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May 19, 2017
Sound over silicon: Computing’s wave of the future
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: computing, materials
As computer parts grow tinier — billions of transistors are now packed onto silicon chips the size of a fingernail — silicon’s performance shrinks too, and the material can overheat.
May 18, 2017
India cancelling huge coal power station because it wants to focus on renewable energy
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: energy, government, sustainability
A planned coal fired mega power plant in India has been scrapped because the government wants to focus on green energy.
Gujarati state officials had planned a 4,000-Megawatt ultra-mega power project (UMPP).
It would have been the state of Gujarat’s second UMPP.
May 18, 2017
Cybercrime: A Black Market Price List From The Dark Web
Posted by Amnon H. Eden in category: cybercrime/malcode
What does it cost for malware, stolen identities and other tools of the cybercriminal trade? Probably less than you think.
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May 18, 2017
Uber’s new app for truckers could disrupt one of America’s core industries
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: employment, food, transportation
Uber launched a new app on Thursday called Uber Freight, which matches trucking companies with loads to haul.
The formal launch of the app marks Uber’s long-anticipated move into the trucking industry — potentially disrupting one of the most popular professions in the U.S.
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May 18, 2017
Mini Reactors Could Make Affordable Fusion Power a Reality by 2030
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: nuclear energy
- The small, spherical Tokamak ST40 reactor is on track to reach its next goal of hitting the 15,000,000 °C (27,000,000 °F) mark this autumn.
- When it does, we will be one step closer to achieving fusion power on a commercial scale.
Earlier this month the newest fusion reactor in the U.K., Tokamak Energy’s ST40, achieved first plasma. This milestone event on the road to fusion energy signals the viability of the company’s overall timetable. The more immediate aim for the ST40 is to achieve a temperature of 15,000,000 °C (27,000,000 °F), as hot as the center of the sun — this should happen in autumn of 2017 based on the progress thus far.
May 18, 2017
Journalist Jamie Bartlett’s new book “Radicals” is out today
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: geopolitics, life extension, transhumanism
My Immortality Bus trip and transhumanist presidential campaign is the subject of the first chapter (40 pages long). Grab a copy of this excellent book and read about radical personalities attempting to change the world: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Radicals-Jamie-Bartlett-ebook/dp/B0…sr=8-1
May 18, 2017
A Bioengineered ‘Pancreas’ Has Ended One Diabetic’s Need For Insulin
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical
Even the most exciting breakthrough medical treatment can be rendered obsolete by a particularly insurmountable obstacle: time.
If a treatment only works temporarily, it has little chance of making a significant difference in the lives of patients, which is why the latest news from the University of Miami’s Diabetes Research Institute is so exciting.
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May 18, 2017
Could an Art Degree Could Mean Job Security in the Age of A.I.?
Posted by Julius Garcia in categories: employment, robotics/AI
Your art degree may be more valuable than you thought. Experts claim that arts jobs are unlikely to be eliminated amid workforce automation.