Archive for the ‘futurism’ category: Page 372
Oct 29, 2020
Earth’s Magnetic North Pole Has Begun Racing Towards Siberia
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
In 1831, the British explorer James Clark Ross determined the position of the magnetic North Pole to within a few miles for the first time. He found it on the Boothia Peninsula in Nunavut, northern Canada where he and his team camped in the “snow huts of a recently deserted Esquimaux village”.
Even then, the pole was known to move, albeit slowly. Some 70 years later, the Norwegian Amundsen rediscovered it nearby and over the next ninety years, it migrated slowly northwards at a rate of up to 15 kilometers (just over 9 miles) per year.
Then, in 1990, it suddenly began to accelerate northwards. In 2017, it passed the geographic North Pole and is now heading south towards Siberia.
Oct 29, 2020
There’s a 50% Chance We’re Living in a Simulation
Posted by Arzu Al Siam in category: futurism
Hello World. I’m Imagination. In this video, I’m going to talk about how there’s a 50 percent chance that we …
Oct 28, 2020
Bloodhound SSC: 10 things they learned at 628mph ahead of 1,000mph land speed record attempt
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
Chief engineer Mark Chapman talks about the lessons gained from last year’s runs of the jet-powered British land speed record contender.
Oct 28, 2020
Meet The Iceman — 5,300-Year-Old and Best Preserved Human Being Ever Found
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
Back in 1991 on September 19th in the Austro-Italian Alps, an incredibly grim discovery was made by hikers Helmut and Erika Simon. While they were strolling across the mountainside they discovered what appeared to be a body that died recently still half-frozen from the bottom down. They called in the cops but after further analyzing it was uncovered that the cadaver was at the very least 4,000 years old. Nicknamed “Otzi the Iceman”, he was later on discovered to have died sometime around 3350 and 3100 BC making him around 5,300 years old, aka the oldest preserved human being ever discovered.
Oct 28, 2020
Podcast #52: Nurturing Foresight in a Short-Sighted World, with Peter Hayward
Posted by Mark Sackler in categories: biotech/medical, futurism
Fellow futurist podcaster Peter Hayward joins me to discuss the challenge of fostering foresight in a short-sighted world.
Oct 27, 2020
Microsoft unveils FREE app to create AI models without writing any code
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
Microsoft has released a public preview of a free app lets helps people train machine learning models without writing any code.
The Lobe desktop app for Windows and Mac currently only supports image classification, but Microsoft plans to expand it to other models and data types in the future.
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Oct 27, 2020
Best way to detect ‘deepfake’ videos? Check for the pulse
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: futurism
With video editing software becoming increasingly sophisticated, it’s sometimes difficult to believe our own eyes. Did that actor really appear in that movie? Did that politician really say that offensive thing?
Some so-called ‘deepfakes’ are harmless fun, but others are made with a more sinister purpose. But how do we know when a video has been manipulated?
Researchers from Binghamton University’s Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science have teamed up with Intel Corp. to develop a tool called FakeCatcher, which boasts an accuracy rate above 90%.
Oct 27, 2020
90,000-year-old Human Hybrid Found in Ancient Cave
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
S.B. 50 — Animal Shelter AmendmenEuthanasia by Injection, sponsored by Sen. Knudson For the fourth year in a row, we will be supporting a bill to ban the use of gas chambers for animal euthanasia. Utah is one of four states where a handful of animal shelters are still using the outdated and inhumane method of gas chamber euthanasia.