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ZeroHedge — On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

Called it. i want to start w/ planet Fall Out. see you in 2030.

In a guest editorial, Watch Dogs: Legion and Assassin’s Creed: Codename Hexe creative director Clint Hocking looks at the future of artificial intelligence, and how it will one day be able to generate full games.

ChatGPT is not going to replace Google if it keeps making things up.

After six decades we have finally reached controlled fusion “ignition.” Here is how it works and what it means (and doesn’t mean):

At the Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL) the National Ignition Facility (NIF) starts with the Injection Laser System (ILS), a ytterbium-doped optical fiber laser (Master Oscillator) that produces a single very lower power, 1,053 nanometer (Infrared Light) beam. This single beam is split into 48 Pre-Amplifiers Modules (PAMs) that create four beams each (192 total). Each PAM conducts a two-stage amplification process via xenon flash lamps.

Surpassing energy breakeven at US facility constitutes a “Wright brothers moment” for fusion research, say researchers.

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An experiment at the Large Hadron Collider suggests there’s a chance of catching this elusive evidence as it floats through our galactic neighborhood.

The cosmic optical background (COB) is the visible light emitted by all sources outside of the Milky Way. This faint glow of light, which can only be observed using very precise and sophisticated telescopes, could help astrophysics to learn more about the origins of the universe and what lies beyond our galaxy.

Last year, physicists working at different institutes across the United States published the most precise COB measurements collected so far, gathered by the New Horizons spacecraft, an interplanetary space probe launched by NASA over a decade ago. These measurements suggested that the COB is two times brighter than theoretical predictions.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have recently carried out a theoretical study exploring the possibility that this observed excess light could be caused by the decay of a hypothesized type of dark matter particles, known as axions. In their paper, published in Physical Review Letters, they showed that axions with masses between 8 and 20 eV could potentially account for the excess COB flux measured by the New Horizons team.

The most jaw-dropping pictures of space this year.

From the Pillars of Creation to the Milky Way’s black hole, 2022 has been full of incredible photos from space. Here are the best space pictures of 2022.

I knew my life would be spent trying to tackle the problem of defeating death itself.

Dr. Michael West presents on age reprogramming to induce tissue regeneration (iTR) at RAADfest 2022.

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After six decades we have finally reached controlled fusion “ignition.” Here is how it works and what it means (and doesn’t mean):

At the Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL) the National Ignition Facility (NIF) starts with the Injection Laser System (ILS), a ytterbium-doped optical fiber laser (Master Oscillator) that produces a single very lower power, 1,053 nanometer (Infrared Light) beam. This single beam is split into 48 Pre-Amplifiers Modules (PAMs) that create four beams each (192 total). Each PAM conducts a two-stage amplification process via xenon flash lamps.

Self-coding and self-updating AI algorithms appear to be on the horizon. There are talks about Pitchfork AI, a top-secret Google Labs project that can independently code, refactor, and use both its own and other people’s code.

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