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Oct 31, 2018

Understanding Einstein’s Theory of Relativity

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One of the most important concepts in science gets animated.

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Oct 31, 2018

Mopar’s Hellephant Is a 1000-HP Hellcat Crate Engine Taken to the Extreme

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For SEMA, Mopar just showed off the first 1000-hp crate engine from an OEM. It’s beautiful.

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Oct 30, 2018

Scientists Want Your Help Crafting a Message to Aliens

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Are you up for this challenge?


Want to talk to aliens? Now’s your chance.

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Oct 30, 2018

The Bitter Class Struggle Behind Our Definition of a Kilogram

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Before standardization, units of measurement were often manipulated by tyrants to cheat peasants and steal land.

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Oct 30, 2018

DeepMind’s Eerie Reimagination of the Animal Kingdom

Posted by 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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Oct 28, 2018

Lasers Could Be Used To Store Data

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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.

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Oct 28, 2018

Titanic II to set sail in 2022, following original route

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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

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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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Oct 28, 2018

Bioquark Inc. — Life Of A Fighter Podcast — Ira Pastor

Posted by in categories: aging, bioengineering, biotech/medical, DNA, futurism, genetics, health, innovation, life extension, neuroscience

http://lifeofafighter.com/cell-regeneration-with-ira-pastor-…dcast-138/

Oct 28, 2018

The Cubli a cube that can jump up, balance, and walk

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