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May 17, 2017
Google shifts mobile focus to apps and digital assistant
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: mobile phones, robotics/AI, virtual reality
N” Mobile phone apps took center stage at Google’s annual developer conference on Wednesday as the search giant announced new features for its digital assistant and its popular photo app while devoting little time to the Android mobile operating system.
Addressing an audience of thousands of developers in Mountain View, California, Google executives delivered a broad-based update to their product portfolio which also included a slate of new features for the Google Home speaker, a job search tool and even a set of new virtual reality headsets.
In a sign of the ongoing strategic importance of Google Assistant, the company’s artificial intelligence-driven, voice-controlled digital assistant, Google announced it would make the product available on Apple Inc’s (AAPL.O) iPhone, making a play for the higher end of the smartphone market and challenging Apple’s Siri feature on its own devices.
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May 17, 2017
SpaceX’s Elon Musk’s bold ambition to colonize Mars
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: Elon Musk, space travel
May 17, 2017
Elon Musk Finally Confirms What The Boring Tunnels He’s Making Are Actually For
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: Elon Musk, transportation
https://youtube.com/watch?v=QXrlRhYriN0
The Rand Corporations 1960’s plans for an underground hypersonic tube train transport system. The plan back then was from NYC to LA in about 20 minutes.
We now have an idea of just what Elon Musk’s Boring Company is going to be for. Yes, it’s to solve traffic, but it looks like it isn’t meant just to be your usual tunnel for cars. In a new update today, the company asserts that it’s actually building a tunnel that can also run the Hyperloop.
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May 17, 2017
Google announces a powerful new AI chip and supercomputer
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: robotics/AI, supercomputing
May 17, 2017
Researchers Are Using Stem Cell Tech to End Neurological Disorders
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
- Researchers have constructed a laboratory model for a unique neurological disorder by transforming patients’ own cells using stem cell technology.
- This innovation could also benefit the research of other neurological disorders that may also have roots in a dysfunctional blood-brain barrier, like Alzheimer’s disease and Huntington’s disease.
The human body is a melding of different systems designed to function well together. In some cases, however, a mechanism that protects the body can also cause it harm, like with the specialized shield of endothelial cells — called the blood-brain barrier — that keeps toxins in the blood from entering the brain.
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May 17, 2017
Bronze Age beaker culture invaded Britain 4,000 years ago
Posted by Carse Peel in categories: biotech/medical, genetics
New research carried out one of the biggest ever studies of ancient genomes…
A Bronze Age ‘beaker culture’ invaded Britain 4,000 years ago: Intruders forced out ancient farmers that built famous relics such as Stonehenge.
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May 17, 2017
Project Telepathy: Team explores bioelectric signals produced
Posted by Carse Peel in categories: neuroscience, wearables
(Tech Xplore)—Researchers at the University of Bristol have figured out how you can whisper to someone up to 30 feet away. Their approach managed to translate facial expression into ultrasonic words.
David Lumb in Engadget said the researchers built a wearable system; its components are a speaker worn on the forehead or chest and electrodes placed on the lips and jaw.
The only “snag,” as New Scientist called it, is fairly substantial. How could one be a stellar secret message-passing agent in a crowd when staring people would find it odd that person is wearing a speaker on his head and walking around with electrodes around his mouth.
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May 17, 2017
Scientists are close‘ to creating blood using a patient’s own SKIN
Posted by Carse Peel in category: biotech/medical
End of donations? Scientists are ‘tantalisingly close’ to creating human blood using a patient’s own SKIN…
Ground-breaking research could pave the way for blood cells to be generated from a patient’s own skin, spelling the end for blood donations.
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May 17, 2017
For The First Time, Physicists Have Observed a Giant Magnetic ‘Bridge’ Between Galaxies
Posted by Carse Peel in categories: physics, space
For the first time, scientists have detected evidence of a magnetic field that’s associated with the vast intergalactic ‘bridge’ that links our two nearest galactic neighbours.
Known as the Magellanic Bridge, the bridge is a huge stream of neutral gas that stretches some 75,000 light-years between our two neighbouring galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC). Although researchers had predicted it was there, this is the first observation of its magnetic field, and it could help us understand how these vast bridges come to be.
“There were hints that this magnetic field might exist, but no one had observed it until now,” said lead researcher, Jane Kaczmarek from the University of Sydney.
