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Jan 20, 2016
Lab Grown Neural Networks Could Repair Axonal Damage With Minimal Brain Tissue Disruption
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: neuroscience
New researcher suggests engineered neural networks have the ability to replace and repair lost axonal tracks in the brains of patients with Alzheimer’s disease and those with brain injuries.
Jan 20, 2016
Breakthrough in direct conversion of human cells from one type to another
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, computing, innovation
Scientists have developed a computer system that predicts the reprogramming factors necessary to convert human cells from one type to another, without the need for trial and error.
Jan 20, 2016
Horse-like drones: Amazon shares plans to deal with flight obstacles, haters with shotguns
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: drones, robotics/AI
Amazon’s plans to create a fleet of automated drones to deliver packages straight to customers’ doorsteps are widely known. But now the company is addressing concerns about noise pollution, collisions and even people who might try and shoot drones down.
In an interview with Yahoo News, Amazon Vice President of Global Affairs Paul Misener explained that the company is trying to implement a high-tech delivery system to get small packages to customers in 30 minutes or less – a far shorter period than a driver navigating a system of roads would require.
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Jan 20, 2016
The US Thinks China May Have Stolen Military Robot Designs
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: military, robotics/AI, security
I see this competition now between the US vs Russia/China in robotics as a good thing. For one it will make the silly campaigns against robots go away, as this will now become a matter of national security to advance robotics. And, secondly, it will force the government to put up a huge amount of money into robotics research even if they didnt really want to; the old guys think robots are silly. What that means for us in the general public is that we will get robot caregivers much sooner than we thought thanks to all this defense spending on robotics.
U.S. officials have ordered an investigation into whether China might be gaining an unfair competitive advantage in the robotics race.
Jan 20, 2016
Alibaba Teams With Nvidia in $1 Billion Bet on Cloud Computing
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: computing, quantum physics, robotics/AI
The excitement keeps growing on Quantum. Now, the “MAGIC” will happen.
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. will work with Nvidia Corp. on cloud computing and artificial intelligence, and plans to enlist about 1,000 developers to work on its big-data platform during the next three years.
The arm of China’s biggest e-commerce operator, known as AliCloud, will boost investment in data analysis and machine learning, it said in a statement Wednesday. AliCloud is staking $1 billion on the belief that demand for processing and storage from governments and companies will boost growth during the next decade as its tries to compete with Amazon.com Inc. in computing services.
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Jan 20, 2016
Russia Plans Nuclear Rocket Engine for Deep Space Exploration
Posted by Andreas Matt in category: space travel
Russia announces plans to construct a nuclear rocket engine as part of its ten-year Federal Space Program plans from 2016–2025.
Jan 20, 2016
Astronomers say a Neptune-sized planet lurks beyond Pluto
Posted by Michael Paton in category: space
Jan 20, 2016
Stephen Hawking: Black Holes Have ‘Hair’
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: cosmology, particle physics
Black holes may sport a luxurious head of “hair” made up of ghostly, zero-energy particles, says a new hypothesis proposed by Stephen Hawking and other physicists.
The new paper, which was published online Jan. 5 in the preprint journal arXiv, proposes that at least some of the information devoured by a black hole is stored in these electric hairs.
Still, the new proposal doesn’t prove that all the information that enters a black hole is preserved.
Jan 20, 2016
Report by Robert Scoble from CES | KurzweilAI
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: augmented reality, driverless cars, electronics, virtual reality
“CES wrapped up last week and I can say it was the best one I’ve seen in a decade. Three big stories jumped out this year:
1. VR.
2. Self driving cars.
3. AR.”
