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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 ...
Silkworms fed carbon nanotubes produce super-silk that conducts electricity
Post Date: 2016-10-14 10:26:20 by Ada
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10-13-2016 • www.mnn.com If silkworms were Pac-Men, carbon nanotubes would be their power pellets. On a hunch, scientists at Tsinghua University in China fed silkworms with a solution that contained both carbon nanotubes and graphene — a super-strong material made from latticed carbon atoms — and the insect larvae immediately went to work producing a super-silk with qualities never seen before in regular silk, reports Scientific American. The super-silk was not only super-strong, capable of withstanding at least 50 percent higher stress before breaking, but it was also capable of conducting electricity. Regular silk can't do that. The discovery could lead to new ...
How a Facial Recognition Mismatch Can Ruin Your Life
Post Date: 2016-10-14 08:41:57 by Ada
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LOSING FACE IT WAS JUST after sundown when a man knocked on Steve Talley’s door in south Denver. The man claimed to have hit Talley’s silver Jeep Cherokee and asked him to assess the damage. So Talley, wearing boxers and a tank top, went outside to take a look. Seconds later, he was knocked to the pavement outside his house. Flash bang grenades detonated, temporarily blinding and deafening him. Three men dressed in black jackets, goggles, and helmets repeatedly hit him with batons and the butts of their guns. He remembers one of the men telling him, “So you like to fuck with my brothers in blue!” while another stood on his face and cracked two of his teeth. ...
Nano-Spike Catalysts Convert Carbon Dioxide Directly into Ethanol
Post Date: 2016-10-14 07:33:07 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- In a new twist to waste-to-fuel technology, scientists have developed an electrochemical process that uses tiny spikes of carbon and copper to turn carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into ethanol. "We discovered somewhat by accident that this material worked," said ORNL's Adam Rondinone, lead author of the team's study published in ChemistrySelect. "We were trying to study the first step of a proposed reaction when we realized that the catalyst was doing the entire reaction on its own." The team used a catalyst made of carbon, copper and nitrogen and applied voltage to trigger a complicated chemical reaction that essentially reverses the ...
You Don't Need a New Computer: 'Cause Your Old One is Fine
Post Date: 2016-10-13 07:20:30 by BTP Holdings
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You Don't Need a New Computer: 'Cause Your Old One is Fine by Roger Milfried / October 8, 2016 Many feel ripped off by not knowing this 1 simple trick... Is your computer running slow? Don’t buy a new PC or call a computer repair company. This “3-click fix” is saving people thousands of dollars in computer costs. Your computer is designed to fail. Some people are upset when they learn this. But the reality is that PC makers and software companies need a reason to keep people buying upgrades every year. They’re in the business of making money. But now that the cat is out of the bag, a crack team of Gold Certified developers has created their own solution, ...
Scientists model anti-reflective surfaces after cicada wings
Post Date: 2016-10-12 08:22:27 by Tatarewicz
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"[They] show great potential for photovoltaic devices such as solar cells," said researcher Wang Zhang. Cicada wings have natural antimicrobial and anti-reflective qualities. SHANGHAI, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- A team of researchers from China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University recently developed a new class of anti-reflective materials using nanostructures derived from titanium dioxide. The scientists cited cicada wings as their inspiration. Cicada wings are marked by periodic conical structures, which researchers call "nano-nipples." Scientists were able to texture materials with tiny titanium dioxide structures that mimic the miniature dots. The added texture diminished ...
4 of the best tech courses you can take online right now
Post Date: 2016-10-12 07:54:03 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... The world is getting more technical, and the jobs of the future are increasingly going to require you to be able to code across multiple programming languages, understand network security, and work comfortably with big data. But trying to add all that expertise to your skill set can be incredibly expensive, and sometimes more time-consuming than actually finding a job. That's why we've partnered with StackCommerce to create ScienceAlert Academy - a place that offers affordable, top-rated online courses that you can take from the comfort of your own couch, whenever you have the time. Below are four of the most popular online courses in coding, network security, ...
Are Humans Natural-Born Killers?
Post Date: 2016-10-11 08:40:02 by Tatarewicz
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ConsortiumNews Among scientists there has been a long debate about whether human violence toward other humans is inherent, cultural or a mix of both. The question is: Are we natural-born killers, notes Lawrence Davidson. A new study, published in the journal Nature and entitled “The Phylogenetic Roots of Human Lethal Violence,” argues two points: (1) along with many other mammals and particularly primates, human lethal violence is innate because it is part of a long “evolutionary history”; and (2) for humans, however, it is also a behavior that is responsive to our cultural environment. So, over time, “culture modulates our bloodthirsty tendencies.” What ...
Aussie researcher develops fruit fly trap that stops insects from destroying crops
Post Date: 2016-10-11 01:45:39 by Tatarewicz
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SYDNEY, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- A new fruit fly trap developed by Australia's Griffith University researchers, has given hope to Queensland farmers in the fight against the devastating insects. The brand new piece of technology, called the Fruition fruit fly trap, was launched at the university's campus on Monday and described as "a big step forward" in combating the insects problem on corps, local media reported on Tuesday. The Australian Registration Authority has been gradually withdrawing the use of insecticide cover sprays, which prevents fruit flies from damaging crops, due to health and environmental issues. Griffith School of Environment Professor Dick Drew, who ...
Russia Joins the Electric Car Race
Post Date: 2016-10-11 01:07:29 by Tatarewicz
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RI... This summer the Russian company AvtoVAZ presented its EV prototype for the Lada Vesta. This is the second electric car made by the Tolyatti-based manufacturer, located about 1,000 kilometers southeast of Moscow. ElLada was the first, appearing as a prototype in 2012, and which was based on the popular Lada Kalina. Electric cars have not been popular among Russian drivers due to a lack of infrastructure, harsh climatic conditions, high price, and limited mileage on a single charge. However, Vladimir Pirozhkov, president of the Astra Rossa Industrial Design and Innovation Center, believes Russia needs electric cars. "It's hard to breathe in Moscow, and an electric car is ...
12 Million-Year-Old Vehicle Tracks Found in Stone, Claims Geologist
Post Date: 2016-10-10 23:53:47 by Tatarewicz
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Epoch Times | Petrified wheel tracks found in various locations, including parts of Turkey and Spain, were left by heavy all-terrain vehicles some 12 million to 14 million years ago, according to Dr. Alexander Koltypin, a geologist and director of the Natural Science Research Center at Moscow’s International Independent University of Ecology and Politology. This is a controversial claim, since human civilization is only thought by mainstream archaeologists to extend back several thousand years, not millions of years. That’s not to mention the idea of a prehistoric civilization advanced enough to have such vehicles. The wheel tracks cross over faults formed in the middle and late ...
First evidence emerges that women's ovaries can grow new eggs
Post Date: 2016-10-10 07:12:34 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert.. Women are well aware that the number of eggs they're born with is all they'll ever have, and when they inevitably run out, they can no longer have children. Hence the pressure of the biological clock. But a new study has found the first evidence that women's ovaries might actually be able to grow new eggs. If confirmed, it could mean that post-menopause women and those with fertility problems might be able to conceive naturally after all. To be clear, this is very early evidence taken from a small study involving cancer patients, and it needs to be replicated and explored further before we can say for sure what's going on. But the possibility that adult ...
Researchers turn brewery wastewater into energy storage cells
Post Date: 2016-10-10 06:22:07 by Tatarewicz
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BOULDER, Colo., Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Scientists in Colorado have found a way to make brewers and battery makers allies in the quest for energy efficiency. Brewing beer is a water-intensive process. For every barrel of beer, brewers use roughly seven barrels of water. "And they can't just dump it into the sewer because it requires extra filtration," Tyler Huggins, a graduate student at the University of Colorado, explained in a news release. Treating all that water is expensive. Unless, of course, you can get someone else to pay for the treatment. In this case, that someone else is the battery industry. It turns out, brewery wastewater is an ideal place to grow the ...
Microsoft's New Windows 10 Beta Build Improvements Stabilizes Your PC
Post Date: 2016-10-10 06:04:54 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- While Windows 10 is designed for a range of hardware, more modern, powerful PCs will benefit from reliability improvements in the new Windows 10 Insider build 14942. The new Insider build for the Fast ring includes a laundry list of tweaks and new changes, but the most important are some under-the-hood improvements that Microsoft promises will help improve the reliability of PCs with over 3.5GB of memory. Microsoft’s other updates include an extension of the Active Hours period, improving the touchpad, and an update to the Photos app. The only drawback, Microsoft warned, is if you use the new build to play games that depend on Xbox Live. Sign-ins may fail, and to fix ...
Reseachers study the radiation of everyday objects, like fruit
Post Date: 2016-10-09 06:36:42 by Tatarewicz
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RALEIGH, N.C., Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Your fruit is radioactive. In fact, most things are. Recently, scientists at North Carolina State University set out to gain a better idea of daily radiation exposure experienced by humans. The scientists are hopeful their findings will offer people some perspective and curb the levels of anxiety surrounding exposure to radiation. "We did this study because understanding how much radiation comes off of common household items helps place radiation readings in context," Robert Hayes, an associate professor of nuclear engineering at N.C. State, said in a news release. "If people understand what trace levels of radiation mean, that understanding ...
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