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Explosion at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

Sep 1
2016

Watch dramatic footage of the SpaceX rocket exploding at its Cape Canaveral launch pad http://cnnmon.ie/2cgE1QY

This Other Third-Party Candidate Thinks Johnson Should Be in Debates

Posted by Zoltan Istvan in geopolitics, transhumanism

Sep 1
2016

A new story out on my Op-Ed yesterday:

Zoltan Istvan, the Transhumanist Party presidential article, argues that Gary Johnson should be let into the debates because America needs another voice.

AI100 study says artificial intelligence will change our lives but won’t kill us

Posted by Klaus Baldauf in robotics/AI

Sep 1
2016

The first report from the AI100 project says artificial intelligence will deeply affect urban life between now and 2030 – but it won’t take over the world.

Is the black hole at our galaxy’s centre a quantum computer?

Posted by Andreas Matt in computing, cosmology, quantum physics

Sep 1
2016

Might nature’s bottomless pits actually be ultra-efficient quantum computers? That could explain why data never dies.

Sabine Hossenfelder

How NASA is working to take us deeper into space

Posted by Andreas Matt in space

Sep 1
2016

The U.S. space agency has contracted with six private companies to develope systems needed for a Mars mission.

One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100)

Posted by Elmar Arunov in robotics/AI

Sep 1
2016

Welcome to the 2016 Report Download Full Report in PDF.

Explosion rocks SpaceX launch site in Florida during test

Posted by Dan Kummer in robotics/AI, space travel

Sep 1
2016

Whoops.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An explosion rocked a SpaceX launch site Thursday during a routine rocket test.

SpaceX was conducting a test firing of its unmanned rocket when the blast occurred shortly after 9 a.m., according to NASA. The test was in advance of a planned Saturday launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, which is next to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

Buildings several miles away shook from the blast, and multiple explosions continued for several minutes. Dark smoke filled the overcast sky. A half-hour later, a black cloud hung low across the eastern horizon.

Carbon nanotube nonvolatile NRAM memory 1000 times faster than Flash will be commercially released by the end of 2018 by Nantero and Fujitsu

Posted by Klaus Baldauf in computing, nanotechnology

Sep 1
2016

Nantero, Fujitsu Semiconductor and Mie Fujitsu Semiconductor today announced an agreement for Fujitsu and Mie Fujtisu to license that Nantero’s technology for NRAM, non-volatile RAM using carbon nanotubes, and to conduct joint development towards releasing a product based on 55-nm process technology.

Three companies are aiming to develop a product using NRAM non-volatile RAM that achieves several 1000 times faster rewrites and many thousands of times more rewrite cycles than embedded flash memory, making it potentially capable of replacing DRAM with non-volatile memory.

Fujitsu Semiconductor plans to develop an NRAM-embedded custom LSI product by the end of 2018, with the goal of expanding the product line-up into stand-alone NRAM product after that. Mie Fujitsu Semiconductor, which is a pure-play foundry, plans to offer NRAM-based technology to its foundry customers.