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Jan 27, 2016

These former Tesla employees defected to a new, top-secret rival

Posted by in categories: space travel, sustainability

Tesla new competitor is in town, they are paying top dollar for Tesla’s talent. Guess Musk should have backed off SpaceX, because his money making has serious competition.


Tesla has lost a lot of talent to this company.

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Jan 27, 2016

Rubik’s Cube Robot

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Watch this robot solve a Rubik’s Cube in about a second…

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Jan 27, 2016

A glove fitted with a gyroscope could help Parkinson’s patients stop shaking

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

No more spilled soup or coffee.

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Jan 27, 2016

There will be even more ‘Star Wars’ movies after ‘Episode IX’

Posted by in category: entertainment

Disney and Lucasfilm have more films beyond the next five in the works.

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Jan 26, 2016

Strange travel encounters: readers’ tips

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Dinner and a show with a Robot.


The most memorable moments in travel are often the most eccentric. From oil wrestling to staring contests, or being entertained over dinner by robots, our readers share their way-out memories.

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Jan 26, 2016

Solving hard quantum problems: Everything is connected

Posted by in categories: particle physics, quantum physics

Researchers succeeded in calculating effects in ultra-cold atom clouds which can only be explained in terms of the quantum correlations between many atoms. Such atom clouds are known as Bose-Einstein condensates and are an active field of research.

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Jan 26, 2016

Cancer riddle, solved: Researchers reveal how cancer cells form tumors

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

Cancer is a mysterious disease for many reasons. Chief among the unknowns are how and why tumors form.

Two University of Iowa studies offer key insights by recording in real time, and in 3-D, the movements of cancerous human breast tissue cells. It’s believed to be the first time cancer cells’ motion and accretion into tumors has been continuously tracked. (See accompanying videos.)

The team discovered that actively recruit healthy cells into tumors by extending a cable of sorts to grab their neighbors—both cancerous and healthy—and reel them in. Moreover, the Iowa researchers report that as little as five percent of cancerous cells are needed to form the tumors, a ratio that heretofore had been unknown.

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Jan 26, 2016

New algorithm points the way towards regrowing limbs and organs

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, information science, neuroscience

An international team of researchers has developed a new algorithm that could one day help scientists reprogram cells to plug any kind of gap in the human body. The computer code model, called Mogrify, is designed to make the process of creating pluripotent stem cells much quicker and more straightforward than ever before.

A pluripotent stem cell is one that has the potential to become any type of specialised cell in the body: eye tissue, or a neural cell, or cells to build a heart. In theory, that would open up the potential for doctors to regrow limbs, make organs to order, and patch up the human body in all kinds of ways that aren’t currently possible.

It was Japanese researcher Shinya Yamanaka who first reprogrammed cells in this way back in 2007 — it later earned him a Nobel Prize — but Yamanaka’s work involved a lot of labourious trial and error, and the process he followed is not an easy one to reproduce. Mogrify aims to compute the required set of factors to change cells instead, and it’s passed its early tests with flying colours.

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Jan 26, 2016

Harvard Is Trying to Build Artificial Intelligence That is as Fast as the Human Brain

Posted by in categories: computing, neuroscience, robotics/AI

Scientists hope to create a computer that can interpret, analyze, and process information with the same efficiency as a human.

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Jan 26, 2016

So There’s a Virtual Reality Arcade Coming to L.A. Later This Year

Posted by in category: virtual reality

It’s a brave new world friends.

If you thought vintage arcades and arcade bars made for an eventful afternoon in L.A, how about a trip into the limitless worlds of virtual reality?

That’s exactly what you may able to do in just a few months with the announcement that virtual reality studio Starbreeze plans to create a VR arcade somewhere in Los Angeles later this year.

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