Nov 14, 2015
Self-parallel parking car
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Mitsubishi Self-Driving Car
This new Mitsubishi self-driving car is so advanced it can parallel park itself.
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Nov 14, 2015
Nissan wants to bring wireless charging technology to electric cars
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: transportation
Electric car owners get to enjoy a certain level of pride in saying that they never have to deal with gas stations and dirty fuel-filler nozzles.
Most of those owners would likely agree that not having to deal with cords and charging ports would be another great step forward, however.
Soon, if Nissan and several other automakers have their way, that day will come, as wireless (inductive) charging systems and smart charging controls will take away that “hands on” obligation—provided you park in designated charging spots.
Nov 14, 2015
These Are the Droids We’re Looking For
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
Could the planet’s next catastrophe be averted by R2-D2? That’s the idea behind the DARPA Robotics Challenge, a robot Olympiad designed to create autonomous machines that can go where no man can or should go—nuclear disaster sites, minefields, Montauk over Labor Day weekend—and fix all the toxic messes we make. The stakes are $3.5 million. Oh, and possibly the future of mankind.
Nov 14, 2015
Resetting The Clock: New Enzyme Found To Repair Telomeres
Posted by Roy in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Resetting Your Biological Clock: New Enzyme Found To Repair Telomeres.
The telomere caps on the end of your chromosomes unravel bit by bit with every cell division, and if they’re not repaired division eventually stops altogether. Cells like stem cells express special enzymes to lengthen these caps, and we’ve now found another one that does the job.
A key player in aging?
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Nov 14, 2015
Intel prepping a 10-core Core i7 for launch next year
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: computing
Feeling like the typical four or eight (Extreme Edition) cores in your current Core i7 processor are holding you back? Well, you’re in luck. Intel is going to offer up their very first Core i7 with ten processing cores before the end of next summer.
While it’ll be the first desktop-class CPU with that many cores, it won’t actually be Intel’s first 10-core processor. They’ve been making Xeon chips with at least 10 cores since 2011, and some with as many as 15. They’re aimed primarily at servers and enterprise-class workstations, though. Next year, however, they’ll finally offer up a deca-core processor for the consumer market.
That chip will be the Core i7-6950X, a 10-core beast with Hyper-threading support that allows it to handle 20 independent instructions at any given time. It’s based on Intel’s new 14nm process, down from 22nm on Ivy Bridge and Haswell. The 6950X should be clocked at 3GHz, but it’s not yet known where Turbo Boost will top out.
Nov 14, 2015
This $20 Trillion Rock Could Turn a Startup Into Earth’s Richest Company
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: space
Meet Amun 3554. Doesn’t look like much, right? Little more than a mile wide, it’s one of the smallest M-class (metal-bearing) asteroids yet discovered. Unless it ever decides to smash into us — a theoretical possibility, but extremely unlikely over the next few centuries — it will continue orbiting the sun, unknown and unmolested.
That is, unless Planetary Resources has its way. Planetary Resources is the asteroid-mining company launched Tuesday in Seattle, with backing from Microsoft and Google billionaires, along with the equally prominent James Cameron and Ross Perot Jr.
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Nov 14, 2015
Not sure if commercial for HP or the R2 Builders…
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
Nov 13, 2015
Google researcher: Quantum computers aren’t perfect for deep learning
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: computing, quantum physics, robotics/AI
In the past couple of years, Google has been trying to improve more and more of its services with artificial intelligence. Google also happens to own a quantum computer — a system capable of performing certain computations faster than classical computers.
It would be reasonable to think that Google would try running AI workloads on the quantum computer it got from startup D-Wave, which is kept at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, right near Google headquarters.
Google is keen on advancing its capabilities in a type of AI called deep learning, which involves training artificial neural networks on a large supply of data and then getting them to make inferences about new data.
Nov 13, 2015
What Happens When Technology Zooms Off the Chart?: Singularity and its Meanings — By Alex Steffan | Whole Earth Catalog
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: singularity
Nov 13, 2015
Google reportedly planning a ‘watershed’ quantum computing announcement for December 8
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: computing, quantum physics, security
Interesting…
According to Steve Jurvetson, venture capitalist and board member at pioneer quantum computing company D-WAVE (as well as others, such as Tesla and SpaceX), Google has what may be a “watershed” quantum computing announcement scheduled for early next month. This comes as D-WAVE, which notably also holds the Mountain View company as a customer, has just sold a 1000+ Qubit 2X quantum computer to national security research institution Los Alamos…
It’s not exactly clear what this announcement will be (besides important for the future of computing), but Jurvetson says to “stay tuned” for more information coming on December 8th. This is the first we’ve heard of a December 8th date for a Google announcement, and considering its purported potential to be a turning point in computing, this could perhaps mean an actual event is in the cards.
