Aug 24, 2015
Microsoft wants you to scan in 3D using only your phone
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: mobile phones
Forget using dedicated scanners to capture objects in 3D — Microsoft’s MobileFusion would let you use only your phone.
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Aug 24, 2015
A little light interaction leaves quantum physicists beaming
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: computing, physics, quantum physics
A team of physicists has taken a step toward making the essential building block of quantum computers out of pure light. Their advance has to do with logic gates that perform operations on input data to create new outputs.
Aug 24, 2015
Omnidirectional Virtual Reality Treadmill to Open Up Preorders
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: virtual reality
Chinese-based VR treadmill project Kat Walk raised nearly $150,000 on Kickstarter, and the company has announced that non-Kickstarter preorders are coming soon.
Aug 24, 2015
MIT’s New 3D Printer Can Print 10 Materials Simultaneously
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: 3D printing, materials
Aug 24, 2015
‘Information sabotage’ on Wikipedia claimed | KurzweilAI
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: education, internet, open access
“Wikipedia entries on politically controversial scientific topics can be unreliable due to “information sabotage,” according to an open-access paper published today in the journal PLOS One.”
Aug 24, 2015
In The Future, Space Planes Could Be Powered By Microwaves
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: futurism, space travel
Over half a century after the dawn of the space age, getting to space remains an epic challenge. Twice this year, the first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket met a fiery end on the Atlantic Ocean—both attempts to recover and reuse rockets to reduce launch costs. A third rocket never made orbit, exploding on ascent.
Aug 24, 2015
We Can’t Find Any Alien Neighbors and Virtual Reality Might Be to Blame
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: alien life, virtual reality
Why haven’t we found alien neighbors? One theory says advanced species don’t colonize outer space, but make virtual worlds and colonize inner space instead.
Aug 24, 2015
Scientists Get One Step Closer to a Universal Flu Vaccine
Posted by Bryan Gatton in category: biotech/medical
Aug 24, 2015
Laniakea is made up of about 100,000 galaxies with a total mass about 100 million billion times that of the sun
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: space
Laniakea is made up of about 100,000 galaxies with a total mass about 100 million billion times that of the sun.
Image via Beyond Our Sight.
Aug 24, 2015
Humans Need Not Apply
Posted by Matthew Holt in categories: bitcoin, internet, robotics/AI, singularity
A brief introduction on the coming technological singularity. And a hint at how digital peer to peer cryptocurrencies like bitcoin which was the first. Will turn the ‘internet of things’ into the ‘economy of things’. Plus also I feel validates the case for a new debt free monetary system to provide a universal citizen’s dividend.
#technologicalSingularity #singularity #AI #cryptocurrency #bitcoin #citizensDividend #socialDividend #universalBasicIncome #basicIncome
