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Mar 10, 2020

An AI Debated Its Own Potential for Good vs. Harm. Here’s What It Came up With

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

In the end, an audience poll voted in favor of the pro-AI side, but just barely; 51.2 percent of voters felt convinced that AI can help us more than it can hurt us.

The software’s natural language processing was able to identify racist, obscene, or otherwise inappropriate comments and weed them out as being irrelevant to the debate. But it also repeated the same arguments multiple times, and mixed up a statement about bias as being pro-AI rather than anti-AI.

IBM has been working on Project Debater for over six years, and though it aims to iron out small glitches like these, the system’s goal isn’t to ultimately outwit and defeat humans. On the contrary, the AI is meant to support our decision-making by taking in and processing huge amounts of information in a nuanced way, more quickly than we ever could.

Mar 10, 2020

High-density hybrid powercapacitors: A new frontier in the energy race

Posted by in categories: energy, internet

Hybrid “power capacitors” that can store as much energy as lithium batteries, but with much higher charge/discharge rates, a huge range of safe operating temperatures, super-long lifespans and no risk of explosion are already in production, says a small Belgian company that’s been testing them and selling them for some time.

Chinese family-owned company Shenzhen Toomen New Energy is tough to find, at least on the English-language internet, but Belgian electronic engineer Eric Verhulst bumped into Toomen representatives on a tiny stand at the Hannover Messe expo in Germany back in 2018, while looking for next-gen battery solutions for an electric mobility startup he was running.

The Toomen team made a hell of a claim, saying they’d managed to manufacture powerful supercapacitors with the energy density of lithium batteries. “Of course, that’s an unbelievable claim,” Verhulst told us. “It’s a factor of 20 better than what, for example, Maxwell had at the time. So I took my time, went over there, looked at their tests, did some tests myself, and I got convinced this is real. So at the end of 2018, we made an agreement to become their exclusive partner.”

Mar 10, 2020

Optical gyroscope on a chip can detect Earth’s rotation

Posted by in category: computing

Sagnac interferometer has the potential to outperform today’s chip-based technologies.

Mar 10, 2020

Nanowire device generates electricity from ambient humidity

Posted by in category: nanotechnology

Non-polluting, low-cost device generates electrical current from the water vapour naturally present in the atmosphere.

Mar 9, 2020

Superconductor transition switches single-molecule magnet

Posted by in categories: materials, quantum physics

Novel phenomenon occurs due to quantum tunnelling and might be exploited in future quantum information technologies.

Mar 9, 2020

Physicists take snapshots of quantum measurement

Posted by in category: quantum physics

Ideal process leaves some superposition states intact.

Mar 9, 2020

Terahertz microscope produces highly accurate ‘ghost’ images

Posted by in categories: security, transportation

New device could find applications in areas such as the life sciences, airport security and quality control in manufacturing.

Mar 9, 2020

Type VII

Posted by in categories: cosmology, futurism

A type V II or K7 civilization would travel, transcend and ultimately oversee or ‘’be’’ the Omniverse which is the collection of every single universe, multiverse, megaverse, paraverse, dimension (alternate or pocket) and realm. Everything is in the Omniverse, and there is only one Omniverse.

It is likely that such power would come from an individual rather than a civilization, as the civilization would have transcended and merged into a single mind that would encompass all thoughts and all timelines, thus being omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient. This is the Creator: a god above all gods, responsible for all of existence, past and future.

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Mar 9, 2020

Space Station 20th – Women and the Space Station

Posted by in category: space

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! As of March 2020, 65 women have flown in space. Of these, 38 have worked aboard the International Space Station as long-duration crew members. Women have contributed to construction of station, served as shuttle pilots and commanders, commanded station expeditions and participated in numerous spacewalks including the recent series of all-woman excursions. Women currently hold the record for the single longest spaceflight by an American and the record for cumulative spaceflight time by an American. Their ongoing achievements will contribute to NASA successfully landing the first woman and the next man on the Moon as part of the Artemis program.

Mar 9, 2020

Immune cell which kills most cancers discovered by accident by British scientists in major breakthrough

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, innovation

3D illustration of a cancer cell in the process of mitosis. 3D illustration of a cancer cell in the process of mitosis. A new type of immune cell which kills most cancers has been discovered by accident by British scientists, in a finding which could herald a major breakthrough in treatment.

Researchers at Cardiff University were analysing blood from a bank in Wales, looking for immune cells that could fight bacteria, when they found an entirely new type of T-cell.

That new immune cell carries a never-before-seen receptor which acts like a grappling hook, latching on to most human cancers, while ignoring healthy cells.