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Jun 26, 2016
Putin praises ‘all-embracing’ partnership of Russia, China
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: futurism
Russia’s hope of a partnership with China in Tech. Could QC be part of this?
In May 2014, Putin visited Beijing and presided over the signing of numerous deals, including a mammoth 30-year natural gas contract worth $400 billion, seeking to show the West that Russian Federation still had viable options.
They are also hoping to clinch an agreement on a high-speed railway line between Moscow and Kazan, some 700 kilometres east of the capital, by the end of the year.
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Jun 26, 2016
The bot revolution: How conversational interfaces will replace apps
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: habitats, internet, robotics/AI
I have been helping by advising various companies across multiple industries plan & prep for more on boarding of bot technology as part of their own IT infrastructure and application layer. What I have seen companies who are at a turning point for their applications and infrastructure are wanting to invest in more automation meaning more online bot technology so that the resources that they currently have can be scaled to focus on new products & services innovation to help IT become a profit center & deploy commercial services and products to the company’s external customers.
We’re at the cusp of a sharp rise in devices that have no screen but do have conversational voice controls, such as the Amazon Echo. Smart home and Internet-of-things (IoT) objects that respond to users’ voices will improve and become more intuitive with further iterations and wider adoption.
Already they can, for example, dim the lights in a room and play a favorite song. With practice, and, by the virtues of machine learning, these user experiences will become ever more intuitive, capable, and innate.
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Jun 26, 2016
U.S. scientists transform lower-body cells into facial cartilage
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: biotech/medical
In new experiments using bird embryos, U.S. scientists have successfully converted cells of the lower-body region into facial tissue that makes cartilage.
The researchers of the California Institute of Technology discovered a “gene circuit”, composed of just three genes, that can alter the fate of cells destined for the lower bodies of birds, turning them instead into cells that produce cartilage and bones in the head.
Reporting in the latest issue of the journal Science, published on June 24, the researchers say the results could eventually lead to therapies for conditions where facial bone or cartilage is lost. For example, cartilage destroyed in the nose due to cancer is particularly hard to replace.
Jun 26, 2016
Quantum Computing: A Primer
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: computing, particle physics, quantum physics
This video is worthless. I hear a person who is out of touch with the QC work and isn’t even aware all of the work going on. Frankly, QC is being worked on by big tech (Amazon, Google, Microsoft, D-Wave, IBM), governmental labs and incubators, limited set of start ups who are also (in many cases tied to big tech), and university research labs. Therefore, I don’t really find this soapbox video that informative as well as not in touch with where QC is today. It appears to me that this guy has sour grapes over not being engaged.
At least if you’re going to get on a soapbox and try to talk about QC like you’re somehow an expert or informed; at least make sure you know what has been shown, reported, and in development currently that has been publically announced so that you don’t look like you’re an un-informed consultant doing a superficial presentation and didn’t even bother doing the due diligence 1st. Otherwise, you just discredited your VC/ firm to the public and to those working on QC.
Jun 26, 2016
Experimental quantum computer manages first high-energy physics simulation
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: computing, particle physics, quantum physics
Nice.
Quantum computing makes small, but significant progress.
A high-energy physics experiment has been completed using a simple quantum device that, if scaled up, could potentially greatly outperform a conventional computer.
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Jun 26, 2016
DARPA To Develop Military Aircraft Engine Capable Of Mach-5 Speed
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: military, space
Guessing the pressurization suits (like those in space) will have to be worn. Some of my friends who were test pilots for experimental type aircraft use to tell me how they had to push the jets to their limits and at times wear pressurization suits due to pressurization in the cockpit. So, this should be interesting.
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Jun 26, 2016
Virginia looks at new opportunities for Wallops spaceport
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: drones, robotics/AI, security, space, transportation
WALLOPS ISLAND — With space station resupply launches expected to resume in August and a runway under construction for testing drone flights, Virginia is looking at another opportunity to lure a major federal research program to the state’s expanding spaceport complex on this Eastern Shore barrier island.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is expected to begin looking for a place to base a new “science and technology testing ground” for unmanned vehicle systems — operating in the air and underwater — and boosters say the regional spaceport would be an ideal fit.
“What better place to do it than here?” said Peter Bale, chairman of the Wallops Island Regional Alliance, as members of the House Appropriations Committee visited last week.
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Jun 26, 2016
Driverless cars could end up killing passengers to save pedestrians
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
I guess this is one form of safety; however, not the one that I had in mind.
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Jun 26, 2016
One Of The World’s Top Aging Researchers Has A Pill To Keep You Feeling Young
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: biotech/medical, health, life extension
Elysium Health hasn’t discovered the fountain of youth, but their new supplement—with the backing of some of the world’s foremost authorities on aging—could change how you get older.