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Sep 12, 2016
Your First Look At What It Would Be Like to Ride the Hyperloop Pod
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: futurism, transportation
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VF1rt1-Y6vY
Want to know what it looks like to travel at the speed of sound…in a windowless pod? Well, here you go.
What would it be like to ride on the Hyperloop—the 700 mph (1,100 km/h) propulsion-driven transportation of the future?
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Sep 12, 2016
Turing’s new phone: Too good to be true in reality
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: energy, internet, mobile phones, robotics/AI
Turing Robot Industries (TRI) has huge plans regarding its new phone. The third in the series phone, has such high-tech plans lined up for it that these plans itself make you cringe on the grounds of practicality and reality. The plans of the company for this phone include an 18 GB RAM, three Snapdragon 830’s, 6.4-inch 4K display, 1.2 TB storage 60MP iMAX 6K Quad Rear Camera Triplet Lens at f/1.2, and a 20MP front camera.
It will have 4G VoLTE enabled 4 Nano SIMs, support Parallel Tracking and Mapping API. This entire package will be powered by a 120wh battery which will also use a triple power source. This would be in the form of a supercooled 3,600mAh graphene battery and a pair of 2,600mAh Li-Ion Hydrogen Fuel cells powering your device (and maybe also your home).
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Sep 12, 2016
DARPA working on safe Gene Editing Research
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, genetics
The Safe Genes program could help unlock the potential of advanced gene editing technologies by developing a set of tools to address potential risks of this rapidly advancing field. The Safe Genes program envisions addressing key safety gaps by using those tools to restrict or reverse the propagation of engineered genetic constructs.
“Gene editing holds incredible promise to advance the biological sciences, but right now responsible actors are constrained by the number of unknowns and a lack of controls,” said Renee Wegrzyn, DARPA program manager. “DARPA wants to develop controls for gene editing and derivative technologies to support responsible research and defend against irresponsible actors who might intentionally or accidentally release modified organisms.”
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Sep 11, 2016
Elon Musk: ‘We Have Not Ruled Out’ That UFO Caused Space X Explosion (VIDEO)
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: Elon Musk, space
Hmmm.
The statement by the vaunted entrepreneur that he couldn’t rule out that UFO hunters were correct that an unidentified object or weapon initiated the explosion has alien enthusiasts out in full force.
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Sep 11, 2016
Gravitation under human control? This proposal could transform physics
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: physics, space
Produce and detect gravitational fields at will using magnetic fields, control them for studying them, work with them to produce new technologies — it sounds daring, but Prof. André Füzfa of Namur University has proposed just that in an article published in the scientific journal Physical Review D. If followed, this proposal could transform physics and shake up Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
At present, scientists study gravitational fields passively: they observe and try to understand existing gravitational fields produced by large inertial masses, such as stars or Earth, without being able to change them as is done, for example, with magnetic fields.
It was this frustration that led Füzfa to attempt a revolutionary approach: creating gravitational fields at will from well-controlled magnetic fields and observing how these magnetic fields could bend space-time.
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Sep 11, 2016
Big businesses must be ready to ‘radically change’ to survive
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: business, singularity, transportation
Sep 11, 2016
These Tiny Robots Adapt To Avoid Collisions, Outclassing Most Of Humanity
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: robotics/AI
Sep 11, 2016
Tech groups urging Congress to sue Obama admin to block giving control of Internet to authoritarian regimes
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: energy, government, internet
An alliance of technology organizations and conservatives are urging Congress to file suit against the Obama administration to block the transference of control over Internet domain names to an international board. The alliance claims that doing so will give authoritarian regimes power to decide who can and cannot have a presence on the web, Fox News reported Saturday.
Since 1998, a division of the U.S. Commerce Department called the National Telecommunications Information Administration, or NTIA, has issued domain names. But in September the Obama administration is set to allow the U.S. government’s contract to lapse so that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will then be operated by a global board of directors, and the responsibility will fall to it instead.
Critics of the administration’s decision fear that it will allow Russia, China and Iran to then have a stake in governing the Internet, giving them “de facto” power to tax domain names and quash free speech.
