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Manipulating DNA with tweezers is now possible, using technology developed at a cutting-edge French-Japanese laboratory (LIMMS). The researchers designed silicon nanotweezers capable of grabbing and analyzing cells or molecular fibers. This microscopic instrument has already been used in Lille to test the resistance of DNA to irradiation.
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RUPTURE follows Renee Morgan (Noomi Rapace), a single mom, who is deathly terrified of spiders. While in route to meet up with a friend, she is violently abducted by a group of strangers. After enduring intense yet strange questioning and examinations, some about her fear of spiders, Renee soon discovers that she is now the subject of an underground experiment. Her captors explain to her that she has a genetic abnormality that can potentially allow her to “rupture” and reveal her alien nature. Renee must find a way to escape before it is too late.
Mar 28, 2017
NATO to spend 3 billion euros on satellite, cyber defenses
Posted by Roman Mednitzer in categories: cybercrime/malcode, drones, military, robotics/AI, space
BRUSSELS NATO plans to spend 3 billion euros ($3.24 billion) to upgrade its satellite and computer technology over the next three years as the Western military alliance adapts to new threats, a senior official said.
Seeking to deter hackers, and other threats including Iranian missiles, the investments underscore NATO’s recognition that conflicts are increasingly fought on computer networks as well as in the air, on land and at sea.
A senior official at the NATO Communications and Information Agency said the plans include a 1.7-billion-euro investment in satellite communications to better support troops and ships deployed across the alliance, as well as aiding the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drones.
Mar 28, 2017
Physicist Wants To Beam Solar Energy Back From Moon’s Surface
Posted by Bruce Dorminey in categories: solar power, space, sustainability
The Moon as a collecting point for solar energy for use on Earth and maybe even into the outer solar system.
One man’s decades-long dream of harnessing sunlight from the lunar surface.
Mar 28, 2017
AutoX Has Built a Self-Driving Car That Navigates with a Bunch of $50 Webcams — By Rachel Metz | MIT Technology Review
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: automation, transportation
“Now, Xiao said, he imagines a future where kids don’t have to depend on their parents to drive them around, for instance, and can instead summon a self-driving ride.”
Read more (video in post is from 2016; access 2017 video via link)
Mar 28, 2017
Robots do destroy jobs and lower wages, says new study
Posted by Julius Garcia in categories: economics, employment, robotics/AI
The fear that automation in the form of robots or artificial intelligence is going to destroy jobs is widespread. But it can be difficult to gauge just how serious to take the threat. Different reports offer different estimations of how many jobs will be lost, while politicians and economists argue that technology creates as many jobs as it destroys, maintaining an equilibrium in employment over the long run.
But is this really true? A new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research aims to add some solid numbers to the debate, looking at the historical effects of robots on employment in the US. Economists Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo studied the US labor market between 1990 and 2007, looking at employment rates in different areas and industries while controlling for the influence of factors like increased imports from China and the offshoring of jobs.
Mar 28, 2017
Nvidia says deep learning is about to revolutionize medicine
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI
Intelligent Machines
Nvidia’s deep-learning chips may give medicine a shot in the arm.
The company sees medicine as the next big market for its machine-learning hardware.
Continue reading “Nvidia says deep learning is about to revolutionize medicine” »
Mar 28, 2017
Joe Rogan and Lawrence Krauss on artificial intelligence
Posted by Montie Adkins in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLKmKqrNUKY
Confronting A.I.
Joe Rogan Experience.
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Mar 28, 2017
AI is scanning the scientific literature for clues to new materials
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: quantum physics, robotics/AI
Intelligent Machines
AI, quantum computing will accelerate materials discovery.
IBM’s Watson is already at work developing novel polymers.
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James Temple
- March 28, 2017