“The Colorware Retro iMac blends the fun, nostalgic look of the Apple IIe with the technology of a 27-inch Retina iMac.”
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Mar 29, 2016
Why You Should Care About Nukes
Posted by Gerard Bain in categories: media & arts, military, physics
For info about divesting from nuclear weapons companies, go to http://responsibleinvest.org/
Thanks to the Future of Life Institute for helping support this video http://www.futureoflife.org (in particular, thanks to Max Tegmark for guest narrating and Meia Chita-Tegmark for her feedback)
Mar 29, 2016
Neuromorphic supercomputer has 16 million neurons
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: information science, neuroscience, robotics/AI, supercomputing
Today, Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL) and IBM announced the development of a new Scale-up Synaptic Supercomputer (NS16e) that highly integrates 16 TrueNorth Chips in a 4×4 array to deliver 16 million neurons and 256 million synapses. LLNL will also receive an end-to-end software ecosystem that consists of a simulator; a programming language; an integrated programming environment; a library of algorithms as well as applications; firmware; tools for composing neural networks for deep learning; a teaching curriculum; and cloud enablement.
The $1 million computer has 16 IBM microprocessors designed to mimic the way the brain works.
IBM says it will be five to seven years before TrueNorth sees widespread commercial use, but the Lawrence Livermore test is a big step in that direction.
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According to a series of articles produced by NASA and industry specialists, a lunar base could be built in a few years for just $10 billion.
Mar 28, 2016
The Rise of VPUs: Giving eyes to machines
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: computing
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zZBKJTLnp_A
VPUs or Vision Processing Units, allow machines to understand the scene set in front of them.
Mar 28, 2016
Quarks To Quasars Photo 3
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: particle physics, space
Mar 28, 2016
Scientists create largest map of brain connections to date
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: neuroscience
Mar 28, 2016
Scientists Made a New Metal, and it Makes Nuclear Reactors Even Stronger
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: materials, nuclear energy
An international team of researchers has developed a new type of metal alloy that could make nuclear reactors safer and more stable in the long term. The new material is stronger and lasts longer than steel.
Scientists have developed a new kind of high quality metal alloy that is suitable to use in building nuclear reactors. While it might not be a metal that has been invented entirely from scratch, it’s only recently that we have been able to produce this kind (this quality) of metal. And it could mean great things for nuclear technologies.
Harvesting Nuclear Power
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Mar 28, 2016
WinSun Global 3D prints world’s first office for Dubai’s Museum of the Future
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: 3D printing, habitats
WinSun Global, the Chinese company that just last year made headlines for building the world’s first 3D printed villa and the tallest 3D printed apartment block, has now partnered with the city of Dubai to construct what is being hailed as the world’s first 3D printed office.