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Aug 9, 2017

Jaguar’s fancy, new, all-electric SUV could be giving Tesla something to worry about

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Aug 9, 2017

There is a reinvented lawnmower that does all the work for you

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Aug 9, 2017

Why Neuroscience Is the Key to Innovation in AI

Posted by in categories: information science, neuroscience, robotics/AI

Demis Hassabis, founder of DeepMind, says the future of AI lies in neuroscience. Aspects of neuroscience are key in artificial intelligence algorithms.

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Aug 9, 2017

Collecting honey from bees is now as easy as turning on a tap

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Aug 9, 2017

Step inside Van Gogh’s Starry Night in VR

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Aug 9, 2017

Team USA tests Eagle Prime ahead of its ‘Giant Robot Duel’

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Aug 9, 2017

AI Is Forcing Google and Microsoft to Become Chipmakers

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The race to build up artificial intelligence is driving software companies to roll their own silicon.

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Aug 9, 2017

These students just drove around the world on custom-built electric motorcycles

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Aug 9, 2017

Researchers Accidentally Discover That Iron Nanoparticles Can Help Destroy Cancer Cells

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, nanotechnology

Stanford researchers accidentally discovered that iron nanoparticles invented for anemia treatment have another use: triggering the immune system’s ability to destroy tumor cells. Iron can activate the immune system to attack , according to a study led by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

The nanoparticles, which are commercially available as the injectable iron supplement ferumoxytol, are approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat .

The mouse study found that ferumoxytol prompts immune cells called tumor-associated macrophages to destroy cancer cells, suggesting that the nanoparticles could complement existing cancer treatments. The discovery, described in a paper published online Sept. 26 in Nature Nanotechnology, was made by accident while testing whether the nanoparticles could serve as Trojan horses by sneaking chemotherapy into tumors in mice.

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Aug 9, 2017

The First Ever Blueprint for a Large Scale Quantum Computer has been Unveiled

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, quantum physics, space

An international team, led by a scientist from the University of Sussex, have today unveiled the first practical blueprint for how to build a quantum computer, the most powerful computer on Earth.

This huge leap forward towards creating a universal quantum computer is published today (1 February 2017) in the influential journal Science Advances. It has long been known that such a computer would revolutionise industry, science and commerce on a similar scale as the invention of ordinary computers. But this new work features the actual industrial blueprint to construct such a large-scale machine, more powerful in solving certain problems than any computer ever constructed before.

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