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Google Chrome Soon Won't Be Such a Burden Your Computer
Post Date: 2016-10-09 04:52:08 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- A version of Chrome due in a two months will give your PC or phone back some of that precious memory it's been gobbling up. Memory is a scarce resource in computing devices, making apps run faster and letting them do more. As websites get more complex and web browsers get more powerful, though, they gobble up more and more memory. Memory usage reductions are great. But don't expect that your hardware will be suddenly liberated. Historically, as PCs and phones steadily got more memory, programmers writing apps and websites added new features to take advantage of it. The Chrome team working on V8, the part of the browser that runs the JavaScript programs that make ...
Robotic Bees Are Now Being Built To Pollinate Crops Instead of Real Bees
Post Date: 2016-10-09 04:32:35 by Tatarewicz
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BlackListedNews... Honeybees pollinate almost a third of the food we consume, but they’ve been dying at alarming rates due to threats like habitat loss and disease, as well as colony collapse disorder (CCD), the phenomenon where worker bees abandon their hives, leaving behind only the queen bee and enough food and nurse bees to help take care of the immature bees and the queen. There is also increasing evidence of a direct link between neonicotinoids, which are the most common type of insecticides, and CCD. Then, last week, federal authorities placed seven yellow-faced bee species native to Hawaii on the Endangered Species Act. And while honeybees have been dying off in many ...
Experts said Arctic sea ice would melt entirely by September 2016 - they were wrong
Post Date: 2016-10-08 19:50:32 by Ada
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Dire predictions that the Arctic would be devoid of sea ice by September this year have proven to be unfounded after latest satellite images showed there is far more now than in 2012. Scientists such as Prof Peter Wadhams, of Cambridge University, and Prof Wieslaw Maslowski, of the Naval Postgraduate School in Moderey, California, have regularly forecast the loss of ice by 2016, which has been widely reported by the BBC and other media outlets. Prof Wadhams, a leading expert on Arctic sea ice loss, has recently published a book entitled A Farewell To Ice in which he repeats the assertion that the polar region would free of ice in the middle of this decade. As late as this summer, he was ...
This is why we should all be covering all our buildings with plants
Post Date: 2016-10-08 05:05:42 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Buildings covered in a carpet of vegetation and greenery are sprouting up all over the world - look at One Central Park in Sydney, Bosco Verticale in Milan, or Oasia Hotel Downtown in Singapore. But why are architects and planners going green? Design firm Arup just published a study on the benefits of plant-covered buildings - some of which are so green they look like they've been deserted by humans and are slowly being reclaimed by nature - and they found the benefits go way beyond just sucking up CO2 and looking pretty. The company's engineers took a variety of measurements in five cities - Berlin, Hong Kong, Melbourne, London, and Los Angeles - to see what ...
Distracted much? New research may help explain why
Post Date: 2016-10-07 05:15:47 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... The new research offers evidence that one's motivation is just as important for sustained attention to a task as is the ease with which the task is done. American professional golfer Tom Kite said two things about distraction that sum up the findings of a new study on the subject: First, "You can always find a distraction if you're looking for one." And, second, "Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested." The new research offers evidence that one's motivation is just as important for sustained attention to a task as is the ease with which the task is done. It also challenges the hypothesis, proposed by some cognitive ...
4 awesome programming courses you can take online now
Post Date: 2016-10-07 01:10:08 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... We all know that knowing how to code is a crucial skill for pretty much anyone wanting to impress the job market or start their own business in 2016. But it can be hard - not to mention expensive - to find the time to learn the latest programming languages if you're also studying or working full-time. But don't worry, we've partnered with StackCommerce to bring you four of their top-rated online programming and coding courses via our new ScienceAlert Academy. And the best part is you can take them all right now from the comfort of your couch - without spending more than US$50 per course. 1. The Complete Web Developer Course 2.0 Want to learn to build ...
EPIC IDIOCY: NBC News journo Ron Allen announces that Obama's climate change deal will stop hurricanes forever... even the hurricanes on Saturn?
Post Date: 2016-10-06 18:34:07 by BTP Holdings
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EPIC IDIOCY: NBC News journo Ron Allen announces that Obama's climate change deal will stop hurricanes forever... even the hurricanes on Saturn? Thursday, October 06, 2016 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) Delusional democrats are doing everything in their power right now to link Hurricane Matthew to global warming, and the best example of the nonsense we're witnessing on all this is found in a broadcast segment featuring NBC's Ron Allen, a democrat operative who pretends to be a journalist. While covering Obama's comments on the Paris climate change agreement, Allen stated that Obama's efforts were designed to stop hurricanes, as if somehow paying ...
Do Plants Think?
Post Date: 2016-10-06 18:18:41 by Ada
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Scientist Daniel Chamovitz unveils the surprising world of plants that see, feel, smell—and remember How aware are plants? This is the central question behind a fascinating new book, “What a Plant Knows,” by Daniel Chamovitz, director of the Manna Center for Plant Biosciences at Tel Aviv University. A plant, he argues, can see, smell and feel. It can mount a defense when under siege, and warn its neighbors of trouble on the way. A plant can even be said to have a memory. But does this mean that plants think — or that one can speak of a “neuroscience” of the flower? Chamovitz answered questions from Mind Matters editor Gareth Cook. 1. How did you first get ...
How evolution has equipped our hands with five fingers
Post Date: 2016-10-06 00:32:08 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily Have you ever wondered why our hands have exactly five fingers? Dr. Marie Kmita's team certainly has. The researchers at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal and Université de Montréal have uncovered a part of this mystery, and their remarkable discovery has just been published in the journal Nature. A matter of evolution We have known for several years that the limbs of vertebrates, including our arms and legs, stem from fish fins. The evolution that led to the appearance of limbs, and in particular the emergence of fingers in vertebrates, reflects a change in the body plan associated with a change of habitat, the transition from an ...
The Sun's Influence on Consciousness | Electricity of Life
Post Date: 2016-10-05 09:47:06 by Horse
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Uh-oh Uber! Witnesses report accidents involving the self-driving taxis being tested in Pittsburgh
Post Date: 2016-10-05 09:34:14 by Horse
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Uber began its self-driving car pilot programme last month A witness reported one car going the wrong way down a one-way street Another person saw a car being pulled over having been in an accident The cars take passengers to their destination without the aid of a driver, although a driver is always present in case of an emergency Last month, Uber began a self-driving car pilot project, taking passengers around Pittsburgh in autonomous mode. But it appears that the programme may have got off to a bumpy start, with reports of multiple problems. Witnesses have revealed that the self-driving Uber cars have been involved in accidents and disobeyed traffic signs in the two weeks since the ...
Dorsal dialect: Fish speak to each other in ‘regional accents,’ claim scientists
Post Date: 2016-10-05 08:59:02 by Ada
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Fish swimming off the British coastline have been found not only to speak to each other, but to do so in many regional accents, according to scientists. Research shows communication between cod is vital to their survival and is used to attract mates, warn others of danger and establish territories. Now scientists are investigating whether fish in British waters have regional accents, having already discovered distinct differences between European cod and their American cousins. Professor Steve Simpson, of the University of Exeter, believes the research is essential to the future of fish stocks, which are already under stress due to marine traffic and warming waters. “We are ...
Three scientists awarded Nobel Prize for chemistry
Post Date: 2016-10-05 07:35:51 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... The 2016 Nobel Prize for chemistry has been awarded to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard Feringa from France, Scotland and the Netherlands, respectively, for work on the design and synthesis of nano-sized molecular machines. “They have developed molecules with controllable movements, which can perform a task when energy is added,” the award-giving body, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, said in a statement on Wednesday. Chemistry is the third of this year’s Nobel prizes to have been awarded. The medicine prize on Monday went to Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi for his studies on autophagy, the process of recycling cellular components ...
Sound of Northern Lights not imagination: Finnish researcher
Post Date: 2016-10-05 07:22:43 by Tatarewicz
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HELSINKI, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- The sound associated with Northern Lights, or Aurora borealis, is not human imagination, but caused by the electromagnetic phenomenon, albeit at a very low level. These are conclusions by Finnish acoustics professor Unto Laine. His team has established that the sound originates at the temperature inversion level, only some 70 metres from ground, local media reported on Monday. Positive electric charges from the ionosphere collide with charges rising from the ground surface in the temperature inversion level. The reaction creates strong sound that may reach the ground, such as banging and rattling. "The sound is most likely if the weather is totally ...
Study: The World’s Reservoirs Release More Methane Than All of Canada
Post Date: 2016-10-04 18:39:19 by BTP Holdings
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Study: The World’s Reservoirs Release More Methane Than All of Canada by Leon Kaye on Tuesday, Oct 4th, 2016 Climate & Environment The San Luis Reservoir in central California. According to a Washington State University study, the world’s reservoirs create more greenhouse gases than all of Canada. The paper, to be published this week in the journal BioScience, also found that reservoirs in particular contribute a large portion of the world’s methane emissions, a greenhouse gas the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency suggests is 28 to 36 times more potent than carbon dioxide. The amount of greenhouse gases from all of the globe’s reservoirs could be as high as ...
3 scientists share 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics
Post Date: 2016-10-04 07:44:53 by Tatarewicz
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STOCKHOLM, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics are shared by three scientists, announced the Royal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on Tuesday. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 was divided, one half awarded to David J. Thouless, the other half jointly to F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz "for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter." Editor: Tian Shaohui
Legendary physicist Freeman Dyson talks about math, nuclear rockets, and astounding things about the universe
Post Date: 2016-10-03 09:22:23 by Ada
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Mathematician and physicist Freeman Dyson has had a career as varied as it has been successful. A former professor of physics at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, he has worked on the unification of the three versions of quantum electrodynamics invented by Richard Feynman, nuclear reactors, solid- state physics, ferromagnetism, astrophysics, biology, and the application of useful and elegant math problems. One of his ideas, the Dyson Sphere, was featured in a "Star Trek" episode. Today, Dyson frequently writes about science and technology's relationship to ethics and social issues. Business Insider sat down with him and talked about math, war, the human brain, ...
Student researchers develop Mexico's first Mars rover
Post Date: 2016-10-03 00:52:27 by Tatarewicz
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GUADALAJARA, Mexico, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- The first prototype of a Mars explorer robot designed in Mexico by a team of 10 university students has gained the recognition of NASA and the International Astronautical Federation. "It is a completely Mexican design," Bryan Perez, one of the members of the team, told Xinhua on Saturday. The development team consists of nine engineering students from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and one from the National Polytechnic Institute. "We are convinced that Mexico has the knowledge, the drive and the power to innovate in aerospace, which is just beginning here," said Perez. The robot is equipped with two ...
Wireless wake-up call | Jeromy Johnson | TEDxBerkeley
Post Date: 2016-10-02 14:03:33 by Horse
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One of the only nuclear fusion reactors in the U.S. just broke
Post Date: 2016-10-01 19:11:59 by BTP Holdings
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One of the only nuclear fusion reactors in the U.S. just broke [Lulu Chang] October 1, 2016 One of the only nuclear fusion reactors in the U.S. just broke Our nation's "flagship experimental fusion reactor" is no longer working, a problem made all the more frustrating by the fact that scientists just completed a four-year, $94 million upgrade on the machine. It’s not that often that we hear about major breakthroughs in nuclear research, and now such announcements, at least in the U.S., may become more infrequent. That’s because our nation’s “flagship experimental fusion reactor” is no longer working. This problem is made all the more frustrating by ...
31-Year-Old CEO Bets $2.1 Billion After Just 2 Hours
Post Date: 2016-10-01 15:02:56 by BTP Holdings
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Silicon Valley's biggest CEO just shocked everyone... Mark Zuckerberg recently made a surprise visit to a low-key tech conference full of 1,500 ordinary developers and programmers. But he had a huge announcement to make... You see, in late 2016 - about a week from now - a groundbreaking new technology is expected to be released for commercial sales. And Zuckerberg said it's "the next great tech... that's going to define the future." According to analysts, the market for this type of technology is "expected to grow by over 13,000% in the next 3 years." Zuckerberg invested $2.1 billion in it himself. And Microsoft's CEO jumped in with $150 million, ...
Loaded laundry: Samsung washing machines exploding
Post Date: 2016-09-29 01:44:30 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Certain top-loading Samsung washing machines may double as very extreme driers, as regulators warn unnamed models have been found to seemingly explode after intense vibrations make the machines fall to pieces. A class-action lawsuit against Samsung alleges that some of its top-loading washing machines are dramatically falling apart. A statement from Samsung did little to soothe concerned consumers, saying, “we are in active discussions with the CPSC to address potential safety issues related to certain top-load washing machines manufactured between March 2011 and April 2016.” In case you concerned: FAA officially bans ‘exploding’ Samsung phones on flights ...
Three days till we surrender control of the internet
Post Date: 2016-09-28 17:41:48 by titorite
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So how yall felling about that? Anybody wondering if governments like China or Sudia Arabia already have agents inside ICANN just waiting for the moment? 3 days... 3 days and we lose authority over what our tax dollars paid to create. Gotta wonder if their is any truth to that killswitch legend. I mean I don't believe it but I do believe in human greed and incompetence fucking up things. What do yall think? Will it go over smooth, will something happen, do ya even care one way or the other?
Google Announces Neural Machine Translation to Improve Google Translate
Post Date: 2016-09-28 08:28:11 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- The Google Neural Machine Translation system 'surpasses' the results of all other machine-translation solutions currently available, with GNMT now being used for Chinese-to-English translations. Google has announced a neural machine translation (NMT) system that it says will reduce translation errors across its Google Translate service by between 55 percent and 85 percent, calling the achievement by its team of scientists a "significant milestone". Announced on the 10-year anniversary of Google Translate, Google Brain Team research scientists Quoc Le and Mike Schuster said Google has used machine intelligence to improve its image and speech-recognition ...
American company replaces sugar with mushrooms to make chocolate
Post Date: 2016-09-27 20:57:05 by Horse
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