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Feb 5, 2016
Is This Ancient Greek ‘Laptop’ Proof That Time Travel Is Real?
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: computing, time travel
It’s clearly some kind of jewelry or small weapon case, not a freaking laptop.
But just for arguments sake, why would advanced time travelers be using laptops at all? Why not a tablet? Oh god, now they’re going to go over every single ancient depiction of a person looking at a tablet and say it’s from the future. That would have made the library at Alexandria the ancient equivalent to a Best Buy big box store in our time…
Oh god, what have I done?
Too bad I can’t go back in time and…errr.
wink
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Feb 5, 2016
Ghost in the Shell Movie Adds Michael Pitt as the Villain
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: entertainment
Rupert Sanders’ live-action ‘Ghost in the Shell’ movie has added Michael Pitt as the villain, but it’s not the antagonist you might have expected.
Feb 5, 2016
Modelling how the brain makes complex decisions
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
Researchers have constructed the first comprehensive model of how neurons in the brain behave when faced with a complex decision-making process, and how they adapt and learn from mistakes.
The mathematical model, developed by researchers from the University of Cambridge, is the first biologically realistic account of the process, and is able to predict not only behaviour, but also neural activity. The results, reported in the Journal of Neuroscience, could aid in the understanding of conditions from obsessive compulsive disorder and addiction to Parkinson’s disease.
The model was compared to experimental data for a wide-ranging set of tasks, from simple binary choices to multistep sequential decision making. It accurately captures behavioural choice probabilities and predicts choice reversal in an experiment, a hallmark of complex decision making.
Feb 5, 2016
Porsche completes photovoltaic pylon
Posted by Jeremy Lichtman in categories: energy, robotics/AI, transportation
All they need to do is also make it capture wind energy…
Porsche defrays its luddite position on driverless vehicles with an impressive solar array that will power the Berlin-Adlershof Porsche center from 2017.
Feb 5, 2016
Ourobotics takes home Silicon Valley Google Award with 10 material bioprinter
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: 3D printing, materials, robotics/AI
Bioprinting companies can be successful at start-up investment conferences, although they are sometimes outshone by more immediately accessible products. Bioprinters have the potential to drastically change life expectancy and quality in the long term, but can “only” help out with scientific research in the short term and that, often, is not exciting enough for start-up awards.
That was not the case at the recent SVOD (Silicon Valley Open Doors) Europe, an investment conference that began in 2005 and went global in 2015. The event then came to Europe for the first time in an effort to connect the Eastern European tech community with more established ecosystems. This year, the event took place in Ireland and “local” startupper Jemma Redmond took home the top prize with the Ourobotics 10 material 3D bioprinter.
I have been following Jemma and her team’s progress, from the pre-conference preparation all the way up to her presentation, via Facebook feed and other updates. The event took place at Google’s Dublin HQ and the winning team received, among other things, $5,000 in Google Adwords credits. Clearly happy about this success, Jemma told me they faced off against 25 other teams.
Feb 5, 2016
Elon Musk and Spacex to reveal the Spacex Mars roadmap at IAC from Sept 26-30th 2016
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: Elon Musk, materials, space travel
At the StartmeupHK Festival in Hong Kong, Musk stated that he was prepared to unveil SpaceX’s Mars roadmap at the International Astronautical Conference, which will take place from September 26 to 30 in Mexico. And according to Berger of Ars Technica, Musk’s plan may call for the kick-off of humans to Mars by 2025, a fairly ambitious goal that puts it nearly a decade ahead of NASA’s nebulous Mission to Mars plans.
SpaceX is working on the Falcon Heavy, a rocket ready to debut later this year capable of lifting 58 tons of material into Low Earth Orbit, which is about four times the lifting power of the Falcon 9. It’s specs are just a few hairs short of NASA’s own Space Launch System, the largest rocket since the Saturn V rockets that carried out the Apollo moon landings.
Feb 5, 2016
AI Is Transforming Google Search. The Rest of the Web Is Next
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: internet, robotics/AI
As Google’s head of artificial intelligence takes charge of search, deep learning is already changing the way Googling works.
Feb 4, 2016
Perspectives on the Cyber Physical Human World
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: cybercrime/malcode, privacy, quantum physics, robotics/AI, security
The 6th annual European Smart Grid Cyber Security conference (7th – 8th March 2016)
Boy! I wish I could attend this meeting. I can imagine all of the conversations now “Quantum” & “Cyber Attacks” with some good old AI thrown in the mix. I am also guess that the 2 articles this week on the NSA maybe brought up too.
SMi Group reports: The MITRE Corporation will be presenting at the SMi’s 6th annual European Smart Grid Cyber Security conference (7th – 8th March 2016)
Feb 4, 2016
Humans get frozen out of frontline security
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: cybercrime/malcode, robotics/AI, security
Not sure how I missed this article from late Jan. If you haven’t read my article on Linkedin Pulse called “AI holding your information hostage — food for thought”; you may wish to read it. It parallels beautifully with this report/ article:
A new report from application delivery and cyber security specialist Radware suggests that the human element will increasingly be excluded from security as 2016 brings a ‘battle of the bots’.
It finds that throughout 2015, no industry was immune to cyber attacks, and few were prepared for them. In 2016, attacks are predicted to become even more aggressive with the arrival of Advanced Persistent Denial of Service (APDoS) attacks and an increase in volume and scope of sophisticated bot-generated assaults against web application infrastructure.
