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May 4, 2016
China’s Deadly Advantage in Driverless Cars
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Wonder what kind of insurance they have?
http://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/art…ads-give-china-a-grim-edge-in-driverless-cars
Transport safety advances the same way physicist Max Planck saw science progressing: one funeral at a time.
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May 4, 2016
End of slow PCs? IBM creates super-fast quantum computer which brings AI closer
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: climatology, computing, quantum physics, robotics/AI
May 4, 2016
Guinness Record Set With 25 Continuous Hours in Virtual Reality
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: virtual reality
https://youtube.com/watch?v=mZau6PiLoJc
The Guinness Book of World records, a record of the extraordinary (and often insane) stunts people will pull for notoriety, and now the book has its first virtual reality entry. Watch as Derek Westerman swaps reality for Tilt Brush inside the HTC Vive and stays there for 25 hours straight.
It’s a desire within most of us, to do something extraordinary in life. Most of us are content to achieve this by parent children, going bungee jumping or backpacking around Europe. But there are a group of people for whom only documented proof of their unique abilities or achievements is enough – they’re the record breakers, as documented since 1955 by the world famous Guinness World Records.
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May 4, 2016
The surprising way Transhumanist Zoltan Istvan could make it to the White House
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: life extension, transhumanism
May 4, 2016
Rich and powerful warn robots are coming for your jobs
Posted by Julius Garcia in categories: employment, robotics/AI
LOS ANGELES Some of the richest, smartest and most powerful humans have an important message for the rest of us as they convened this week to discuss pressing global issues: the robots are coming.
At the Milken Institute’s Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, at least four panels so far have focused on technology taking over markets to mining — and most importantly, jobs.
“Most of the benefits we see from automation is about higher quality and fewer errors, but in many cases it does reduce labor,” Michael Chui, a partner at the McKinsey Global Institute, said on Tuesday during a panel on “Is Any Job Truly Safe?”
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May 4, 2016
Fresh emergency organs may soon be delivered by medical drones
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, drones
Walk around a virtual apartment or an art gallery with the Gear VR.
Demo by Interactive Lab.
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May 4, 2016
Airbus Defence and Space signs contract to build Biomass – the European Space Agency’s forest mission
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: geopolitics, space travel, treaties
1st P-band radar in space will measure the amount of biomass and carbon locked in the world’s forests and how this changes over time — Biomass satellite will provide support to United Nations treaties, notably the Reduction of Emissions due to Deforestation and Forest Degradation
Airbus Defence and Space, the world’s second largest space company has signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to build its next Earth Explorer mission, the Biomass satellite. Biomass is due to launch in 2021 and will measure forest biomass to assess terrestrial carbon stocks and fluxes for five years.
The spacecraft will carry the first space-borne P-band synthetic aperture radar to deliver exceptionally accurate maps of tropical, temperate and boreal forest biomass that are not obtainable by ground measurement techniques. The mission will collect frequent information on global forests to determine the distribution of above-ground biomass in these forests and measure annual changes. The 5-year mission will see at least eight growth cycles in the worlds’ forests.
