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Jul 24, 2016

An AI Watched 600 Hours of TV and Started to Accurately Predict What Happens Next

Posted by in categories: computing, information science, robotics/AI, security

MIT researchers have created an algorithm that hopes to understand human visual social cues and predict what would happen next. Giving AI the ability to understand and predict human social interaction could one day pave the way to efficient home assistant systems as well as intelligent security cameras that can call an ambulance or the police ahead of time.

MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory created an algorithm that utilizes deep learning, which enables artificial intelligence (AI) to use patterns of human interaction to predict what will happen next. Researchers fed the program with videos featuring human social interactions and tested it to see if it “learned” well enough to be able to predict them.

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Jul 24, 2016

Hello, Monumental Storage. Now You Can Get A 10TB Hard Drive For Your Home PC

Posted by in categories: business, computing

Seagate has just released a trio of storage options, including a 10TB desktop drive, allowing users to get a massive amount of storage.

The natural drive for companies is to provide something bigger than what the competition has to offer. That’s true especially in the storage business, where making drives with higher and higher capacity is the name of the game.

Which is what drove Seagate to make this monumental beast. Say “hello” to 10 TB of hardware storage for your desktop PC. That’s right: a desktop drive with the capacity of an entire server.

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Jul 24, 2016

Biotech Executive Martine Rothblatt Envisions Legal Rights for AI

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, law, robotics/AI

If computers think for themselves, should they have human rights?

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Jul 23, 2016

CAD Is a Lie: Generative Design to the Rescue

Posted by in category: computing

Discover how, with generative design, computers can “learn” a designer’s project goals and collaborate to create products never before possible.

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Jul 23, 2016

What if instead of using the computer to draw what you already know, you could tell the computer what you want to accomplish?

Posted by in category: computing

Autodesk CTO Jeff Kowalski discusses the astonishing results driven by generative design.

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Jul 23, 2016

Scientists work toward storing digital information in DNA

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, education, mathematics

Her computer, Karin Strauss says, contains her “digital attic”—a place where she stores that published math paper she wrote in high school, and computer science schoolwork from college.

She’d like to preserve the stuff “as long as I live, at least,” says Strauss, 37. But computers must be replaced every few years, and each time she must copy the information over, “which is a little bit of a headache.”

It would be much better, she says, if she could store it in DNA—the stuff our genes are made of.

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Jul 22, 2016

Most of the universe may be trapped inside of ancient black holes

Posted by in categories: computing, cosmology, particle physics

(A computer simulation of a black hole. NASA, ESA, and D. Coe, J. Anderson, and R. van der Marel (STScI))

In case you haven’t heard, there is a very, very big problem with the universe: About 80% of all of the stuff inside it is missing.

Astronomers call this material “dark matter.” They know it’s out there because its huge mass tugs on and shapes galaxies, but no one has ever detected the material itself. Aside from exerting a gravitational pull, dark matter doesn’t seem to interact with stars, planets, dust, atoms, subatomic particles, or any other “normal” matter as we know it. It’s essentially invisible.

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Jul 22, 2016

Quantum Computer Accurately Simulates Hydrogen Molecule, Could Revolutionize Many Industries

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

Google and a team of researchers from various universities managed to simulate the hydrogen molecule on a quantum computer for the first time.

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Jul 21, 2016

Engineered bacteria are helping us add memory to living computers

Posted by in category: computing

Bacteria improving technology.


New research shows how adding memory to bacterial circuits could help us harness their computing power.

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Jul 21, 2016

From the lab: Better biomaterials for medical implants

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing

Wanted to share because I found this extremely interesting in what we’re discovery on implants and cells. I predict we are going to find out that in the next 7 to 10 years that we had some key things wrong as well as learned some new amazing things about cells especially with the synthetic cell & cell circuitry work that is happening for bio computing.


By Bikramjit Basu & his group Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

For a variety of medical treatments these days, artificial, synthetic materials are inserted into the human body. Common examples include treatment for artery blockage and orthopaedic surgeries, like hip and knee replacements. Human bodies are not very receptive to foreign objects; most synthetic materials are rejected by the body. The choice of material that can be inserted, therefore, has to be very specific.

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