grown inside mice for the first time
Post Date: 2014-10-25 08:35:53 by Tatarewicz
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Researchers have grown tiny, functioning human intestines inside mice, using a technique that might one day help to treat intestinal diseases using a patient’s own cells. Scientists from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centre in the US have successfully used stem cells to bioengineer human “organoids” - or precursors to organs - and transplant them inside mice. Fascinatingly, this tissue then went on to grow into miniature, functional human intestines inside the rodents. This is a huge breakthrough, as a similar technique could eventually be used in humans to regrow healthy intestinal tissue from a patient’s own stem cells, which could then be ...
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has joined an Australian university
Post Date: 2014-10-25 08:26:04 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert Australian students will soon be able to learn robotics from Steve Wozniak, one of the brains behind Apple's original technology. In an exciting move for Australian education, the co-founder of Apple and all round awesome guy Steve "Woz" Wozniak has taken up a role as Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). UTS announced today that Woz aims to join them in December. He’ll be a key part of the UTS “Magic Lab”, which is the university’s centre for innovation and enterprise research looking into robotics and artificial intelligence. Seeing as Woz was the inventor of the first Apple computer back in 1976 (and the ...
EXCLUSIVE: Was Ebola Accidentally Released from a Bioweapons Lab In West Africa?
Post Date: 2014-10-24 08:32:40 by Ada
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Accidents at Germ Labs Have Occurred Worldwide Nations such as Russia, South Africa and the U.S. have long conducted research into how to make deadly germs even more deadly. And accidents at these research facilities have caused germs to escape, killing people and animals near the facilities. For example, the Soviet research facility at Sverdlovsk conducted anthrax research during the Cold War. They isolated the most potent strain of anthrax culture and then dried it to produce a fine powder for use as an aerosol. In 1979, an accident at the facility released anthrax, killing 100. The U.S. has had its share of accidents. USA Today noted in August: More than 1,100 laboratory incidents ...
WEATHER CHANNEL CO-FOUNDER: EFFORTS TO PROVE GLOBAL WARMING HAVE ‘FAILED’
Post Date: 2014-10-23 07:44:14 by Ada
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"Efforts to prove the theory that carbon dioxide is a significant greenhouse gas and pollutant causing significant warming or weather effects have failed.” The co-founder of the Weather Channel and climate expert John Coleman recently wrote an open letter directly attacking the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, arguing that attempts to prove man-made climate change “have failed” and that political agendas rather than science are now driving the “scientific” conversation. Here’s an excerpt of from the open letter (via Express News): The ocean is not rising significantly. The polar ice is increasing, not melting away. Polar Bears are ...
China promotes new-energy buses in Beijing
Post Date: 2014-10-23 04:31:41 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- Chinese authorities released a plan Wednesday requiring the heavily polluted cities of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei Province to put more new-energy buses on the road to cut pollution. China aims to promote the use of 20,222 new-energy cars in the region's public transport system from 2014 to 2015, according to the plan jointly released by seven departments, including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and National Development and Reform Commission. By the end of 2015, new-energy vehicles should take no less than 16 percent of the total buses in those regions, the plan said. The number of charging posts are estimated to reach 19,657. The ...
The Cold Truth About ‘Global Warming’
Post Date: 2014-10-22 08:04:50 by BTP Holdings
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The Cold Truth About ‘Global Warming’ Revealed in This Briefing . . . Misappropriations — $22 billion in taxpayers’ money (your money!) is being parceled out among dishonest politicians, greedy corporations, and bribed scientists in the name of “man-made” climate change. (That’s $41,856 every minute!) Corruption — How President Obama has used green energy to funnel money into his re-election campaign . . . and the campaigns of dozens of other leftists. Leaked — Emails, reports, and data proving that the scientific community has been hiding the truth about “global warming” . . . for 17 years. Rejection — See how one former White ...
Health Ranger to launch revolutionary EMP-proof technology delivering sustainability breakthroughs for food, water, nutrition and medicine
Post Date: 2014-10-21 16:45:10 by BTP Holdings
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Health Ranger to launch revolutionary EMP-proof technology delivering sustainability breakthroughs for food, water, nutrition and medicine Tuesday, October 14, 2014 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) In the first quarter of 2015, I'll be launching a new "low-tech technology" solution that will become an instant must-have among people who want to be more self-reliant. The timing of the Ebola outbreak makes this solution even more urgent, so I'm shifting my present priorities to really focus on this project and complete all the R&D and manufacturing steps necessary to bring this to the world as soon as possible. While it's too early to reveal the ...
Top-secret space plane lands on California coast
Post Date: 2014-10-18 22:28:24 by BTP Holdings
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Top-secret space plane lands on California coast Associated Press October 17, 2014 2:17 PM This June 16, 2012 file image from video made available by the Vandenberg Air Force Base shows an infrared view of the X-37B unmanned spacecraft landing at Vandenberg Air Force Base. The purpose of the U.S. military's space plane is classified, only fueling speculation about why it has been orbiting Earth for nearly two years on this, its third mission. The plane is expected to land this week at a Southern California Air Force base.(AP Photo/Vandenberg Air Force Base, File) VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — A top-secret space plane landed Friday at an Air Force base on the ...
Revealed: how Whisper app tracks ‘anonymous’ users
Post Date: 2014-10-18 02:18:58 by Tatarewicz
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Some Whisper users monitored even after opting out of geolocation services Company shares some information with US Department of Defense User data collated and indefinitely stored in searchable database Whisper app tracks ‘secret’ users Whisper app rewrites terms of service and privacy policy How the ‘safest place on the internet’ tracks its users Whisper: the facts WhiteHouse A Whisper user posted this message from the vicinity of the White House. The red icons signify someone who has posted a Whisper. Potentially identifying information has been redacted by the Guardian. Photograph: Guardian The company behind Whisper, the social media app that promises users ...
Pentagon Says Global Warming Presents Immediate Security Threat
Post Date: 2014-10-15 08:27:13 by Ada
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The_Pentagon_January_2008With dollar signs in their eyes, Pentagon officials have jumped on the global warming bandwagon and ”released a report Monday asserting decisively that climate change poses an immediate threat to national security, with increased risks from terrorism, infectious disease, global poverty and food shortages.” What’s the answer to these many woes? Why, to give the military-industrial complex lots and lots and lots of money. Why is ISIS gaining ground? Because global warming. The climate experts at the DOD say so. Not that the Defense Department was ever at risk of seeing any real cuts. What backers of the Pentagon call “draconian cuts” are ...
Russia develops hybrid fusion-fission reactor, invites China participation
Post Date: 2014-10-15 06:01:45 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Russia is developing a hybrid nuclear reactor that uses both nuclear fusion and fission, said head of leading nuclear research facility. The project is open for international collaboration, particularly from Chinese scientists. A hybrid nuclear reactor is a sort of stepping stone to building a true nuclear fusion reactor. It uses a fusion reaction as a source of neutrons to initiate a fission reaction in a ‘blanket’ of traditional nuclear fuel. The approach has a number of potential benefits in terms of safety, non-proliferation and cost of generated energy, and Russia is developing such a hybrid reactor, according to Mikhail Kovalchuk, director of the Kurchatov Research ...
Earth's magnetic field could flip within a human lifetime
Post Date: 2014-10-15 05:46:45 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... The 'north pole' -- that is, the direction of magnetic north -- was reversed a million years ago. This map shows how, starting about 789,000 years ago, the north pole wandered around Antarctica for several thousand years before flipping 786,000 years ago to the orientation we know today, with the pole somewhere in the Arctic. Credit: Image courtesy of University of California - Berkeley [Click to enlarge image] Imagine the world waking up one morning to discover that all compasses pointed south instead of north. It's not as bizarre as it sounds. Earth's magnetic field has flipped -- though not overnight -- many times throughout the planet's history. ...
67 Years Ago Today: Chuck Yeager Breaks the Sound Barrier. (October 14, 1947)
Post Date: 2014-10-14 21:13:36 by X-15
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When a manned aircraft approaches the speed of the sound it is thought to reach an invisible barrier. A barrier defined by physics. An impenetrable “sound barrier”. No one knows what will really happen. That is the problem. Scientists disagree; pilots think they know. Engineers have their theories. The theory is an aircraft can accelerate through this invisible barrier and fly faster than the sound it is creating. It will become silent, literally flying ahead of its own sound. There is also hard evidence that a manned aircraft cannot break the sound barrier. On 27 September 1946 test pilot Geoffrey DeHavilland Jr. is killed when his experimental DH-108 aircraft ...
47 Years Ago Today: The Fastest Manned Aircraft Flight Ever (October 3, 1967)
Post Date: 2014-10-14 21:01:55 by X-15
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It flew at nearly Mach 7, seven times the speed of sound and twice the speed of a rifle bullet. The speed record it set 47 years ago today still stands today. It flew so high its pilots earned Air Force astronaut wings: 280,500 feet or 53.1 miles above the earth. It pioneered technologies that were used on the SR-71 Blackbird, the space shuttle and the reusable spacecraft in Richard Branson’s future Virgin Galactic passenger space program. And it killed test pilots in an era before redundant flight control systems and modern safety protocols for hypersonic flight. It was the North American X-15. Today is the 47th anniversary of its fastest ever manned, powered flight. The X-15 ...
NSA? Voiceprints being harvested by the millions
Post Date: 2014-10-14 11:42:30 by Itistoolate
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Voiceprints being harvested by the millions The Voice Harvesters: More than 65 million people's voiceprints being harvested In this photo taken Sept. 15, 2014, Benoit Fauve, a speech scientist with voice recognition technology company ValidSoft, works on a computer, near screens displaying the voice biometric features of a telephone call during a demonstration at the company’s office in central London. An Associated Press investigation has found that two of America's biggest retail banks, Chase and Wells Fargo, are quietly taking some callers' voiceprints to fight fraud. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) (Lefteris Pitarakis) By RAPHAEL SATTER Associated Press Posted on ...
Singaporean university develops ultra-fast batteries
Post Date: 2014-10-13 20:18:03 by Tatarewicz
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SINGAPORE, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- Scientists at Singapore's Nanyang Technology University (NTU) said on Monday that they have developed ultra-fast charging batteries that can be recharged up to 70 percent in only two minutes. Furthermore, the new generation batteries also have a long lifespan of over 20 years, more than 10 times compared to existing lithium-ion batteries. "This breakthrough has a wide-ranging impact on all industries, especially for electric vehicles, where consumers are put off by the long recharge times and its limited battery life." NTU said in its media statement. Currently, rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, which are commonly used in mobile phones, ...
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