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Version 1.0, Tree of Life.

“Tens of thousands of smaller trees have been published over the years for select branches of the tree of life—some containing upwards of 100,000 species—but this is the first time those results have been combined into a single tree that encompasses all of life.”

A first draft of the “tree of life” for the roughly 2.3 million named species of animals, plants, fungi and microbes—from platypuses to puffballs—has been released.

A collaborative effort among eleven institutions, the tree depicts the relationships among living things as they diverged from one another over time, tracing back to the beginning of life on Earth more than 3.5 billion years ago.

Tens of thousands of smaller have been published over the years for select branches of the tree of life—some containing upwards of 100,000 species—but this is the first time those results have been combined into a single tree that encompasses all of life. The end result is a digital resource that available free online for anyone to use or edit, much like a “Wikipedia” for evolutionary trees.

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And…it’s literally six seconds of pixelated blob. But before you laugh, know this: Capturing that planetary transit you just witnessed was no easy task.

You’re looking at Beta Pictoris b, a gas giant ten to twelve times the mass of Jupiter that orbits a star over 60 light years away. That’s 3.527 × 1014 miles from us, and we’re actually able to see it! If you’re still not impressed, try this on for size: Beta Pictoris b is roughly a million times dimmer than its parent star.

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The BiCS uses 48-layer stacking process that improves reliability and speed. Toshiba was the company that invented flash memory and has the 15nm NAND cells which are the smallest in the world.

Right now company is gearing up for its mass production and giving out samples to the companies.

These new developments made by Micron and Intel, and Toshiba will take about one year to reach the market. These 3D SSDs will give a tough time to the existing players and will provide better speeds and more storage at cheaper rates to users.

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1 Bit = Binary Digit.

8 Bits = 1 Byte.

1024 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte.

1024 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte.

1024 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte.

1024 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte.

1024 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte.

1024 Petabytes = 1 Exabyte.

1024 Exabytes = 1 Zettabyte.

1024 Zettabytes = 1 Yottabyte.

1024 Yottabytes = 1 Brontobyte.

1024 Brontobytes = 1 Geopbyte.

1024 Geopbyte=1 Saganbyte.

1024 Saganbyte=1 Pijabyte.

Alphabyte = 1024 Pijabyte.

Kryatbyte = 1024 Alphabyte.

Amosbyte = 1024 Kryatbyte.

Pectrolbyte = 1024 Amosbyte.

Bolgerbyte = 1024 Pectrolbyte.

Sambobyte = 1024 Bolgerbyte.

Quesabyte = 1024 Sambobyte.

Kinsabyte = 1024 Quesabyte.

Rutherbyte = 1024 Kinsabyte.

Dubnibyte = 1024 Rutherbyte.

Seaborgbyte = 1024 Dubnibyte.

Bohrbyte = 1024 Seaborgbyte.

Hassiubyte = 1024 Bohrbyte.

Meitnerbyte = 1024 Hassiubyte.

Darmstadbyte = 1024 Meitnerbyte.

Roentbyte = 1024 Darmstadbyte.

Coperbyte = 1024 Roentbyte…!

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We’re born, we grow, we age, and then we die. Well, maybe not all of us, according to a new study on the animals amongst us who, while they continue to grow older, don’t deteriorate with age.

A new study out of Nature takes a comparative look at the life cycles of 46 different species (us included) and finds that not all species live by this pattern of decline that we do. In fact some, the hermit crab, for instance, seem to have turned the whole process upside down. Virginia Hughes at National Geographic explains:

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Scientists love coffee. More than anyone else, by some surveys. So in a way, it makes perfect sense that they would be responsible for what could be the greatest coffee-related invention since coffee-alcohol: a mug that keeps coffee hot – but not too hot – for hours on end. Here are the fifteen professions that drink the most coffee. Guess who’s number one. Here are the fifteen professions that drink the most coffee. Guess who’s number one. Here are the fifteen professions that drink the mo In 2011, Dunkin’ Donuts teamed up with CareerBuilder to shed some light on U.S. coffee…

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We welcome Sam Wallace’s contribution to the discussion on a proposed ban on offensive autonomous weapons. This is a complex issue and there are interesting arguments on both sides that need to be weighed up carefully.

His article, written as a response to an open letter signed by over 2500 AI and robotics researchers, begins with the claim that such a ban is as “unrealistic as the broad relinquishment of nuclear weapons would have been at the height of the cold war.”

This argument misses the mark. First, the letter proposes not unilateral relinquishment but an arms control treaty. Second, nuclear weapons were successfully curtailed by a series of arms-control treaties during the cold war, without which we might not have been here to have this conversation.

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