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Nov 23, 2020
Seizing Our Singularity Future
Posted by Brent Ellman in categories: business, singularity
As we build the gateway in and out of Africa, preparing people for the future, application and ethical usage of science and technology in the age of exponential growth is a major concern for us.
We help institutions, organizations, and corporates to train, instruct, and design future based courses and programs for the future as it exponentially becoming faster than we think.
Our book was developed for a course on “Exponential Technologies and Business Opportunities in the Age of Singularities” for the Tekedia Institute USA with an extension in Africa as part of a Mini Masters of Business Administration program (mini MBA).
Nov 23, 2020
NASA Uses Powerful Supercomputers and AI to Map Earth’s Trees, Discovers Billions of Trees in West African Drylands
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: information science, mapping, robotics/AI, supercomputing
Scientists from NASA ’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and international collaborators demonstrated a new method for mapping the location and size of trees growing outside of forests, discovering billions of trees in arid and semi-arid regions and laying the groundwork for more accurate global measurement of carbon storage on land.
Using powerful supercomputers and machine learning algorithms, the team mapped the crown diameter – the width of a tree when viewed from above – of more than 1.8 billion trees across an area of more than 500,000 square miles, or 1,300,000 square kilometers. The team mapped how tree crown diameter, coverage, and density varied depending on rainfall and land use.
Nov 23, 2020
Why You Should Stop Texting From Your Android Messages App
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: encryption, mobile phones, security
If you’re a user of Google’s Messages app on your Android smartphone, then you will now likely have the RCS update intended to bring standard text messaging into the current century. RCS is now available in all major countries except China, Russia and Iran. Building on standard SMS capabilities, this adds chat functionality to compete with WhatsApp and iMessage. But, in truth, it doesn’t compete at all. There’s a glaring issue that doesn’t look like being properly fixed anytime soon. This is now bad enough that you should now go use something else.
The issue, of course, is end-to-end encryption. Six months ago, reports emerged that Google was developing this level of security to upgrade RCS. As of this week, this is now finally available for public beta testing. On the surface, its intent is to deliver Android users with an iMessage alternative. But there is a glaring issue—and it’s a deal breaker. This deployment of end-to-end encryption on RCS is not available for groups—that’s seemingly too complex to handle right now. And there’s also no word yet as to when this limited upgrade might be rolled out.
With that in mind, Android users should opt for a different iMessage-like alternative. Fortunately, there is a simple solution available now. While its standard messenger is not end-to-end encrypted by default, Android offers users the option to select an alternative default messenger that does. Signal is the best secure messenger available. And while its install base is modest in comparison to WhatsApp or iMessage, it’s growing fast.
Nov 23, 2020
What the million-mile battery means for electric cars
Posted by Vivek Jaiswal in categories: space travel, sustainability
To the Moon and back, twice.
It is mainly about greater reliability.
Science & technology Jul 30th 2020 edition.
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Nov 23, 2020
Professor Sunetra Gupta: ‘Lockdowns are a luxury of the affluent…the UK cannot afford it’
Posted by Chuck Black in category: futurism
Professor of theoretical epidemiology Sunetra Gupta has criticised the planned return to a Covid tier system in December.
Speaking with talkRADIO’s Julia Hartley-Brewer, the Great Barrington Declaration co-author said it “still leaves the doors open to the enormous harms of lockdown”.
Nov 23, 2020
The human brain inspires RMIT researchers to develop a light-powered AI chip
Posted by Brent Ellman in categories: cyborgs, drones, robotics/AI, transhumanism
The chip could potentially be used to power drones, robotics, smart watches, and bionic implants.
Nov 23, 2020
Nanobots Will Be Flowing Through Your Body by 2030
Posted by Brent Ellman in categories: biotech/medical, nanotechnology
In 10 years, tiny nanobots in your blood might help keep you from getting sick or even transmit your thoughts to a wireless cloud.
Nov 23, 2020
Futuristic device from Israeli firm puts music in your head, without headphones
Posted by Brent Ellman in categories: futurism, media & arts
‘Sound beaming’ 3D technology from Noveto Systems tracks ear and sends it audio using ultrasonic waves, creating personal listening pockets.
Nov 23, 2020
Chemical reactions high in Mars’ atmosphere rip apart water molecules
Posted by Alberto Lao in categories: chemistry, space
Mars is so dry because its water constant escapes into space. A new study suggests this process occurs in the ionosphere and faster than thought.