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Dec 10, 2015

A Self-Driving Car From Chinese Search Giant Baidu Hits the Road in Beijing

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

China’s leading search company is developing a self-driving car with BMW.

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Dec 10, 2015

Super-literate software reads and comprehends better than humans

Posted by in category: computing

But does it write book reports?


Get ready for a new generation of computers that can read millions of texts and understand the relationships between characters.

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Dec 10, 2015

Germany just fired up a monster machine that could revolutionize the way we use energy

Posted by in categories: nuclear energy, physics

On Thursday, the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics fired up a monster machine that it hopes will change the world.

The machine is called the Wendelstein 7-X, or W7-X for short. It’s a type of nuclear-fusion machine called a stellarator and is the largest, most sophisticated of its kind.

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Dec 10, 2015

This Floating Rubik’s Cube is the World’s First 3D Color Hologram

Posted by in category: futurism

Researchers just made the first true 3D hologram, which can be viewed from any angle like a real object.

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Dec 10, 2015

Skyscraper-style chip design boosts performance 1,000-fold

Posted by in category: computing

For decades, engineers have designed computer systems with processors and memory chips laid out like single-story structures in a suburb. Wires connect these chips like streets, carrying digital traffic between the processors that compute data and the memory chips that store it.

But suburban-style layouts create long commutes and regular traffic jams in electronic circuits, wasting time and energy.

That is why researchers from three other universities are working with Stanford engineers, including Associate Professor Subhasish Mitra and Professor H.-S. Philip Wong, to create a revolutionary new high-rise architecture for computing.

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Dec 10, 2015

The End of Work?

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

When robots start doing all the work, what will be left for humans?

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Dec 10, 2015

The insanely fast Hyperloop will soon begin testing in Nevada

Posted by in category: transportation

Plans to build a test track for a Hyperloop are moving ahead. Hyperloop Technologies will build a major test center near Las Vegas to explore linear electric motor designs and evaluate its implementation.

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Dec 10, 2015

The first plasma: the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device is now in operation

Posted by in category: nuclear energy

Start of operation and first plasma in the Wendelstein 7-X fusion research device at IPP Greifswald.

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Dec 10, 2015

Can You Own Part of an Asteroid? How Asteroid Mining Is Changing Space Law

Posted by in categories: energy, finance, space

https://youtube.com/watch?v=pIY_fmvFDhM

Coal miners mine coal; diamond miners mine diamonds; gold miners mine gold; space miners (will) mine space—and anything in it that has precious metals or compounds that can be whisked into rocket fuel. But, just like the first three kinds of “resource extraction,” the celestial kind will face more than a few philosophical, financial, and regulatory complications.

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Dec 10, 2015

The Art of Flying in the Movies — By A. O. Scott | The New York Times Magazine

Posted by in category: media & arts

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“What if we could counterfeit reality so completely that the representation would partake of the essence of the original, closing the gap between the world and our imagination of it? What if we could fly?”

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