Jul 12, 2015
What’s Involved In World’s First Head Transplant?
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: biotech/medical
A patient’s set to undergo the world’s first head transplant. Here’s what’s involved. Read more: http://bit.ly/1FYP4Ep.
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Jul 12, 2015
Transhumanismus: Bring mir den Kopf von Raymond Kurzweil!
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: computing, transhumanism
A full Sunday feature on transhumanism (with mentions of Transhumanist Parties) in one of Germany’s largest papers (circulation 400,000): http://www.faz.net/…/transhumanismus-bring-mir-den-kopf-von… and the English: http://translate.google.com/translate…
Jul 12, 2015
Some new ideas for fixing science — Cathleen O’Grady | Ars Technica
Posted by Seb in category: science
“It’s much easier to replicate experiments and catch fraud if you have access to the original data. Some journals currently reward researchers for sharing the data that they used in an experiment. In the highest level of this new framework, data sharing would not only become compulsory, but independent analysts would conduct the same tests on it as those reported by the researchers, to see whether they get the same results.” Read more
Jul 12, 2015
Pluto’s Mysterious Dark Splotches Come Into Focus
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: space
At this point, it’s safe to say that we’re going to be receiving a new ‘highest resolution image ever’ of Pluto on a close to 24 hour basis. Yesterday, we got our first peek at geologic features on the dwarf planet’s surface. And today, New Horizons beamed back the best image to date of four mysterious dark splotches near Pluto’s south pole.
Duke scientists successfully linked the brains of two rats and three monkeys this week—bringing us one step closer to a superbrain that could harness the power of collective thought.
Jul 11, 2015
IBM Watson CTO: Quantum computing could advance artificial intelligence
Posted by Simon Waslander in categories: computing, engineering, futurism, quantum physics, robotics/AI
IBM Watson CTO: Quantum computing could advance artificial intelligence by orders of magnitude.
Quantum computers have already been used to test artificial intelligence by researchers in China, albeit in a very limited capacity. Earlier in 2015, a team from the country’s University of Science and Technology developed a quantum system capable of recognising handwritten characters in a demonstration they dubbed quantum artificial intelligence.
This demonstration was on a quantum computer using only four qubits, leading to speculation of what a system using hundreds – or even thousands – of qubits would be capable of. Such machines do not yet exist, at least not commercially, but Canada-based quantum computing firm D-Wave systems recently claimed it has built a 1,000 qubit quantum computer.
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Jul 11, 2015
New wireless power tech can charge multiple devices in any orientation
Posted by Simon Waslander in categories: electronics, energy, futurism
#Handy New Wireless Charger Can Simultaneously Power 30 Mobile Phones at Distance.
Scientists at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed an omnidirectional wireless charging technology that can charge multiple devices at once, at a distance and, crucially, at peak efficiency regardless of which way the devices are facing.
An effective wireless transmitting power of 30 watts means the device can, according to the researchers, power either 30 smartphones or five laptops simultaneously.
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Jul 11, 2015
Is consciousness an engineering problem? – Michael Graziano – Aeon
Posted by Sean Cusack in categories: engineering, robotics/AI
We could build an artificial brain that believes itself to be conscious. Does that mean we have solved the hard problem?
Jul 11, 2015
New Horizons Update: Latest Pluto Images Reveal ‘Tantalizing’ Surface Features
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: space, space travel
After a journey of over nine years, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is finally close enough to discern surface features on the cold, dwarf planet.
Jul 11, 2015
From MIT’s Neri Oxman, The (Far-Flung) Future Of Wearables — Julie Taraska | Fast Company
Posted by Seb in category: wearables
“In a series of concept wearables that augment human biological systems, Oxman implants synthetically engineered microorganisms in custom-designed vessels. Worn externally, these devices…create the resources that an interplanetary traveler would need to survive in other climates. ‘Our goal was to design wearables that could have a symbiotic relationship with the human body.’” Read more
