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Sep 30, 2016
Massive Earthquake Along the San Andreas Fault Is Disturbingly Imminent
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: futurism
Anyone who is, or will be, anywhere near these potentially severe earthquake damage zones, be safe!
A series of quakes under the Salton Sea may be a signal that the San Andreas Fault is on the verge of buckling. For the next few days, the risk of a major earthquake along the fault is as high as 1 in 100. Which, holy crap.
Sep 30, 2016
Elon Musk Will Name the First Mars-Bound Craft After a Mega-Famous Sci-Fi Ship
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: Elon Musk, space travel
Sep 30, 2016
If There’s Life on Europa, Robots Like These Will Find It
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: robotics/AI, space travel
The exploration of Europa begins under the ice in Antarctica.
That’s where a team of researchers, led by the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), has been testing a variety of robotic subs in recent years to learn about what technologies will work best when NASA eventually launches a mission to Jupiter’s icy moon.
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Sep 30, 2016
These Dudes Played IRL Space Invaders
Posted by Elmar Arunov in categories: drones, space
Sep 30, 2016
IBM Just Made Artificial Neurons to Help Computers Mimic Our Brains
Posted by Elmar Arunov in categories: computing, neuroscience
In Brief.
Scientists at IBM achieve another breakthrough by recreation of artificial neurons that successfully respond to phase changes due to electric signals while using very little power, much like the human brain.
Even after all the developments in computers, the human brain remains by far, the most complex, sophisticated, and powerful computer in existence. And for decades, scientists have been looking for ways to translate its processing mechanisms into a system that machines can replicate.
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Sep 30, 2016
Tech Giants Team Up To Devise An Ethics Of Artificial Intelligence
Posted by Elmar Arunov in categories: ethics, robotics/AI
Amazon, Facebook, Google DeepMind, IBM, and Microsoft announced the Partnership on AI, which will research ways to use the tech responsibly.
Sep 30, 2016
Practical business advice for building great customer relationships
Posted by Elmar Arunov in category: business
Unconscious biases can play a role in what type of people get hired, promoted and fired in the workplace. Unfortunately, we all have unconscious biases. Though, some have more problematic (racist and/or sexist) ones than others. That’s why diversity consulting startup Paradigm and HR platform Emtrain have co-launched an online course to teach people how to manage their unconscious biases.
Managing Unconscious Bias, a two-year online course, monitors employee progress and identifies unconscious bias “hotspots” in the workplace. The course implements video, dialogue and other activities to engage employees. It also gathers and shares feedback from those participating, and provides anonymized data to employers.
“This is really facilitating an online dialogue,” Emtrain CEO Janine Yancey told me. “It’s an ongoing program and dialogue, and what I’m excited about is soliciting some of these personal experiences that people might not otherwise feel comfortable sharing.”
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Sep 29, 2016
Elon Musk just unveiled a critical piece of his plan to save humanity
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: Elon Musk, space travel
https://youtube.com/watch?v=A1YxNYiyALg
Tech billionaire Elon Musk is convinced that we must colonise Mars with a million people if the humanity is to survive long-term. To that effect in 2008, he almost went broke funding SpaceX – his then-new aerospace company – to keep developing next-generation rockets.
And on Tuesday, at a challenging moment in the 14-year-old company’s history, Musk plans to unveil his grand vision: to turn Mars into a “backup drive” and save humanity.
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Sep 29, 2016
IBM Neuromorphic chip hits DARPA milestone and has been used to implement deep learning
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: information science, robotics/AI, supercomputing
IBM delivered on the DARPA SyNAPSE project with a one million neuron brain-inspired processor. The chip consumes merely 70 milliwatts, and is capable of 46 billion synaptic operations per second, per watt–literally a synaptic supercomputer in your palm.
Along the way—progressing through Phase 0, Phase 1, Phase 2, and Phase 3—we have journeyed from neuroscience to supercomputing, to a new computer architecture, to a new programming language, to algorithms, applications, and now to a new chip—TrueNorth.
Fabricated in Samsung’s 28nm process, with 5.4 billion transistors, TrueNorth is IBM’s largest chip to date in transistor count. While simulating complex recurrent neural networks, TrueNorth consumes less than 100mW of power and has a power density of 20mW / cm2.