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Nov 27, 2015
Microsoft Stock Analysis
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: business, quantum physics, supercomputing
It seems evident that Microsoft is joining other top tech companies in betting on quantum computing with a clear business strategy in mind: to become the market leader in software development platforms for quantum computing. If quantum computers become the next supercomputing revolution in 2025, Microsoft stock will take a quantum leap.
Nov 27, 2015
This amazing, tiny origami robot could revolutionize healthcare
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: health, robotics/AI
Watch: This amazing, tiny origami robot could revolutionize healthcare around the world » http://cnnmon.ie/1l0VlfQ
Nov 27, 2015
Heads up: Cambridge holographic technology adopted
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: engineering, robotics/AI, transportation
A ‘head-up’ display for passenger vehicles developed at Cambridge, the first to incorporate holographic techniques, has been incorporated into Jaguar Land Rover vehicles.
Cambridge researchers have developed a new type of head-up display for vehicles which is the first to use laser holographic techniques to project information such as speed, direction and navigation onto the windscreen so the driver doesn’t have to take their eyes off the road. The technology – which was conceptualised in the University’s Department of Engineering more than a decade ago – is now available on all Jaguar Land Rover vehicles. According to the researchers behind the technology, it is another step towards cars which provide a fully immersive experience, or could even improve safety by monitoring driver behaviour.
Cars can now park for us, help us from skidding out of control, or even prevent us from colliding with other cars. Head-up displays (HUD) are one of the many features which have been incorporated into cars in recent years. Alongside the development of more sophisticated in-car technology, various companies around the world, most notably Google, are developing autonomous cars.
Nov 27, 2015
Driverless cars could spell the end for domestic flights
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: business, robotics/AI, transportation
Self-driving cars could disrupt the airline and hotel industries within 20 years as people sleep in their vehicles on the road, according to a senior strategist at Audi.
Short-haul travel will be transformed and the hassle of getting to and from airports eliminated, said Sven Schuwirth, vice president of brand strategy and digital business at the German car brand.
Business travellers will be able to avoid taking domestic flights to meetings and will sleep and work in their cars en route instead of checking into city-centre hotels, he said.
Nov 27, 2015
Quantum computers: a time-travelling boost
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: computing, quantum physics, time travel
In general relativity, closed timelike curves can break causality with remarkable and unsettling consequences. At the classical level, they induce causal paradoxes disturbing enough to motivate conjectures that explicitly prevent their existence. At the quantum level such problems can be resolved through the Deutschian formalism, however this induces radical benefits—from cloning unknown quantum states to solving problems intractable to quantum computers. Instinctively, one expects these benefits to vanish if causality is respected. Here we show that in harnessing entanglement, we can efficiently solve NP-complete problems and clone arbitrary quantum states—even when all time-travelling systems are completely isolated from the past. Thus, the many defining benefits of Deutschian closed timelike curves can still be harnessed, even when causality is preserved. Our results unveil a subtle interplay between entanglement and general relativity, and significantly improve the potential of probing the radical effects that may exist at the interface between relativity and quantum theory.
Nov 26, 2015
The Big Bang of Art and Tech in New York — By Frank Rose | The New York Times
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: media & arts
“What happens when you put artists and technologists together? Forty-nine years ago last month, Robert Rauschenberg and a Bell Telephone Laboratories engineer named Billy Kluver answered that question with a tennis match.”
Nov 26, 2015
Graphene microphone outperforms traditional nickel and offers ultrasonic reach
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: materials
Scientists have developed a graphene based microphone nearly 32 times more sensitive than microphones of standard nickel-based construction.
The researchers, based at the University of Belgrade, Serbia, created a vibrating membrane — the part of a condenser microphone which converts the sound to a current — from graphene, and were able to show up to 15 dB higher sensitivity compared to a commercial microphone, at frequencies up to 11 kHz.
The results are published today, 27th November 2015, in the journal 2D Mater ials.
Nov 26, 2015
New startup aims to transfer people’s consciousness into artificial bodies so they can live forever
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, nanotechnology, robotics/AI
As advancements in technology continue at an ever-increasing pace, will there ever come a day when we’ll be able to use science to cheat death? Australian startup company Humai seems to think so; it claims to be working on a way to transfer a person’s consciousness into an artificial body after they’ve died.
“We want to bring you back to life after you die,” says Humai CEO Josh Bocanegra on the company’s website. “We’re using artificial intelligence and nanotechnology to store data of conversational styles, behavioral patterns, thought processes and information about how your body functions from the inside-out. This data will be coded into multiple sensor technologies, which will be built into an artificial body with the brain of a deceased human. Using cloning technology, we will restore the brain as it matures.”
In an interview with Australian Popular Science, Bocanegra said: “We’ll first collect extensive data on our members for years prior to their death via various apps we’re developing.” After death, the company will cryogenically freeze members’ brains until the technology is fully developed, at which point the brains will be implanted into an artificial body.
Nov 26, 2015
This is the Audi of the future, and it looks like a computer mouse
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: computing, electronics, transportation
“I believe the children are our future,” philosopher Whitney Houston once opined. Well, if she was talking about car design, she wasn’t wrong.
OK, not ‘children’ exactly. But certainly students. Audi has today unveiled the results of its ‘Design Universe’ think-tank, in which young designers at four top universities have explored how the Audi of tomorrow might look.
Take the car above, as an example. It’s called the Audi Quantum, and was designed by a pair of students at the Scuola Politecnica di Design in Milan. Looks suitably futuristic, no? There are retina scanners that, um, scan the driver’s retina and configure the interior settings before he or she climbs in.