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Jun 9, 2016
Scientists design energy-carrying particles called ‘topological plexcitons’
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: particle physics, solar power, sustainability
Scientists at UC San Diego, MIT and Harvard University have engineered “topological plexcitons,” energy-carrying particles that could help make possible the design of new kinds of solar cells and miniaturized optical circuitry.
The researchers report their advance in an article published in the current issue of Nature Communications.
Within the Lilliputian world of solid state physics, light and matter interact in strange ways, exchanging energy back and forth between them.
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Jun 9, 2016
Using Adenosine Triphosphate to Create Biological Super-Computers
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, computing, engineering, nanotechnology, sustainability
Machines running on human energy? Yes, it can happen, according to Dan Nicolau, Jr. from the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California. Nicolau and his colleagues successfully completed a proof-of-concept study of a book-sized computer that runs on adenosine triphosphate (ATP), a biochemical that releases energy in cells and aids in energy transfer.
The study results published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), describe the combination of geometrical modeling and engineering as well as nanotechnology to create circuitry that uses 1.5 × 1.5 cm in area and the naturally occurring protein to operate.
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Jun 9, 2016
US intelligence wants real-time behavior monitoring software
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: surveillance
Think your personal time is yours? Think again.
A new initiative from the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence aims to create an intelligent surveillance system that can analyze live video and spot suspicious behavior in real time. According to Defense One, the research project is called Deep Intermodal Video Analytics (a.k.a. DIVA) and it will be a joint effort between academics, the private sector and ODNI’s Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency.
In an announcement, IARPA officials laid out the project’s goals: “The DIVA program will produce a common framework and software prototype for activity detection, person/object detection and recognition across a multicamera network,” IARPA officials wrote. “The impact will be the development of tools for forensic analysis, as well as real-time alerting for user-defined threat scenarios.” In other words: the system should be able to identify suspicious behavior in real-time.
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Jun 9, 2016
Intelligence experts approach industry for UUV networks for covert surveillance of shipping
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: robotics/AI, surveillance
WASHINGTON, 9 June 2016. U.S. intelligence experts are asking industry for ideas on developing networks of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV) for covert surveillance of international ship traffic in important harbors, waterways, and choke points.
Officials of the U.S. Intelligence Advanced Projects Agency (IARPA) in Washington issued a sources-sought notice Tuesday (IARPA-BAA-16–09) for the UnderWatch project.
The IARPA UnderWatch project seeks to use UUV networks to monitor ships and maneuver to inspect contacts of interest. IARPA is the research arm of the U.S. Director of National Intelligence.
Jun 9, 2016
Adidas Spins Plastic from the Ocean into Awesome Kicks — By Margaret Rhodes | Wired
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: business, environmental
“That thread comes from a company called Parley for the Oceans, and it’s special, spun from plastic waste and old fishing nets retrieved from the coast of Africa.”
Jun 9, 2016
Augmented virtual reality for business
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: augmented reality, business, transhumanism, virtual reality
Fun video and article with some transhumanism now on the main China Public TV (English).
We’ve heard a lot about Augmented and Virtual Reality. But outside of gaming, is it practical in the workplace? That’s a key focus at this year’s Augmented World Expo in Silicon Valley.
At the Augmented World Expo, it’s goggles, goggles and more goggles.
Jun 9, 2016
3000 Engineers Might Get Fired At Wipro After Artificial Intelligence Learns To Do Their Work!
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: employment, robotics/AI
Today’s reminder that you are definitely living in the future — 3,000 engineers have an “uncertain future” after Holmes, an artificial intelligence (AI) tool at Wipro which can automate these projects.
The Prostitutes Of The Future Will Be Robots, According To This Study
According to the Mint, it will free up 3,000 engineers from “mundane” software maintenance jobs, and save save the company about $46.5 million.
Jun 9, 2016
First Demonstration of 10-Photon Quantum Entanglement
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: computing, quantum physics
Jun 9, 2016
Analogue quantum computation has been universally digitized using superconducting circuits
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: computing, quantum physics
The QUTIS research group (www.qutisgroup.com) of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and Google’s quantum computation team have collaborated on a pioneering experiment that universally digitizes analogue quantum computation on a superconducting chip. This breakthrough was made at Google’s labs in Santa Barbara (California) and has been published in the prestigious journal Nature.
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