Dec 15, 2015
Want to Create Things That Matter? Be Lazy
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
Ignoring “shallow work” makes one appear lazy or distanced, but its the trait that enables great creatives to do work that matters.
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Dec 15, 2015
UAT Tech – Official Blog of the University of Advancing Technology
Posted by Lily Graca in categories: bioengineering, education, nanotechnology, neuroscience, transhumanism
https://youtube.com/watch?v=PDS4oOd4EQY
“Inhuman: The Next & Final Phase of Man is Here” is not fiction or a mockudrama but a new investigative documentary from Defender Films and Raiders News Productions.
Inhuman travels the globe to unveil for the first time how breakthrough advances in science, technology and philosophy—including cybernetics, bioengineering, nanotechnology, machine intelligence and synthetic biology are poised to create mind-boggling game changes to everything we have known until now about Homo sapiens.
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Dec 15, 2015
What Was Your 1st Computer? — Computerphile
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: computing, mobile phones, neuroscience, robotics/AI, singularity, space
Before each Computerphile interview we asked guests and regular contributors about their first computer.
Professor Uwe Aickelin: Missing Data: https://youtu.be/oCQbC818KKU
Professor Ross Anderson: Chip & PIN Fraud: https://youtu.be/Ks0SOn8hjG8
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Dec 15, 2015
Watch the ‘robot squid’
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
It can crawl through snow. It can crawl through fire. And it can survive getting run over by a car. This is the “robot squid” NASA could use to explore gas giants: http://cnnmon.ie/1MdX2MG
Dec 15, 2015
Faraday Future To Build $1 Billion Factory Outside Of Las Vegas
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
Faraday Future has announced a $1 billion investment in North Las Vegas for a new factory, will employ 4,500 people.
Dec 15, 2015
Glimpse into the future
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: futurism, transportation
On January 4, 2016, Faraday Future will unveil a concept car.
The future of mobility is closer than you think. Come back here to watch the live unveiling.
Dec 14, 2015
Ultra-fast charging battery
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: energy, mobile phones
These batteries use bio-organic technology, and they can charge phones from flat to full in 30 seconds.
Dec 14, 2015
Scott Aaronson on Google’s new quantum-computing paper
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: computing, information science, quantum physics
In 2010, a Canadian company called D-Wave announced that it had begun production of what it called the world’s first commercial quantum computer, which was based on theoretical work done at MIT. Quantum computers promise to solve some problems significantly faster than classical computers—and in at least one case, exponentially faster. In 2013, a consortium including Google and NASA bought one of D-Wave’s machines.
Over the years, critics have argued that it’s unclear whether the D-Wave machine is actually harnessing quantum phenomena to perform its calculations, and if it is, whether it offers any advantages over classical computers. But this week, a group of Google researchers released a paper claiming that in their experiments, a quantum algorithm running on their D-Wave machine was 100 million times faster than a comparable classical algorithm.
Scott Aaronson, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, has been following the D-Wave story for years. MIT News asked him to help make sense of the Google researchers’ new paper.
Dec 14, 2015
Why Infosys is joining Elon Musk, Y Combinator and others in pledging $1 billion for OpenAI — By Harshith Mallya | YourStory
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: education, ethics, open source, robotics/AI
““Our trust in complex systems stems mostly from understanding their predictability, whether it is nuclear reactors, lathe machines, or 18-wheelers; or of course, AI. If complex systems are not open to be used, extended, and learned about, they end up becoming yet another mysterious thing for us, ones that we end up praying to and mythifying. The more open we make AI, the better.””
