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Aliens, AI & colonies on Mars: AppleÂ’s Wozniak predicts Earth 2075
Post Date: 2017-04-18 02:31:26 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has made several bold predictions regarding the future of humanity both here and on Mars, the influence of artificial intelligence and even the possibility of humans meeting with extraterrestrials. "Apple will be around a long time, like IBM," Wozniak said in an interview Friday, as cited by USA Today. "Look at Apple's cash. It can invest in anything. It would be ridiculous to not expect them to be around. The same goes for Google and Facebook." Wozniak previously made a bold prediction regarding the emergence of laptop computers way back in 1982, so he has already shown somewhat of a knack for divination. In relation to Apple, ...
Wikileaks Reveals Hive: The CIA’s Top Secret Virus Control System
Post Date: 2017-04-17 20:26:49 by Ada
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Wikileaks’ latest release comes on the heels of CIA director Mike Pompeo’s aggressive statements against the transparency organization in which he labeled them “non-state hostile intelligence service.” CIA Director Mike Pompeo speaks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, Thursday, April 13, 2017. Pompeo denounced WikiLeaks, calling the anti-secrecy group a "hostile intelligence agency." (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) CIA Director Mike Pompeo speaks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, Thursday, April 13, 2017. Pompeo denounced WikiLeaks, calling the anti-secrecy group a “hostile ...
LEAKED NSA MALWARE THREATENS WINDOWS USERS AROUND THE WORLD
Post Date: 2017-04-17 04:23:30 by Tatarewicz
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The ShadowBrokers, an entity previously confirmed by The Intercept to have leaked authentic malware used by the NSA to attack computers around the world, today released another cache of what appears to be extremely potent (and previously unknown) software capable of breaking into systems running Windows. The software could give nearly anyone with sufficient technical knowledge the ability to wreak havoc on millions of Microsoft users. The leak includes a litany of typically codenamed software “implants” with names like ODDJOB, ZIPPYBEER, and ESTEEMAUDIT, capable of breaking into — and in some cases seizing control of — computers running version of the Windows operating ...
This New Graphene-Based Electrode Could Boost Solar Storage by 3,000%
Post Date: 2017-04-17 03:32:22 by Tatarewicz
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RMIT University ScienceAlert... Drawing inspiration from the plant world, researchers have invented a new electrode that could boost our current solar energy storage by an astonishing 3,000 percent. The technology is flexible and can be attached directly to solar cells - which means we could finally be one step closer to smartphones and laptops that draw their power from the Sun, and never run out. A major problem with reliably using solar energy as a power source is finding an efficient way to store it for later use without leakage over time. For that purpose, engineers have been turning to supercapacitors - a type of technology that can charge extremely fast and release energy in ...
Scientists Have Created a Device That Sucks Water Out of Thin Air, Even in the Desert
Post Date: 2017-04-16 02:39:30 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... When it comes to future challenges, one of the biggest will be water scarcity - on a warming planet we're going to have plenty of seawater, but not enough fresh, clean water in the right places for everybody to drink. And while a lot of research has focussed on desalination, a team of scientists have now come up with another possible solution - a device that pulls fresh water out of thin air, even in places with humidity as low as 20 percent. All it needs is sunlight. It might sound too good to be true, but so far the research is solid. Called the 'solar-powered harvester', the device was created by teams from MIT and the University of California, Berkeley, ...
Engineers Just Submitted an Incredible Proposal to Turn the US Border Wall Into a Hyperloop
Post Date: 2017-04-14 08:04:29 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... The Trump administration is reviewing design bids for its proposed wall along the US-Mexico border. But not all plans are interpreting the word 'wall' literally. A group of Mexican and American engineers and urban planners called MADE Collective want to build a US$1 trillion hyperloop transportation network instead. The plan would turn the border into a shared nation, called Otra Nation, with an independent local government and nonvoting representatives in the US and Mexican legislatures. The group submitted its design to the US Customs and Border Protection's official call for proposals in March. It also launched a petition to replace the current border ...
The Earth’s Magnetic Poles Are Shifting
Post Date: 2017-04-12 08:31:11 by Ada
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I’m sure that many of you have heard the ‘concept’ that the Earths magnetic poles (North and South) are shifting, or that some kind of a rapid pole shift is going to occur. A pole shift is when the Earth’s magnetic fields switch places so that the North Pole is now in the South, and vice versa. This is no longer a concept, but an actual fact. Some of us may have been led to believe that the poles would rapidly shift on December 21st, 2012. Obviously, this theory was untrue. However, the poles are shifting and have done so many times in the past, but the theory that the poles could shift instantly at any moment is just that, a theory. The Earths magnetic poles reverse ...
Math model to help design new materials for storing electricity
Post Date: 2017-04-10 05:36:17 by Tatarewicz
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 8 (Xinhua) -- Researchers have devised a mathematical model for designing new materials for storing electricity, an approach different from chemists and materials scientists who traditionally rely on trial and error to create materials for batteries and capacitors. "The potential here is that you could build batteries that last much longer and make them much smaller," said Daniel Tartakovsky, a professor in the School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences at Stanford University and co-author of a study published this week in Applied Physics Letters. "If you could engineer a material with a far superior storage capacity than what we have today, ...
Scientists Have Invented a Graphene-Based Sieve That Turns Seawater Into Drinking Water
Post Date: 2017-04-05 02:08:01 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Researchers have achieved a major turning point in the quest for efficient desalination by announcing the invention of a graphene-oxide membrane that sieves salt right out of seawater. At this stage, the technique is still limited to the lab, but it's a demonstration of how we could one day quickly and easily turn one of our most abundant resources, seawater, into one of our most scarce - clean drinking water. The team, led by Rahul Nair from the University of Manchester in the UK, has shown that the sieve can efficiently filter out salts, and now the next step is to test this against existing desalination membranes. "Realisation of scalable membranes with ...
New plastic-eating fungus may solve garbage problem
Post Date: 2017-04-04 07:29:35 by Tatarewicz
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(Xinhua) KUNMING, April 1 -- Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have identified a novel fungus capable of degrading polyurethane (PU) plastics. The fungus named Aspergillus tubingensis was isolated by a research team led by Xu Jianchu, a researcher with the Kunming Institute of Botany under CAS. "The fungus can grow on the surface of PU and break the chemical bonds between plastic molecules or polymers through activity of its enzymes," Xu told Xinhua. "Meanwhile, the fungus also uses the physical strength of its mycelia to help break apart polymers." PU is a type of synthetic polymer widely used in the manufacture of plastic-related materials. PU ...
Astronomers Have Officially Found a Candidate for Planet Nine
Post Date: 2017-04-04 05:26:13 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... An intense three-day crowdsourced search for an undiscovered planet in our solar system has produced four possible candidates. The hunt for Planet Nine was part of a Zooniverse citizen science project, conducted in real-time, with the BBC's Stargazing Live broadcast. The project was hosted at the Siding Spring Observatory at Australian National University (ANU). About 60,000 people from all over the world participated in the search, which not only turned up four possible candidates for Planet Nine but also helped classify more than four million other objects. Participants worked using data from Siding Spring's SkyMapper telescope. The project was led by ANU ...
Chinese scientists explore all-weather solar cells
Post Date: 2017-04-03 07:59:23 by Tatarewicz
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People's Daily... A photovoltaic revolution is taking place with the emergence of all-weather solar cells, according to a Chinese scientist. "Solar cell research is mainly focused on elevating photoelectric conversion efficiency upon direct sunlight until new light has been shed on persistent high-efficiency power generation in poor light conditions such as rain, fog, haze and night," said Tang Qunwei, a professor with Ocean University of China. Tang's team and one led by Yang Peizhi, a professor with Yunnan Normal University, developed a solar cell using a crucial material called long persistent phosphor (LPP), which can store sunlight energy in the day and harvest it ...
WikiLeaks' latest leak shows how CIA avoids antivirus programs
Post Date: 2017-04-01 08:09:44 by Ada
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WikiLeaks released its third package of CIA documents on Friday which highlight source code used by the CIA to avoid antivirus programs. The source code is for a tool called "Marble," what is known as an obfuscator or packer. Obfuscators are principally designed to jumble the execution of malware so that programs designed to spot malware have trouble determining what it is. The Marble toolkit includes a variety of different algorithms to accomplish that task. In its release, WikiLeaks describes the primary purpose of Marble as being to insert foreign language text into the malware to cause malware analysts to falsely attribute code to the wrong nation. This appears to be an ...
Global Warming Wrapup
Post Date: 2017-03-31 08:22:54 by Ada
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The mental convolutions in which some will engage in order to ignore the evidence that the polar ice caps are melting—and if not from warming from what?—is as astounding as the convolutions and denial of basic facts that characterize those who believe the government’s official 9/11 fairy tale. If all science is rigged, as a few of you say, by the Bilderbergs, Rockefeller, or the Rothchilds, then where does your science, your information come from? If there is no reliable scientific information about climate change, what is the basis for your argument? Why are only carbon industry spokespersons honest? How come the Rothchilds didn’t rig them also? Yes, the carbon tax ...
Stephen Hawking Says We're in the Middle of a "Global Revolt Against Experts"
Post Date: 2017-03-30 03:33:41 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking gave a talk in Hong Kong on Friday (24 March), appearing in front of the audience from the comfort of his home in Cambridge as a surprisingly life-like 3D hologram. In addition to answering questions about travelling to other planets and black holes, he took the time to comment on the current 'fake news' climate around the world, telling the audience, "We are witnessing a global revolt against experts." Hawking was referring to environmental challenges such as deforestation and climate change, and the unwillingness of many world leaders and members of the public to follow the advice of scientists. "The answer to ...
J Scott Armstrong: Fewer Than 1 Percent Of Papers in Scientific Journals Follow Scientific Method
Post Date: 2017-03-29 16:37:35 by Ada
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The World Anti-Doping Agency suspended the accreditation of the LAD laboratory in LisbonAFP Fewer than 1 percent of papers published in scientific journals follow the scientific method, according to research by Wharton School professor and forecasting expert J. Scott Armstrong. Professor Armstrong, who co-founded the peer-reviewed Journal of Forecasting in 1982 and the International Journal of Forecasting in 1985, made the claim in a presentation about what he considers to be “alarmism” from forecasters over man-made climate change. “We also go through journals and rate how well they conform to the scientific method. I used to think that maybe 10 percent of papers in my ...
Print your pizza using this unique 3D food printe
Post Date: 2017-03-29 12:24:31 by Horse
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Immortal Stem Cells Let Scientists Create an Unlimited Supply of Artificial Blood
Post Date: 2017-03-28 04:08:57 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Researchers have developed a line immortal stem cells that allow them to generate an unlimited supply of artificial red blood cells on demand. If these artificial blood cells pass clinical trials, they'll be far more efficient for medical use than current red blood cell products, which have to be generated from donor blood - and would be a huge deal for patients with rare blood types, who often struggle to find matching blood donors. The idea isn't for these immortal stem cells to replace blood donation altogether - when it comes to regular blood transfusions, donated blood still does the trick. But it's a constant struggle to propagate red blood cells from ...
New Elon Musk venture aims to connect human brain with AI
Post Date: 2017-03-28 03:13:05 by Tatarewicz
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RT... The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, Elon Musk, is backing a new company that seeks to explore the possibility of merging the human brain with artificial intelligence (AI) to help humans keep up with machines. According to The Wall Street Journal, Musk has played an active role in launching the new a company called Neuralink, which seeks to create devices that can be implanted in the human brain. The neuroscience startup is still in its infancy but aims to create cranial computers for treating diseases and, eventually, help humans merge with software, enabling mortals to keep pace with advancements in artificial intelligence. Musk is on record as saying that AI poses a great threat to ...
Scientists Have Turned Spinach Into Beating Human Heart Tissue
Post Date: 2017-03-27 06:56:01 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Researchers have successfully used spinach leaves to build functioning human heart tissue, complete with veins that can transport blood. To tackle a chronic shortage of donor organs, scientists have been working on growing various tissues and even whole organs in the lab. But culturing a bunch of cells is only part of the solution - they simply won't thrive without a constant blood supply. It's notoriously difficult to build a working network of fine blood vessels (also called vasculature), especially when you get down to capillaries, which are only 5 to 10 micrometres wide. Blood vessels transport the oxygen and nutrients that a lab-grown tissue sample needs to ...
Astronaut who walked on moon says he knows the truth about aliens
Post Date: 2017-03-26 10:54:11 by BTP Holdings
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Astronaut who walked on moon says he knows the truth about aliens By Megan Palin, News.com.au March 24, 2017 | 1:35pm | Updated Modal Trigger Apollo 12 astronaut Charles "Pete" Conrad stands by the US flag on the moon in 1969. Getty Images Originally Published By: He was an astronaut on the second manned mission to the moon and the fourth man to walk on its surface. Alan Bean, 85, is one of only 12 people to have taken “one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind” on the moon. The lunar module pilot was one of three crew members onboard Apollo 12 who walked on the moon 10 days after it launched on Nov. 14, 1969. Modal Trigger Apollo 12 ...
Extreme Solar Winds/2.1 Million MPH/Radiation Meter Givaway!
Post Date: 2017-03-22 23:19:05 by Horse
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Poster Comment:This extreme solar wind will pause and then resume. The video maker believes this will increase the number of volcanoes and earthquakes as this heightened solar energy is transferred to the earth's core.
This New Molecule Can Collect Solar Energy Without Solar Panels
Post Date: 2017-03-22 06:01:07 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... The discussion on climate has persisted for decades since we first discovered that there is a human-made influence on the environment. From then, many researchers have come together to finagle innovations that reduce our industrial carbon footprint. One such innovation is the molecular leaf. Liang-shi Li at Indiana University and an international team of scientists discovered this novel way to recycle carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere. With the use of light or electricity, the molecule built by the team can convert the notorious greenhouse gas into carbon monoxide. The molecular leaf is the most efficient method of carbon reduction to date. The carbon monoxide ...
Stephen Hawking Just Announced He's Going to Space
Post Date: 2017-03-21 06:27:21 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Stephen Hawking, the world's most renowned physicist and cosmologist, stated today that he is, in fact, heading to space - and it's happening all thanks to the Virgin group (and a bit of modern technology). In a statement back in 2015, Sir Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin group, said that, one day, he hoped to be able to carry Hawking to the stars. In the statement, Branson noted that this offer came as a result of the great respect and admiration that he has for Hawking: "Professor Stephen Hawking is one of the people I admire most in the world, an undisputed genius who has opened our eyes to the wonders of the universe, while also happening to be a ...
Second artificial heart transplant carried out in Portugal
Post Date: 2017-03-20 01:09:44 by Tatarewicz
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LISBON, March 10 (Xinhua) -- A patient in Portugal with heart failure received on Thursday at Lisbon's Santa Cruz Hospital an artificial heart, three days after the same kind of operation was carried out for the first time in the country, according to Portuguese Lusa News Agency on Friday. "This is an internal circulatory assist device. Contrary to what we have used until today, which are external assist devices, these have the great advantage of, on one hand, giving the patient more freedom and on the other, not having the same complications that external devices have," Surgeon Miguel Abecassis said. The surgery took around three hours and a half and the main difficulty ...
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