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May 4, 2022
What The Next-Generation Silent Drone Looks Like
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: drones, space travel, sustainability
Drones with ion drive. now if could rig it up with indefinite batteries and solar power skin and a tesla wave receiver system.
Undefined Technologies has revealed the new design of its ion drone MIAMI, APRIL 18, 2022 – Undefined Technologies, a Florida-based tech startup, has unveiled the new aesthetic design of its silent eVTOL drone powered by ion propulsion. The concept vehicle named “Silent Ventus™” uses proprietary technology to fully use the ion cloud surrounding the craft to generate high levels of ion thrust in atmospheric air. “Silent Ventus™ is a vivid example of our intent of creating a sustainable, progressive, and less-noisy urban environment,” says Tomas Pribanic, Founder and CEO of Undefined Technologies. “The design brings us closer to our final product and enables us to showcase the dual-use of our technology.”
Over the last couple of years, we’ve continued to make improvements to Spot to better enable our customers. Today we’re adding to the list! https://bit.ly/3y68Ow1
Finally, Spot’s charger is now smarter and faster, bringing Spot’s newest battery models to full capacity in an hour or less. Users can refer to the OLED display for real-time information on battery charge and can continue to charge the robot directly or hot-swap batteries for continuous operation.
May 4, 2022
Startups apply artificial intelligence to supply chain disruptions
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: biotech/medical, business, food, robotics/AI
A growing group of startups and established logistics firms have created a multi-billion-dollar industry applying artificial intelligence and other cutting-edge… See more.
LONDON, May 3 (Reuters) — Over the last two years a series of unexpected events has scrambled global supply chains. Coronavirus, war in Ukraine, Brexit and a container ship wedged in the Suez Canal have combined to delay deliveries of everything from bicycles to pet food.
In response, a growing group of startups and established logistics firms has created a multi-billion dollar industry applying the latest technology to help businesses minimize the disruption.
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May 4, 2022
The Hollywood A.I.-I.P. Supernova
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: cosmology, entertainment, robotics/AI
AI take over of entertainment industry by about 2030. Already starting, and already messy.
Will the robots replace us all one day? Who knows, but chances are they will eventually learn how to create a superhero movie. Ergo, the start of one of the great legal debates in Hollywood history.
May 4, 2022
New ‘impossible’ discovery could make computers 400 times faster
Posted by Josh Seeherman in categories: computing, materials
Researchers have created one-way superconductivity, paving the way for superconductors to supersede semiconductors in electronics.
May 4, 2022
Quantum complexity could solve a wormhole paradox
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: cosmology, quantum physics
New proof indicates that complexity is intrinsically linked to wormhole volume in quantum gravity.
May 3, 2022
A conceptual framework for consciousness
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in categories: computing, neuroscience
This article argues that consciousness has a logically sound, explanatory framework, different from typical accounts that suffer from hidden mysticism. The article has three main parts. The first describes background principles concerning information processing in the brain, from which one can deduce a general, rational framework for explaining consciousness. The second part describes a specific theory that embodies those background principles, the Attention Schema Theory. In the past several years, a growing body of experimental evidence—behavioral evidence, brain imaging evidence, and computational modeling—has addressed aspects of the theory. The final part discusses the evolution of consciousness. By emphasizing the specific role of consciousness in cognition and behavior, the present approach leads to a proposed account of how consciousness may have evolved over millions of years, from fish to humans. The goal of this article is to present a comprehensive, overarching framework in which we can understand scientifically what consciousness is and what key adaptive roles it plays in brain function.
May 3, 2022
Unpatched DNS bug affects millions of routers and IoT devices
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: computing
A vulnerability in the domain name system (DNS) component of a popular C standard library that is present in a wide range of IoT products may put millions of devices at DNS poisoning attack risk.
A threat actor can use DNS poisoning or DNS spoofing to redirect the victim to a malicious website hosted at an IP address on a server controlled by the attacker instead of the legitimate location.
The library uClibc and its fork from the OpenWRT team, uClibc-ng. Both variants are widely used by major vendors like Netgear, Axis, and Linksys, as well as Linux distributions suitable for embedded applications.
May 3, 2022
Storing 25 exabytes in a 2-inch Kenzan diamond wafer
Posted by Michael Taylor in categories: computing, quantum physics
Japanese researcher Makoto Kasu, at Saga University, and a precision diamond jewellery manufacturer have built a 2-inch diamond-coated wafer that can store, they claim, 25 exabytes of data using quantum memory.
Binary data is stored in quantum superpositions using nitrogen vacancies in the diamond material. Currently binary stored is stored as bits, with a value of one or zero, represented by magnetic polarity (north or south), charge in flash (current flows or not) or resistance in ReRAM (high or low). Quantum memory is different in that it stores qubits (quantum bits).
As we understand it, a qubit can have a value of ⎢0⟩ or⎢1⟩ (pronounced “ket 0” and “ket 1”) or a linear combination of both states in any proportion – it does not have a single value. It has a certain probability of being a ⎢0⟩ and another probability of being a ⎢1⟩. This property of a qubit is called superposition and is used in quantum computing, which can use other quantum phenomena such as entanglement and interference.
