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Oct 1, 2015
Machine learning used to predict crimes before they happen — Memory Report style
Posted by Aleksandar Vukovic in categories: biotech/medical, information science, robotics/AI
The word on every tech executive’s mouth today is data. Curse or blessing, there’s so much data lying around – with about 2.5 quintillion bytes of data added each day – that it’s become increasingly difficult to make sense of it in a meaningful way. There’s a solution to the big data problem, though: machine learning algorithms that get fed countless variables and spot patterns otherwise oblivious to humans. Researchers have already made use of machine learning to solve challenges in medicine, cosmology and, most recently, crime. Tech giant Hitachi, for instance, developed a machine learning interface reminiscent of Philip K. Dick’s Minority Report that can predict when, where and possibly who might commit a crime before it happens.
Oct 1, 2015
This Wearable Keyboard Makes You Move If You Want To Write An Email — By Jessica Leber | Fast Company
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: computing, wearables
“A design concept created by Nitcha Fame Tothong, an MFA student at the Parsons School of Design in New York, the keyBod “explores the mechanical relationship between the body, mind, and digital environment.””
Tag: Keyboard
Oct 1, 2015
Scientists suggest a new, earth-shaking twist on the demise of the dinosaurs
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: existential risks, space
Oct 1, 2015
Bioengineers Make “Mini-Brains” of Neurons and Supporting Cells
Posted by Phillipe Bojorquez in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, neuroscience
New research from Brown University details a relatively accessible method for making a working (though not thinking) sphere of central nervous system tissue.
If you need a working miniature brain — say for drug testing, to test neural tissue transplants, or to experiment with how stem cells work — a new paper describes how to build one with what the Brown University authors say is relative ease and low expense. The little balls of brain aren’t performing any cogitation, but they produce electrical signals and form their own neural connections — synapses — making them readily producible testbeds for neuroscience research, the authors said.
“We think of this as a way to have a better in vitro [lab] model that can maybe reduce animal use,” said graduate student Molly Boutin, co-lead author of the new paper in the journal Tissue Engineering: Part C. “A lot of the work that’s done right now is in two-dimensional culture, but this is an alternative that is much more relevant to the in vivo [living] scenario.”
Oct 1, 2015
Russian Scientist Claims He Knows The Secret To Eternal Life
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: life extension
Call me skeptical. That said, who knows? It’s worth keeping an eye out for updates, at least.
Most of us might pray that the key to living forever will be found in our lifetime and, well, it has — according to one Russian scientist.
Anatoli Brouchkov reckons he has found the key to eternal life — but selfishly he isn’t going to let the rest of us try it out for ourselves.
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Oct 1, 2015
Glu reinvents James Bond with a mobile strategy game — By Dean Takahashi | VentureBeat
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: mobile phones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYdXLRHHXsA
“Glu Mobile is doing something completely different with the mobile strategy title James Bond: World of Espionage. Instead of a Pierce Brosnan-style shoot-em-up, this game takes into account the thinking and serious nature of current Bond actor Daniel Craig, said Niccolo De Masi, the chief executive of Glu, in an interview with GamesBeat.”
Tag: Gaming
Oct 1, 2015
RoboCab: Driverless Taxi Experiment to Start in Japan
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Japan’s cabinet office, Kanagawa prefecture and Robot Taxi Inc. on Thursday said they will start experimenting with unmanned taxi service beginning in 2016. The service will be offered for approximately 50 people in Kanagawa prefecture, just south of Tokyo, with the auto-driving car carrying them from their homes to local grocery stores.
According to the project organizers, the cabs will drive a distance of about three kilometers (two miles), and part of the course will be on major avenues in the city. Crew members will be aboard the car during the experiment in case there is a need to avoid accidents.
Robot Taxi Inc., a joint venture between mobile Internet company DeNA Co. and vehicle technology developer ZMP Inc., is aiming to commercialize its driverless transportation service by 2020. The company says it will seek to offer unmanned cabs to users including travelers from overseas and locals in areas where buses and trains are not available.
Oct 1, 2015
Did Google’s quantum computer just get the biggest processor upgrade in history?
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: computing, quantum physics
If all the claims are true, this highly specialized processor is unimaginably fast at certain specific operations.