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Aug 24, 2015

A little light interaction leaves quantum physicists beaming

Posted by in categories: computing, physics, quantum physics

A team of physicists has taken a step toward making the essential building block of quantum computers out of pure light. Their advance has to do with logic gates that perform operations on input data to create new outputs.

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Aug 24, 2015

Omnidirectional Virtual Reality Treadmill to Open Up Preorders

Posted by in category: virtual reality

Chinese-based VR treadmill project Kat Walk raised nearly $150,000 on Kickstarter, and the company has announced that non-Kickstarter preorders are coming soon.

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Aug 24, 2015

MIT’s New 3D Printer Can Print 10 Materials Simultaneously

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, materials

Fab news, everyone!

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Aug 24, 2015

‘Information sabotage’ on Wikipedia claimed | KurzweilAI

Posted by in categories: education, internet, open access

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Wikipedia entries on politically controversial scientific topics can be unreliable due to “information sabotage,” according to an open-access paper published today in the journal PLOS One.”

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Aug 24, 2015

In The Future, Space Planes Could Be Powered By Microwaves

Posted by in categories: futurism, space travel

Over half a century after the dawn of the space age, getting to space remains an epic challenge. Twice this year, the first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket met a fiery end on the Atlantic Ocean—both attempts to recover and reuse rockets to reduce launch costs. A third rocket never made orbit, exploding on ascent.

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Aug 24, 2015

We Can’t Find Any Alien Neighbors and Virtual Reality Might Be to Blame

Posted by in categories: alien life, virtual reality

Why haven’t we found alien neighbors? One theory says advanced species don’t colonize outer space, but make virtual worlds and colonize inner space instead.

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Aug 24, 2015

Scientists Get One Step Closer to a Universal Flu Vaccine

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Two new studies bring us closer to a flu vaccine that works every year.

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Aug 24, 2015

Laniakea is made up of about 100,000 galaxies with a total mass about 100 million billion times that of the sun

Posted by in category: space

Laniakea is made up of about 100,000 galaxies with a total mass about 100 million billion times that of the sun.

Image via Beyond Our Sight.

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Aug 24, 2015

Humans Need Not Apply

Posted by in categories: bitcoin, internet, robotics/AI, singularity

A brief introduction on the coming technological singularity. And a hint at how digital peer to peer cryptocurrencies like bitcoin which was the first. Will turn the ‘internet of things’ into the ‘economy of things’. Plus also I feel validates the case for a new debt free monetary system to provide a universal citizen’s dividend.

#technologicalSingularity #singularity #AI #cryptocurrency #bitcoin #citizensDividend #socialDividend #universalBasicIncome #basicIncome

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Aug 23, 2015

7 Futuristic Inventions Available Now 5

Posted by in categories: futurism, innovation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC6FAIuWQbk

Lets go for 7 billion likes on this one.

This video is dedicated to Shia LaBeouf, for reminding us all that if we want to do something, we should JUST DO IT.

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