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Apr 18, 2016

Dartmouth-led team devises new technique to probe ‘noise’ in quantum computing

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

Fine tuning QC.


HANOVER, N.H. — Dartmouth College and Griffith University researchers have devised a new way to “sense” and control external noise in quantum computing.

Quantum computing may revolutionize information processing by providing a means to solve problems too complex for traditional computers, with applications in code breaking, materials science and physics, but figuring out how to engineer such a machine remains elusive.

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Apr 18, 2016

MIT’s AI Can Predict 85 Percent of Cyberattacks

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, internet, robotics/AI

Knowing a cyberattack’s going to occur before it actually happens is very useful—but it’s tricky to achieve in practice. Now MIT’s built an artificial intelligence system that can predict attacks 85 percent of the time.

Cyberattack spotters work in two main ways. Some are AI that simply looks out for anomalies in internet traffic. They work, but often throw up false positives—warnings about a threat when actually nothing’s wrong. Other software systems are built on rules developed by humans, but it’s hard to create systems like that which catches every attack.

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Apr 18, 2016

New study shows mammals can be developed in space

Posted by in category: space

The latest experiment results from China’s SJ-10 recoverable satellite have been sent back with some groundbreaking news. For the first time in human history, it has been proven that the early stages of embryos in mammals can be developed completely in a space environment.

China launched the country’s first microgravity satellite, the SJ-10, on April 6. The return capsule on the satellite will stay in orbit for several days before heading back to Earth. An orbital module will continue to conduct experiments for a few more days.

High-resolution photographs sent back by SJ-10 show that the mouse embryos carried by the return capsule completed the entire developing process within 96 hours from the launch, the first reported successful development of mammalian embryos in space.

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Apr 18, 2016

Scientists discover huge galaxy that appeared out of nowhere

Posted by in category: space

Scientists discovered a new galaxy called Crater 2 that orbits our milky way galaxy which seemingly appeared out of nowhere. Patrick Jones (@Patrick_E_Jones) explains. Buzz60.

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Apr 18, 2016

Book: Space Architecture Education for Engineers and Architects: Designing and Planning Beyond Earth

Posted by in categories: architecture, education, engineering, space

9783319192789

“This book considers two key educational tools for future generations of professionals with a space architecture background in the 21st century: (1) introducing the discipline of space architecture into the space system engineering curricula; and (2) developing space architecture as a distinct, complete training curriculum.”

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Apr 18, 2016

Are Aliens Real? If They Are, Science Says They Won’t Look Like What You Expect

Posted by in categories: alien life, science

Little green men seem a little unimaginative.

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Apr 18, 2016

A “time slice” theory of consciousness suggests we’re not continually aware of our surroundings

Posted by in category: neuroscience

How do you perceive your own consciousness?

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Apr 18, 2016

Report: One Web to Build Satellites in Florida

Posted by in category: satellites

Space tourism … and much more.

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Apr 18, 2016

NYU Holodeck to be a model for year 2041 cyberlearning

Posted by in categories: education, robotics/AI, virtual reality

NYU-X Holodeck (credit: Winslow Burleson and Armanda Lewis)

In an open-access paper in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Education, Winslow Burleson, PhD, MSE, associate professor, New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing, suggests that “advanced cyberlearning environments that involve VR and AI innovations are needed to solve society’s “wicked challenges*” — entrenched and seemingly intractable societal problems.

Burleson and and co-author Armanda Lewis imagine such technology in a year 2041 Holodeck, which Burleson’s NYU-X Lab is currently developing in prototype form, in collaboration with colleagues at NYU Courant, Tandon, Steinhardt, and Tisch.

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Apr 18, 2016

People paralysed from neck down will be able to walk in 20 years’ time

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, engineering

Professor John Donoghue, director of Switzerland’s Wyss Centre for Bio and Neuro Engineering, predicts that in about 20 years time patients will have movement restored to all four limbs.

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