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Oct 8, 2022

Facebook warns against data breach: Here’s how to avoid it

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, internet, robotics/AI

The social media platform announced on Friday that it identified more than 400 malicious Android and iOS apps this year which target internet users in order to steal their login credentials.

Meta Platforms Inc. reveals that it would notify one million Facebook users that their account credentials may have been compromised due to security issues with apps downloaded from Alphabet Inc. and Apple Inc.’s software store.

https://www.livemint.com/technology/apps/facebook-warns-agai…5206859852.

Oct 8, 2022

New Survey Reveals There Are Around 300 Million Habitable Planets in Our Galaxy Alone

Posted by in category: alien life

In the Milky Way galaxy alone, there are over 300 million potentially habitable exoplanets.

This indicates that 300 million planets are likely to have the necessary conditions for life—and sophisticated life—to evolve on their surfaces. Are we the only ones in the universe?

How vast is the universe in which we live? Given our existing technology and measurement of the universe, we are unable to acquire this answer. We can make educated guesses, but we are still a long way from investigating the universe.

Oct 8, 2022

A Physicist Claims He’s Figured Out Why We Haven’t Met Aliens Yet, And It’s Pretty Worrying

Posted by in categories: alien life, existential risks

There must be some intelligent life out there or else it’s a terrible waste of real-estate.


The question “where is everyone?” is the crux of the Fermi Paradox. If life on Earth is not particularly special and unique, where are all the alien civilizations? Many explanations have been proposed to explain why we seem to be alone in the vast universe. None have been 100 percent convincing, and people continue to puzzle over a solution.

Russian physicist Alexander Berezin, from the National Research University of Electronic Technology (MIET), has another idea. He calls it the “First in, last out” solution of the Fermi Paradox. He suggests that once a civilization reaches the capabilities of spreading across the stars, it will inevitably wipe out all other civilizations.

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Oct 8, 2022

Scientists Claim To Have Discover What Existed BEFORE The Beginning Of The Universe!

Posted by in categories: information science, mathematics, quantum physics

Non-scientific versions of the answer have invoked many gods and have been the basis of all religions and most philosophy since the beginning of recorded time.

Now a team of mathematicians from Canada and Egypt have used cutting edge scientific theory and a mind-boggling set of equations to work out what preceded the universe in which we live.

In (very) simple terms they applied the theories of the very small – the world of quantum mechanics – to the whole universe – explained by general theory of relativity, and discovered the universe basically goes though four different phases.

Oct 8, 2022

#59 JEFF HAWKINS — Thousand Brains Theory

Posted by in categories: electronics, neuroscience

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The ultimate goal of neuroscience is to learn how the human brain gives rise to human intelligence and what it means to be intelligent. Understanding how the brain works is considered one of humanity’s greatest challenges.

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Oct 8, 2022

The clouds of Venus may be habitable — a crewed flyby could confirm the theory

Posted by in categories: biological, climatology, space

What we know about Venus so far has been gathered from several past probes.


With a slightly smaller diameter than Earth, Venus orbits closer to the Sun. This means that any water on the surface would have evaporated shortly after its formation, starting its greenhouse effect. Early and sustained volcanic eruptions created lava plains and increased the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — starting the runaway greenhouse effect, which increased the temperature from just a little higher than Earth’s to its current high value of 475°C.

While Venus’s year is shorter than ours (225 days), its rotation is very slow (243 days) and “retrograde” — the other way round to Earth. The slow rotation is related to a lack of magnetic field, resulting in a continuing loss of atmosphere. Venus’ atmosphere “super-rotates” faster than the planet itself. Images from many missions show V-shaped patterns of clouds composed of sulphuric acid droplets.

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Oct 8, 2022

“Something Strange Is Going On” — Physicists Answer a Decades-Old Question

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

“It’s a really old question inherited from condensed matter physics,” said David Weld, an experimental physicist at UCSB with specialties in ultracold atomic physics and quantum simulation. The question falls into the category of ‘many-body’ physics, which interrogates the physical properties of a quantum system with multiple interacting parts. While many-body problems have been a matter of research and debate for decades, the complexity of these systems, with quantum behaviors such as superposition and entanglement, leads to multitudes of possibilities, making it impossible to solve through calculation alone. “Many aspects of the problem are beyond the reach of modern computers,” Weld added.

Oct 8, 2022

Utah Bionic Leg: The most advanced AI-powered prosthetics ‘ever created’

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, transhumanism

The users can effectively manipulate the prosthetics exactly like they would with an intact limb.

University of Utah researchers have developed the most advanced AI-powered prosthetics “ever created,” prompting Ottobock, the world’s largest prosthetic manufacturer, to collaborate with them to launch the project globally.

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Oct 8, 2022

The Crew-5 Astronauts Dock to the Space Station

Posted by in category: space travel

Crew-5 includes a Russian astronaut and the first Native American woman in space.

SpaceX’s latest crewed launch has reached the International Space Station (ISS). The Crew-5 astronaut mission launched at noon local time.

SpaceX used a Falcon 9 rocket to lift a crew of four astronauts — including a Russian astronaut and the first Native American woman to go to space — aboard Crew Dragon capsule Endurance. They docked and are now aboard the ISS after a 29-hour flight, as per a NASA report.

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Oct 8, 2022

New AI-powered helmet could give firefighters ‘superpower’ to rescue victims faster

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

The device weighs less than 3 lbs.

Researchers from Edinburgh’s National Robotarium have developed an AI helmet to help firefighters navigate a smoke-filled environment and rescue victims more quickly. The team created the device using sensors, thermal cameras, and radar technologies, according to a press release published by Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, last week.

Firefighters are heroes. Everyone knows that.

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