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May 13, 2016
Google: How our robot army could conquer warehouses
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: robotics/AI
May 13, 2016
Half the Web’s traffic comes from bots, and that’s costing you more than you think
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: cybercrime/malcode, robotics/AI
In the US we have an old saying “fight fire with fire” and in this case “fight bots with bot/s” It should be noted, having a bot or any type of AI on your network is not necessarily going to prevent 100% of the hacking and Cyber threats today due to the weak connected infrastructure across the net, etc. However, to counter attack the pesky bots that we’re seeing around online ads, click monitoring can be limited by AI.
Roughly half of all Web traffic comes from bots and crawlers, and that’s costing companies a boatload of money.
That’s one finding from a report released Thursday by DeviceAtlas, which makes software to help companies detect the devices being used by visitors to their websites.
May 13, 2016
FDA fast-tracks treatment that uses polio virus to fight brain cancer
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, neuroscience
Very nice.
The Food and Drug Administration has given so-called “breakthrough” status to a treatment that uses the once-feared polio virus to target aggressive forms of brain cancer, in the hope of speeding it to market.
The therapy, developed at Duke University, hopes to use the virus’ debilitating properties to help fight cancer instead of harming its host, CBS News reported Thursday.
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May 13, 2016
Innovative Bio-glass Could Re-grow Cartilage
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: computing, quantum physics, singularity
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Mj6wbbrH03I
Why biocomputing is proving that bio and technology integrated can do amazing things and will eventually get us to real Singularity. Now imaging, take what you have seen so far in technology today and add Quantum to that picture then add bio to that; then you will truly see amazing SINGULARITY.
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May 13, 2016
Catching The 750 GeV Boson With Roman Pots?!
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: particle physics
I am told by a TOTEM manager that this is public news and so it can be blogged about — so here I would like to explain a rather cunning plan that the TOTEM and the CMS collaborations have put together to enhance the possibilities of a discovery, and a better characterization, of the particle that everybody hopes is real, the 750 GeV resonance seen in photon pairs data by ATLAS and CMS in their 2015 data.
What is TOTEM, first of all? Well, TOTEM is a collaboration that operates some high-rapidity detectors located around the CMS collision point at the LHC. And before you ask, rapidity is a measurement of how close to the beam a particle is emitted by a collision. Particles emitted orthogonally have rapidity equal to zero; particles traveling at angles increasingly close to the z axis (which we take to be the beam axis at the collision point) have higher positive or negative rapidity (the sign depends on the verse, and is determined by convention). Below is a schematic of the detector.
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May 13, 2016
Fox Firepower: The Navy’s new ultimate element of surprise?
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: drones
May 13, 2016
New Digital Face Manipulation Means You Can’t Trust Video Anymore
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: futurism
What if you could alter a video of anyone to emulate facial and mouth movements that never existed in the source video—by yourself, at home, using a cheap webcam?
Meet Face2Face. Using RGB input from one video and mapped pixels from a second video, manipulating someone’s face—including distinct facial and mouth movements—has become incredibly easy. A team of researchers recently released a video showing what this looks like in real-time. While the method is still imperfect, it has major implications for future online content.
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May 13, 2016
‘Radical life extension’ coming, futurist says
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: 3D printing, bioengineering, computing, life extension, nanotechnology, neuroscience, Ray Kurzweil
KITCHENER — Big jumps in life expectancy will begin in as little as 10 years thanks to advances in nanotechnology and 3D printing that will also enable wireless connections among human brains and cloud computers, a leading futurist said Thursday.
“In 10 or 15 years from now we will be adding more than a year, every year, to your life expectancy,” Ray Kurzweil told an audience of 800 people at Communtech’s annual Tech Leadership conference.
Kurzweil, a futurist, inventor and author, as well as a director of engineering at Google, calls this “radical life extension.”
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May 13, 2016
Japanese team confirms that Einstein’s theory works throughout the universe
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: space
Nice
A new three-dimensional map of part of the universe, created by a massive international team of researchers, is refuting the idea that Einstein’s theory of general relativity could be breaking down in the faraway universe, according to a new report in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan.
“We tested the theory of general relativity further than anyone else ever has. It’s a privilege to be able to publish our results 100 years after Einstein proposed his theory,” study author Teppei Okumura, an astrophysicist from The University of Tokyo, said in a news release.
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