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by — TechCrunch

Apple is working on a car, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Mac maker kicked off a top-secret project to develop an electric car with a minivan aesthetic, per the WSJ’s sources, after CEO Tim Cook approved the project nearly a year ago. It includes “hundreds” of staffers and is led by Ford Motor vet and Apple VP Steve Zadesky. The project involves research into battery tech, robotics and metal production, according to the paper.

The report comes hot on the heels of a Financial Times story confirming Apple R&D efforts around car tech, and goes further than either that report or an earlier one from Business Insider wherein an Apple employee reportedly confirmed some kind of car-focused project. As I wrote earlier, it makes perfect logical sense that Apple would focus some effort on this area, given the direction in which the tech industry in general is headed.

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c-global means that the speed of light in the vacuum, c, can no longer be added-on to other speeds like a global expansion speed.

Hence three historical events have the same structure:

• The “phlogiston” theory of fire got superseded by Lavoisier’s discovery of oxygen
• The “miasma” theory of infection got superseded by Semmelweis’ discovery of asepsis
• The “big-bang” theory of the cosmos got superseded by the discovery of c-global

A collateral consequence of c-global is the fact that the deliberate attempt to produce black holes down on earth, scheduled to re-start at doubled energies in two months’ time, cannot be allowed without a prior disproof of c-global. Otherwise the re-start becomes a crime.

I thank Stephen Hawking for his recent public acknowledgment of the danger.

Andrew Liszewski — Gizmodo

We haven’t seen much of Boston Dynamic’s four-legged self-balancing Big Dog robot since it was last spotted hurling cinder blocks in a lab. And that’s maybe because the company’s robotic geniuses have been hard at work building a smaller more agile version called Spot that weighs just 160 pounds so it can safely operate both indoors and out.

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By — Singularity Hub

One of my old professors used to say calculus is the language of the universe. Now, every so often, I’ll watch trees in the wind, cars on the road, or clouds rolling by, and see equations made manifest.

Though the world appears incomprehensibly huge and endlessly varying, all that mind-boggling complexity emerges from a shared set of instructions. Instructions that, until relatively recently, we couldn’t see, let alone understand.

But of course, this is no longer the case. Each year we learn more about the laws governing how particles interact to form atoms, stars, and galaxies; the chemical axioms behind reactions and materials; and the molecular code directing the assembly and evolution of every living thing on the planet.

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By: Press Trust of India — The Indian Express
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A robot-staffed hotel, said to be the world’s first, is set to open in Japan in July where guests checking into the futuristic facility will be greeted and served by remarkably human-like robots.

Huis Ten Bosch, a theme park in typical Dutch style in terms of its architecture in Nagasaki Prefecture has unveiled plans to open the modern hotel with robot staff and other advanced technologies to significantly reduce operating costs.
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Brendan Byrne — Value Walk
3D-Printed Electric Cars
The 3D-printed plastic body is mounted on a carbon fiber chassis, which keeps the weight of the vehicle to a minimum. “Despite being an urban concept car, it is no slouch and can reach a top speed of 60 kilometers per hour, while maintaining low-energy consumption,” said computer engineering student Ilmi Bin Abdul Wahab, who currently lives in a GEM Singapore condo, and led the development of NV8.

A separate group of students at the university built another car, named NTU Venture (NV) 9. This three-wheeled racer makes use of tilting technology inspired by motorcycle racing to allow it to take corners at high speeds.

“The resulting design looks like a fusion between a F1 race car and a glider plane, with an all surround canopy for increased visual awareness,” said NV9 team manager Winston Tan, who is studying electrical and electronic engineering.
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by John Biggs — TechCrunch

Bitcoin mining is not a pretty business. It requires lots of specialized servers that are essentially unusable for normal computing and lots of cooling. But when you bring thousands of miners together in the same room, things really get ugly.

Motherboard has some fascinating footage of a bitcoin mine in Liaoning Province, China. The mine, set up in an unused factory, is a snakes’ nest of wires and high-powered fans, a sort of high-tech server farm that is so resource-intensive that it has to be optimized to a fault.
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By — Singularity Hub

Just as an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs that ruled the Earth and made way for small furry mammals, a new wave of planetary disruptions is about to occur. The new asteroid is called “exponential technology.” It is going to wipe out industries in a similar manner to the rock which fell on Earth during the Cretaceous Period.

That is the premise of a new book by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler, Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World. It makes bold predictions and teaches entrepreneurs how to thrive in the same way as our mammalian ancestors: by being nimble and resilient.

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LOS ANGELES — In the largest collaborative study of the brain to date, researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) led a global consortium of 190 institutions to identify eight common genetic mutations that appear to age the brain an average of three years. The discovery could lead to targeted therapies and interventions for Alzheimer’s disease, autism and other neurological conditions.

An international team of roughly 300 scientists known as the Enhancing Neuro Imaging Genetics through Meta Analysis (ENIGMA) Network pooled brain scans and genetic data worldwide to pinpoint genes that enhance or break down key brain regions in people from 33 countries. This is the first high-profile study since the National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched its Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) centers of excellence in 2014. The research was published Wednesday, Jan. 21, in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.
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FUTURISM UPDATE (February 13, 2015) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon, LinkedIn

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MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW: A Pancreas in a Capsule. Stem-cell advocates pin their hopes on an artificial pancreas to treat diabetes. https://lnkd.in/en6cPcu

ENGINEERING-COM: NASA Floats an Extraterrestrial Submarine Design https://lnkd.in/e9zem4u

ENGINEERING-COM: Does the Earth’s Core Have its Own Core? https://lnkd.in/eeN3bSB

ENGINEERING-COM: Snail Shells Inspire Better Batteries http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles…eries.aspx

PHYS-ORG: Switching superconductivity by light. A research team led by Prof. Hiroshi M. Yamamoto of the Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences has developed a novel superconducting transistor which can be switched reversibly between ON and OFF by light-irradiation. This achievement is a milestone for future high-speed switching devices or highly-sensitive optical sensors. https://lnkd.in/e4gUyZv

LINKEDIN: Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt noted https://lnkd.in/es4ttBA

PHYS-ORG: Warming pushes Western US toward driest period in 1,000 years. https://lnkd.in/eenpg-e

NEW SCIENTIST: Geoengineering would be ‘irrational and irresponsible’ https://lnkd.in/eWjuj5u

NEW SCIENTIST: Oceans swallowed 13 million tonnes of plastic in 2010 https://lnkd.in/eHGUb9A

NEW SCIENTIST: Both cause and cure for diabetes could be in your gut https://lnkd.in/etSARDt

PHYS-ORG: GM to build 200-mile electric car at Michigan plant https://lnkd.in/e5RW3q9

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: Mutation Order in Tumor Genes Affects Cancer Outcome. Findings could one day lead to more personalized treatment decisions https://lnkd.in/eKeGb4z

FUNDAMENTALLY SOLVING GLOBAL CORPORATION’S OVERPARAMETERIZED PROBLEMS AND BE VICTORIOUS IN THE PROCESS! http://www.amazon.com/FUNDAMENTALLY-CORPORATIONS-OVERPARAMET…TJB73MY%29

A LOT OF KAIZEN? REUTERS: Record number of vehicles recalled in U.S. last year: regulator http://reut.rs/1FEKDR9

BBC FUTURE: ‘I emailed a message between two brains’. Could we one day hook up our brains to the internet? Rose Eveleth investigates a claim for the ‘first’ online message sent between two minds. https://lnkd.in/ejZjmXc

COMPUTERWORLD: Applied artificial intelligence: Mythological to neuroanatomical https://lnkd.in/eMeW89E

REUTERS: Record number of vehicles recalled in U.S. last year: regulator http://reut.rs/1FEKDR9

H-PLUS MAGAZINE: DARPA-funded Efforts in the Development of Novel Brain–Computer Interface Technologies http://hplusmagazine.com/2015/02/09/darpa-funded-efforts-dev…hnologies/

INTEL: Moving Data at the Speed of Light https://lnkd.in/eNuER68

WIRED: American Schools Are Training Kids for a World That Doesn’t Exist http://www.wired.com/2014/10/on-learning-by-doing/

COMPUTERWORLD: Applied artificial intelligence: Mythological to neuroanatomical http://www.computerworld.com/article/2879060/current-depths-of-ai-and-ml.html

TIME: China Is the Big Winner in the Conflict Between Russia and the West https://lnkd.in/eD2cTGD

THE ECONOMIST: Better than arms, the West must urgently give Ukraine as much aid as it needs to build a state http://econ.st/1J5eM1o

LINKEDIN: Scientific-Knowledge Doublings and Seven Canonical Milestones! https://lnkd.in/enFxDUb

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: New Particles Found at Large Hadron Collider. Two new “baryons” made of three quarks each are an exotic twist on normal protons and neutrons https://lnkd.in/ewyx88d

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Authored By Copyright Mr. Andres Agostini

White Swan Book Author (Source of this Article)

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