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May 27, 2016
The New ‘Deus Ex’ Trailer Is a Scary Dystopian Movie
Posted by Magaly Santiago in category: entertainment
May 27, 2016
Tesla driver asleep
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, sustainability, transportation
Click on photo to start video.
A Tesla driver was caught sleeping on the highway with his car on Autopilot. https://www.facebook.com/techinsider/videos/514246548773706/
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May 27, 2016
MMTP — Major Mouse Testing Program — Interview with Daria Khaltourina — ILA
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, health, life extension
MMTP Campaign update “Aging is a disease”.
Crowdfunding Campaign: https://www.lifespan.io/campaigns/the-major-mouse-testing-program/
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May 26, 2016
These ‘stealth motorcycles’ DARPA commissioned could run on nearly any fuel
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: energy, transportation
Say this for DARPA, it’s not shy about picking ominous names for its projects. Or, in this case, not worried when the partners it works with choose them. Pictured above: the “Nightmare” a “stealth bike” developed by LSA Autonomy for DARPA that has just been moved on to the second stage of development, according to Defense One. DARPA commissioned both it and another bike from Logos Technologies to meet some specific goals: run quietly on electric power, but also run on whatever fuel a soldier in the field.
Alex Dzwill of Logos told Defense One that its bike, the SilentHawk, could run on anything from gasoline to propane to jet fuel:” It will figure it out.”
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May 26, 2016
Apple’s flirtation with buying HBO parent hints at content ambitions
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: augmented reality, business, media & arts, mobile phones, singularity, virtual reality
While Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are moving forward with nextgen technologies such as VR & AR, QC, bio & nano technologies, etc used to advance areas such as Singularity and longevity.; Apples going bigger in the entertainment and media space.
Even if Apple never made an actual move to buy Time Warner, a tentative approach shows that the iPhone maker is serious about getting into media content.
Eddy Cue, who’s in charge of iTunes and Apple Music, brought up the idea of a possible deal with Time Warner corporate strategy head Olaf Olafsson in a meeting late last year, according to a person familiar with the situation. While the two never started negotiations, Time Warner, which owns HBO and the Warner Brothers studio, is on the top of the list of media companies Apple would buy should it eventually commit to the content business, the person said.
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May 26, 2016
China may send the first unhackable messages with quantum encryption
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: cybercrime/malcode, encryption, quantum physics, satellites
May 26, 2016
Doubling down on Schrödinger’s cat
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: computing, particle physics, quantum physics
Could Yale physicists finally give Schrödinger’s cat a second box to play in proving the superposition of states.
Yale physicists have given Schrödinger’s famous cat a second box to play in, and the result may help further the quest for reliable quantum computing.
Schrödinger’s cat is a well-known paradox that applies the concept of superposition in quantum physics to objects encountered in everyday life. The idea is that a cat is placed in a sealed box with a radioactive source and a poison that will be triggered if an atom of the radioactive substance decays. Quantum physics suggests that the cat is both alive and dead (a superposition of states), until someone opens the box and, in doing so, changes the quantum state.
May 26, 2016
HTC is developing its own virtual reality game for the Vive — By Nick Statt | The Verge
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: business, virtual reality
“HTC is developing a virtual reality game for its Vive headset called Front Defense, and the company plans on demoing it at the Computex conference in Taipei, Taiwan next week.”
May 26, 2016
Synopsis: Position Detector Approaches the Heisenberg Limit
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: electronics, quantum physics
The light field from a microcavity can be used to measure the displacement of a thin bar with an uncertainty that is close to the Heisenberg limit.
Tracking the exact location of an object is important in gravitational-wave detectors and optical cooling techniques. However, quantum physics imposes certain limits on the measurement precision. Tobias Kippenberg and his colleagues at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne have devised an optomechanical device that measures the displacement of a tiny vibrating bar at room temperature with an uncertainty near the so-called Heisenberg limit. The precision of the sensor is nearly 10,000 times smaller than the zero-temperature fluctuations (zero-point motion) of the bar.
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle says—in practical terms—that any measurement of an object’s position will unavoidably give it a push that disturbs its momentum. To minimize this backaction, researchers have developed systems that couple the position of an object with the light field from an optical cavity.
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