NASA’s new High Dynamic Range (HDR) camera.
Watch a rocket test in super HD with NASA’s impressive new camera: http://cnnmon.ie/2aPVjpK
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Forget latte art. Now you can print your photo onto your coffee.
Forget latte art. Now you can print your photo onto your coffee.
Watch the full video: http://cnnmon.ie/2bMD70H w/ Samuel Burke CNN.
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Sep 4, 2016
Aquila’s First Flight
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: drones, internet, solar power, sustainability
Aquila — facebook’s solar powered internet drone
The internet provides information, opportunity and human connection, yet less than half the world has access. We’re proud to announce the successful first test flight of #Aquila, the solar airplane we designed to bring internet access to people living in remote locations. This innovative plane has the wingspan of an airliner but weighs less than a small car and flies on roughly the power of three blow dryers — incredible!
Source: #facebook
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Sep 4, 2016
According to Einstein Time is an Illusion, and Here is the Proof
Posted by Elmar Arunov in categories: neuroscience, physics
Albert Einstein was very clear in his day. Physicists are very clear now. Time is not absolute, despite what common sense tells you and me.
Time is relative, and flexible and, according to Einstein, “the dividing line between past, present, and future is an illusion”. So reality is ultimately TIMELESS. This sounds pretty bizarre from the view of classical physics, but from the view of consciousness theory and spirituality, it fits in perfectly.
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Sep 3, 2016
Energy disruption: Solar plus storage to be cheaper than grid in 2017
Posted by Blair Erickson in category: energy
Sep 3, 2016
Could self-aware cities be the first forms of artificial intelligence? — By Charlie Jane Anders | Gizmodo
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: complex systems, internet, robotics/AI
Sep 3, 2016
Helping mayors do their job — By Michael R. Bloomberg and Drew Faust | The Boston Globe
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: governance, government, innovation
“As more and more people around the world live in cities — nearly two in three Americans already do — how well cities are run will affect the future of the planet in profound ways.”
Sep 3, 2016
Supercomputer Simulates One Second of Human Brain
Posted by Elmar Arunov in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience, supercomputing
Brain is the most complex biological computing system and performs almost every activity with jet speed and precision. Despite the numerous advancements in the interaction of technology and science, there is no machine that functions as swift as a brain. Nevertheless, the recent experiment by the researchers of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University in Japan and Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany is a milestone in the history of producing human brain simulations by a computer.
The team of researchers from Japan and Germany have managed to produce the most accurate simulation of a human brain in Japan’s computer. The single second worth of activity in the human brain from just one percent of the complex organ was able to be produced in 40 minutes by the world’s fourth largest computer.
The computer used is the K computer in Japan to simulate human brain activity. The computer has 705,024 processor cores and 1.4 million GB of RAM, but still took 40 minutes to crunch the data for just one second of brain activity. The open-source Neural Simulation Technology (NEST) tool is used to replicate a network consisting of 1.73 billion nerve cells connected by 10.4 trillion synapses.
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