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Jul 22, 2015
Inside Windows Cortana: The Most Human AI Ever Built
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: robotics/AI
Microsoft wants Cortana to be the Alfred to your Batman — handling your communications and attending to your needs. We get up close and personal with one of the most human-like artificial-intelligence interfaces ever made.
Jul 22, 2015
How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: futurism, law, neuroscience
A new story on how coming technology may change our attitudes on the death penalty. This story was a feature on Vice yesterday, as well as Motherboard:.
This is the story of the most important biological discovery of the last 10 years. Will it be used for good, or evil, or everything in between?
Jul 22, 2015
Renewable energy boom will mean vastly cheaper electricity
Posted by Simon Waslander in categories: energy, solar power, sustainability
Renewable energy boom will mean vastly cheaper electricity
Renewable energy, combined with prolific battery storage, will soon result in vastly cheaper electricity — and solar power that’s less expensive than what fossil fuel-based power plants can produce.
Additionally, solar power with lithium-ion and flow-battery storage systems will make the combination of renewable energy so inexpensive that it will surpass nuclear power and obviate the need for futuristic power sources such as fusion, according to Tesla CTO JB Straubel.
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Jul 22, 2015
What Are The Roadblocks To More Renewables? — Bob Stojanovic and Dennis McKinley | CleanTechnica
Posted by Seb in category: energy
“We have the technology to successfully integrate distributed, renewable energy with the grid to provide a reliable, seamless power source. That includes software that helps renewable-power providers better predict their output throughout the day and feed that information upstream to utilities so they can blend that power with their traditional generation portfolio…The real barrier to greater renewable use is less technological and more philosophical. People worry that connecting all these renewable sources to the grid will bring it down.” Read more
Jul 22, 2015
Research papers will be free to access, eventually – Nature’s Philip Campbell
Posted by Simon Waslander in category: open access
Knowledge is Power and soon it’s going to be free and available to all. #Awesome
As university students we often take for granted the massive luxury of having access to unprecedented amounts of scientific articles. But accessing journals and papers can be prohibitively expensive for individuals or small organizations.
In the coming decade, science will become increasingly open-sourced. This will further democratize science and pave the way for powerful innovation.
Jul 21, 2015
New mussel-inspired surgical protein glue: Close wounds, open medical possibilities
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: biotech/medical
One of the most basic yet important surgical skills to keep a patient alive and intact may be closing wounds. It seems that doctors will now get the job done with more ease thanks to new, nontoxic surgical glue that instantly seals a bleeding wound and helps it heal without a scar or inflammation.
Jul 21, 2015
Metal foams found to excel in shielding X-rays, gamma rays, neutron radiation
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: biotech/medical, energy, space
Lightweight composite metal foams like this one have been found effective at blocking X-rays, gamma rays and neutron radiation, and are capable of absorbing the energy of high impact collisions — holding promise for use in nuclear safety, space exploration, and medical technology applications (credit: Afsaneh Rabiei, North Carolina State University)
Jul 21, 2015
We are data: the future of machine intelligence — By Douglas Coupland | Financial Times
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: big data, computing, economics, privacy
I sometimes wonder, How much data am I generating? Meaning: how much data do I generate just sitting there in a chair, doing nothing except exist as a cell within any number of global spreadsheets and also as a mineable nugget lodged within global memory storage systems — inside the Cloud, I suppose. (Yay Cloud!)
