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Mar 12, 2021

A new approach to directly testing quantum gravity

Posted by in category: quantum physics

Scientists have been trying to come up with a theory of quantum gravity for 100 years.


A team of physicists has proposed a clever plan to concoct a quantum theory of gravity: refine an age-old technique, and use it to probe the tiniest scales in the universe.

Mar 12, 2021

H.A.L.O. AI Completes XPRIZE Competition as Finalist with Groundbreaking Unification of Quantum Mechanics and Relativity

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, quantum physics, robotics/AI

P.e.a.c.e!nc. is proud to announce the conclusion as finalists in the $500k Pandemic Response Challenge sponsored by Cognizant with Landmark AI Experiment.

Mar 12, 2021

‘Camera-in-a-pill’ helps to spot cancer

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, electronics

The NHS in England has begun trials of a new miniature camera device that a patient can swallow, to check if they have bowel cancer, as an alternative to traditional colonoscopy.

Mar 12, 2021

We May Never Find Life on Mars—And That Could Be a Good Thing

Posted by in categories: alien life, existential risks

Some disconcerting thoughts about the future of the human species:


Perseverance, the Fermi Paradox, and the Great Filter.

Mar 12, 2021

SpaceX sends up 60 more Starlink internet satellites in pre-dawn launch

Posted by in categories: internet, satellites

SpaceX has launched 1265 Starlinks to date with another 60 awaiting launch this weekend. Thousands more are planned.

Mar 12, 2021

NASA Mars scientists spur girls to ‘reach for the stars’

Posted by in categories: alien life, robotics/AI

Space roboticist Vandi Verma, who operates the Perseverance—the most advanced astrobiology lab ever sent to another world—as it roams Mars looking for signs of ancient microbial life, said unconscious bias was also a factor in shaping aspirations. “Don’t make assumptions about what a child may be interested in because of their gender or race,” she said. “Don’t buy the Lego just for the boy.”

Mar 12, 2021

DARPA Building Special Chips for Data Privacy Protection

Posted by in categories: computing, encryption

Fully Homomorphic Encryption is considered the “holy grail” of encryption. But right now it takes too much compute power to be used widely.

Mar 12, 2021

AI-Powered Virtual People Can Now Take Over Office Receptionist Duties

Posted by in categories: business, robotics/AI

Digital clones are coming to an office building near you.


Hour One, the company behind photo-realistic digital clones, now has AI avatars capable of taking over receptionist roles in businesses.

Mar 12, 2021

Irakli Beridze, Head, Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics — UNICRI — United Nations

Posted by in categories: government, law, policy, robotics/AI, security, sustainability

AI And Robots For Law And Order — Irakli Beridze — Head, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, UNICRI – United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute.


Irakli Beridze is the Head of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at The United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI).

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Mar 12, 2021

‘Liftoff’ Offers Inside Look Into SpaceX’s Desperate Early Days

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, policy, space, space travel

Half a century after the last astronauts left the Moon, the idea of sending crews to Mars still seems like some sort of vague space policy notion. After all, crews have yet to revisit the Moon. So, even today, talk of getting astronauts to Mars seems largely confined to PowerPoint presentations.

Thus, it was precisely that sense of inexactitude that prompted a young South African-born entrepreneur named Elon Musk to begin his quest to make the dream of boots on Mars a reality.

It’s a notion that is chronicled with alacrity in Eric Berger’s page-turning new book “Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days that Launched SpaceX.” Berger, senior space editor at Ars Technica, writes with the kind of hard-won insider authority that only comes through covering the nuts and bolts of the commercial space industry for the past twenty years.