Archive for the ‘singularity’ category: Page 67
May 26, 2016
Apple’s flirtation with buying HBO parent hints at content ambitions
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: augmented reality, business, media & arts, mobile phones, singularity, virtual reality
While Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are moving forward with nextgen technologies such as VR & AR, QC, bio & nano technologies, etc used to advance areas such as Singularity and longevity.; Apples going bigger in the entertainment and media space.
Even if Apple never made an actual move to buy Time Warner, a tentative approach shows that the iPhone maker is serious about getting into media content.
Eddy Cue, who’s in charge of iTunes and Apple Music, brought up the idea of a possible deal with Time Warner corporate strategy head Olaf Olafsson in a meeting late last year, according to a person familiar with the situation. While the two never started negotiations, Time Warner, which owns HBO and the Warner Brothers studio, is on the top of the list of media companies Apple would buy should it eventually commit to the content business, the person said.
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May 19, 2016
Is The Singularity A Religious Doctrine?
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: information science, neuroscience, Ray Kurzweil, singularity
New spin on all things that are Singular. Hmmm — so if Singularity becomes a religion; is Ray Kurzweil its God?
A colleague forwarded John Horgan’s recent Scientific American article, “The Singularity and the Neural Code.” Horgan argues that the intelligence augmentation and mind uploading that would lead to a technological singularity depend upon cracking the neural code. The problem is that we don’t understand our neural code, the software or algorithms that transform neurophysiology into the stuff of minds like perceptions, memories, and meanings. In other words, we know very little about how brains make minds.
May 18, 2016
Digital Shadows — new tool helps organisations peer inside data breaches
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: business, cybercrime/malcode, singularity
Hmmmmm.
“We had analysts crawling all over that,” says Chappell of the Hold Security cache. “Quickly it was clear that a lot of those were from previous breaches.”
Anyone using this tool would have had a rapid assessment of their potential exposure. If breached data turns out to be new, the next task is to understand how it might have ended up in the hands of criminals. There are several sources for breached data including straight database theft but also phishing attacks and malware campaigns, each with its own dynamics and set of business implications.
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May 16, 2016
Singularity is Near! Full Documentary Michio Kaku | Ray Kurzweil
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: computing, education, Ray Kurzweil, robotics/AI, singularity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CSNmrunCnA
Michio Kaku and Ray Kurzweil explains the exponential rate at which Technological Singularity is approaching and the future is far near than we can Imagine!
2029 : Singularity Year — Neil deGrasse Tyson & Ray Kurzweil — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyFYFjESkWU
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May 14, 2016
Building Large-Domain Twisted Bilayer Graphene with van Hove Singularity
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: materials, singularity
Twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) with van Hove Singularity (VHS) has exhibited novel twist-angle-dependent chemical and physical phenomena. However, scalable production of high-quality tBLG is still in its infancy, especially lacking the angle controlled preparation methods. Here, we report a facile approach to prepare tBLG with large domain sizes (100 μm) and controlled twist angles by a clean layer-by-layer transfer of two constituent graphene monolayers. The whole process without interfacial polymer contamination in two monolayers guarantees the interlayer interaction of the π-bond electrons, which gives rise to the existence of minigaps in electronic structures and the consequent formation of VHSs in density of state. Such perturbation on band structure was directly observed by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy with submicrometer spatial resolution (micro-ARPES). The VHSs lead to a strong light–matter interaction and thus introduce ∼20-fold enhanced intensity of Raman G-band, which is a characteristic of high-quality tBLG. The as-prepared tBLG with strong light–matter interaction was further fabricated into high-performance photodetectors with selectively enhanced photocurrent generation (up to ∼6 times compared with monolayer in our device).
May 13, 2016
Innovative Bio-glass Could Re-grow Cartilage
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: computing, quantum physics, singularity
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Mj6wbbrH03I
Why biocomputing is proving that bio and technology integrated can do amazing things and will eventually get us to real Singularity. Now imaging, take what you have seen so far in technology today and add Quantum to that picture then add bio to that; then you will truly see amazing SINGULARITY.
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May 12, 2016
This five-fingered robot hand is close to human in functionality
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: computing, engineering, food, robotics/AI, singularity
You are really starting to see the shape of the Singularity, ever more clearly, in the convergence of so many engineering and scientific discoveries, inventions, and philosophical musings.
I can say, without a doubt, that we are all living in truly extraordinary times!
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May 9, 2016
Artificial Intelligence Evolution: Future AI Technologies To Make AI Obsolete And Intertwine Physical, Digital Realities?
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: evolution, robotics/AI, singularity
The troubling piece of this article is that the article leaves out how the underlying technology will need to change in order for AI to truly intertwine with humans. AI in the existing infrastructure and digital technology with no support of BMI, microbots, etc. will not evolve us to Singularity by itself and without changes to the existing digital landscape.
As artificial intelligence continuously evolves, the future of AI is also becoming more significantly challenging to perceive and comprehend for humans.
Apr 29, 2016
AI, Bioenhancement, and the Singularity
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, Ray Kurzweil, robotics/AI, singularity
A beautiful story about Ray Kurzweil and Bill Joy meeting and discussing Singularity many years ago.
There may be such a thing as a social fabric, or just a tapestry of individual interactions. Either way, we should worry about biotech-super-charged transhumanism, which is on a tear.