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Nov 12, 2016
8 technologies in Westworld and when we’ll see them
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI, transportation
It seems like every television season plays host to a single show that takes over our cultural consciousness by coating modern fears in fantastical drama.
Game of Thrones taps into the cutthroat nature of modern politics, while The Walking Dead plays into our ever-present fear of a worldwide contagion. This year, with Elon Musk’s dire warnings about the dangers of artificial intelligence, Siri and Alexa permeating our personal lives, and self-driving cars threatening to run down groups of children, Westworld is posed to be that show.
Westworld is complex. It’s that complexity, interwoven with mysteries and plot twists, that produces the hours of online speculation and wild fan theories that are the hallmark of anything worth watching.
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Nov 12, 2016
Modular Exoskeletons
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, robotics/AI
WeaRobot wants to democratize robotic exoskeletons. They want to make modular exoskeletons, so that is more affordable. The exoskeleton can boost the mobility joint by joint. Just supporting the movement of one knee or one elbow or assembling all modules for a full body exoskeleton. This is targeted at enhancing mobility and function for the growing elderly population.
WeaRobot is breaking apart robotic exoskeletons to make them more affordable and adaptable.
Nov 11, 2016
How Virtual Reality Is Helping Veterans Overcome PTSD — By Tishin Donkersley | Tech.Co
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: health, virtual reality
“According to the US Department of Veteran’s Affairs about 11 out of every 100 veterans who served in Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom have PTSD in a given year as well as about 12 out of every 100 veterans who served in Desert Storm.”
Nov 11, 2016
IMAX To Spend Millions To Spread Virtual Reality — By Jonathan Varian | Fortune
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: media & arts, virtual reality
Nov 11, 2016
BBC to debut virtual reality film The Turning Forest | BBC News
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: media & arts, virtual reality
“The fairy tale will be made available for free on Daydream, Google’s mobile virtual reality product.”
Nov 11, 2016
Bitcoin users relax: Quantum computing no match for SHA-2 encryption
Posted by Philip Raymond in categories: bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, economics, encryption, quantum physics
Worried about security for your bitcoin in the face of quantum computing? According to computer researchers, there’s no reason to be.
Source: https://hacked.com/breathe-easy-bitcoiners-quantum-computing…encryption
Some people assume that once quantum computing comes along modern encryption technologies will be outpowered. But experts are starting to posit that hash functions and asymmetric encryption could defend not only against modern computers, but also against quantum attackers from the future.
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Nov 11, 2016
Forget about the election for a minute: There’s a rare supermoon coming
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in category: space
This could cause earthquakes because of the moons mass pulls of the mass of our planet.
There’s a rare supermoon coming this weekend, and no matter how devastated or thrilled you are by the latest election results, you don’t want to miss it.
In the wee hours of Sunday night and Monday morning, the moon will come closer to the Earth than it has in nearly 70 years.
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Nov 11, 2016
Pill Packing 100 Billion Designer Bacteria Could Be Tested Next Year
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: biotech/medical, health
Bacteria are among the oldest life forms on Earth and exist nearly everywhere; in the soil, water, deep in the earth’s crust and in our own bodies. Actually, there are at least as many bacterial cells in the human body as human cells.
Bacteria tend to get a bad rap, but now, armed with new research on the bacterial world (or microbiome) in our bodies, we are starting to understand how important a role microorganisms play in our health (good as well as bad).
And beyond merely understanding the relationship between our bodies and the microorganisms inhabiting it, we’re on the cusp of significantly altering that relationship.
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Nov 11, 2016
Engineering Fusion Energy By 2025
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: engineering, nuclear energy, particle physics
Tokamak Energy.
The world needs abundant, clean energy. Nuclear fusion — with no CO2 emissions, no risk of meltdown and no long-lived radioactive waste — is the obvious solution, but it is very hard to achieve.
The challenge is that fusion only happens in stars, where the huge gravitational force creates pressures and temperatures so intense that usually repulsive particles will collide and fuse; hence “fusion”. On Earth we need to create similar conditions, holding a hot, electrically-charged plasma at high enough pressure for long enough for fusion reactions to occur. The scientific and engineering challenges behind putting a star in a box are large, to say the least. Without proper confinement of the plasma, the reaction would stop. The plasma must be isolated from the walls of the reactor — a feat that can be performed most effectively by magnets. The most advanced machine for this purpose is the ‘tokamak’.
