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Oct 31, 2018
Mopar’s Hellephant Is a 1000-HP Hellcat Crate Engine Taken to the Extreme
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
For SEMA, Mopar just showed off the first 1000-hp crate engine from an OEM. It’s beautiful.
Oct 30, 2018
Scientists Want Your Help Crafting a Message to Aliens
Posted by Michael Lance in category: futurism
Oct 30, 2018
The Bitter Class Struggle Behind Our Definition of a Kilogram
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Before standardization, units of measurement were often manipulated by tyrants to cheat peasants and steal land.
Oct 30, 2018
DeepMind’s Eerie Reimagination of the Animal Kingdom
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
If a recent project using Google’s DeepMind were a recipe, you would take a pair of AI systems, images of animals, and a whole lot of computing power. Mix it all together, and you’ d get a series of imagined animals dream ed up by one of the AIs. A look through the research paper about the project—or this open Google Folder of images it produced—will likely lead you to agree that the results are a mix of impressive and downright eerie.
But t he eerie factor doesn’t mean the project shouldn’t be considered a success and a step forward for future uses of AI.
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A new way to store data could be on the horizon. A team of scientists are hoping to make new storage devices with lasers.
Oct 28, 2018
Titanic II to set sail in 2022, following original route
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
The Titanic is back – and it’s ready to complete the voyage its predecessor attempted over 100 years ago.
The Titanic II, a replica of the original “ship of dreams,” will be setting sail in 2022, following the same Southampton, England, to New York route the famed Titanic tried in 1912.
RITZ-CARLTON’S FIRST CRUISE SHIP ENTERS THE WATER
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Oct 28, 2018
Earth Is Orbited By Two Enigmatic Dust Clouds, Astronomers Have Confirmed
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
The elusive Kordylewski dust clouds were finally spotted near the L5 Lagrange Point.
For more than half a century, scientists have debated over the existence of two puzzling celestial objects known as the Kordylewski dust clouds.
These dust clouds were first observed by Polish astronomer Kazimierz Kordylewski in 1961 and are thought to orbit our planet around the L4 and L5 Lagrange points — two of the five gravitationally stable locations found in the Earth-moon system.
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